News analysis
LiMo claims mobile Linux lead
Foundation adds support
With mobile OS a hot topic at the moment, evidenced by Sony Ericsson's licensing of Windows Mobile and Arun Sarin's call for consolidation in the area, The LiMo Foundation was in bullish mood as it announced Orange and Access had joined the group.
Openwave targets contextualised, personalized ads
Who knows where the customer goes, when the customer goes away?
Openwave, with its dominant presence in WAP and internet gateways, as well as accurate location technology, says that it does.
Reding leaves location companies wanting more
We met a GSMA executive with a bit of a sore face today, pained by Vivien Reding´s decision renew her fight with the mobile operators again over roaming.
Yahoo! announces ground-breaking messaging service
Yahoo! has just announced the availability, in Spring 2008, of OneConnect, the second of its One range of mobile services. OneConnect is a presence enabled messaging service that puts your SMS, email, IM and social network conversations all in one place, categorized by user, not by 'Service.' Messaging communications are threaded, and you can see all your threaded communications with a specific contact in one place, along with their status, any recent updates they have
LTE and WiMax offer hope to struggling equipment vendors
After the flashy handsets and trendy new services displayed at the Nokia press conferece, the room two thirds emptied and up stepped ceo Simon Beresford-Wylie, doing his best not to sound too much "after the Lord Mayor's show".
MOBILE TV A GROWING TURN OFF
The number of people turning off mobile TV is, in percentage terms, outstripping the growth of the total mobile TV market, research from M:Metrics, commissioned by Tellabs, suggests.M:Metrics reckoned that the growth in audience for mobile
Ericsson bets on broadband
It's tough being Ericsson at the moment, so it's perhaps not surprising that although it had some genuinely interesting announcements to make it majored on one if its customer success stories - Telstra.
Nokia goes for context - maps and sharing
But no new handset format
Nokia came with two new services and four handsets. Services first: the first was a second version of Nokia Maps, which adds pedestrian navigation (that's pedestrian as in people walking, not as in 'slow') as well as geo-tagging.