I didn’t use 10 gigabytes of data on the 1st of January, did I? Have a read of my roaming data bill from T-Mobile UK (for my G1) over the Festive period: That must be megabytes. 10 meg’s worth of data, costing 13 quid, right? Yeah. This new way of laying out your data usage [...]
Archive | January, 2009
Are you a woman? Do you work in mobile?
If you’re a woman and you’re working in mobile data, I reckon you should be checking out the Women In Mobile Data Association. They’re having a relaxed get-together during Mobile World Congress. So if you’re heading there, you might find this event of value. More details on their Facebook page.
Take command of Japan’s T-34 robocop from your Nokia
Well, maybe not your Nokia phone, but definitely ‘a’ mobile handset. Have a read of this piece from BBC News: Two Japanese companies have unveiled a security robot that can be commanded from a mobile phone to hurl a net that traps suspected intruders. The prototype T-34 was developed jointly by robot firm Tmsuk Co [...]
Exclusive: Nokia is not launching a handset next week
In what may not be the most exciting news of the week and may lead to more confusion than anything else, there will be no Nokia handset announced next week. We had lunch of late with two senior people inside the Finnish fone makers, who mentioned in passing there will be a new handset unveiled [...]
Nokia makes 2 calls into 1
Nokia Siemens Networks have been trialling software upgrades to cellsite basestations and basestation controllers that allow 2 calls per timeslot instead of 1 by using OSC (Orthogonal Sub Channel) technology. This allows GSM operators to double the voice capacity of their networks by just installing new software. This means extended network without spending more on [...]
PhonePayPlus: The dinner lady of the UK mobile industry
PhonePayPlus is the proverbial dinner lady in the mobile industry school playground. Nominally known as the premium rate industry regulator, they typically hand out fines to companies that have made a huge, huge amount of money from spamming the mystified UK population — and who, have conveniently costed a fine into the profitability matrix. I [...]
ShoZu Photo Of The Day: MIR keeps your clothes soft
Today’s Shozu Photo Of The Day is a gifted one. Reader Neil Robertson was in a supermarket in Les Gets in the French Alps. Whilst Neil was no doubt skiing the length and breadth of the valley most of the time, he did pop into the local supermarket. And was astonished to find this Mobile [...]
Skuku storming up the Pitch chart
Skuku, the ‘VOIP in your SIM Card’ service, is storming up the Mobile World Congress Pitch Chart with FIFTEEN digs so far since about 9pm last night — indicating that you, the readers — well, 21 of you anyway — are keen for us to bring you coverage of them. If you’d like to get [...]
Three’s books from the SAS
The network ’3′ has just launched downloadable audio books for their customers, with a free preview service and a decent range of titles on hand. They’ve teamed up with ex-SAS founder of the GoSpoken.com website Andy McNab, to deliver 100s of new spoken word or viewable text based books each and every month. These fall [...]
Truphone launched on the Android
That popular VoIP application for mobiles, Truphone Anywhere has just arrived on the HTC Google OS driven device the G1. This Truphone release is now available in such far flung countries as the UK and the US of A, with Austria and Germany being on the cards next. The last one ties in nicely with [...]
Jonathan Jensen on Thursday – some thoughts around .tel and mobile users
Over the past couple of weeks I’ve had several conversations with people about .tel domains and how .tel creates a simple, single place to store and share your contact data. .tel is a new top level domain that allows users to publish their contact data directly to the web, in the DNS, so it’s easily [...]
Nokia’s Comes With Music goes on the road
The Finish Fone makers all you can eat music download service has just expanded its buffet table, to seat other countries that weren’t previously allowed at the table. In a very tentatively linked intro that no doubt you’ll forgive us for one day, Nokia has opened up its music store to include other countries tracks [...]
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