Archive for January, 2009

Microsoft Wants to Limit Number of Phones with Windows Mobile [Windows Mobile] (Lifehacker)

Offered by: Marc Downing
Date: Saturday, January 10th, 2009
Category: Mobile Telephones

Honchos at Microsoft’s Windows Mobile division, looking to focus on boosting its capabilities, say they’ll put the OS on fewer phones. Intriguing move, but what will replace WinMo on marginal… Source: lifehacker.com Skype Launches on Android Platform and more than 100 Java-Enabled Mobile Phones (Centre Daily Times) Skype today announced the release of a lite [...]


OKI Develops World s First DSRC Inter-vehicle Communication Attachment for Mobile Phones to Help Pedestrian Safety (Centre Daily Times)

Offered by: Marc Downing
Date: Friday, January 9th, 2009
Category: Mobile Telephones

Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. (TOKYO:6703) today announced the development of the world s first DSRC *1 inter-vehicle communication attachment for mobile phones to enable pedestrian and vehicle communication. By connecting the Safety Mobile Phone Attachment to mobile phones, pedestrians can directly exchange location information with vehicles with inter-vehicle communication system. Source: www.centredaily.com T-Mobile offers [...]


India Delays Plans Which Could Have Shut-Down 25 Million Mobile Phones (Cellular-News.com)

Offered by: Marc Downing
Date: Thursday, January 8th, 2009
Category: Mobile Telephones

India’s Department of Telecom (DoT) has reportedly delayed the implementation of an plan to block all mobile phones without an official IMEI number – which could have cut some 25 million handsets off the mobile networks. The ban on the handsets was due to come into effect this week. Source: www.cellular-news.com Countess patients to be [...]


Hospital ban on mobile phones lifted (Times Online)

Offered by: Marc Downing
Date: Wednesday, January 7th, 2009
Category: Mobile Telephones

The Government has bowed to patient pressure to lift the ban on mobile phones in hospital wards. Source: www.timesonline.co.uk Tanzanian Albinos to Get Free Mobile Phones, Guardian Reports (Bloomberg) Jan. 6 (Bloomberg) — Albinos living in Tanzania will receive a free mobile phone and have access to a new police hotline in an effort to [...]


Drivers on phones a mobile menace (Herald Sun)

Offered by: Marc Downing
Date: Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
Category: Mobile Telephones

MORE motorists are using mobile phones while driving, prompting warnings of increased crash risks. Source: www.news.com.au Hospital mobile bans can be eased (BBC News) Hospitals in England should consider allowing more liberal use of mobile phones, the Department of Health is expected to announce. Source: news.bbc.co.uk Mobile cos asked to freeze phones without IMEI number [...]


Reliance Mobile Launches GSM services in Mumbai (New Kerala)

Offered by: Marc Downing
Date: Monday, January 5th, 2009
Category: Mobile Telephones

Mumbai, Jan 4 : A late entrant to the already crowded mobile market, Reliance Communications (RCom), India’s largest and only telecom service provider to offer nationwide GSM and CDMA services, today announced the availability of Reliance Mobile GSM Services in the metropolis. Source: www.newkerala.com Interest in Home Networking Migrates to Mobile and Portable Devices (Cellular-News.com) [...]


Phones fingered in spread of superbugs (The Scotsman)

Offered by: Marc Downing
Date: Sunday, January 4th, 2009
Category: Mobile Telephones

FIRST it was handwashing, then it was cleaning the floors. Now mobile phones are revealed to be the latest battleground for hospital superbugs as a team of experts reveals the Source: news.scotsman.com Cell phones found from women cell (The Times of India) Ahmedabad: For the first time in Sabarmati Central jail’s history, raid squad has [...]


Nielsen releases findings of mobile/internet usage study (Geek.com)

Offered by: Marc Downing
Date: Saturday, January 3rd, 2009
Category: Mobile Telephones

Nielsen released a study detailing American habits of using the internet and mobile devices in their top tens of 2008 study (PDF). Amongst the most popular phones in use are the RAZR series. Interestingly, with as much hype as the Apple iPhone gets it only comes in at #4 on the list over the Blackberry [...]


Motorists still using phones while driving (Daily Telegraph)

Offered by: Marc Downing
Date: Friday, January 2nd, 2009
Category: Mobile Telephones

Tougher penalties for using handheld mobile phones while driving have had hardly any effect a survey shows. Source: www.telegraph.co.uk Mobile fines ‘have little impact’ (Evening Standard) Tougher penalties for using hand-held mobile phones while driving have had hardly any effect, a survey has revealed. As many as 93% of those polled had seen someone using [...]


Uses of Java language in mobile phones (Java World)

Offered by: Marc Downing
Date: Thursday, January 1st, 2009
Category: Mobile Telephones

Submitted by aditichauhan on Tue, 12/30/2008 – 04:25. According to reliable data, more than 6.5 software developers use Java language. Be it laptops, computers, Internet or mobile phones, Java is present everywhere. Source: www.javaworld.com New mobile phone scheme for contacting next of kin (ic CheshireOnline) MILLIONS of people carry mobile phones with the names and [...]