| 'Q' phone adding network | | Posted Friday, January 05, 2007 1:03:40 PM by Blog57 Team | | Motorola's prime contender in the burgeoning smart phone market, the "Q," will be available through a second U.S. wireless network later this month. The Q, which features a full typewriter keyboard, will be available online through Sprint by the end of January, Motorola said Thursday. It should be stocked in Sprint stores by mid-February. .... | |
| |
| | | New York Adopts Internet Account Wagering Rules | | Posted Saturday, December 30, 2006 3:00:36 PM by Blog57 Team | | The New York State Racing and Wagering Board adopted regulations Dec. 28 that will expand account wagering to include the Internet and other electronic platforms. The board approved an emergency rule that takes effect Jan. 22, 2007. Upon satisfactory review by the state Office of Regulatory Reform, the proposed rules will be submitted to the Department of State for public comment. The board won’t adopt the final rules until a 45-day public comment period ends. Currently in New York, licensed pari-mutuel facilities such as racetracks and off-track betting parlors can offer telephone wagering on site. The new rules will allow wagers to be made via the Internet or cell phones. The NYSRWB said the new rules will also establish reporting, record-keeping, and operations and application requirements for pari-mutuel entities.... | |
| |
| | | Web Domain Proposed For Mobile Phones | | Posted Monday, November 13, 2006 3:25:23 AM by Blog57 Team | | In an effort to spur cell phone Internet usage, a group of nine companies including mobile phone operating system developers Microsoft and Nokia has proposed to establish a new Internet address domain. The proposal seeks to create a new top-level domain (TLD) like .cell or .mobile that would make it easier for mobile phone users to find sites catering to mobile phone users. For instance, a company's mobile site might read acme.mobile rather than mobile.acme.com. The firms said Wednesday they will apply to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN.) The companies have signed a memorandum of understanding to apply to ICANN for the Web access domain, said Kieran Baker, ICANN spokesman. The next step, said Baker, will be for an independent body of experts to evaluate the application.... | |
| |
| | | TI touts low cost chip, platform for multimedia phones | | Posted Friday, November 10, 2006 7:06:42 AM by Blog57 Team | | Texas Instruments will start sampling early next year a single chip version of its OMAP-Vox platform targeted at the increasingly popular entry level but multimedia enabled handsets. It expects the first phones to use its next generation "eCosto" device, the 1035, to be shipping by early 2008. The "Costo" moniker is already being used at TI for the 1030 version, dubbed "LoCosto", which is targeted at the low cost phones sector, including those targeting the developing countries, and the company says is being used by 15 phone manufacturers. The processor combines TI's single-chip DRP technology with the multimedia features of OMAP-Vox platform. The latest version was announced at a wireless event this week in China where Rich Templeton, TI's President and Chief Executive Officer, told an audience of handset manufacturers and mobile service operators that "all of us have an important role to play" in helping China connect more people in its rural areas and across the country.... | |
| |
| | | Microsoft ready to ship Office 2007 | | Posted Thursday, November 09, 2006 1:25:51 PM by Blog57 Team | | Microsoft has completed the software code for Office 2007 and will start offering the much-anticipated desktop software to corporate customers on November 30. Windows Vista OS and Exchange Server 2007 will launch on the same day, when Steve Ballmer, chief executive, will champion the seminal trio by appearing in New York. The announcement on Monday that that Office suite was ready for manufacturing concludes the largest Office beta programme to date, with more than 3.5million people downloading Beta 2. The accolade, and the fact Office has avoided delay, helps Redmond silence its critics who claim the software giant is being outpaced by more nimble rivals, touting software over the Internet. But the announcement that Microsoft has crossed the development finish line with Office 07, as one company President put it , has been overshadowed by a follow up pledge by Steve Ballmer.... | |
| |
