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 Biting the hand that feeds IT Copyright: Copyright 2008, Situation Publishing Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:59:04 +0100 Operators jam the jammerThe Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has offered to work with South Carolina's prison boss to find a way to prevent mobile phones being used in prisons, but industry body the CTIA is calling on the FCC to get a court order preventing anyone from demonstrating the technology.… Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:08:26 +0100 SIM manufacturer in strategic deal with pipe dreamBlueSky Positioning, the company that promised to have GPS working in a SIM by June last year, has entered a "strategic relationship" with respected SIM manufacturer Sagem Orga.… Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:09:43 +0100 Farewell then, UIQThe death of UIQ deserves a footnote for posterity – and a chance to take look back at a decade in which almost everything that everyone predicted for mobile data proved to be wrong. Given the way the market turned out, it didn't stand a chance.… Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:17:05 +0100 Verizon staff caught snoopingStaff at Verizon face disciplinary action after accessing Barack Obama's phone bill and taking a peek at who the president elect had been calling.… Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:43:30 +0100 Hoping to make it big in the flicksContinuing to distance itself from boring-old mobile phones, Nokia has announced plans to open a research lab in Hollywood packed with movie executives rather than those engineers the company so recently laid off in Finland.… Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:51:59 +0100 Database corruption blamed300,000 UK T-Mobile customers had a quiet morning as they were unable to make or receive calls thanks to a database snafu that forced the operator to restore from backups - a process which is still in progress.… Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:02:05 +0100 The 'sharpest' BlackBerry yet?BlackBerry Bold and Curve owners had better watch out, because Research in Motion has thrown a sharp new rival into the mix.… Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:14:38 +0100 Bigger screens and keyboards for your phoneCelio is convinced that some people don't want to lug around a smartphone and a notebooks, so it’s expanded its Redfly smartphone terminal range by two models.… Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:52:00 +0100 Received Pronunciation not received, Scots scotchedGoogle's voice search is, it turns out, optimised for North American accents and has distinct problems understanding proper English as the BBC defines it - forcing English users to adopt the kind of dodgy accents not usually seen outside a karaoke night.… Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:43:26 +0100 But TV challenge acceptedThe Advertising Standards Authority has ruled against T-Mobile's claim that "You wont find more minutes for £30", but accepts that the TV challenge "See if you can find more minutes for £30" is OK.… Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:48:23 +0100 Hay kids, let's do the show on a mobile phone!Budding entrepreneurs are to be encouraged to develop premium-rate content by the industry regulator, with free lesson plans and downloads from the Ministry of Sound to make ringtone creation part of the UK curriculum.… Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:22:13 +0100 Enterprise-ready version coming soon, says VodaEnterprise customers getting hold of a BlackBerry Storm are finding the handset is not quite as enterprise as they might have hoped.… Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:08:40 +0100 Jobsian caprice smiles on CastCatcherApple's iPhone caprice continues.… Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:30:32 +0100 Near-Field Comms standardisation requiredEveryone should be able to use their mobile phone like a wallet as soon as possible, the world’s trade group for the mobile industry has demanded.… Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:50:30 +0100 I can't sleep without Teddy PhoneNot in the least discouraged by the abject failure of the last two attempts, Mobile Please has announced two new handsets aimed at paranoid parents while styled for their kiddies.… Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:02:28 +0100 Sprawling company still in 'good shape'Carphone Warehouse boss Charles Dunstone has launched a "formal review of the group's corporate structure" which could lead to the breakup of the telecoms group.… Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:11:17 +0100 Divine handset exhibits flaws of the fleshA New Yorker has sued Apple over hairline cracks known to appear in the Jesus Phone.… Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:33:39 +0100 Law could see President-Elect ditch emailA US law could force President-Elect Barack Obama give up his BlackBerry, it has been reported.… Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:46:06 +0100 If you have nothing to hide...The American Civil Liberties Union has revealed that the FBI no longer feels the need for judicial or operator oversight when deploying base station-faking technology to detect mobile phones.… Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:02:29 +0100 An 800MHz CPU on boardAsus has unveiled its latest smartphone, which, it claimed, is the “fastest business PDA phone in the world”.… Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:02:12 +0100 Powerless against Jobsian divinityFail and You Smartphones have been around for a long time, but only recently did the laptop industry figure out that it could cut into the market funded solely by tech nerds' f*ck-you money with a compound word of its own: netbook.… Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:49:41 +0100 ByeBye?Carphone Warehouse will suggest to investors it might spin off its TalkTalk ISP and home phone business, according to multiple reports today.… Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:25:54 +0100 20 million handsets down in Q4Nokia has updated its predictions on end-of-year sales, knocking 20 million handsets off its fourth quarter forecast for the industry and promising to get rid of all those expensive external contractors.… Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:29:17 +0100 Why won't anyone listen to me?Google's mobile application for the iPhone, which allows punters to talk to the search giant, didn’t appear on the Application Store on Friday as even the world's most successful internet company has to wait on the whim of Apple.… Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:07:24 +0100 Operators scramble for a piece of the pieDespite its co-dependent relationship with the iPhone, O2 UK plans to launch its own developer community and app store next year, which could put non-Apple handsets in a better position to compete with the iPhone and its App Store.… Fri, 14 Nov 2008 09:02:06 +0100 First spectrum map of the UKWe're one month into a four-month trial attempting to map radio spectrum usage in the UK and the companies involved are already turning up some interesting and occasionally downright odd results.… Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:02:03 +0100 ITU holds timing and frequency to be different thingsThe WiMAX camp should be celebrating the launch of the first WiMAX/GSM mobile phone, but instead the technology backers are under fire from the ITU for trying to paint a redesign as an evolution.… Thu, 13 Nov 2008 12:41:13 +0100 Max 4G on Yota debutsHTC has taken the wraps off its rumoured "4G" phone - the world's first handset to integrate WiMax, Wi-Fi and cellular connectivity.… Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:50:27 +0100 Pulls cash from the back of your drawersA new mobile number sales middleman has sprung up, calling itself Numbuz. The company aims to facilitate sales of memorable mobe numbers, while taking a cut for its services.… Thu, 13 Nov 2008 07:10:24 +0100 Censorship needs no logicApple has banned version 1.3 of return7's CastCatcher internet radio service from the iPhone App Store, complaining that it's "transferring excessive volumes of data over the cellular network."… Thu, 13 Nov 2008 02:18:51 +0100 Steve, don't do it!Microsoft is prepping developers for the latest version of Internet Explorer on Windows Mobile, while trying to lock America's biggest wireless carrier into an internet search deal.… Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:01:46 +0100 Reckons yoofs will pay for mobile searchA new mobile search service reckons young customers will pay a quid a time for local searches, as long as they're backed by the right brand.… Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:02:45 +0100 TXT URSLF THNAre you a fat teenager? Then pick up your mobile and text yourself thin, tubby - a study has concluded that texting helps kids to shed those extra pounds.… Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:02:07 +0100 Operating System 1, Hardware 0Review Apart those with either a technical or professional interest, it's open to question how many mobile phone purchasers weigh up the matter of a device's operating system before handing over their cash.… Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:14:56 +0100 Balancing actDetails of the Nokia E63 were first leaked almost a month ago, but the Finnish phone giant has now confirmed that the handset is real and coming soon.… Wed, 12 Nov 2008 06:24:32 +0100 But no doc editing until next yearQuickoffice, maker of the Microsoft Office-compatible suit for smartphones, has released a free iPhone application - but you won't be able to use it to edit Office documents until the middle of 2009.… Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:53:44 +0100 But only if they're saving livesOfcom has proposed that intelligent traffic radio systems be licence-exempt, but initially only where it improves the the safety of the driving experience.… Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:18:35 +0100 Huawei goes GoogleModem maker Huawei, best known in the UK as the manufacturer of various carriers' HSDPA 3G dongles, has unveiled plans to make smartphones based on Google’s Android OS.… Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:20:16 +0100 Plans to exploit the less exploitative customerVodafone's half-year results show profits on the slide and any increase in revenue largely attributable to currency fluctuations, prompting a change of strategy and a new round of cuts to shave £1bn off costs by 2011.… Tue, 11 Nov 2008 03:20:39 +0100 It takes two to TrangoVMWare has extended its virtualization mojo to mobile phones.… Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:36:01 +0100 Touched no more270 staff at UIQ - the graphical layer left homeless by the launch of the Symbian Foundation - have been put on notice that they could lose their jobs real soon now. But Sony Ericsson is going to cover their pay for the next month or two.… Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:42:14 +0100 Android demonstrates inability to conquer worldGoogle has issued a fix to the G1 handset, to stop it executing commands just because they appear in an entered text message - preventing punters from rebooting the handset just by typing the word "reboot".… Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:01:57 +0100 'Illegal' terms and conditionsUpdated UK regulator Ofcom has completed an investigation into miss-selling at Phones4U, and concluded that the high street retailer had concocted terms and conditions that were illegal, as well as giving potential customers bad advice.… Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:06:58 +0100 No lemon?With Christmas just around the corner, O2 has decided to try and tempt punters into its Xda smartphone family with a juicy little talker called Zest.… Fri, 07 Nov 2008 22:43:33 +0100 Eat your heart out, NetShareWhy was NetShare - the app that turns the Jesus Phone into a modem - yanked from the Apple App Store? AT&T and Apple have tethering app plans of their own.… Fri, 07 Nov 2008 18:00:19 +0100 Easy as 0000iPhone users expecting their Passcode Lock to prevent thieves running up their bill will be disappointed, as it emerges that the "Emergency Call" button actually allows any number to be dialled.… Fri, 07 Nov 2008 10:54:20 +0100 Analyst predicts GPS smartphone takeoverShipments of satnave in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) fell between Q2 and Q3 this year. At the same time, shipments of smartphones with integrated GPS pick-ups more than doubled, according to market watcher Canalys. But it forgot to mention one thing...… Fri, 07 Nov 2008 02:22:21 +0100 OK, we're baffledApple appears to have taken its campaign against iPhone modders to a baffling new level, tweaking its new MacBooks and MacBook Pros to disable a popular software tool used to jailbreak the handset.… Thu, 06 Nov 2008 21:51:56 +0100 Show me the Android moneySteve Ballmer has publicly belittled Google's fledgling mobile phone platform, saying the world's largest search engine ad broker is low on Microsoft's list of mobile competitors.… Thu, 06 Nov 2008 12:47:34 +0100 Fake incomings to rescue you from disastrous datesiPhone users can now escape blind dates and boring business meetings thanks to a faked incoming call that urgently summons them elsewhere.… |
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