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Qantas to offer in-flight two-way SMS in all classes
Posted on 27-Sep-2003 09:54 News, Mobile
And a month of free, unlimited use of the new Qantas Short Message Service (SMS) system, launched with the airline's new International Business Class.

55 Million SMS sent per day in UK, during August 2003
Posted on 27-Sep-2003 09:48 News, Mobile
The Mobile Data Association announced that the total number of chargeable person-to-person text messages sent across the four UK GSM networks reached 55 million per day during August 2003. This compares to UK daily averages of 45 million in August 2002 and 34 million in August 2001.

O2 set to release Nokia N-Gage
Posted on 27-Sep-2003 09:25 News, Gaming
O2 is now advertising the N-Nokia Gage mobile gaming platform, and with some deals to go.

Docomo and Symbian in development partnership
Posted on 26-Sep-2003 23:08 News, Symbian
Japanese NTT Docomo will develop user interface and service delivery technologies for 3G handsets using Symbian OS

Telecom New Zealand and McDonald's act together
Posted on 26-Sep-2003 22:36 News, Mobile
McDonald�s and Telecom Mobile have joined forces to connect up to 6,500 McDonald�s staff across New Zealand using Telecoms' CDMA mobile.

Updated Opera browser for Sony Ericsson P800
Posted on 26-Sep-2003 22:32 News, Software
Opera released their latest Opera 6.2 for Symbian UIQ (Sony Ericsson P800).

Microsoft and Tully's Coffee to showcase Wi-Fi capabilities on Windows Mobile Pocket PC
Posted on 26-Sep-2003 08:01 News, Wi-Fi
The Coffee shop and Microsoft are partnering to release kiosks equipped with Windows Mobile 2003 Pocket PCs to offer customers a chance to experience wireless access from Cometa Networks.

Vivendi moving to licence Vodafone Live!
Posted on 26-Sep-2003 07:57 News, Mobile
Apparently the Vodafone group never discard the option of selling licences to their Vodafone Live! service - and Vivendi is in the line to get it.

Bluetooth legal in Israel now
Posted on 26-Sep-2003 07:44 News, Bluetooth
In the past Israel reserved the ISM band for military use, outlawing the use of Bluetooth devices. Israeli retailers selling advanced handsets had to neutralise their Bluetooth capabilities before sale. Now all that will become a thing of the past.

When is it time to announce a converged device a flop?
Posted on 26-Sep-2003 07:40 News, Windows Mobile Pocket PC
Wireless News Factor draws a comparison between the new Handspring Treo 600 and the Hitachi G1000 offered by Sprint.

Nokia launches Imagewear products
Posted on 25-Sep-2003 22:22 News, Mobile
Just after the news of the Nokia 7600 came out, Nokia announced Imagewear. Great wearable imaging products, but where's Bluetooth?

New Nokia 7600 dressed to impress
Posted on 25-Sep-2003 22:06 News, Mobile
In a bold move, Nokia launched the 7600 to impress 3G users.

Campaign for one million SMS to extend GE moratorium in New Zealand
Posted on 25-Sep-2003 21:04 News, Mobile
Take 5 is a national campaign to extend the GE (genetically modified) moratorium in New Zealand. One of the ways people can vote is by sending SMS.

Is this the Pocket PC Telecom New Zealand should offer?
Posted on 25-Sep-2003 20:51 News, Phone Edition
I know it's hard to find CDMA enabled Pocket PC Phone edition PDA, but the successor to the Audiovox Thera seems to a good find.

Benq's next smartphone to use Symbian OS and TI OMAP processors
Posted on 25-Sep-2003 19:53 News, Symbian
The Benq P30 will run Symbian UIQ, the OS already used by Sony Ericsson P800 and Motorola A920. The phone will be powered by TI's OMAP processors.

Palm OS 5 is stable enough to be further developed as a pure telephony OS fo smartphones
Posted on 25-Sep-2003 19:27 News, Development
PalmSource CEO told journalists during the developer conference in Munich that Palm OS 5 is mature enough to be used on mass-market handsets, reserving the upcoming Palm OS 6 for high end smartphone devices and PDAs.

Philips doing research on reflective display based on electrowetting
Posted on 25-Sep-2003 19:09 News, Computing
The technology was presented on the September issue of Nature, where scientists of Philips presented the technology for reflective, paper-like displays.

MSDN Chats and Microsoft Webcasts for the next couple of weeks
Posted on 25-Sep-2003 15:54 News, Development
A reminder of a couple of webcasts on development for Windows Mobile devices coming soon.

180 million mobile subscribers in US, 400 million in China by 2007
Posted on 24-Sep-2003 21:53 News, Mobile
The Research Room group published a free report with mobile subscription forecast s for 77 countries around the world.

Winner of Ericsson Frontier competition announced
Posted on 24-Sep-2003 21:36 News, Mobile
New Zealand company I.T Link Limited has won Ericsson�s 2003 Frontier competition beating 5 other finalists from both sides of the Tasman.

wi-fi via SMS
Posted on 24-Sep-2003 20:56 News, Wi-Fi
SingTel launches a novel way for users to pay for wi-fi: SMS.

Vodafone ready to launch Lara Croft
Posted on 24-Sep-2003 19:49 News, Gaming
Vodafone, the world�s largest mobile community, and Eidos, one of the world�s leading publishers and developers of entertainment software today announce an exclusive agreement in 22 countries for mobile entertainment content based on the highly-successful Tomb Raider series.

Palm OS 6 finished by 29th December
Posted on 24-Sep-2003 10:09 News, Development
Palmsource announcement of its next generation OS during a Munich developer seminar promisses lots for the platform.

70% of Chinese wireless developers will deploy applications by Fall 2004
Posted on 23-Sep-2003 22:20 News, Wireless
Interesting thing is that Bluetooth makes the majority of the development.

Will mobile payment finally lift off?
Posted on 23-Sep-2003 22:13 News, Mobile
Nokia and Visa announced developement in mobile payment, by including eletronic wallet software in new mobile phones.

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