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No paper trails with Blackberry adoption
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Technology feature

Category: Server

2009-04-28 05:26:34
Paper has been consigned to the wastepaper bin with Melbourne company Tracknology migrating its entire operation to paperless trading with the adoption of a BlackBerry solution, including the use of RIM smartphones.


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I want my old mobile phone back, new ones are too easily hijacked
Written By: Tony Austin
Section: Technology feature

Category: Server

2009-04-24 02:21:11
It seems that a hijacker can take over your smartphone via a suitably crafted SMS message or via an attack at a wireless hot spot, according to Trust Digital.


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Smartphone market holds up, rest of mobile market declines
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Technology feature

Category: Server

2009-04-16 07:25:49

The financial crisis has hit the overall mobile phone market in Australia, with a 16 percent decline in sales last year, but there was some joy amidst the gloom and doom with the smartphone segment defying the recession and growing by 7.6 percent.


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Bono selects RIM, rejects Apple, for U2 360 world tour
Written By: David M Williams
Section: Technology Lifestyle

Category: Smart Phones

2009-04-08 19:23:31
Infamous post-punk rocker Bono has partnered with Research in Motion (RIM) to produce something special for the BlackBerry during U2's coming 360 world tour. It appears Apple missed the opportunity to promote the iPhone, with Bono saying RIM were more accommodating.


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BlackBerry users get online app store
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications

Category: ExchangeDaily

2009-04-01 16:50:43
Research in Motion has followed the lead set by Apple, launching an online store for applications designed to run on its range of smartphones.
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3 turns mobiles into hotspots with new Wi-Fi application
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Technology feature

Category: Server

2009-03-31 03:11:23

3 Mobile has today launched a new WiFi application that turns its customers’ mobile phones into mobile wireless hotspots.


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Motorola virtualized smartphone will kill iPhone price: OK Labs
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Technology feature

Category: Server

2009-03-30 18:04:45
Motorola's new Evoke QA4  is the world's first commercially available virtualized handset capable of running multiple operating systems, including Android, on a single ARM processor and will be hundreds of dollars cheaper than the iPhone and other smartphones. This is the claim of Open Kernel Labs, the company that provides the OKL4 hypervisor that the new smartphone will use.


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iPhone takes half of US smartphone traffic: report
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news

Category: Mobiles

2009-03-24 17:46:28
Apple's iPhone is responsible for practically one third of the traffic associated with smartphones worldwide and half of it in the US, according to a new report.


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Virtualised multiple OS mobile handset to hit market
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles

Category: IT blog

2009-03-24 02:37:44
A low priced mobile handset capable of running multiple operating systems in virtual windows and with similar features of much higher priced smart phones is about to hit the market. The handset will run Linux and at least one other OS on top of the OKL4 hypervisor from Open Kernel Labs.


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Crunch time for worldwide mobile phone shipments as economic crisis hits
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Technology Industry

Category: Deals & Wheels - Contracts

2009-03-12 08:11:24

Almost daily there’s more news about the devastating impact the worldwide economic downturn is having on all business sectors, including the technology industry where the latest report reveals a big drop in mobile phone shipments.


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iPhone heading for fall in summer says Palm honcho
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles

Category: IT blog

2009-03-09 02:18:23
Talk about a possible Apple lawsuit against Palm over the multi-touch functionality of its impressive new Pre smartphone makes one wonder if Cupertino is slightly nervous. Super aggressive anti-iPhone rhetoric from key Palm investor Roger McNamee may make Apple wish that spiritual leader Steve Jobs returns soon.


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Smartphones weathering economic storm in Western Europe, for the moment at least!
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Information technology news

Category: Mobiles

2009-03-03 07:54:47

The current economic situation has proved that the mobile phone market generally is not immune to recession but, in Western Europe, at least the rapidly expanding consumer market for the latest smartphones grew by nearly 26% in the last quarter of 2008 compared to the corresponding period of 2007, according to IDC’s latest European Mobile Phone Tracker report.


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Micro-USB picked as universal mobile handset charging port
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Technology feature

Category: Enterprise

2009-02-17 21:08:11
So a mobile phone industry body has finally settled on a standardised charging scheme. I smell greenwash.


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Huawei unveils inscrutable non-working Android smartphone
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Technology feature

Category: Enterprise

2009-02-17 00:45:45
Chinese telecoms heavyweight Huawei Technologies has unveiled its first Android smartphone at the GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The smartphone, one of a growing number slated to be powered by Google's open source Android operating system, will be commercially available in the third quarter of 2009.


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LG re-launches into the iPhone-clone ARENA
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Technology feature

Category: Enterprise

2009-02-16 00:42:17
No, there’s no known deal with Tina Arena, nor does this phone have anything to do with the LG Arena in Birmingham – it’s the latest iPhone-esque device from LG with more than a passing resemblance to the iPhone’s icons and design. Is the Arena a leaner and meaner iPhone clone, or just an in between-er coulda-beener?


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Is the 810-F the tradies' best (i-)mate?
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Technology feature

Category: Enterprise

2009-02-15 18:32:14
Smartphones and building sites don't mix very well unless you're prepared to spring for insurance against accidental damage - apart from anything else, those large screens are easily broken. But i-mate thinks it has the answer in the form of a new handset dubbed the 810-F.


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HTC Android phone set for dream launch in Australia - Gee!
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Technology feature

Category: Enterprise

2009-02-03 15:32:42
The first Android smartphone to hit the shores of the land down under looks set to arrive tomorrow courtesy of HTC and Optus. The HTC G1 Dream, with its landscape slide out keyboard and 3.2 inch screen launched in the US on the T-Mobile network last October.


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Smartphone growth leads the way in weakening mobile market
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Technology feature

Category: Enterprise

2009-02-01 19:52:51
As the economy took its toll on the mobile handset market in the last quarter of 2008, it is becoming increasingly clear that smartphones are moving into the mainstream led by Blackberry and iPhone, according to a new report.


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Telstra & HTC launch HTC HD with 'biggest screen'
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications

Category: Technology

2009-01-21 23:23:09
HTC has launched the new HTC HD touchscreen Windows Mobil smartphone in Australia, exclusive to Next G until 30 April touting it has having the biggest screen of any similar device on the market.


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Ruslan Kogan speaks on Chinese “Agora” clone
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Telecommunications

Category: News

2009-01-20 22:15:40
A curious “G8000” Google Phone on sale at Alibaba.com has raised the curiosity of tech sites around the world, wondering if the G8000 is the Agora being sold off through Chinese channels, but Kogan founder Ruslan Kogan says “no”.


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