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The winners of the 14th Annual Global Mobile Awards were announced last week at a gala dinner, at the National Palace in Barcelona. One of the highlights of the Mobile World Congress, the ceremony has been hosted by comedy star Michael McIntyre. This year more than 450 companies submitted their entries in various cat... |
27 February 2009
12:01 GMT |
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Asus, one of the IT industry leaders offering everything from PC components to complete solutions including notebooks, desktops, smartphones, PDAs, broadband communications products, LCD monitors and wireless applications, started a collaboration with Garmin, the global leader in satellite navigation. Created at the ... |
26 February 2009
12:01 GMT |
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One of the most crowded booths at the Mobile World Congress 2009, in Barcelona was Sony Ericsson's. The company showcased a medium number of devices, in different stages of development. Obviously, what made the headline was the first handset to feature a 12 Megapixel camera, Sony Ericsson Idou (pronounced '... |
25 February 2009
12:01 GMT |
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Samsung, the South-Korean phone manufacturer, finds itself in a fierce fight against LG Mobile division for the number 3 spot on the handset market. Thus, it could not miss the chance to amaze at Mobile World Congress 2009, in Barcelona, through its new devices. Some had been leaked before, but others came as a real ... |
24 February 2009
12:52 GMT |
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Gigabyte is one of the most prolific manufacturers in the computer motherboard industry, but lately is started to build up its name in the PDA phone department. While the company is not renowned for its good-looking devices, it has become a fact that the Taiwanese company’s PDA products are among the best in te... |
23 February 2009
11:01 GMT |
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It seems that LG Electronics is not the only mobile phone maker to work on the development of watch-shaped handsets. Another company that has plans in that area would be Samsung, which was caught on camera at the Mobile World Congress this week in Barcelona with a nice wrist phone dubbed GT-S1100. Unfortunately, the... |
20 February 2009
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Korean mobile phone maker Samsung came to the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week with brand new handsets, among which we could see two music-oriented handsets, namely the Samsung BEATDJ and Samsung BEATDISC, both of them part of the company's BEAT Edition series. The new devices include not only great ... |
20 February 2009
03:58 GMT |
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One of the most prolific handset manufactures, LG, presented a wide array of hot devices at their MWC 2009 booth, in Barcelona, and the company's head display at this year's Mobile Congress was obviously the LG KM900 Arena, officially announced last week. Featuring the fresh 3D S class user interface, LG KM... |
19 February 2009
10:55 GMT |
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i-mate came to the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona with some interesting new devices, all of them powered by Microsoft's Windows Mobile operating system. Among the new handsets, we can count the i-mate 810-F, a ruggedized PDA-phone that has been unveiled before the MWC show, as well as two new handsets, both ... |
19 February 2009
10:41 GMT |
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Gigabyte is yet another company to come to the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this year with brand new touchscreen devices. The g-Smart MS820 and S1200 are the two 3G-enabled PocketPCs the company has unveiled at the show, and they both sport Wi-Fi connectivity, Office Mobile and fancy UI plug-ins. The g-Smart M... |
19 February 2009
04:58 GMT |
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I was surprised to find out that HTC, the leading Windows Mobile-based smartphone manufacturer, only managed to come out with three devices, none of them impressive enough. Obviously, following the mild success that G1 had in the past, HTC continues the Android-based series with a new G1 smartphone that features almo... |
18 February 2009
12:01 GMT |
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The Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia has been awarded at this year's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona the GSMA's first award for Outstanding Environmental Contribution, which recognizes its efforts and environmental actions. At the same time, the company also received the award for the Best Mobile Interne... |
18 February 2009
10:42 GMT |
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Digicel, the Pan-Caribbean mobile network operator, announced that it would start selling a low-cost mobile phone that is solar-powered. The new handset, dubbed Coral-200-Solar, is manufactured by ZTE, and uses proprietary technology from the innovator Intivation, a Dutch-based company.Digicel has been offering to it... |
18 February 2009
10:12 GMT |
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A new Samsung handset has been spotted at the Mobile World Congress held in Barcelona these days, dubbed Samsung Valencia. The interesting fact about this device is that it hasn't been showcased by the phone maker, as anyone would expect, but it can be seen on Microsoft's area, where the latest Windows Mobi... |
18 February 2009
04:33 GMT |
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LG Electronics came with quite a few handsets at the annual Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, among which we could spot the LG GM730, a new handset based on Microsoft's Windows Mobile operating system, also including LG’s own 3D S-Class User Interface.According to the mobile phone maker, it managed to in... |
18 February 2009
04:02 GMT |
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ASUS has recently announced that it would be showcasing some of its Eee PC models, using Microsoft's Beta version of the upcoming Windows 7 operating system. The purpose of the demonstration, which will take place at the Mobile World Congress, held in Barcelona between February 16 and 19, is to provide the compa... |
18 February 2009
03:37 GMT |
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Nokia made quite an impressive appearance at the 2009 edition of the annual Mobile World Congress event, held in Barcelona. Apart from the five handsets that were officially launched at MWC, Nokia made an announcement regarding its new application store called OVI. Ovi Store intends to offer users all previous servic... |
