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Nov. 10th, 2006
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- Flash storage embedded into SIMs as well as related functionality that uses software built-in into flash and SIMs starts to reach critical mass - and leaders are Sandisk/msystems and Samsung.
- Samsung leads in phone design as well - introducing Windows XP based phone (yes, mobile one + Wimax) and mp3 player with mobile phone functionality. Plus it offers a phone in US (with HELIO) that offers Google map-based GPS-enabled applications. Google is now into mobile applications - and have you noticed that GMail is not a beta now as you can register for it by SMS without any invitation.
- ARCHOS starts to sell a multimedia player that could be used a mobile application platform - unlike similar offering from Microsoft.
- OpenMoko adds another mobile phone Linux platform - with phone soon to be available in China.
- Verisign touts mobile phone-enabled vending machines as something new - while years and years ago they were trialed in e.g. Japan and Finland and proved to to be really profitable due to low actual usage.
- Some
South African company (named POGO) tries to play Napster (that is original one) game again providing p2p file sharing for mobile content (ringtones including).
( Read more... )Nov. 3rd, 2006
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- Mobile voice and data is promised to be soon available while in-flight.
- Cingular launched universal mobile music store.
- Motorola intends to open-source J2ME while Microsoft has already fully share-sourced Windows CE. Should really make developers' life easier.
- NTT DoCoMo starts to design multi-config multi-OS handsets - with open specs together with Intel.
- Google provides J2ME client for GMail.
( Read more... )Oct. 27th, 2006
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- Research In Motion decouples push e-mail from application server and allows just to serve enterprise mobile applications.
- 3ple-Media offers integrated suite that combines MMSC, WAP Gateway, Video Gateway and transcoding offering out of the box mobile portal capabilities.
- a la Mobile Linux mobile OS appears in an actual phone.
- Flash Lite applications competing with J2ME and BREW offerings finally emerge.
- AT&T launches Internet-based remote home monitoring video service - unfortunately not protected from power or landline network failure - but at least that will help to popularize such services.
- Cisco buys into enterprise mobile applications - potentially making it a big vendor of push e-mail among other services.
( Read more... )Oct. 20th, 2006
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- USSD-based applications are still alive - and are quite popular in developing countries playing the long-promised role of poor man Internet.
- NEC offers i-Mode out-of-the-box portal that is able to support multiple operator setup.
- New smart phones from DoCoMo, Samsung and LG are really desktop computer-like multimedia powerhouses (two latter ones illustrating how far series 60 has traveled). Thuraya meanwhile pushes further concept of affordable combo/sat smartphone.
- Meanwhile serious efforts to ease development of desktop graphics like games on mobile are made by many companies - ARM and Sony Ericsson among them.
( Read more... )Oct. 13th, 2006
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- Sony provides a free US-wide Wi-Fi access to Mylo users - and that can really push the thing as a convenient Net communication device. Vendors of similar wireless-enabled PDAs should follow.
- Palm takes antenna off Treo 650 and provides a non-radical software update - trying to package this as a totally new Palm OS-based model.
- Sun adds Laszlo support to J2ME - hopefully making easier development of mobile applications that work consistently on most phone models.
- JCB intros RFID mobile payments in Netherlands.
- Ingenio and Microsoft give to consumers a way to call a vendor found by a mobile search at his expense.
- Adobe intends to enable Flash Lite on mass-market devices making it an alternative to Java development in same way as it is on desktop today.
( Read more... )Oct. 6th, 2006
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- Telenor in cooperation with Norwegian banking industry has introduced a country-wide
BankID service that allows to
provide electronic proof of identity
with mobile phone and access related services.
- D-Link announced entry into mobile phone market with browser/e-mail enabled dual-mode GSM/secure Wi-Fi SIP phone. Are such things turning into commodity really soon?
- Nokia introduced
Wibree - a next-generation challenger to Bluetooth,
created Business Channel Program designed to accelerate the widespread adoption of enterprise mobility and announced WidSets, a phone manufacturer-independent Web 2.0 service, that automatically multicasts preferred RSS feeds and user-generated content.
( Read more... )Sep. 29th, 2006
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- Sony Reader is finally out - marking the important event of actual first mass availability of a device for digital content viewing simultaneously with a real marketplace to buy this content from (unlike it was with music and video)
- Nokia announced a lot of powerful new phones - including
N95 with everything a powerful PDA dreams about already on board - as well as music phones with 8GB memory. Accompanying portal services are announced as well.
- Intel disclosed details of its next-generation Centrino Duo - that has 802.11n and 3G built-in.
- fring and iSkoot introduce software (with fring supposedly being client side only) that puts VoIP on mobile into same commodity category as IM - with gateways to all proprietary vendors including Skype.
- GoLemur! offers a storage/application portal and complementary J2ME client that allows developers to piggy-back on it - potentially creating a development platform with really wide client base.
