Wireless and Network Technology News
Wi-Fi popularity gaining momentum in Western Europe
As we watch as Wi-Fi is featured on more and more handsets being released around the world. The technology is getting faster and faster and surveys are now showing that the feature is becoming more and more popular amongst mobile phone users.
The mobile advertising marketplace, AdMob, have said [...]
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We’ve got the customers, now where are the profits?
Despite gaining a significant amount of customers, Blackberry owners RIM are expecting revenues to be lower than what was previously forecast.
RIM recently forecast revenues would reach around $3.4 billion due to an explosion in subscriber numbers.
RIM felt that a further 2.9 million customers would sign up to [...]
600 job cuts…
Cable and Wireless, the telecom provider, is adding to the country’s unemployment woes by creating 600 job cuts as a result of their takeover of Thus that took place last year.
The news comes as the company originally announced that they had made a plan to reduce the workforce of the company by 700 [...]
Wi-Fi lovers love Wi-Fi.
It would appear that wireless broadband has taken a boost in popularity recently as more and more users are looking to stay connected to the Internet as they travel abroad – Facebook can’t be that addictive, can it?
Let’s just clarify exactly what wireless broadband means so we can start to understand its [...]
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Vodafone and 3 take on the competition together.
In a move that is sparking the imagination of the world, one of the world’s most successful telecom providers, Vodafone, has teamed up with Hutchison Telecommunications, who brings 3 mobile services, in Australia.
The plan to merge the two companies together in Australia will see them reach around 95 [...]
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Get charging…
Apple are rethinking how they will allow us to charge up our batteries as three new Apple applications for patents have surfaced. Apple seem to be moving towards an age where we charge our batteries with other batteries…
Apple’s patent application shows how Apple are looking into providing ports for the batteries in laptops, [...]
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The future looks wireless…
Intel are getting ready to announce their plans to turn their future focus towards more refined wireless silicon into tiny devices – and it would seem that they want to stuff more functions on one single chip.
“The trend of using smaller transistors to build larger microprocessor cores with higher operating frequency is [...]
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I dialed 0800 not 800!
How annoying is it when you’re nowhere near a landline and you know that you need to make a call to an 0800 number that you can bet is going to last around an hour and a half (mostly listening to Greensleeves as you will undoubtedly be on hold!).
I personally, being [...]
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No wires? It’s about time…
An amazing new technological evolution has taken place and wireless chargers are now more than just the stuff of dreams. The Powermat was uncovered at CES 2009 allowing a device to simply be placed on the mat to charge up its battery.
Impressive stuff to say the least. The [...]
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How many Smartphones does it take to fit a light bulb?
Dell has decided to join the Smartphone battle with their own attempt to win over whatever is left of the market after the success of the iPhone. Dell have announced that their Smartphone will be available from as early as next month.
If you’re looking [...]
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