17 February 2009
12:33 GMT |
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NVIDIA announced a partnership with Google and the Open Handset Alliance for the development of Android with the Tegra series of ‘computer-on-a-chip’ processors. The company expects its support for Android to offer manufacturers and operators an easy way to use its Tegra processor on future mobile phones ... |
17 February 2009
11:33 GMT |
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Yahoo! announced today that it would soon launch its new highly-personalized Yahoo! Mobile service. The fresh Yahoo! Mobile will be available on the mobile web, on the Apple iPhone as an application for the device, as well as an app for handsets from Nokia, RIM, Samsung, Sony Ericsson and Motorola, not to mention sma... |
17 February 2009
10:45 GMT |
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Acer, the third largest vendor in the PC market around the world, announced the launch of four Pocket PCs, falling into three groups, according to what the company says would consist with the consumer's needs and views over the mobile market. Acer targeted its new devices at various mobile Internet usage prefere... |
17 February 2009
10:07 GMT |
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LG Electronics, a global leading provider of mobile phones and technology solutions, announced at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona the first handset in the world to feature a transparent design, the new LG-GD900. The product comes as proof of the maker's commitment to deliver innovative aesthetic concepts ... |
17 February 2009
07:03 GMT |
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ArcSoft, Inc., a worldwide leading provider of innovative mobile multimedia technologies and applications, announced today the launch of its ArcSoft PowerMobia for Android, a software-based multimedia solution that has been designed for Google's operating system for mobile phones. ArcSoft's PowerMobia for A... |
17 February 2009
06:35 GMT |
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MySpace, the leading social portal in the world, announced today the launch of a new optimized and more integrated mobile Website that would become available this week for its 20 million worldwide members. At the same time, MySpace also revealed plans to develop new applications for Nokia on the S60 web runtime envir... |
17 February 2009
06:17 GMT |
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SEVEN, a worldwide leading provider of mobile email and messaging software solutions, announced today that its award-winning mobile messaging applications would be available for the Android platform as well. SEVEN comes to Google's OS with both personal and business mobile email, while also offering calendar and... |
17 February 2009
05:45 GMT |
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LG Electronics, a worldwide leading mobile phone maker, unveiled at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona the new LG ARENA (LG-KM900), a multimedia phone that includes a full-load of features, able to deliver enhanced audio and video experience through its new and intuitive 3D S-Class User Interface (UI). “W... |
17 February 2009
05:02 GMT |
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The British mobile giant Vodafone has inked after all a deal with HTC for the distribution of the next Android-Powered handset, which will come under the name of HTC Magic (previous version was G1, and the new handset was expected to come as G2). Moreover, the highly-expected device from the Taiwanese handset maker H... |
17 February 2009
04:33 GMT |
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LG Electronics, a leading mobile phone solutions provider, will demonstrate the world’s first market-ready Touch Watch Phone and the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The new LG-GD910 comes with 3G Video Telephony (VT) service and GSM Network capabilities, and was first announced at the Consumer Electronics S... |
17 February 2009
04:04 GMT |
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One of the most interesting new technologies unveiled at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona is the mobile-phone platform from Texas Instruments, capable of recording 1080p video, shooting 20-megapixel images, and playing MP3 files for as long as a week on one battery charge. The new OMAP 4 platform uses ARM'... |
17 February 2009
03:44 GMT |
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Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia announced at the Mobile World Congress a new mobile imaging device that combines the wide-angle Carl Zeiss optics and an 8-megapixel sensor, the Nokia N86 8MP. The new device comes with both photo snapping and video capture capabilities, while also sporting high-speed connectivity. Ac... |
17 February 2009
03:09 GMT |
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LG Electronics showcased at the Mobile World Congress its fourth S60 on Symbian device, dubbed KT770. The new handset features S60 5th Edition on Symbian OS 9.4 and comes with a slider form factor and a numeric keypad. According to the company, the new handset includes a 5-megapixel camera, along with a 2.8-inch touc... |
17 February 2009
02:48 GMT |
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Korean mobile phone maker Samsung unveiled on the first day of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, one of the top-of-the-line handsets to run under the S60 5th Edition platform, namely the Omnia HD, also known as the i8910. The main focus with this brand new device is on the HD and multimedia capabilities.... |
17 February 2009
02:02 GMT |
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Microsoft is pushing mobile phones into the Cloud via Windows Live. The Mobile World Congress 2009 proved to be the fertile soil for the Redmond company to ink a variety of agreements with members of the telecommunications industry, designed to connect mobile phones with the Windows Live suite of applications and ser... |
16 February 2009
12:10 GMT |
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Windows Mobile would be the primary smartphone platform for LG going forward, Microsoft announced at the Mobile World Congress 2009 in Barcelona on February 16, 2009. The Redmond company and LG have deepened their alliance on the foundation of a memorandum of understanding signed on Novembers 3, 2008. As a direct con... |
