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... |
Study Sees Continued Growth In GPS Handsets
While global handset shipments are expected to drop by 4% to 5% in 2009, GPS-enabled phones will weather the economic downturn and climb to 240 million units, a 6.4% increase over 2008, according to a market study by ABI Research...
Resource Manager Offers Custom Data Analysis
Resource iQ, SkyTel’s newest wireless mobile resource management (MRM) platform, differs from other fleet management products by providing custom data analysis and business intelligence...
Mobile TV Service Scheduled For Expansion
MediaFLO USA plans to broaden its FLO TV footprint, making the service available to more than 200 million consumers in more than 100 markets in 2009...
Personal Locator Service Takes Off
Two months after its introduction as an Apple iPhone and Google Android smart-phone application, the PocketFinder service from Location Based Technologies has been downloaded 10,000 times...
Remote Access Software Expanded To Mobile Phones
SingleClick Systems will demonstrate its remote access technology at the Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas during the 2009 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) Jan. 8-11...
iPhone, iPod App Locates Hotspots
The Wi-Fi Locator application, which helps iPhone and iPod Touch users in the U.K. to easily locate hotspots, is now available on the iTunes AppStore...
Alternatives Eclipse NFC For Mobile Payment Applications
SMS, mobile Internet, and downloadable mobile applications have the potential to deliver what NFC hasn’t so far...
Fingerprint Sensor Secures PND Family
AuthenTec’s small-form-factor AES1510 fingerprint sensor provides security and directions for personal navigation devices (PNDs) ...
ABI Research Predicts Location-Based Mobile Social Networking To Hit 82 Million Subscriptions By 2013
These technologies will provide a unifying framework for a large set of applications, such as friend finders, local search, and geo-tagging, allowing users to share real-time experiences via their favorite social networking sites...
AWR and UMS Give You The Tools For GaA MMIC Design
Using AWR’s Microwave Office EDA software and the UMS PPH25X design kit, the companies are proposing a quick turnaround for submissions from prototype to market product...
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...
Enhanced Service Locates Missing Mobile Devices
Yougetitback has enhanced its Mobile SuperHero application which protects and helps recover mobile devices—such as smart phones, laptops, PDAs, iPods, cameras, and more...
Usage Model Key To Mobile Internet Devices’ Success
MIDs combining specialized functions with wireless Internet access seem likely to succeed, and consumers increasingly expect their electronics to connect to the Internet...
Agilent, Delft University Researching Sub-mm-wave Characterization
Agilent Technologies and the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands are collaborating on research into large-signal and sub-millimeter-wave characterization techniques...
Biometric Attachment Available For Mobile Digital Assistants
The Motorola MC70 and MC75 enterprise digital assistants (EDAs) offers advanced biometric identification and verification tools...
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