Mobile Phones

Times Online - With CD sales in freefall and the legal downloads via computers failing to make up the revenue slump, the music industry is now looking to mobile phones for salvation. Teenagers unwilling to buy albums from iTunes appear happy to spend up to £3 on a ...  Read More

Timbaland releases first 'mobile only' album

MSN UK News - An electricity-generating knee brace that can power mobile phones and medical devices has been developed by scientists. Wearing the invention, a brisk walk can re-charge the batteries. The device borrows technology already used in some hybrid motor ...  Read More

Knee brace can power your phone

Chicago Tribune - Two friends, miles apart, listen to the same song on their mobile phones and talk simultaneously. These are the kinds of activities that the wireless industry is betting will become the norm as networks get faster and more sophisticated. Consumers ...  Read More

The next generation: Multimedia anywhere

Silicon.com - One of the leading bus companies in the North of England, Go North East, has claimed to be the first in the UK to offer customers the ability to buy tickets using their mobile phones. By texting "txt2go" to the number 60060, a passenger can receive a ...  Read More

Mobile tickets for bus travel

Silicon.com - The legislation enables the police to tackle those fuelling the trade in stolen mobile phones with penalties of up to five years in prison for those caught reprogramming the IMEI number on mobile phones. The measures have been introduced as part of an ...  Read More

Mobile phone theft: Crime-busting database goes live

Silicon.com - Using mobile phones in hospitals can interfere with intensive care medical equipment and machines, a new study claims. Researchers in the Netherlands assessed the effect on critical medical care equipment of GPRS and UMTS phone signals from 2G and 3G ...  Read More

Fresh warning over mobiles in hospitals

Silicon.com - Emblaze Systems has signed a deal with Digital Animations Group which could mean an animated character delivering video messages over future mobile phones. Israel-based Emblaze, formerly GEO, reckons the relationship will start to contribute to ...  Read More

Emblaze strikes wireless video deals

Silicon.com - Nokia announced this week it will spend $60m on buying Loudeye , the digital music company. So what's with Nokia - the hardware, mobile phones and base stations company - going all software and services? The Mighty Finn has been long chanting its 'we ...  Read More

Leader: Nokia pulls an Apple

Silicon.com - Nokia - presently at the centre of claims that it still has problems with the supply of GPRS handsets - has revealed some good news. The Finnish company has announced it is maintaining good margins on the sale of mobile phones - an area where it ...  Read More

Nokia forecasts healthy handset sales

Daily Telegraph - Vietnamese are getting richer, but the flat-screen televisions, motor scooters and mobile phones they burn as offerings to their ancestors this lunar new year are still only made of paper. Vietnam has experienced one of the fastest rates of poverty ...  Read More