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  • COSMOTE Romania announces that Samsung i9100 Galaxy S II is available in all its stores nationwide and in Germanos network. Thinner, lighter, faster than its predecessor, the handset is one of the most popular and awaited Android smartphones. One of the strong points of the terminal is the TouchWiz sensitive interface here at version 4.0, the newest, which...
    31 Mai 2011/ Continuare
  • Asus on Monday officially unveiled its tablet/phone hybrid device, the Padfone, at Computex in Taiwan. The Padfone is a 10.1-inch tablet that docks with a 4.3-inch phone on the back, allowing you to transfer your activity between the two devices. It's a lot like Motorola's webtop dock concept with the Motorola Atrix, except you dock your phone with a...
    31 Mai 2011/ Continuare
  • Symbian is dead. Oh wait, it isn’t. Well, not quite. Perhaps just a bit. Buy Nokia Windows Phones. But wait, don’t stop buying Nokia Symbian smartphones!The above seems to me like it’s a pretty accurate representation of the messages Nokia has been sending since February 11 of this year, the day when it announced that Windows Phone will be its primary...
    30 Mai 2011/ Continuare
  • Microsoft Windows chief Steve Sinofsky will show Microsoft's upcoming tablet software at the AllThingsDigital D:9 conference next week, according to sources who spoke to Bloomberg (no link because its on the Bloomberg terminal). We speculated that Sinofsky would show the tablet version of Windows 8 when his appearance was announced earlier this week, but...
    27 Mai 2011/ Continuare
  • Mobile data usage has skyrocketed over the last year or two, and mobile network operators are struggling to keep up with the surge in demand. Operators need policy solutions to manage the bandwidth congestion. Forecasts from ABI Research show that the market for policy management servers in mobile broadband networks will grow from approximately $350...
    26 Mai 2011/ Continuare
  • Rising consumer interest in media tablets like Apple Inc.’s iPad is beginning to take a toll on the global PC market, with shipments of desktops and notebooks in the first quarter of 2011 declining compared to the same period in 2010, according to new IHS iSuppli (NYSE: IHS) research. Worldwide PC shipments amounted to 81.3 million units in the first...
    25 Mai 2011/ Continuare
  • At a developers' conference in Japan, Steve Ballmer revealed two points about the next version of Windows. It's called Windows 8 -- at least now -- and it's coming out in 2012. He also reiterated that it's going to show up on tablets and slates, as well as traditional PCs.   Here's what he said: And yet, as we look forward to the next generation of...
    24 Mai 2011/ Continuare
  • Orange UK has teamed with credit card provider Barclaycard to launch what they claim is the UK’s first nationwide contactless mobile payment service. Launched today, the NFC-based ‘Quick Tap’ service will initially be available on the Samsung Tocco Lite device, though Orange said that further devices will be supported soon. The two firms claim that 50,000...
    23 Mai 2011/ Continuare
  • HTC will release a range of tablets this year in a bid to tap into the growing market, an HTC executive confirmed, though he declined to provide specifics on the company's tablet plans. "I really believe that the tablet market is really going to be a big market in the future and this is just the start," Florian Seiche, HTC's European president, said at the...
    20 Mai 2011/ Continuare
  • Telco claims regulator went too far in forcing operators to establish agreements with rivals. Verizon Wireless has sued the U.S. Federal Communications Commission in a bid to overturn the regulator's recently-adopted rules on data roaming. In a court filing seen by Total Telecom the operator accused the FCC of overstepping its jurisdiction, alleging that...
    19 Mai 2011/ Continuare

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