![]() EU preparing to cap text message pricesEuropean mobile phone users could pay less to send cross-border text messages under plans the European Commission is preparing, fed-up that operators have left its calls to cut prices unanswered. |
EU to rule on roaming price caps for mobile data(AP) -- European regulators are nearing a decision on whether to impose price caps on text messaging and mobile Internet use while traveling. |
![]() Beyond 3G, communications services of the future(PhysOrg.com) -- Europe's telecommunications industry became the world leader in the 1990s. Now European researchers are working to maintain that lead by developing an innovative services platform for 'Beyond ... |
![]() Making sure the internet deliversEuropean researchers have developed affordable test suites that businesses can use to check whether their software will work with the next-generation internet. |
Experimental phone network uses virtual sticky notesThe rapid convergence of social networks, mobile phones and global positioning technology has given Duke University engineers the ability to create something they call "virtual sticky notes," site-specific messages that people ... |
NXP Launches The World’s Fastest Cellular ModemNXP Semiconductors, the independent semiconductor company founded by Philips, today announced the world's fastest high-bandwidth cellular soft modem - Nexperia Cellular System Solution PNX6910. Powered by NXP's Embedded Vector ... |
![]() Olympics timekeepers to get winner down to 3000th of a secondAtlanta, 1996: emotions and adrenalin ran high in the Olympic arena as two sprinters claimed victory in the women's 100 metres race -- and only the photofinish cameras could judge the winner. |
Researchers find drugs being tested for Alzheimer's disease work in unexpected and beneficial waysResearchers at Mayo Clinic, with their national and international collaborators, have discovered how a class of agents now in testing to treat Alzheimer's disease work, and say they may open up an avenue of drug discovery ... |
![]() Apple unveils new iPhone 3G with faster Web, GPSApple today introduced the new iPhone 3G, combining all the revolutionary features of iPhone with 3G networking that is twice as fast as the first generation iPhone, built-in GPS for expanded location based ... |
Wireless networks that build themselvesFrom traffic lights to mobile phones, small computers are all around us. Enabling these ‘embedded systems’ to create wireless communications networks automatically will have profound effects in areas from emergency management ... |
Alcatel-Lucent, Samsung debut first solution for seamless WiMAX-GSM/EDGE dual-mode servicesToday Alcatel-Lucent and Samsung unveiled at Mobile World Congress an optimized device-plus-infrastructure solution that will enable end-users to have seamless access to their voice and data services when switching between ... |
![]() The leading 'edge': plastic fibre slashes network costsPlans in the 1990s to bring ultra-high speed telecom lines into every home foundered because the optical fibre infrastructure was just too expensive. But a new European project using plastic fibre and off-the-shelf ... |
Samsung, NXP and T3G showcase world’s first TD-SCDMA HSDPA/GSM multi-mode mobile phoneSamsung, NXP Semiconductors and T3G Technologies, today announced the world's first TD-SCDMA HSDPA/GSM/GPRS/EDGE multi-mode mobile phone, which has also been demoed at the PT/Wireless Exposition in Beijing on October 23rd. |
![]() Innovations in International Calling: MAXroam SIM Cuts CostsCubic Telecom MAXroam Sim popular in Europe is on its way to North America. The MAXroam SIM card is inserted into an unlocked mobile phone with GSM network capability. MAXroam provides easy instructions on ... |