msmobiles.com - April 2004 archives

Magic4 succeeds in Open Mobile Alliance's Test Fest
April 03, 2004;
OMA tests completion becomes very important for every company in cell phone industry

Flash Networks' NettGainTM 1200 Optimizes WAP 2.0 Services for Consumers and Professional Users
April 03, 2004;
WAP 2.0 suffers from severe usability issues

PalmSource and Visto Announce Availability of Mobile Mail 5.0 for Palm OS Garnet and Palm OS Cobalt
April 03, 2004;
The mail client provides both push and poll technologies.

Amplefuture goes live with end-to-end DRM solution and predicts that it is the key to a galaxy of new mobile content
April 03, 2004;
content (software, ringtones, etc) is no good without good DRM solution

RTX Pushing the Envelop in Wireless VoIP for Consumers
April 03, 2004;
Wireless VoIP is destined to replace cell phone telephony - sooner or later...

India and China at CommunicAsia 2004 in Singapore in June
April 03, 2004;
India wants to be 3rd economy in the world, after China and USA...

'Wi-Fi is viral growth phenomenon' claims Intel Chief
April 03, 2004;
like the cell phone was to telephony, so wi-fi was to computing

On-line TV Specialist delivers video content to mobile devices over GPRS
April 03, 2004;
after ringtones, logos and software now video is coming as next "big thing" in wireless content

Auction, Anywhere. Abidia brings global wireless services to eBay Buyers and Sellers
April 04, 2004;
easy eBay access from Palm OS devices

Microsoft has bought friendship with Sun for 2 billion USD
April 05, 2004;
It looks like everything, including friendship, can be bought by money. Will we see Java in Windows Mobile devices now?

Simpay Selects Encorus to Power Global Mobile Payments
April 05, 2004;
international (!) mobile payments become reality

Jersey Telecom deploys Telsis SMS Direct Delivery
April 05, 2004;
a solution that accelerates SMS delivery ! skips SMSC, goes through special SMS router and gets messages faster to mobile subscribers

Cleo game for BREW cell phones released
April 06, 2004;
Multi-platform wireless game development is a key to success for several software houses

The Carphone Warehouse selects Bango for its mobile content “shop”
April 06, 2004;
the problem is not the content itself (polytones, textones, voice alerts, Java games and wallpapers) but how to get it delivered to end customers...

Industry takes lead to halt mobile phone theft
April 07, 2004;
Commandment #8 : You shall not steal. Particularly DON'T STEAL CELL PHONES!

New Aluminum Case for PalmOne Treo 600 Smartphone
April 08, 2004;
Treo 600 smartphone, very popular particularly in USA, is a proof that people need cell phones with QWERTY-keyboard - even if it is thumb keyboard - unfortunately there is no Windows Mobile cell phone on the market yet with such keyboard

Nokia is being sued in USA for deception and lies
April 08, 2004;

Soviets lied and deceived people and now Nokia is doing the same: Nokia lies!!!

Orange to become 100% French
April 10, 2004;
for some Brits it is hard to comprehend that Orange - operator initially conceived and created in UK - is a French company...

Don't buy Nokia cell phones - or you will lose your health
April 13, 2004;
Another Nokia phone explodes! Don't be stupid, don't buy Nokia phones! Nokia lies and blames other manufacturers...

BenQ shipped 1.5 million cell phones in March 2004 - leader in Taiwan
April 13, 2004;
It is good to hear that BenQ - a vendor that will deliver cool Pocket PC phone - is doing so well...

ip.access choose WebitPR for global news distribution and monitoring
April 14, 2004;
our friends from WebitPR PR agency, who are specialized in telecoms sector, got a new deal

Orange Location API
April 15, 2004;
those Brits have it good: location API for cell phones

Nokia tries to conquest mobile gaming with N-Gage QD and PRICE DUMPING
April 20, 2004;
Old N-Gage is now available for about 140 Euro (160 USD) without contract (without SIM card and without subscription) and the new N-Gage QD will be even cheaper. Both have built-in Bleutooth and Symbian OS. This is nothing but price dumping!

Kazam at EXPO COMM 2004 Canada
April 22, 2004;
Next generation mobile content.

First Opera-phone in Japan: Opera Brings Complete Internet Freedom to Japanese Mobile Phone Users
April 23, 2004;
It looks like full Internet browsing (not just WAP) comes not only to smartphones and PDA phones but also regular phones (without open operating system) will have it !

Critical Role For Telsis In O2 Airwave Network
April 24, 2004;
Apart from cellular and Wi-Fi networks, there is also another kind of digital wireless networks that operates in each country: TETRA, used for example by emergency services... nowadays also cellular network operators (like O2) would like to make money out of these networks...

Lies, Damned Lies and Textamerica.com
April 25, 2004;
Beyond the hype: the truth revealed. Some people say that MMS failed and the new hope is mobile photo blogging - shortly speaking: moblogs. Really?

Jataayu MMS, WAP, SMS platforms chosen by Tata Teleservices for Wireless Data Services rollout throughout India
April 26, 2004;
Tata is the biggest IT company in India, so this deal is a good news for Jataayu - company from which Microsoft purchased MMS client for Microsoft smartphone 2003.

Sun Corporation = a bunch of moronic secret subversive Microsoft lapdogs
April 27, 2004;
James Gosling, father of the Java programming language, explains why the settlement of Sun Corporation with Microsoft is a "very good thing."

TynTec provides Managed Services for MIDRAY's Person-to-Person Traffic
April 27, 2004;
Person-to-Person (P2P) SMS traffic, Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs) and value-added services - doesn't it all sound fascinating?

VoiceSignal's latest speech solutions available on Samsung's VM-A680 Wireless Camcorder Phone
April 27, 2004;
speech recognition in cell phones becomes better and better

The latest in mobile technology news from Rococo Software - the maker of Bluetooth software tools for Java
April 28, 2004;
They even launch mobility blog - it looks like that not only Microsoft is blogging about mobility. Apart from that: a lot of interesting news bits from cell phone industry....

BenQ beats Nokia...
April 30, 2004;
... at first just in Taiwan, but hopefully soon also elsewhere. BenQ has superb Pocket PC phone coming soon, so it well may happen...

Zi Corporation Awarded eZiText License Agreements by Five Asian Handset Manufacturers
April 30, 2004;
T9 has strong competition.

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