Nokia has delayed the release of its N900 Internet tablet.
The N900 was previously set to arrive in October–and Nokia’s preorder site still states that. However, it is now set for release “during November,” Peter Schneider, head of Maemo marketing at Nokia, said Thursday in a post. Schneider did not state the reason for the delay, but Reuters reported that the company is waiting for more feedback from developers.
October 26, 2009 by admin
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IT’S a technological breakthrough that will worry cheating partners – secret text messages can now be retrieved from mobile phones five years after they were deleted.
Shaped like an ice hockey puck, the XRY forensic device mines old SIM cards for long-erased nuggets of personal information.
AN international study may have found a link between long-term mobile phone use and brain tumours.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) is to release a 10-year study into the connection between mobile phones and cancer.
India’s Department of Telecommunications (DOT) has fixed Jan. 14 as the tentative date for the auction of 3G licenses in the country, according to a notice on its Web site on Saturday.
An auction of licenses for operating broadband wireless services like Wimax will be held two days later, DOT said. The government will also auction on that day spectrum for enhanced CDMA (code division multiple access) services to existing CDMA licensees.
October 26, 2009 by admin
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Some time ago we covered FlyScreen, the cool lookin’ and useful lock-screen app for the Android platform. Now we have the folks behind the app, Cellogic, going all official with the announcement.
Brough Turner, who has been working in the telecommunications industry since 1983, has a hypothesis: AT&T’s wireless network has configuration problems. He believes that the size of the buffer in “the last router between the high capacity core network and the actual over-the-air data path to a subscriber” is configured improperly, and that it is causing ping times to either be very good, under 200 milliseconds, or horrible, in some cases reaching as high as 8 seconds. Many iPhone users can attest to this on AT&T, it either works wonderfully or doesn’t work at all.
October 26, 2009 by admin
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Samsung is preparing a new all-touchscreen phone for China Mobile (NYSE: CHL), which as you can see from the image above looks like some other Samsung models we’ve seen in the past.
Hold on to your balloons! This week on the PC World Podcast, editors Robert Strohmeyer, Ginny Mies, Tim Moynihan, and Mark Sullivan try to cover as much of the week’s tech news as possible in 20 minutes.
When Apple released the new iPhone 3GS with an updated bootrom, many reports claimed it rendered the handset “unhackable” or “jailbreak-proof.” I maintained such reports were overdramatic and it was only a matter of time before a new exploit was discovered. While the Dev-Team is undoubtedly working hard in finding a new exploit for the 3GS bootrom, in the meantime, Dev-Team member Eric McDonald addressed sensationalized reports in a Wired interview released yesterday.
October 17, 2009 by admin
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While Android phones are starting to enter carriers’ lineups, most of the new phones launched at the recent CTIA wireless telecommunications trade show ran Windows Mobile 6.5. A few inexpensive–but well-equipped–feature phones also debuted, further blurring the line between what is and what isn’t a smartphone.
