Still waiting for Bluetooth 3.0 to hit your phone? Stop living in the past man. Bluetooth SIG Executive Director Mike Foley said the 4.0 version will be hitting devices by the end of the year. In an interview with Good Gear Guide, Foley said the latest version will focus on power management and it will…
Hands-On with BlackBerry Presenter
One of the casualties of the frantic business of Mobile World Congress was some playtime I had planned with the BlackBerry Presenter, announced at CES. Now that the dust has settled, I’ve had some time to sit and and have a go with RIM’s latest accessory. In short, the BlackBerry Presenter allows you to control…
Zoompass Launches Tags for Contactless Mobile Payment
EnStream, a joint venture between Canadian carriers for a unified mobile payment system, has announced a new Zoompass Tag that, when attached to the back of your phone, can allow you to pay for goods with a quick tap at locations with Paypass sensors. The tag itself is a technology from Giesecke & Devrient, and…
Pelikon MorphTouch module combines physical keyboard with touchpad
During Pepcom’s MobileFocus event at this year’s Mobile World Congress, I had a chance to check out a company called Pelikon. They make an interesting keyboard/keypad module designed for use in mobile phones and similar devices (MIDs?). It’s called MorphTouch and it’s touted to “revolutionize the user experience by adapting to the way you want…
Tiered iPhone data pricing may be inevitable, says AT&T
Get ready to pay more if you use a lot of mobile data, as AT&T’s Chief Executive Officer Randall Stephenson said the second largest U.S. carrier may have to implement tiered pricing in order to better manage its network. Speaking at a Morgan Stanley conference Tuesday, Stephenson said 40% of the company’s network capacity is being…
Verizon on track with LTE rollout
Get ready for 4G folks, as Verizon said it is on schedule to roll out its next-generation mobile broadband network using Long-Term Evolution technology. In an interview with Network World, Verizon Wireless CTO Tony Melone said the company has been “pleasantly surprised” by the readiness of the infrastructure, and that deployment is “looking better each…
Nuance unveils medical dictation apps and an SDK at the HIMSS conference
Nuance is using the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference in Atlanta to talk about its medical mobile technologies, based on the Dragon NaturallySpeaking voice-to-text software. The company unveiled a series of apps for smartphone-equipped doctors, nurses and other health care professionals. The so called Dragon Medical Mobile suite consists of several applications:…
Icera demos dual-mode LTE/HSPA soft modem; World’s first!
UK-based Icera is all proud to announce they are the first baseband chipset company that managed to demonstrate a dual-mode LTE/HSPA modem running on a commercial USB data stick. For the project, Icera worked with Anite and Rohde & Schwarz, which provided test equipment and support for the demo. The trick is in using high…
Fusion Garage shipping JooJoo web tablet March 25
The controversial JooJoo has been hit with delays but Fusion Garage said it will begin shipping the web tablet March 25. The company said a manufacturing issue came up when creating the industry’s first 12.1-inch capacitive screen. Those problems have been resolved and those that pre-ordered the non-Crunchpad will get a free accessory in exchange…
Sprint pushing WiMax to more markets
Sprint is moving along with its WiMax deployment and said the 4G service would be in major cities like Boston, New York, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. by the end of the year. The third-largest carrier is expected to blanket 120 million people by the end of 2010 and this should give it a sizable…