News from The Register on Fri, 21/11/2008 - 12:09. news - mobile

Farewell then, UIQ

The death of UIQ deserves a footnote for posterity – and a chance to take look back at a decade in which almost everything that everyone predicted for mobile data proved to be wrong. Given the way the market turned out, it didn't stand a chance.…

News from The Register on Fri, 21/11/2008 - 11:17. news - mobile

Verizon staff caught snooping

Staff at Verizon face disciplinary action after accessing Barack Obama's phone bill and taking a peek at who the president elect had been calling.…

News from The Register on Fri, 21/11/2008 - 10:43. news - mobile

Hoping to make it big in the flicks

Continuing to distance itself from boring-old mobile phones, Nokia has announced plans to open a research lab in Hollywood packed with movie executives rather than those engineers the company so recently laid off in Finland.…

News from The Register on Thu, 20/11/2008 - 14:51. news - mobile

Database corruption blamed

300,000 UK T-Mobile customers had a quiet morning as they were unable to make or receive calls thanks to a database snafu that forced the operator to restore from backups - a process which is still in progress.…

News from The Register on Thu, 20/11/2008 - 08:02. news - mobile

The 'sharpest' BlackBerry yet?

BlackBerry Bold and Curve owners had better watch out, because Research in Motion has thrown a sharp new rival into the mix.…

News from The Register on Wed, 19/11/2008 - 15:14. news - mobile

Bigger screens and keyboards for your phone

Celio is convinced that some people don't want to lug around a smartphone and a notebooks, so it’s expanded its Redfly smartphone terminal range by two models.…

News from The Register on Wed, 19/11/2008 - 12:52. news - mobile

Received Pronunciation not received, Scots scotched

Google's voice search is, it turns out, optimised for North American accents and has distinct problems understanding proper English as the BBC defines it - forcing English users to adopt the kind of dodgy accents not usually seen outside a karaoke night.…

News from The Register on Wed, 19/11/2008 - 12:43. news - mobile

But TV challenge accepted

The Advertising Standards Authority has ruled against T-Mobile's claim that "You wont find more minutes for £30", but accepts that the TV challenge "See if you can find more minutes for £30" is OK.…

News from The Register on Wed, 19/11/2008 - 11:48. news - mobile

Hay kids, let's do the show on a mobile phone!

Budding entrepreneurs are to be encouraged to develop premium-rate content by the industry regulator, with free lesson plans and downloads from the Ministry of Sound to make ringtone creation part of the UK curriculum.…

News from The Register on Wed, 19/11/2008 - 10:22. news - mobile

Enterprise-ready version coming soon, says Voda

Enterprise customers getting hold of a BlackBerry Storm are finding the handset is not quite as enterprise as they might have hoped.…


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