Telecomms
Tue, 02/02/2010 - 21:48 | David
Consumers could see a plethora of handset bargains as smartphone manufacturers enter a price war, according to analysts.
Booming demand for new, cheaper smartphones helped fuel a recovery in the overall handset market late last year, according to researchers, but rivalry for a piece of this lucrative business is set to turn fierce as new vendors enter the fray.
Tags: Wed, 20/01/2010 - 13:17 | David
Users wanting to call home from abroad are increasingly turning to Skype to the detriment of international carriers, new data reveals.
"Skype is now the largest provider of cross-border communications in the world, by far," claims Stephan Beckert, analyst at research firm TeleGeography.
Mon, 04/01/2010 - 12:56 | David
O2's chief executive has admitted that his company's data network has been unable to keep up with the "explosion" in popularity of the iPhone.
The mobile operator's London data network has suffered a spate of crashes over the past year, as it was hit with unprecedented demand from data-hungry smartphone customers.
The success of smartphones, led by the iPhone - which was available exclusively on O2 until November 2009 - has caused an 18-fold increase in data traffic since the beginning of 2009, according to the company.
Mon, 07/12/2009 - 10:41 | David
Mobile players have pushed the market share of Google Android-based phones a little higher, but consumers showed little interest toward them in recent months, according to research firm IDC.
Android has won attention in the mobile industry lately, with Motorola and Sony Ericsson choosing it for their new top models.
Market share of smartphones running Google's Android operating system (OS) rose to 5.4 per cent from 4.2 per cent in July to September in Western Europe, a key area for the smartphone market.
Wed, 18/11/2009 - 22:01 | David
Opera has launched a beta version of Opera Mobile 10 for Windows Mobile-based smartphones.
According to the company, Opera Mobile 10 has been optimised for touchscreens with a simplified interface that includes a virtual keyboard and the usual raft of pan, pinch and zoom controls.
Despite simplifying the interface, the company claims the browser still squeezes in the majority of features from its desktop cousin.
Mon, 09/11/2009 - 15:00 | David
The first iPhone worm has been created, which is now spreading in the wild.
So far confined to Australia, security firm Sophos said that the ‘Ikee’ worm spreads into jailbroken phones, changing the lock screen wallpaper to an image of pop star Rick Astley with the message “Ikee is never going to give you up.”
Wed, 28/10/2009 - 18:28 | David
Mobile data traffic is set to grow 25-fold by 2012, stretching the mobile networks to their very limits.
Mobile industry analysts Informa claim that mobile broadband networks are already beginning to sag under the strain in major cities. "The networks in developed markets in the UK and the US are starting to saturate," Informa analyst Dimitris Mavrakis has announced. "We see a lot of bottlenecks in data-centric areas such as London and New York."
Wed, 07/10/2009 - 10:56 | David
Adobe has unveiled the first full version of its Flash player for mobile devices. Smartphones have, until now, been left to use a stripped-down Flash Lite player. Now the company is set to deliver full Flash functionality to a series of mobile devices over the coming months, as part of its drive to "reach users wherever they are".
Tue, 18/08/2009 - 12:57 | David
UK surfers are missing out on potentially huge savings by not bothering to change broadband suppliers or bundle their electronic services into one package, according to research from moneysupermarket.com.
One in ten consumers simply cannot be bothered to switch broadband suppliers, while 69% are not getting the best deal possible because they are happy with their supplier or don’t want a bundled package, the research found.
Wed, 05/08/2009 - 10:23 | David
The world’s first Welsh language phone will be launched later this year by Orange and Samsung.
The Samsung S5600 will be available exclusively through Orange from 1 September on both pay-as-you-go and pay monthly contracts.
Samsung created software for the device which includes over 44,000 words allowing for menus and predictive text in Welsh.
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