The browser company Opera has signed up to the Symbian Foundation, a Nokia-led consortium that was set up in June to turn the Symbian mobile operating system into an open-source platform.
The next great operating systems wars are about to be fought, as traditional computing companies collide with teams representing the mobile phone industry.
The iPhone will make its official debut in Japan later this year on SoftBank's mobile network, the company announced on Wednesday.
Adobe is aiming for greater use of its Flash Player multimedia Web software within mobile and other non-PC devices by launching its Open Screen Project an industry alliance it hopes will garner the support of large vendors in the embedded multimedia space.
The LiMo Foundation released the first full version of its mobile phone platform on Monday.
I don't think I'm stepping out of line when I say that every good analysis combines facts and opinion.
Today I'm taking a dip into the most interesting patents -- and patently silly ideas -- and what manner of messed-up services may be coming to your handset before too long, including the fertility phone, smellophone and Feng Shui phone.
This week has seen both Telstra and O2 in the UK ditch NTT DoCoMo's i-mode mobile content service after adopting it for just two years. Is this a good sign or a bad sign for the Internet on mobiles?
Tech companies love to produce flashy videos gazing into the future. If only all their dreams could come true
Given the hype around anything with a single-letter prefix m-commerce, e-learning, iPhone last year's speculation over a Google "gPhone" sent the blogosphere into overdrive. The Android mobile phone platform that Google actually launched, however, took things in quite a different direction.
The search specialist's open-source mobile platform has the telephony industry hot under the collar -- but what will it mean for the average business user?
If the world's homes are to enjoy the same high speed connectivity as its offices, the current thinking goes, then fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) will soon become necessary. However, not all Internet economies were created equal.
When the government announced that Optus and Elders had won the bid to build Australia's bush broadband network, it provoked jeers and plaudits alike, but it was the ISPs' choice of WiMax as the bearer technology that has provoked the most furious storm of argument. Just how will the technology stand up to life in the bush?
After a year on the job, Sun's CEO says the company is relevant again but still has problems to fix. In this interview, he admits losing sight of the developer community towards the end of the 1990s, and making what he described as a very bad decision about the company's commitment to Solaris.
3G, GPRS, TransFlash, RS-MMC. Don't know what they mean? Check out our glossary of wireless terms.
Have third-generation services failed the wireless industry? So thinks Marty Cooper, the man who's credited with inventing the cell phone.
Nokia on Thursday announced that it's planning to launch new products that will let consumers take pictures from camera phones and transfer them onto tiny digital lockets and bracelets.
Users of Telstra's Mobile Loop service will be unable to roam to other countries in five years, with most carriers opting for a rival mobile standard, according to the GSM Association's Ron Conway.
Japan to get a laptop touting 3D imaging, sans the glasses. A jury of PC gamers is still out.
Telstra shareholders fear break up
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The long-awaited separation of Telstra
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