( Read more... )Sep. 22nd, 2006
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- RIM expands offerings in India, starts in Japan and offers a nice GPS-enabled handset in USA.
- FitSense Technology offers small and durable body wireless sensors enabling potentially quite astonishing personal/health applications.
- Microsoft is offering a music player with built-in wireless fair sharing functionality turning such players into ready platform for mobile applications.
- Utimaco Safeware secures mobile communications over both voice and data channels.
- IBM and Telenor develop mobile devices and networks that learn and adapt to individual user preferences and presence sharing wishes.
- Motorola buys Symbol Technologies putting a lot of technological synergies into one place.
( Read more... )Sep. 15th, 2006
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- There is a real torrent of news during this CTIA week - and a lot of them are quite interesting. That's why I didn't mark any of them as more important this time - to encourage a reader to scan through the whole issue. I also made formatting more streamlined this time so that issue doesn't look horribly big.
- Mobile advertising is predicted to be a real cash cow - and this week a lot of platform were introduced to ease mobile ads deployment while carriers started to really use the opportunities for ad placement.
- A lot of published research provides insights into the near (great) future of mobile data applications.
- Smartphones are now plenty - and affordable, under $150 subsidized - with Windows Mobile based models leading the pack. Question is whether the consumer oriented smart phones will be separate from professional ones (even being cheaper and with wider functions) in providing too many insecure functions like e.g. open network access and built-in powerful cameras.
- AJAX-based access to data and applications on desktop computers from phones with Opera browser (and there are plenty of those already) is possible now.
- And again a lot of financing announced - most interesting being about News corp. joining forces with Verisign for mobile content push. Other announcements are not to be ignored either.
( Read more... )Sep. 8th, 2006
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- Mobile advertising is predicted to be big already this year.
- Toronto goes wireless - and for now WiFi service is free.
- RIM is now deeply into consumer mobile terminals.
- Nokia unveils fashion 3G phone - at last.
- New VoIP and IM services are launched - the one from ROK is using Bluetooth connection to desktop while one from
Knewtrino is browser-based.
- Argogroup launches comprehensive managed service for end-to-end wireless applications quality assurance.
- And finally week is surprisingly rich on amount of money pushed into wireless applications, notably with Sybase and Nortel involvement as well as some mobile payment players.
( Read more... )Sep. 1st, 2006
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- Nokia and
SingTel launch dual-mode call services on Symbian-based phones.
- Net access is now viewed as a necessity, not a luxury - Ryanair starts offering it.
- Samsung is promising 4G soon and real - while offering really thin and powerful 3G/HSDPA phone is Europe.
- Skype service is now available on quite a lot of stand-alone devices including dual-mode DECT phones.
- Nokia preloads a lot of powerful software for net access on
N80 Internet Edition phone. It also buys a mapping service developer so that software list will be expanded soon.
( Read more... )Aug. 25th, 2006
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- As push e-mail goes mainstream so does the server software that provides it. SEVEN now has 100 carrier deployments for its' white-label platform.
- NTT DoCoMo introduces HSDPA service as well as one phone that supports it - with
3.6Mbps download speeds. Pricing for data remains unchanged.
- SAMSUNG Launches 8GB Music Phone - with all expected bells and whistles included, plus
picture in picture and motion detector.
- Opera to upload automatically upgrades for its' mobile browser.
- Finnish tracking technology company Geowell provides an application on Benefon terminals that allows hunter with mobile phone to track - and listen to - hunting dog that is equipped with another phone.
- Nimbuzz tries to position itself as another Skype - on mobile phones. It does seem to provide a free - for now - instant messaging service with gateways to public networks (Agile used to do the same) while adding also a gateway to cheap VoIP calling (as some Skype add-on providers already do albeit not so neatly).
( Read more... )Aug. 18th, 2006
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- Global revenues from mobile data services surpassed US$ 100 billion last year. That is about $5/month/subscriber globally -meaning wireless data access is seriously financially important now.
- Sprint chooses
WiMAX for its' next generation network.
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Motorola charges ahead and introduces a comprehensive line-up of new phones. Analysts seem to be right in predicting as quite probable that Motorola will soon move to the first place ahead of Nokia.
- Sony adds to PSP a messaging (with Skype support) communicator with WiFi.
- A lot of advanced reference design platforms for Linux-based handsets are announced.
- Skype is now providing SMS messaging.
- TynTec offers secure guaranteed SMS delivery with QoS.
- Connexion by Boeing is closing doors - it seems that the need to access the Net while flying is not that urgent.
- Nokia is to acquire Loudeye and start its own music distribution platform.
- An open source project is launched that promises somehow "allows all voice calls to become data calls". It does not say though how it is possible or why exactly it should be useful. No details (or sourcecode) at the web site yet.
