Cellular News is reporting that Italian Mobile Operator Wind has started to offer SIM cards, which have an embedded DVD optical disc in the plastic (credit card sized) holder than typically is used to deliver them when new (see pic). The cards are supplied by Gemalto, and will be used by Wind to allow wireless…
BlackBerry Flip Pearl gets FCC’ed
In a bout of good timing, the FCC filings for the recently-announced flip BlackBerry have been made available. Not much to be said, unless you’re a hardcore tech-head, but the testing did include the BlackBerry 8210, which will have the same kind of assisted GPS technology as in the BlackBerry Bold. Hopefully it won’t take…
PNY and EA do entire games catalogue on MicroSD card?
Sort of. Apparently PNY technologies (those guys that do all the memory cards) have introduced a MicroSD card that now lets people choose from an entire catalogue of EA mobile games. Whether it’s FIFA08 or The Sims2, the game can be chosen for free, but you will have to pay for the card. You then…
New software turns your mobile into Wi-Fi hotspot
WalkingHotSpot went live the other day, offering to turn your Symbian S60 or Windows Mobile 6 device into a Wi-Fi hotspot for $24.99/year. Plenty of mobiles have the capability to tether internet access via Bluetooth, but by going Wi-Fi, you open up that capability to coworkers and buddies who need to get online. Of course,…
Novatel demos NovaSpeed at CTIA SF 2008
Between fits of gluttonous food intake and unabashed alcohol consumption, we somehow found some time to speak with some well-informed representatives over at the Novatel booth. Novatel came to CTIA SF 2008 packing some serious new technology that should help mobile broadband users get the most out of their wireless card or USB dongle. NovaSpeed,…
Sprint’s WiMAX network to go live this month
It’s been a long and winding road for Sprint Nextel’s WiMAX-based XOHM mobile broadband network. The No. 3 US wireless carrier has seen more financial hardships and rival opposition than any carrier should have to deal with over the past year, but the company’s fortunes may soon take a turn for the better. Following on…
UK: Tesco does Mobile VoIP with a little help from WiFi
Tesco (UK Supermarket) has launched a new service called ‘Talkwifi‘, which allows customers to make cheap mobile calls, via VoIP, over WiFi. The offering makes use of a service developed by Australian company Freshtel, and requires an app download to get things going. Once that is done, and the user is in a ‘free’ WiFi…
Samsung to purchase SanDisk?
A South Korean businss paper has reported that Samsung is persuing SanDisk, for acquisition purposes. Both companies would not confirm or deny the report, which to me sounds like it’s on baby! Samsung currently supplies NAND flash memory chips to SanDisk … which is the world’s largest supplier of flash storage card products. Samsung is…
Gesture-sensing TV does away with remote
The Telegraph.co.uk has an interesting story about a TV developed to sense hand gestures as a means of control, rather than using the traditional remote. Following on from all the hype regarding the combined gesture/hardware remote of the Nintendo Wii, Toshiba’s TV trumps that by doing away with the hardware altogether. The system uses a…
Nortel and LG testing 4G LTE handover at highway speeds
Sure, 100Mbps worth of downstream data is something we’d all like to see in the near future. Imagine cruising the wireless airwaves at speeds faster than we see with wireline broadband services. Yup, the 4G LTE networks of the future are most definitely going to be fun. Getting 100Mbps data speeds from a particular cellular…