Mar
2008
In October last year we reported on plans to allow people to use mobile phones on European aircraft flights. These plans have come a step closer today following a decision by the telecoms regulator, Ofcom, to allow mobile communications on UK registered aircraft. Previously, the Civil Aviation Authority and the European Aviation Safety Agency were [...]
Mar
2008
Motorola have hit the news again this week with the latest instalment of their business redevelopment. Following the recent high level departures and imminent redundancies at their plant in Birmingham, Motorola has now announced that it is to split in to two public companies. One section of the business will concentrate on selling infrastructure and [...]
Mar
2008
Following on from the recent problems suffered by Motorola, Numair Faraz (who was the personal advisor to former CMO Geoffrey Frost) wrote an open letter to the Motorola Board of Directors and investors which today he passed to a popular technology weblog who subsequently published the contents of the letter on their website. Faraz worked [...]
Mar
2008
Rumours have surfaced that HTC will be the first manufacturer to release a device running Google Android and that this device will be called ‘Dream’. This 3 inch by 5 inch handset will have a large touchscreen and full QWERTY slide out thumb board. It will come as no surprise to many to see HTC [...]
Mar
2008
According to Google we’re firmly at the starting blocks of the mobile web era as the search engine giant reported a sharp incline in internet usage on mobile devices since it started offering services tailored to mobile handsets such as BlackBerry, Windows Mobile smartphones and the iPhone. Matt Waddell, Google’s Product Manager for Google Mobile, [...]
Mar
2008
Motorola have been featuring on our news pages significantly over the last few weeks, and today is unfortunately no exception to recent events. According to reports, the suffering mobile phone handset giant is set to lay off around half of the workforce at its design facility in Birmingham in the latest round of cutbacks. Currently [...]
Mar
2008
This week we gratefully received the latest device in the Xda range from our partners over at O2, the feature packed Xda Orbit 2. We have been testing this device in house and have written up a comprehensive review which you can read over on our Mobile Data Forum.
Mar
2008
Another name has been added to the string of high level departures as Motorola announced Stu Reed, President of Mobile Devices, has left the company with immediate effect (just eight months after his promotion to the role). Upon seeing yet another member of his team disappear out the back door, company CEO Greg Brown said [...]
Mar
2008
The most recent twist in the turbulent times of Motorola has taken shape after the mobile phone handset manufacturer announced that its chief marketing officer had left the company. Kenneth C. “Casey” Keller Jr is the latest casualty in a string of high level departures as Motorola desperately tries to restructure its business. Mr Keller [...]
Mar
2008
Ailing smartphone manufacturer Palm has rolled out its proprietary OS-based Centro device in the UK. Physically, the Centro strongly resembles its Windows Mobile-based sibling, the Treo 500, but closer inspection shows the Centro to be slightly narrower and fatter than the Treo 500. The Centro is a quad band device with basic connectivity on GPRS [...]
