Apr
2008
Motorola has posted predictably dismal figures in its Q1 report this week. We’ve been reporting significantly on the ailing mobile phone handset manufacturer recently as it lost ground to competitors, sustained heavy redundancies and split the company in half in a desperate effort to restructure. Because of these recent changes nobody expected the figures to [...]
Apr
2008
Sony Ericsson look set to announce another handset this week – the G502. The G502 will be something of an entry to mid-level device in the Sony Ericsson product line and will feature a 2” TFT screen, a standard 2.0 mega pixel camera with flash but no auto focus and weighs in at just over [...]
Apr
2008
BlackBerry creator Research In Motion have released Service Pack 5 for BlackBerry Enterprise Server v4.1. This latest revision builds on existing user functionality by adding the ability to search for remote messages that are no longer stored on the BlackBerry device, check the availability of attendees when creating meeting requests and download attachments in their [...]
Apr
2008
The exodus of high level staff at long suffering mobile phone manufacturer Motorola appears to be continuing today. According to reports in the Wall Street Journal, Mike Fenger (who headed up mobile devices in the EMEA territory) has now been replaced by Steven Nolan, who has moved from his old post of Vice President of [...]
Apr
2008
Following on from last week’s rumours, luxury Swiss watchmaker Tag Heuer have confirmed the existence of the ‘Meridiist’, a high tier mobile phone set to compete in the space currently occupied primarily by Vertu (Nokia’s own luxury spin off brand). Very little technical information accompanied the official announcement and glossy press photos, but Tag claim [...]
Apr
2008
BlackBerry creator Research In Motion is said to be looking at potential sites to build a new research and development facility, and one of the locations they’re considering is Bochum in Germany. Last week we reported on the settlement Nokia had made with the unions representing the 2000 workers laid off at its production plant [...]
Apr
2008
O2 has launched a new Windows Mobile smartphone under its long established XDA-brand. This all new device will be crowned the XDA Atmos, and is a quad-band device sporting both EDGE and HSDPA connectivity. For local range connections there is of course the expected addition of Bluetooth but you also get a Wi-Fi (802.11b/g) network [...]
Apr
2008
Mobile web browser developer Opera have muscled in on the action by developing a version of their popular browser for the Google Android platform. The current Opera Mini browser renders web content which has been transcoded to the binary OBML format, which basically means that the quantity of data downloaded is very small which in [...]
Apr
2008
Following a 2006 Congress plan which proposed to utilise current communication infrastructure for emergency scenarios , the FCC is expected to reveal an SMS-based alert system which will be adopted by all four of the USA’s national cellular carriers. The system will be designed to send alert messages (to those who wish to subscribe to [...]
Apr
2008
Finnish mobile phone giant Nokia has agreed a £160 million settlement with German worker unions representing the 2000 plant workers which have been laid off as part of the company’s manufacturing restructuring plans. Worker demonstrations followed the closure announcement back in January that saw the German factory in Bochum close and production moved to an [...]