( Read more... )Jul. 20th, 2006
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- PHS is to live on - by being upgraded to OFDMA.
- Skype WiFi phones are shipping.
- HP shows what's next for RFID - e.g. info storage up to hundreds of megabytes and 10Mbit speeds.
( Read more... )Jul. 14th, 2006
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- Watch for a new era of large-scale M2M deployments.
- More Windows mobile based smartphones - from Palm in Europe and from HTC in Japan.
- Latest Symbian OS release natively supports Wi-Fi, PTT, IPSec and latest version of J2ME specs.
( Read more... )Jul. 7th, 2006
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- Mobile Internet access in Japan is a way of life while Europeans seem to use sms only.
- While NYC provides free Wi-Fi access only in bigger parks, Paris wants to cover the whole city.
- SAMSUNG launches qwerty smartphone.
( Read more... )Jun. 30th, 2006
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- Samsung expands thin phones line.
- Neopets.com goes mobile.
- Intel exits handset processor business.
- And Motient sale of its' DataTac/ARDIS network business again reminds how many legacy (that is over 20 years old) mobile data networks are still in production - 'cause in many cases what is important is that you are connected where and when you need it (speed/bandwidth not important) and not paying a lot for it.
( Read more... )Jun. 22nd, 2006
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- Research firms do agree now that mobile TV is to be big. There is a drastic difference in predicted figures though.
- Push e-mail standard is not only announced now but already deployed as a commercial application. Question is though whether it will be supported by proprietary providers - i.e. all the real ones.
- Sony Ericsson announces i-mode capable UMTS phone.
- Nokia puts quite flexible content shop into almost all its' phones.
- Nokia sheds businesses that it seems it doesn't consider to be core ones any more. Networks are pushed into independent voyage together with Siemens, and CDMA is to be rid off altogether.
- And finally if you are in NYC on Monday - be sure to check Paypal mobile presentation. May be you will be able to deduce its' real intentions.
( Read more... )Jun. 16th, 2006
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- Smart mobile device market battle continues. More UMTS-enabled devices from RIM are deployed. Windows Mobile reference platform wins customers. HTC reveals own brand name for smartphones. Big companies unite to promote mobile Linux.
- Skyhook Wireless opens its' location data to developers.
( Read more... )Jun. 9th, 2006
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- Blackberry finally arrives to Japan.
- City of Bologna launches city-wide Wi-Fi.
- 3 Italia offers flat-rate 3G data plan.
- Samsung introduces VGA LCD with 400 dpi.
- Sony Ericsson's advanced multitasking J2ME platform is approved by developers.
( Read more... )Jun. 2nd, 2006
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- Blackberry terminals start to support true 3G speeds.
- HSDPA handsets are now in use in an actual network.
- More mobile TV standards are being deployed in Europe while Qualcomm promises to support multiple standards on a single terminal.
- Automatic content reformatting for BREW as well as automated J2ME-to-BREW migration tools are introduced.
- Qualcomm incorporates Microsoft mobile gaming platform into BREW.
( Read more... )May. 26th, 2006
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- Mobile VOIP is predicted to be huge - driven by client availability on consumer devices such as iPod or Nokia 770 and supported by Skype infrastructure.
- Thin Windows-based smartphone from Motorola is finally here.
- Nokia is more into open source. Boingo also opens its' Wi-Fi finder client.
- That move will probably result in Boingo being available on Palm OS as promised long time ago. Meanwhile first (again promised long time ago) VoIP client is finally available for Palm.
- J2ME application for GPS navigation with online maps is now available in US.
- And money are being really pushed into mobile applications.
( Read more... )May. 19th, 2006
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- Mobile WiMax is promised to be big.
- Push e-mail is expanding to Arabic countries and China.
- RIM decouples application server from e-mail server
- Nokia adds OMA DM to Intellisync platform
- Palm updates Treo to 700p but no essential things are changed as compared to 650. Nokia meanwhile continues to introduces new powerful enterprise phones.
- Nokia and Motorola are advancing compatibility and functionality for J2ME developers
- Nokia 770 Linux tablet receives a lot of new functionality
- Nielsen advances mobile polling into real time world
( Read more... )May. 12th, 2006
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- RIM
comes to China
- HP pushes wireless e-mail services similar to Ericsson model. Meanwhile Ericsson receives Electrolux as an e-mail customer.
( Read more... )May. 5th, 2006
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- Internet access in the airplanes is considered reliable enough to service governments.
- RIM gives a one user license server for free to owners of RIM devices , potentially seriously enhancing its' use by individuals and small companies.
- Skype Wi-Fi phone and UltraMobile PCs are now available for purchase.
- Qualcomm is to build Windows mobile into its' chipsets.
- Opera Mini advanced.
- More WLAN location applications unveiled, including ones from Cisco.
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