Archive for the ‘Mobile Phone News’ Category
MySpace streams online video to smart phones
Friday, December 5, 2008 5:03 No Comments
MySpace is launching a mobile video streaming service that lets members of the global social-networking website watch favored snippets on the move.
News Corp-owned MySpace teamed with video coding specialty firm RipCode to create a way to let people use Internet-linked “smart phones” to watch videos they uploaded to MySpace profiles or mark as “favorites” [...]
Nokia and Research In Motion renew patent license agreement
Friday, December 5, 2008 4:57 No Comments
Nokia announced today that Research In Motion (RIM) has renewed a multi-year patent license agreement. The agreement covers the worldwide use of standards essential patents for GSM, WCDMA and CDMA2000 technologies. The financial terms of the agreement consist of an up-front payment and on-going royalties payable to Nokia.
‘Today’s announcement demonstrates the success of Nokia’s [...]
APBT breaks even two months ahead of schedule
Thursday, December 4, 2008 7:23 No CommentsAsia Pacific Broadband Telecom’s (APBT’s) 3G telecoms service in the Taiwan market reached breakeven in October 2008, two months earlier than originally scheduled, according to the company.
APBT saw a larger increase in subscribers after it launched an offering of free intra-network voice communications, the company explained.
The number of APBT subscribers increased to 1.77 million at [...]
Economic crisis spurs mobile device shipment contraction in 2009, iSuppli says
Thursday, December 4, 2008 7:22 No CommentsThe once almost unstoppable growth in mobile device shipments and revenues is coming to a screeching halt as wireless subscribers around the globe extend the life cycles of their existing devices in response to difficult economic conditions, according to iSuppli.
In the third quarter of 2008, the mobile device market contracted slightly, ending with 316.7 million [...]
Lost in the big city: study Nokia
Thursday, December 4, 2008 7:21 No CommentsIn London, it is impossible not to lose. According to a recent study conducted by Nokia - the largest supplier of devices that support map data, the capital of Britain lost more people than any other city in the world. And so, even compared to Bangkok and Beijing, which are almost twice as much in [...]