| | | Napster Launches Phone Tunes in Japan | | Posted Tuesday, November 07, 2006 7:07:52 AM by Blog57 Team | | Internet music download company Napster Inc. on Monday said its song and ringtone service for cell phones is now available to Japan's NTT DoCoMo subscribers for about $3 per month. Currently, more than 40 million customers use DoCoMo's iMode Internet platform. Napster Mobile on iMode subscribers will receive a monthly allotment of credits that can be used to buy whole songs or ringtones that are delivered over-the-air compatible phones. Napster said DoCoMo, Japan's biggest mobile phone company, is promoting the service with a multi-million-dollar marketing campaign that includes TV advertising. In October, Napster launched a Japanese music service in a joint venture with Tower Records Japan, in a bid to catch up with Apple Computer Inc.'s iTunes in one of the world's biggest mobile music markets.... | |
| |
| | | Cutting-edge wireless internet service goes live in Moncton | | Posted Saturday, November 04, 2006 11:21:36 AM by Blog57 Team | | Moncton residents are set to have a new citywide wireless internet service available to them on Thursday based on a new type of wireless technology. Red Ball Internet was to debut its high-speed wireless data service that uses so-called iBurst technology by Kyocera Corp. of Japan. The technology, which is similar to that used for cellular phones, could pave the way for relatively inexpensive always-on broadband mobile internet service, experts say. The technology is in use in Australia, South Africa, Kenya and Malaysia. Red Ball was offering free service to the end of the year for its first 1,000 Moncton-area customers. Controversial development Also nicknamed Mobile-Fi - a derivative of mobile and Wi-Fi - the technology iBurst is based on became embroiled in controversy earlier this year.... | |
| |
| | | A phone that won't bug you | | Posted Wednesday, November 01, 2006 11:14:06 AM by Blog57 Team | | Jitterbug cell phones can't send text messages, browse the Internet, or snap pictures. Instead, their sought after features include oversize buttons, large-print type, and an old-fashioned dial tone. The simplistic phones were conceived by Arlene Harris and her husband, Martin Cooper, who created the first mobile phone in 1973. GreatCall, the couple's company, is targeting Americans over age 50. The San Fernando Valley, with hundreds of thousands of retirees and dozens of assisted living facilities, is a key market for the Del Mar company. "Older people are a market and they need to be served the way they want to be served," said Harris, 58. Harris said she got the idea for Jitterbugs from VCRs. She remembers when video tape players become so hard to program that the only way to fix the perpetually blinking clock was to stick black tape on it.... | |
| |
| | | Entertainment Execs Envision Internet TV For The Masses | | Posted Thursday, October 26, 2006 6:59:37 AM by Blog57 Team | | With user-generated video content on the Internet booming, so is the market for professional content as more television programming moves online, executives said this week at the Digital Hollywood conference in Santa Monica, Calif. For example, four-year-old Narrowstep, which serves-up more than 100 TV channels on the Internet, says it signs about four new channels weekly in Europe and four monthly in North America. The United Kingdom-based company recently signed on a channel run by the Vatican " /> Vatican. The Rome Reports TV News Agency broadcasts to more than 400 million people worldwide, Steve Beaumont, president and CEO, said in an interview. "People now have access to the teachings of the Roman Catholic church anywhere in the world, any time night or day, through multiple devices," he said.... | |
| |
| | | Brief: Report Says Many US Consumers Have 3G, But Don't Use It | | Posted Wednesday, October 25, 2006 1:03:26 PM by Blog57 Team | | By W. David Gardner TechWeb News Oct 24, 2006 03:12 PM U.S. consumers with 3G mobile phones have advanced technology, but rarely use it, according to a survey conducted by TNS Global Technology Insights. In reporting the results of the survey Tuesday, the market research firm said just 16 percent of U.S. consumers with cell phones have 3G handsets and of that amount just 10 percent make use of the advanced 3G functionality contained in their phones. Don Ryan, vice president of technology and media at TNS, said most U.S. consumers don't seem to realize the power of the technology in their 3G phones. "It's similar to the evolution from dial-up Internet to cable modems or DSL," he said in a statement. "It took consumers a period of time to understand how much faster they could access the Internet with cable and DSL compared to their dial-up modems." One interesting finding gleaned from the 16,000-person survey was that Americans seek phones with online gaming capability at nearly double the rate of consumers around the world.... | |
| |
| |
|
|
