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Irish the heaviest users of mobile phones: Ofcom LONDON (Reuters) - Residents in the Republic of Ireland spent the most time on their mobile phones and sent the most text messages per head in the world in 2007, according to a report which examines changes in the communications industry. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Reuter |
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Google Android is about advertising, not the enterprise Even though three companies hosted the launch event and the software is backed by a consortium, the introduction of the first Android phone made it very clear that Android is about one company: Google.Android is Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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5 ways the iPhone 3G still lags in enterprise The iPhone 3G may have a lock on the Sexiest Gadget Alive title for 2008, but in the frumpy and boring world of things that matter to enterprise IT managers, it's no pinup.Despite Apple's improvements upon the p Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Enterprise IT struggles to close the cell phone gap For a concept that's remarkably easy to reduce to a sound bite, bridging the gap between cellular phones and enterprise networks ("fixed-mobile convergence") remains stubbornly hard to implement.The basic idea i Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Deploying the iPhone 3G for business, part 2 In Part 1 of this series, I looked at the mechanisms available to IT staffers to activate, deploy and configure iPhones in business environments. But the biggest new business-oriented feature available on the iPhone, thanks to the iPhone 2.x firmware (included with th Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Showdown of the Top 5 smartphone OSes Remember when a phone was just a phone? You'd no more give thought to its operating system than you would to the one that your microwave oven ran. Boy, have times changed.Today's smartphones are pocketable, Net- Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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The Android fine print: Kill switch and other tidbits An uproar erupted when iPhone users discovered a so-called remote kill switch on their phones -- will it spur the same reaction in users of the G1, the first Android phone?In the Android Market terms of service, Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Google sees mobile search on the rise Google's search tool for mobile phones has increased searches by 20 percent, according to the company.The software for Nokia, BlackBerry, and now also Windows Mobile phones makes searching 40 percent quicker, b Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Five reasons to buy the Apple iPhone 3G When the iPhone was introduced, I found it tempting ... very, very tempting. But just enough features and capabilities were missing from Apple's initial cell phone offering that I held off on buying one.I wasn't Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Startup hopes to lower cell phone costs within the enterprise Strata8 Networks, which officially opened its doors for business on Thursday, is offering a new twist on helping enterprises to lower their cell phone costs.The company, which has its own cellular spectrum licen Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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The Web's best free stuff Free: It's the magic word for an ever-expanding wealth of downloadable software and online services. Free doesn't necessarily mean good, however, and hunting for freebies can mean sifting through a lot of junk.T Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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How to make the (new) iPhone work at work With the release of Apple's iPhone SDK now come and gone, and the enhanced IT-oriented capabilities planned for the next major iPhone software update in June, it's clear that the iPhone are going to be corporate mainstays. Still, at its heart, the iPhone is a consumer Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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The iPhone beats BlackBerry when it comes to reliability A study of new mobile phones from an online warranty supplier has suggested that Apple's iPhone has substantially fewer failures than handsets from BlackBerry and Palm.San Francisco-based SquareTrade sells exten Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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How the wireless spectrum auction could change your life Depending on who's talking, the wireless spectrum auction that starts on Jan. 24 will significantly change the mobile and wireless landscape in the United States, or it won't have much impact at all.Some believe Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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By Open Sourcing Symbian, Nokia Kicks Off the Mobile Age The mobile software age is here. Symbian co-founder Nokia announced Monday night that it is buying the 52 percent of the software maker that it doesn’t already own and releasing its mobile operating system under an open source license. With that move, Symbian joins two other Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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By Open Sourcing Symbian, Nokia Kicks Off the Mobile Age The mobile software age is here. Symbian co-founder Nokia announced Monday night that it is buying the 52 percent of the software maker that it doesn’t already own and releasing its mobile operating system under an open source license. With that move, Symbian joins two other Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Top 10: SAP makes a pitch, Apple gets the ditch Intel used its developer's forum this week to lay out its solid-state drive plans as well as talk up its Internet connectivity efforts. The partnership between Microsoft and Novell, once billed as an unholy alliance between enterprise server software rivals, was exten Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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The mobile revolution's hidden cost Late last year, the mobile phone industry passed a remarkable milestone, one that not so many years ago it didn't even expect to reach. Media sites and blogs around the world buzzed as the news was announced with equal measures of excitement, amazement and, in some ca Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Ofcom: Where's the broadband beef? Mobile grumbles down, silent call complaints up UK regulator Ofcom has been looking into what customers dislike in their communications, culminating in the publication of the third annual report on what's been riling users most over the last 12 months.… Home > Rss Directory > General > The Register |
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With the iPhone, it all comes down to software The public and industry obsession over the iPhone has spawned -- and will likely continue to spawn -- a fair number of imitators and wannabes. But none of these is likely to have the staying power of the iPhone, thanks to Apple's creation of an ecosystem filled with t Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |