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  • BlackBerry users face security threat

    Windows users know opening a malicious e-mail attachment can wreak havoc on their PC. It appears BlackBerry users have to use caution too.

  • Nokia, Sun make multiplayer mobile game play

    Multiple player reversi doesn't sound like much of an accomplishment--but a Java-based version of the game for mobile handsets could be the beginning of a new software strategy for Nokia and Sun Microsystems.

  • Global mobile market reaches record high

    The international mobile phone market reached the highest first quarter result ever, Gartner said today, with sales up by 34 percent from the first quarter in 2003.

  • Employers can check on you via your mobile

    Mobile phones are giving employers new ways to check up on employees in the field--and raising fresh workplace privacy concerns as a result.

  • Ericsson signing Aust labels for music service

    The Australian music download scene is about to become more crowded than ever, with Ericsson confirming that it has signed up two labels to participate in a scheme to make legal downloads accessible via mobile phones.

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  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    It seemed like a good idea at the time

    Last week, I lamented the growing tendency to slam perfectly valid technologies as unsuitable for new uses, just because they prove to be unsuited for applications for which they are inherently unsuited.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Telstra: once bitten, twice ... why not?

    The mobile market in India, I recently learned, is racing towards 300 million -- and doing so at a rate of 8.77 million new subscribers per month, according to the latest government figures.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    iPhone and Wi-Fi: the way to 4G?

    Internode has no incentive to provide free access to its Wi-Fi networks for any reason at all, apart from genuine love, and maybe the joy of finding a new way to flip Telstra the bird.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    In carriers' high-def future, pants are the real winners

    As anybody who works from home knows, one of the great benefits of telecommuting is that pants are optional. Wear your pyjamas to that teleconference, or attend in your birthday suit if you prefer; nobody will be the wiser.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    The more things change...

    With all the excitement over the iPhone, few people have noticed that 1 July was the 11th anniversary of the deregulation of Australia's telecommunications market.

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  • Is there life in Google's Android?

    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.

  • Google's Android head on the iPhone, Linux and the Dream

    Google's Andy Rubin talks nuts and bolts about the Linux-based phone software, the lessons of Sidekick, and the beauty of the iPhone.

  • Mobile phones to spy on workers?

    Mobile phones are giving employers new ways to check up on employees in the field -- and raising fresh workplace privacy concerns as a result.

  • Mobile breakthrough--wideband-CDMA

    Nokia and Ericsson have said they've each separately reached milestones for cell phone equipment that uses wideband-CDMA, the mobile phone standard expected to dominate its rivals by 2005.

  • Mobile comms: can you predict the future?

    Industry analysts are always predicting what will happen in the future. David Braue went back in time five years to see how analysts expected the mobile comms market to evolve, and then compared it to what actually happened.

Reviews (38)

  • The toughest Nokia phone ever?

    Another new release from the leaders in mobile phone style, the Nokia 6250, is made for those who work in the great outdoors!

  • O2 Xphone II

    O2's latest smart phone, the Xphone II, sheds the bulk of its predecessor and gets decked out in a stylish case.

  • Telstra Mobile Loop

    Telstra recently launched its 'Mobile Loop' service, a higher speed mobile data transfer service that runs at speeds up to 144 Kbps, nudging it into the lower end of 3G networks. We've got our hands on a phone, and taken a quick look at what you'll get for your money.

  • Mobile phone hacking set to spread: AU experts

    United States-based security company @stake (atstake.com) has released a security advisory detailing a Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability in the Nokia 6210 GSM mobile phone, and although the flaw isn't serious it could be a sign of worse things to come.

  • Philips Xenium 9@9: a phone for southpaws?

    Australians go nuts over most new mobile phone released to the local market and the Philips Xenium 9@9 should be no exception. Especially, the south-pawed among them.

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