Incremental Improvements Define The 2012 Mobile World Congress |
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Louis E. Frenzel, Editor in Chief
The usual players all showed up at this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona with lots of improved devices, but no real game-changing breakthroughs... |
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Computing Platform Targets Transportation And Logistics Markets
The Mobile Computing Platform 200 (MCP200) series from Qualcomm enables fleet managers to access crucial data about their vehicles, drivers, cargo, and trailers in real time, increasing back-office efficiency. ...
Computing Platform Targets Transportation And Logistics Markets
The Mobile Computing Platform 200 (MCP200) series from Qualcomm enables fleet managers to access crucial data about their vehicles, drivers, cargo, and trailers in real time, increasing back-office efficiency. ...
External Module Provides Mobile TV
The Technology Partnership (TTP) has demonstrated a new way to put broadcast TV on a cell phone. Instead of embedding a TV receiver chip on the main cell-phone printed-circuit board (PCB), TTP recommends packaging it into a separate module (see the figure). The headset cable houses the antenna, and the receiver module sends video to the handset by Bluetooth 2.0. ...
Enterprise System Turns Cabs Into Operation Centers
The Mobile Computing Platform 200 (MCP200) series from Qualcomm is designed to increase revenue for transportation companies by enabling drivers to provide better customer service and enhancing in-cab productivity. As an addition to the Qualcomm mobile Computing Platform, the MCP200 delivers an expanded set of the company’s OmniVision Transportation Services....
Le Mobile 2.0 Conference Selects Top 28 European Startups
for March 10 and 11, the Le Mobile 2.0 conference in Paris has selected the finalists for its Zapping du Mobile Startup Showcase. These finalists, regarded by the show’s organizers as key indicators of future mobile trends, were selected from a pool of 101 entries representing 24 countries....
Wirefly Announces Its Top 10 Camera Phones
Wirefly, which provides one-stop comparison shopping for cell phones and wireless phone plans, has announced its list of top 10 camera phones. With its 8.0-Mpixel performance, the highly anticipated Samsung Memoir topped the list, followed by the 5.0-Mpixel Motorola Zine and Samsung Behold....
Study Predicts Big Growth For Transaction Services
Providers of transaction services to the telecommunications industry will see increasingly strong demand for products that support international global roaming, according to a new market research study from the Insight Research Corporation...
Outlook Plug-In For Mobiles Wins Award
The Sierra Wireless-Wavefront Developer Program has chosen Apisphere’s plug-in for Microsoft Outlook as a Best-in-Class winner...
MySpace Launches Global Streaming Video Service For Mobile Devices
The MySpace beta mobile video initiative uses RipCode’s On-Demand Video Transcoding technology to optimize the delivery of videos users have uploaded or tagged as favorites for an improved mobile viewing experience...
Add Dictionaries To Your iPhone And iPod
Paragon Software Group has launched the Merriam-Webster Unabridged Edition of its dictionary as well as the Miriam-Webster Spanish-English and French-English dictionaries for these mobile devices...
MySpace For BlackBerry Breaks Download Records
The MySpace for BlackBerry smart-phone application launched on November 13 and was downloaded more than 400,000 times in its first week of availability...
Service Offers Worldwide Weather Info On Mobile Phones
Travelers who need weather forecasts from around the world can receive them on their mobile telephones by subscribing to Handy Weather, a new application for Java-based phones...
Your Smart Phone Is As Good As Your Laptop - Almost
Smart phones aren’t going to replace laptops completely. But I bet that more and more of you are going to find that they do fill a need and in some cases will relieve you of the burden of a laptop...
Conference’s "Open" Theme Doesn’t Imply "Open" Market Windows
Considering their enthusiasm for the market, smart companies need smart management of their open product development...
Study Reveals Clamor For Clamshells With Fingerprint Security
A study conducted by AuthenTec, Inc. has revealed that people would like the ability to lockdown their mobile devices with a fingerprint scanner embedded in the device...
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