Chengdu, emerging technological highland in Southwest China

When the U.S. is preparing for its high-tech exhibition “Celebration 2030” in Shanghai’s World Expo, some of Chinese cities have already started building high-tech towns. Chengdu, the provincial capital of China’s southwest Sichuan Province, has launched the...

Vodafone reaches 16Mb/s mobile download rate, next step in 3G

Vodafone successfully reached a peak mobile download rate of up to 16Mb/s in a recent trial test of their HSPA+ technology, "HSPA+ is the next step in 3G after HSDPA and HSUPA, and Vodafone, working alongside...

Google's Android Gains More Powerful Followers

"Today is a dark day for Nokia and Microsoft: Telco Vodafone, equipment maker Ericsson and handset maker Sony Ericsson have joined Google’s camp in making rival cell-phone software. Today,...

Sony Ericsson Churns Out Another Walkman Phone, The W705

The W705 Walkman phone is Sony Ericsson's latest attempt to install the Walkman range as a serious contender to the crown of coolest multimedia smartphone around. This slider smartphone comes with a 2.4-inch LCD...

Software Option Doors Thrown Open By Cellphone Hardware Giant :: Symblogogy

"Smartphones as represented by the Nokia "N" series pictured here, are getting a software structural boost with the formation of an "open-source" foundation based on the Symbian OS software platform. Image...

Physicist Debunks Cellphone Popcorn Viral Videos

"Physicist Debunks Cellphone Popcorn Viral Videos By Jenna Wortham June 09, 2008 | 5:37:20 PMCategories: Advertising, Video, Viral, Web/Tech   YouTube videos that show a group of friends...

Human habits tracked by mobile phones

I know where I am and what I am doing - most of the time.  Here's a look at the findings of this study..."The study concludes that humans are creatures of habit, mostly visiting the same few spots time and...

Release: NowPublic.com Announces Partnership with ShoZu, Making On-the-Go Jou...

" VANCOUVER, British Columbia, May 21 /PRNewswire/ -- NowPublic.com (http://www.nowpublic.com/), the world's largest participatory news network, today announced a key partnership enabling consumers to quickly...

Agreement between Ericsson and Grameen to provide advanced broadband services

"The EDA 1500 is an access solution, a part of Ericsson's Full Service Broadband offering and is based on the GPON standard that has emerged as the key enabling technology to achieve an all-IP network. GPON is fiber-based, provides high bandwidth and accelerates optical and...

Ericsson predicts demise of wi-fi hotspots

I think most wi-fi users would agree, good riddance!"As mobile broadband takes off, Wi-Fi hotspots will become as irrelevant as telephone booths, Ericsson Chief Marketing Officer Johan Bergendahl said Monday....

European Commission`s continuing investigation of Qualcomm

"While each company has made an individual complaint, they share concerns about Qualcomm's practices. The companies believe that these practices are harmful to the mobile telecommunications industry globally and, in particular undermine confidence in standards-setting...

Micro-USB: to Tame the Tangle?

This one's actually a few days old, but still pertinent: every mobile phone manufacturer uses a different standard of phone charger, ranging from those little pluggy things to those little prongey things that I...

CEOs to debate industry`s future at GSMA`s Mobile Asia Congress

""With mobile broadband services proliferating, handset technology evolving rapidly and the Internet fast going wireless, this industry is reaching a major inflexion point as many operators, vendors and entertainment companies review their strategies, their business models...

Indosat clarifies disturbance in cellular network

""We clarified the disturbance this morning and reported the case to the telecommunications regulating agency," Adita Irawati, PT Indost`s head of public relations, said here on Monday. Indosat`s cellular network...

China`s ZTE Corp in CDMA2000 network expansion tie-up with Telkom Indonesia

Beijing (ANTARA News) - China's ZTE Corporation, a provider of telecommunications equipment, said in a statement that it has signed an agreement to help expand Telkom Indonesia's CDMA2000 network capacity. More at...

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