Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
Microsoft is promising a desktop-like web experience for smartphone users when the next version of Internet Explorer Mobile arrives by the end of the year.
Company officials said the update will allow users to easily view full-screen web pages on a phone. Is Microsoft playing catch-up with the iPhone? More like leapfrog, as the new browser will also support Flash and Silverlight, giving users a more complete web experience than is possible with Apple's handset.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs recently pooh-poohed the idea of putting Flash on the iPhone.
Phone vendors can expect the update during the third quarter, with the new browser first appearing on phones by the end of 2008.
Microsoft also announced Windows Mobile 6.1, which will feature simplifed setup, support for System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 for remote management, threaded text messaging, zooming, cut and paste without a touch screen, and the display of notifications (missed calls, upcoming appointments, etc) on the home screen.
The first phones with Windows Mobile 6.1 are expected this quarter.
Part of Microsoft's motivation is to allow the creation of phones that meet people's expectations of devices for both work and personal tasks.
David Bass
| For the fourth year in a row, IDC has placed content security provider Websense (NASDAQ: WBSN) at the top of the IDC Worldwide Web Security 2011 –…
How to Make Business Discovery Work for Your Business
Business Discovery takes its cues from consumer apps. Like Google, it encourages us- ers to hunt for and explore data without worrying about or even noticing the underly- ing technology. Their entire experience is working within an intuitive interface to get real-time, self-service results with only minimal training. ...more
Try an easy-to-use set of web-enabled
tools for business-class productivity services. Office 365 provides
anywhere-access to email, important documents, contacts, and calendars
on almost any device.
LATEST HEADLINES FROM YOUR IT
