What’s with all the LTE News?! First it was TeliaSonera, and now it’s T-Mobile Austria who are getting on the LTE bandwagon… TeleGeography is reporting that T-Mobile Austria has installed a test LTE network in its Vienna Renweg store. As with some other Operators, it’s Huawei that is on infrastructure duties. They managed to get…
Huawei and TeliaSonera achieve world’ s first LTE mobile broadband connection
Huawei and TeliaSonera/Netcom have announced the world’s first mobile broadband Internet connection over a live commercial LTE network in Oslo, Norway. The first showcase on the live LTE network in Oslo, between a Laptop PC with a 4G modem and public Internet/Intranet included downloading of high resolution photos, music, movies and mobile business applications, at…
Continua Health Alliance choses Bluetooth as health sevice standard
After 10-month review process, industry coalition of leading health care and technology companies, Continua Health Alliance, selected Bluetooth technology as a standard wireless technology for interoperable personal telehealth solutions, Bluetooth SIG announced. As a result, Continua will include the upcoming Bluetooth low energy wireless technology specification in Version Two of its Continua Health Alliance Design…
Symbian running on a multi-core CPU configuration
Symbian Foundation’s blog has recently announced that a team at ST-Ericsson and ARM have managed to make Symbian running on a highly capable SMP (Symmetric Multiprocessing) configuration. In other words, Symbian can sing along on dual-core CPUs! The test environment consists of an ST-Ericsson U8500 smartphone platform embedding the first silicon implementation of ARM Cortex-A9…
Ericsson launches mobile broadband module for netbooks
Netbooks are a big trend and we see many major computer makers joining the wave. That said, we were not surprised to see Ericsson jumping on board in an effort to get its piece of the pie. In that sense, the Swedish company has recently launched a new mobile broadband module (Ericsson F3307) specifically designed…
Hipvoice Offers Cross-Platform, Cross-Carrier Push-to-Talk for BlackBerry
A service called HipVoice is mixing up the push-to-talk scene by using voice-over-IP rather than traditional means – that means you can communicate directly with people across any cellular or Wi-Fi network without incurring your standard voice charges. This also challenges PTT offered by carriers, such as Sprint-Nextel’s and Telus’ Mike, which are locked to…
Stantum granted key patents on multi-touch technology in China and EU
Stantum, the company which we know for their multi-touch technology, recently announced that the European Patent Office and the China Patent & Trademark Office have granted patents (EP1719047 and CN100447723C, respectively) to Stantum on its multi-touch technology. This comes as an extension to the original patent filed in France in February 2004. From the press…
BlackBerry Car Visor Speakerphone Released
A really cool official BlackBerry accessory we’ve seen glimpses of here and there is now available to order: the BlackBerry Visor Mount Speakerphone. The visor mount acts as a waypoint between your BlackBerry and your car stereo system by communicating with your handheld by Bluetooth, and then shunting audio out to your car’s speakers by…
iPlaces – a New Mobile Marketing Service for iPhone & iTouch Devices
Qwikker has launched iPlaces, the first hotspot-based mobile marketing service tailored to reach the millions of iPhone and iTouch users. iPlaces is a complete hardware and software solution and web-based service to set up, manage, and deliver branded content from wireless hotspots. Wherever an iPlaces-powered hotspot is deployed, companies can engage wirelessly with iPhone and iTouch…
SVOX brings its speech output solution to Android
Provider of embedded speech solutions SVOX announced that it is joining Open Handset Alliance, to bring its speech output solution, known under its development name SVOX Pico, to the Android platform. The SVOX contribution to the platform is comprised of the SVOX Pico TTS engine, six language packages (US and UK English, German, French, Spanish…