Optus has announced that it has joined Huawei in developing a mobile and wireless innovation centre in Sydney, in a move which could push the telco outside its comfort zone.
Australian businesses are ready to take on mobile data technology in the near future, according to a new survey from ACA Research.
Intel has set its technicians working on a new initiative that it hopes will get mobile devices piggybacking on other devices its user may come across, as well as making use of the increasing number of sensors such as cameras and GPS within the device itself.
US scientists have developed a microfibre fabric that generates its own electricity, making enough current to recharge a mobile phone or ensure that a small MP3 music player never runs out of power.
Researchers at England's Newcastle University have developed graphical passwords for mobile devices, and hope to expand the uses of the software.
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.
Great to see so many constructive comments on here definitely a case of the facts speaking for themselves.
Mobile phone companies have seen the green bandwagon go by and are flinging themselves on it faster than you can say "lazy, greenwash-spewing me-too merchants" but in the pantheon of would-be eco-friendly mobile makers, Nokia is coming up with some of the best and worst ideas on the market.
What a week it's been for mobiles.
Watching the latest, hilarious stage in the Jimmy Kimmel-Matt Damon "feud" -- which racked up 2.5 million YouTube views in one day -- I was struck by a thought: who in the world is paying for all this bandwidth?
At NICTA's recent Techfest conference, researchers from National ICT Australia (NICTA) get to show off the projects they have been working on all year, including facial recognition tech designed to help catch criminals as well as better algorithms and sensors for traffic control.
Less is more when it comes to handheld devices, a report by Jupiter Research has found.
A consortium of component and equipment makers reveals plans to promote the 802.16a wireless broadband standard in hopes of riding the success of Wi-Fi networking.
IBM is expected to announce technology that shortens the time it takes to find information is being extended to its desktop hard drives.
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 U.K.'s air safety regulator has released research about mobile phone use on planes, warning of the serious effects that it can have on navigational equipment.
Researchers in England explore an always-on, wearable camera that could capture images automatically.
IBM is expected to announce technology that shortens the time it takes to find information is being extended to its desktop hard drives.
Apple's soon-to-be-launched iPhone will be irrelevant to business users because it is a "closed device" and does not support Microsoft Office, a senior executive with the software giant said this week.
Apple's iPhone hasn't even made it onto store shelves yet, but it already faces a growing number of rivals, from Cisco to Nokia and even Prada.
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