16 February 2009
11:45 GMT |
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HTC Corporation, a leading developer of mobile phones, unveiled today at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona two new flagship devices, namely the HTC Touch Diamond2 and HTC Touch Pro2. The new handsets include both simplicity and style, complemented by an intuitive user interface, being able to provide a combinati... |
16 February 2009
11:27 GMT |
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Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 are not the only operating systems cooking over at Microsoft that have reached a standard of quality sufficient for the general public to get a taste of. In this context, the Redmond company has showcased Windows mobile 6.5 at the Mobile World Congress 2009. Microsoft Chief Execut... |
16 February 2009
11:13 GMT |
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Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer, along with mobile partners HTC, LG and Orange, unveiled today at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona the newest version of Microsoft's operating system, Windows Mobile 6.5. Handsets that will be based on the new platform will be able to deliver new user-friendly software and... |
16 February 2009
10:39 GMT |
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Samsung Telecommunications America (Samsung Mobile) announced today at the GSMA Mobile World Congress tradeshow and exhibition in Barcelona, Spain, that it plans to participate in the ng Connect Program. As many of you might already know, the ng Connect Program is a new multi-industry initiative meant to enhance the ... |
16 February 2009
09:57 GMT |
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Huawei Technologies, a leading provider of next-generation telecommunications network solutions all around the world, unveiled today at the GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, its first Android-powered smart phone. The new smart device is expected to become available for purchase sometime in the third qua... |
16 February 2009
09:27 GMT |
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A new move from Adobe is designed to make PDF documents play nice with mobile devices. In this regard, at the GSMA Mobile World Congress, Adobe introduced the Adobe Reader Mobile SDK, promising an evolved experience when it comes to the way in which mobile devices download, manage, and display PDF content. The softwa... |
16 February 2009
09:14 GMT |
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SanDisk Corporation, a worldwide leading provider of flash storage cards, announced today, at the Mobile World Congress, its SanDisk Service Delivery Card (SDC), a custom memory solution that delivers high storage capacity. The solution is based on a microSD card and has been specifically developed for Mobile Network... |
16 February 2009
08:54 GMT |
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Sony Ericsson unveiled today at the Mobile World Congress new panels for its Xperia X1, meant to offer consumers new ways to personalize the content of their devices. Last week, the mobile phone maker announced other panels as well, and the new additions should enhance even more the user experience on the Xperia X1 t... |
16 February 2009
08:36 GMT |
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In an effort to take its Flash technology beyond the desktop where it is already ubiquitous, Adobe has announced fresh financial resources for the Open Screen Project. Together with Nokia, Adobe is pouring no less than $10 million into the project it fathered which aims to deliver a singular user experience across de... |
16 February 2009
07:44 GMT |
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The GSMA Mobile World Congress is the stage where Adobe launched a new Flash player tailored to Windows Mobile and Nokia S60 operating systems. Adobe Flash Lite 3.1 Distributable Player is, according to the company, an over-the-air mobile runtime that has been made immediately available. At this point in time Adobe i... |
16 February 2009
07:23 GMT |
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Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia announced today at the Mobile World Congress the launch of the Ovi Store, a content and application store that is the first in the world to allow personalization of the content according to a user's social connections and physical location. At the same time, the company also anno... |
16 February 2009
05:50 GMT |
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At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, ARM announced today that its ARM NEON technology would be included in the Dolby Mobile from Dolby Laboratories, Inc. The combination between the two will offer manufacturers new ways of leveraging the user listening experience on mobile phones and portable media players, whi... |
16 February 2009
05:21 GMT |
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Adobe Systems Incorporated announced today at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona that the mobile phone maker Palm is joining the Open Screen Project, an industry initiative dedicated to enable standalone applications and full web browsing across televisions, desktops and mobile devices to benefit from the Adobe F... |
16 February 2009
04:44 GMT |
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Samsung Telecommunications America (Samsung Mobile) and T-Mobile USA officially unveiled the Samsung Memoir touch-screen phone, which the two have announced together with photographer and model Helena Christensen, who gained a first hands-on experience with the Memoir. The new mobile phone comes with an 8-megapixel c... |
16 February 2009
04:18 GMT |
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Microsoft Corp. and Gemalto announced today at the Mobile World Congress a partnership to bring Windows Live Messenger services to mobile phone users. The two companies announced that a new Windows Live Messenger client application would be offered to the mass market pre-installed on phone Subscriber Identity Module ... |
16 February 2009
03:22 GMT |
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Gemalto, a worldwide leading provider of digital security solutions, announced today that its UpTeq mobile TV SIM card has earned the security certification that is in accordance with the SIMalliance Security Guidelines, which are applicable to Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) Mobile Broadcast Services Enabler Suite (BCAST... |
16 February 2009
02:44 GMT |
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