Chinese handset makers will lead an onslaught on smartphone titans Samsung and Apple when the world's biggest mobile fair opens Monday in Barcelona, Spain.

Technology - Business

Feb 24, 2013 3 / 5 (3) 0

Samsung Electronics is beefing up its tablet range with a competitor to Apple's iPad Mini that sports a pen for writing on the screen.

Electronics - Consumer & Gadgets

Feb 24, 2013 4 / 5 (5) 1

When the top executives of the world's wireless industry gather next week in Barcelona, Spain, for their annual trade show, cellphones will take a back seat to talk of cars, electric meters and insulin monitors.

Technology - Telecom

Feb 22, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

Nokia Siemens Networks is highlighting TD-LTE innovation at Mobile World Congress 2013 in Barcelona. This includes a demonstration of data traffic offloading between TD-LTE and FDD-LTE using the company's Single RAN Advanced Flexi Multiradio 10 Base Station and a commercially available du ...

Technology - Telecom

Feb 21, 2013 not rated yet 0

(Phys.org)—Opera will ditch its web browser rendering engine called Presto and instead will switch over to WebKit in a planned 2013 phase-out. The decision was announced this week. WebKit is the rendering ...

Technology - Software

Feb 13, 2013 4.4 / 5 (11) 3 |

Wikipedia is aiming to use mobile phones to reach a billion people by 2015, a senior executive has said, doubling the present number.

Technology - Internet

Feb 04, 2013 4.5 / 5 (2) 0

Fujitsu Laboratories announced the development of technology that makes it possible to transfer files between a PC and a mobile device by simply using a mobile phone or tablet to capture a video of a file ...

Technology - Software

Jan 23, 2013 not rated yet 0

Mobile network operators are facing inevitable and hard reforms in their business. Although the consumption of mobile data increases rapidly, operators' user revenues have been sinking steadily for years. For now, operators ...

Technology - Telecom

Jan 15, 2013 not rated yet 0

The annual Consumer Electronics Show kicks off this week in Las Vegas, and industry watchers expect the show to remain heavily focused on developments in large-screen, connected TVs as well as smaller tablet and PC-hybrid ...

Electronics - Consumer & Gadgets

Jan 07, 2013 4 / 5 (1) 2

With 6 billion mobile phone subscriptions worldwide—that's about 87 percent of the world population—and an even higher percentage of users estimated on campuses, Indiana University has embarked on a mobile ...

Technology - Other

Dec 12, 2012 not rated yet 0

(Phys.org)—How unsafe are mobile browsers? Unsafe enough that even cyber-security experts are unable to detect when their smartphone browsers have landed on potentially dangerous websites, according to ...

Technology - Computer Sciences

Dec 05, 2012 4.2 / 5 (5) 1 |

A Finnish teenager has smashed the world record -- and probably his phone -- in this year's annual mobile-phone throwing contest in Finland.

Technology - Other

Aug 19, 2012 4 / 5 (4) 3

(Phys.org) -- NTT DoCoMo is showing off its prototype platform for 3-D video calls with enhanced additions. Its 3D Live Communication System is being described as a possible next step beyond regular video calls. This is a ...

Technology - Hi Tech & Innovation

Jun 06, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0 |

Instances of the so-called tail wagging the dog abound. Add to that club mobile-money services, the idea that you can make financial transactions of all kinds using only a cellphone.

Technology - Telecom

Mar 12, 2012 not rated yet 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- A mobile phone that could detect whether leftovers in your fridge are safe to eat could be heading to an app store near you. A device has been developed that attaches to mobiles and can detect ...

Chemistry - Analytical Chemistry

Mar 07, 2012 3.7 / 5 (3) 1 |