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Curiouser and Qriouser: Telstra launches cell-phone scannable barcodes E-mail
by Stuart Corner   
Friday, 27 June 2008
If you had strolled into Martin Place in the Sydney CBD recently you might have seen large numbers of people creating a huge two dimension black and white barcode. Don't worry if you missed it because it is all on the web as Telstra tries to drum up interest in its latest mobile application.

 
Dance to the music, and charge your cellphone E-mail
by Stuart Corner   
Thursday, 26 June 2008
A dance-powered phone charger is just one of several devices developed by a partnership between UK cellular operator, Orange, and renewable energy company Gotwind to solve the problem of participants in multi-day outdoor music festivals keeping their cellphones charged.

 
Is it a camera or is it a phone? Kodak and Motorola blur the boundaries E-mail
by Stuart Corner   
Monday, 23 June 2008
Kodak has unveiled technology for mobile handsets that adds image enhancing and image sharing features found its digital cameras, and Motorola has announced the first handset to use the it.

 
100Mbps broadband comes to Scotland through the sewers E-mail
by Davey Winder   
Saturday, 21 June 2008
Upgrading broadband network infrastructure is fraught with problems: surface disruption to traffic, huge cost implications and ever lengthening time scales. The answer, it seems, could be to deliver the Internet using city sewer systems.


 
Google's Android arrives in Sydney E-mail
by Stuart Corner   
Wednesday, 18 June 2008
Australian mobile application developers got their first look at Google's Android mobile handset platform at Google's Australian development day in Sydney.

 
iBurst now an IEEE standard E-mail
by Stuart Corner   
Tuesday, 17 June 2008
The iBurst mobile wireless broadband technology - arguably the first truly mobile broadband technology to go into commercial service when it was launched in Sydney in March 2004 - has finally become an international standard, IEEE 802.20.

 
More woes for WiMAX? 802.20 rises from the dead - UPDATED. E-mail
by Stuart Corner   
Tuesday, 17 June 2008
A few years ago the 802.20 broadband wireless technology was touted as a serious rival to mobile WiMAX, and 3G mobile broadband, but it was given up for dead thanks to a dysfunctional IEEE working group. Now, out the blue, the IEEE has announced finalisation of the standard, and Kyocera says that the technology underpinning the standard is its proprietary iBurst system

 
Nokia to offer full range of touch screen phones E-mail
by Stuart Corner   
Friday, 13 June 2008
The senior vice president of Nokia Markets has told Reuters that Nokia will launch touch screen cellphones for every price segment later this year.

 
Leading mobile WiMAX vendors pool patents E-mail
by Stuart Corner   
Tuesday, 10 June 2008
Six of the leading suppliers of WiMAX technology - Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco, Clearwire, Intel, Samsung Electronics and Sprint - have agreed to pool their intellectual property in mobile WiMAX (IEEE802.16e) technology in a bid to boost uptake.

 
Microsoft teams with SingTel to encourage Windows Mobile Application developers E-mail
by Stuart Corner   
Wednesday, 04 June 2008
Microsoft has revealed the latest move in what is shaping up to be a major battle for the future mobile applications market. It has launched a programme to get independent software vendors, developers and operators developing applications for Windows Mobile OS, and has roped in a major telco, Singapore Telecom, to help it.

 
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