News Archive

• January 31
• • Nokia releases the source code for its Python for S60 Platform to open-source community
  • Balloons for cellular service to be tested in rural areas

• January 30
• • Microsoft proposes specially-designed cellphones to put developing countries online
  • Sprint joins the battle against cellphone records brokers
  • Verizon wants to increase ownership of Verizon Wireless

• January 27
• • Verizon and AT&T report growth for the fourth quarter
  • Cingular files an application for emoticons patent
  • Mobile phones sales to keep their steady growth in 2006
  • Hearing date set for Blackberry case
  • Samsung introduces super-reflective LCD for mobile phones

• January 26
• • Nokia reveals fourth-quarter and full year results

• January 25
• • Mutimedia music mobile phones to prevail in 2006
  • Sprint unveils three new ways to chat via cellphones
  • Varioptic releases Artic 320 liquid lens for camera phones

• January 24
• • Supreme Court refuses to hear RIM patent appeal

• January 21
• • T-Mobile MDA and SDA coming in February

• January 20
• • To purchase a movie ticket from a cellphone?
  • Bill, protecting phone records, is introduced in U.S. senate

• January 19
• • Nokia develops a mobile phone for those fearing kidnapping
  • Sprint Nextel invests $10 million in mobile TV technology

• January 17
• • BenQ unveils first BenQ-Siemens cellphones
  • Eleksen introduces the ElekTex Smart Fabric wireless keyboard

• January 16
• • Phone records easily accessible online for anyone

• January 11
• • More details about the HP iPAQ hw6900 revealed

• January 10
• • Amp'd Mobile announced nationwide availability

• January 9
• • Virgin Mobile USA renew their agreement with MTV Networks

• January 6
• • CES 2006
  • Motorola and Nikko announce a new remote control toy car operated by cellphones
  • Samsung and Bang & Olufsen unveil a deluxe cellphone
  • Motorola and Kodak announced partnership
  • Yahoo introduces a new service for mobile phones, PCs and PC-connected TVs

• January 5
• • Verizon launches V CAST Music service
  • Samsung demonstrates WiBro service at CES
  • LG showcases new GSM phones at CES
  • Parrot introduces three Bluetooth car kits at CES

• January 4
• • Motorola announces a bunch of Bluetooth accessories
  • Nokia showcases three new Bluetooth headsets
  • Logitech to introduce two wireless headsets at CES
  • Motorola's RSG breaks the barrier between traditional home and wireless phone service
  • Samsung introduces a slew of new devices during CES 2006

• January 3
• • Motorola reveals details about iRadio service
  • Samsung to showcase a HSDPA phone at CES
  • Cornice unveils ultra-thin 8GB and 10GB micro hard drives

• January 2
• • FCC shows the tiny Motorola A1200 Linux smartphone with touch-screen
  • Government paves the way to large U.S. spectrum auction
  • Sharp introduces a Pocket PC device - W-ZERO3