Sony Ericsson announces mobile Internet ExpressCards
Sony Ericsson has joined the mobile Internet hardware game by premiering two of its first High Speed Packet Access ExpressCard/34 devices at 3GSM in Barcelona this week.
The EC400 and EC400g, both offer triple band HSPA/UMTS 850/1900/2100 MHz, and quad band EDGE/GPRS 850/900/1800/1900 connectivity where HSPA and UMTS are not available. HSPA downlink reaches speeds of up to 7.2 megabits per second (Mbps), and uplink, speeds of 2.0 Mbps.
BlackBerry's touchscreen talk interrupted by service outage
At 3GSM in Barcelona this week, Research In Motion Ltd. looks forward to new form factors while back home, customers are left confused as to whether their e-mails are being received.
At 3:30 pm EST Monday afternoon, a widespread infrastructure outage hit BlackBerry services, cutting off wireless e-mail for users all across North America. An emergency notification to corporate customers was sent to users providing no insight into the cause, scope, or estimated resolution time of the outage...ironically, via e-mail.
Is Microsoft's PlayReady ready to go yet?
Announced one year ago at 3GSM in Barcelona, PlayReady is Microsoft's DRM solution for mobile content providers. Now one year later, more partners have announced planned deployments...but it has seen no rollouts yet.
PlayReady strives to provide the mobile content industry with an easily deployable implementation that cover any mobile hardware or software. Though Microsoft announced in 2007 it had partnered with Telefonica, O2, Verizon Wireless, Bouyges Telecom, and Cingular Wireless (now AT&T), a whole year went by without a single rollout.
Motorola produces a Linux-based slider with an open platform
Today Motorola debuted what some believe could be its last new phones before cutting its handset division free, including a Linux-based slider.
Motorola's Wi-Fi enabled slider, the MOTO Z6w, can simultaneously connect on GSM for voice and the 802.11b/g frequency for data. It comes with a 2.0 megapixel camera and 14 frame per second video camera, and offers up to 4 GB of optional removable memory.
Sony Ericsson's Xperia X1 takes on iPhone, HTC Touch
On the first official day of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Sony Ericsson showed off its forthcoming touchscreen phone, the Xperia X1, its first Windows Mobile device.
It is quite a big sentiment for an equally large development development for both Sony Ericsson and Microsoft. With this phone manufacturer now on board, all of the top five cellular hardware producers except for Nokia now make a Windows Mobile handset.
Nokia officially unveils leaked N96 handset, new services
Nokia is making a compelling presentation at the Mobile World Congress today in Barcelona, Spain, unveiling the progeny of its high-end N95, as well as the beta of its new mapping system, and launching Share on Ovi, an integrated media-sharing site.
Keeping with the leitmotif of Nokia's "portable multimedia computers", the N96 carries with it a long list of features, some of which were accidentally leaked several months ago. This slider offers W-CDMA HSDPA 900/2100 MHz connectivity with dual transfer of voice and packet data when used in a GSM/EDGE network, EGPRS/GPRS, WiFi connectivity, and even a DVB-H mobile TV tuner, perfect for use in the EU.
Canary Wireless announces new hotspot detectors
Canary wireless has announced the HS-20, its second generation of Wi-Fi detectors.
Devices in the same family are quite commonplace, ranging from items such as the Vunex Wi-Fi Walker which is both a USB adaptor and hotspot finder, to the
Spanish Facebook begins next week
It will not be called "Libro de caras," but on Monday, Spanish will be the default Language for anyone connecting to Facebook from a Spanish-speaking nation.
The task of translating the approximately 40,000 English sentences in the Facebook servers was handled by 1,500 volunteers using the Translations facebook application. In under 4 weeks, enough translation was done for a complete rollout.
From Seoul comes Soul, Samsung's new handset
Samsung unveiled its newest flagship handset and member of its "Ultra Edition" family, a line which seeks to provide the slimmest phones in attractive designs: The Soul.
The standout feature of this slider is the "Magical Touch" panel, produced by DaCP. A small panel beneath the 2.2" QVGA screen changes and adapts its functions in response to which application is running. For example, while running the MP3 player, it can act as the media control interface, or while using SMS functions, it can manipulate text.
Yahoo launches live cam site, but can't handle traffic
Yahoo Live, the search company's new live cam site, underwent what you might call an "experimental" launch last night. If the Greeks ever considered a letter that could come before "alpha," this might have been the time to use it.
While similar to the host of webcam sites that already exist, such as Ustream, blogTV, mogulus, Stickam, and justin.tv, it can be said that few have garnered as much attention as Yahoo Live has in such a short time with so little pre-launch hype.
Study: Blogging about music may triple its sales
A study by NYU Stern business school professor Vasant Dhar and partner Elaine Chang shows correlational evidence that blog posts increase online sales of recorded music.
The study observed 108 albums over a course of eight weeks, and concluded that the amount of blogs about a certain album can actually predict how well it will sell. It also suspected that the amount of MySpace friends a particular band has acts as a "badge of popularity," actually generating more interest through that number alone.
New Wii title from THQ seeks to mash up Guitar Hero
THQ has announced a new game for the Wii which turns the Mashup musical genre into armed combat.
Band Mashups for the Wii, expected in stores in April 2008, is based upon the combinative musical genre known as mashups. These are songs made up of two or more existent songs, usually of quite divergent syle, and mixed together to form a new hybrid song.
Motorola announces second gen WiMAX hardware
Today, Motorola announced two new 802.16e devices, one for fixed connectivity, and one that's somewhat more nomadic.
Motorola's recent announcement that it would be departing the mobile phone business drew attention to other strong offerings from the company, such as its WiMAX solutions. Today, the company announced two second generation 802.16e devices.
Nokia retools its E51 handset for secure workplaces
Middle East Internet outages now affect 85 million
With FLAG telecom now reporting damages to the FALCON undersea cable that actually occurred on January 23, one week before the four publicized cable cuts, experts are now beginning to reveal just how expansive the disruptions have been.
The severence of undersea cables FLAG Europe-Asia and SEA-ME-WE 4 about 8.3 km off the coast of Alexandria, Egypt, affected at least 60 million users in India, 12 million in Pakistan, 6 million in Egypt, and 4.7 Million in Saudi Arabia, according to DU telecom Executive Director Mahesh Jaishanker, in a statement to the United Arab Emirates-based Khaleej Times.
Tim's Bio
Tim Conneally was born into dumpster tech. His father was an ARPANET research pioneer and equipped his kids with discarded tech gear, second-hand musical instruments, and government issue foreign language instruction tapes. After years of building Frankenstein computers from rubbish and playing raucous music in clubs across the country (and briefly on MTV) Tim grew into an adult with deep, twisted roots and an eye on the future. He most passionately covers mobile technology, user interfaces and applications, the science and policy of the wireless world, and watching different technologies shrink and converge.
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