Microsoft thanks Vodafone for its VoIP capabilities

Rating: Hang on, are we on the same planet?
Talk about massive u-turns, Vodafone has just trumpeted its recent recognition from Microsoft for its competency in unified communications (UC). Amongst other things this enables Vodafone “to integrate and deliver VoIP.” Aren’t cellular operators like Vodafone and VoIP providers arch enemies?
Surely this is the same Vodafone that [...]

Memory problem dogs new Opera Mobile browser

Rating: That’s the trouble with betas
Browser specialist, Opera, released a new version of its mobile browser for Symbian/S60 handsets – the Opera Mobile 10 beta. GoMo news downloaded it and immediately ran into memory problems.
Before that, GoMo News did a bit of head-scratching. Opera says this beta is for Nokia phones and S60 handsets in [...]

Is Nokia engulfed in its own vapour hype and out of touch with the core market?

New devices are vital for mobile technology. The operating system is part of the mobile device – but only part. The demands of new technology and new mobile devices must be accompanied with due diligence, sex-appeal and innovation.

Mobile Barcodes NeoReader on the iPhone vs Nokia N95 Barcode Scanner

Last week a release went out that NeoMedia had released the NeoReaderfor the iPhone. I decided to check it out. Because I also have a Nokia N95; with the Nokia Barcode Scanner on it I decided to do a face-off between both the products.
How?
Well, I chose the same sets of barcodes and I took a [...]

Bena throws iPhone out of the window

Yikes. I arrive at the airport in Germany and realise that when I synched my phone I forgot the phone numbers and only have 500 email addresses.
It gets worse.

Get to Ireland and phone disables itself. I keep trying to access and it keeps saying “try again in one hour”.
I freak out as all my data [...]

Tesco’s VOIP goes mobile.

Rating: Don’t they just sell groceries?
They Say: El Reg are reporting that Tesco’s, the UK based global retailer has extended its VOIP offering onto mobile phones.

Tesco Internet Phone is handled by Freshtel, the Australian VoIP specialist who are providing the S60 client for the mobile version and who also handle the PC version for Tesco’s.
Tesco [...]

Truphone ‘Bad Boy’ James Tagg happy to join GSM set

Rating: Offering so good he’s reselling to others
Down at the Wireless08 show at London’s Olympia, I run into Truphone CEO, James Tagg. He’s cooing about being a real GSM operator courtesy of his company’s recent purchase of SIMtravel. The irony of the situation is that the bad boy of the GSM scene is now reselling [...]

iPhone goes iGaming?

Rating: Plenty of salt and vinegar please.
They Say: Intomobile have an interesting article suggesting that the iPhone could become a potential mobile gaming powerhouse. They point to the Samsung manufactured ARM System on Chip architecture that resides inside the iPhone which could include Imagination Technologies’ PowerVR MBX 3D graphics video core in next-generation iPhones.
OpenGL ES1.1 [...]

Mission impossible: watch the racing live on a handset

Rating: Or how the Beeb defeated my attempts to do so
One of the UK’s major sporting and social events is the Grand National horse race which takes place today [5th April] in Aintree. So I set myself the task of trying to discover if I could watch the race live on a mobile phone.
In theory [...]

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