It's bad to be a SMS spammer - in UK
Posted on 11-Feb-2003 07:36 News, Mobile
The Register reports that British ICSTIS (Independent Committee for the Supervision of Standards of Telephone Information Services) slapped a fine in a spammer sending ads via SMS.
Piel Frama case for QTEK 1010 (and competition)
Posted on 10-Feb-2003 22:18 News, Mobile
Piel Frama has some nice cases for handhelds (including QTEK 1010 / XDA). They're also running a competition on Pocket PC Thoughts website.
GSM to hit one billion subscribers by year end 2003
Posted on 8-Feb-2003 01:30 News, Mobile
According to figures released by the GSM Association, the GSM family of wireless communications continues to dominate the wireless world. It is estimated that at the end of 2002 there were 787 million GSM subscribers across 190 countries of the world.
Smartphone coming to Canada
Posted on 7-Feb-2003 12:01 News, Mobile
Rogers AT&T Wireless is making a deal to bring to Canada Mobile phones with Microsoft's Smartphone 2002 operating system.
Microsoft asks for Sendo case dismissal
Posted on 5-Feb-2003 19:18 News, Mobile
Microsoft says there was no basis to Sendo's charges that it stole technical know-how and pushed it to the brink of bankruptcy.
AT&T introduces Wi-Fi services
Posted on 3-Feb-2003 20:30 News, Mobile
For a daily or monthly fee, AT&T subscribers will have access to Austin, Texas-based Wayport's "Wi-Fi" network, available in hotels and airports around the USA.
SMS Spam in action: Australia
Posted on 2-Feb-2003 22:23 News, Mobile
A dating company sent unsolicited messages to Telstra customers, in Australia urging them to call a 0900 (1900) number to retrieve messages.
Vodafone UK and Hotmail team
Posted on 30-Jan-2003 16:11 News, Mobile
The Register reports that Vodafone UK is going to include Hotmail functionality to its users.
Handheld sales down?
Posted on 29-Jan-2003 17:34 News, Mobile
From news.com (a CNet service), comes the report of handheld sales going down.
GPRS vs GSM data
Posted on 19-Jan-2003 12:38 Articles, Mobile, by Alastair Foster
How much can you benefit from GPRS? Can you benefit at all?
One hundred years of wireless
Posted on 18-Jan-2003 18:28 News, Mobile, by M Freitas
Saturday marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of wireless communication: On Jan. 18, 1903, Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi stood on a sandy bluff at Cape Cod and sent a greeting from President Theodore Roosevelt to England's King Edward VII. The king responded a few hours later, and the age of wireless had begun.
Reviews available now
Posted on 17-Jan-2003 01:34 News, Mobile, by M Freitas
Some reviews / comments of software are available now.
