Tiscali to go mobile in 2008
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Virtually a quad player Tiscali is set to relaunch the Toucan Mobile brand it acquired as part of last year's Pipex buyout, though it's still talking to the networks about which lucky operator gets to carry Toucan customers.â¦
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InfoWorld - SAN FRANCISCO -- At the CTIA Wireless IT &amp; Entertainment 2004 conference Monday, Mike Wehrs, Microsoft&#8217;s director of technology &amp; standards for its Mobility Division, disclosed some details about Big Red&#8217;s future mobile plans.
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T-Mobile announced on Tuesday that it will soon begin using Yahoo as its preferred mobile search provider in Europe, ending the operator&#39;s existing relationship with Google for mobile search.The move was seen by many as a minor coup for Yahoo, which is competing with Google and Microsoft to win the loyalty of a growing number of mobile Internet users. Others noted that mobile search is in its infancy and said the field is still wide-open.When T-Mobile signed its original deal with Google, it made headlines as one of the earliest partnerships between a mobile operator and a search provider.&quot;Well done Yahoo for knocking Google off the Web n Walk home page,&quot; wrote John Delaney, an analyst for Ovum, commenting on the announcement. Web n Walk is T-Mobile&#39;s mobile Internet offering.Beginning in March, T-Mobile customers in 11 European countries will see Yahoo&#39;s mobile oneSearch by default on their phones. OneSearch is designed to make it easy for mobile users to get relevant search results and navigate through different categories within search results.The companies plan to offer other Yahoo services to T-Mobile customers, including Flickr, Messenger, Mail, Weather and Finance. Yahoo now counts 29 operators around the world as oneSearch customers.The deal appears to mark a strategy change at T-Mobile. When the operator launched Web n Walk, the service was designed to mimic the Web by minimizing T-Mobile branded services and prominently offering Google, Delaney said. Since then, it has evolved to add more T-Mobile services. It&#39;s not clear yet which strategy end-users prefer. &quot;The risk is that T-Mobile will discover that its users really preferred it when T-Mobile gave them access to the Web, and then got out of their way,&quot; Delaney said.While the T-Mobile/Yahoo deal is a blow to Google, the search giant had a significant mobile win of its own this week.&#160;Nokia announced on Tuesday that it will add Google search in addition to its own search offering on select phones. Nokia plans to extend the offering to more phones in the future.Nokia has begun offering an increasing number of services, such as location-based maps and social-networking services, which could compete with offerings from operators. &quot;Nokia is walking a bit of a fine line because they&#39;re definitely moving into what some consider carrier territory,&quot; said Mike Wolf, an analyst at ABI Research.So far, the market for branded search services on mobile phones like those from Yahoo and Google is still wide-open, he said. The search providers are increasingly interested in mobile because there is strong growth in mobile Internet usage, he said. The iPhone is contributing to that as a device that aims to make the mobile Internet as similar as possible to the PC-based Internet.Services from Yahoo and Google also compete with those that are branded by the operator. Companies like Medio specialize in offering technology to operators for branded search services. Operators in the U.S. have been more likely to use the self-branded option rather than partner with one of the online brands. AT&amp;T, however, is one notable exception -- it uses Yahoo&#39;s oneSearch.Success in the mobile Internet is important enough that Wolf believes that Yahoo&#39;s track record in the mobile market was a factor in Microsoft&#39;s decision to try to buy the search provider. &quot;Mobile is probably at least a consideration in the acquisition attempt,&quot; he said.
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A new Palm Treo will be sold in Europe and South Africa for now that has a full keyboard, and runs Windows Mobile 6.
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If you're craving an iPhone but just can't bite the bullet on two years of AT&T service, you could always move to Germany. A report in a newspaper there says that T-Mobile will be Apple's service partner when the gadget launches in Europe later this year.
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A Barcellona si apre il 3GSM, l'expo della telefonia mobile. Aspettando l'iPhone, Microsoft lancia Windows Mobile 6
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Ziff Davis - The enterprise makes way for mobile video as WiMax advances, Palm's new Treo 650 and Windows mobile productivity all share the stage at the CTIA Wireless show in San Francisco.
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By Richard Mullins, Tampa Tribune, Fla.  Feb. 2--TAMPA -- Tech Data Corp. is moving to enter the fast-growing European market for cell phones and wireless data links.
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InfoWorld - Microsoft plans to announce beefed up remote Windows Mobile phone management capabilities with the introduction of System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 on Tuesday.
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Palm has announced its first non-touchscreen smartphone for Windows Mobile 6. Beginning in October, the Treo 500v will be available to Vodafone customers in Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, the UK, and South Africa.
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In 2008, you'll be able to get Craigslist listings on your GPS device.
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(InfoWorld) - The number of mobile phone users worldwide will reach 3 billion next year instead of 2008, Nokia said, driven in part by a new trend in emerging markets. For the past year, operators and phone makers have been saying that the bulk of theirÂ future growthÂ will come from areas outside of the increasingly saturated mature markets. Nokia expects that in 2007, several regions, including China, Asia-Pacific, the Middle East, and Africa, will experience 15 percent growth. But Nokia is noticing the surprising trend of growth among customers in emerging markets who are upgrading their phones. Nokia estimates that this year, 52 percent of its sales in emerging markets will come from people who are replacing their phones, said Kai Oistamo, executive vice president and general manager of mobile phones for Nokia. Next year, that figure should grow to 60 percent, Nokia said. Oistamo, along with other senior Nokia executives, outlined the phone giant's strategies for pursuing growth in the next few years during its annual analyst meeting in Amsterdam on Tuesday. Phone users who replace their devices typically opt for higher-priced phones that offer more, Nokia finds, and that's true in emerging markets as well. In India, Nokia found that among buyers of phones that cost over â¬60 ($79), 21 percent were first-time mobile users and 41 percent were replacing existing phones, said Bill Seymour, Nokia's head of investor relations. In addition to a focus on the emerging markets, Nokia will also increasingly pursue mobile Web 2.0 applications. Computer users have demonstrated their interest in creating online content, through the growth of blogs, social networking sites and online video sites. "The significance of this megatrend to Nokia is obvious," said Nokia President and Chief Executive Officer Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo. "We are the key player in bringing this into the mobile environment." Nokia hopes toÂ extend some Web 2.0 applicationsÂ to mobile users and add value to them through location information or other offerings that are unique to mobility, he said. Nokia currently has 850 million users and around half of them have the capability to connect to the Internet, he said. "We can and we will monetize this by embracing the business models that already exist on the Net," he said. Some Nokia customers may soon access Web 2.0 applications from phones with a new design from Nokia. The company will increasingly focus on building very thin phones that don't skimp on functionality, said Oistamo. Motorola recently set off a new trend in ultra-thin phones with its successful Razr and now other phone makers like Nokia are following suit. At the event, Nokia introduced the Nokia 6300, one of its first handsets to exhibit the move toward thin phones. "It's a sneak preview of what else will come out in 2007," Oistamo said. In addition to thin phones, he expects phones that offer location-based services to also be popular next year.
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Alcatel presenta il nuovo One Touch 757, il cellulare GPRS prodotto da TCL &amp; Alcatel Mobile Phones. Il nuovo prodotto si pone al vertice della gamma dei telefonini della casa francese. One Touch 757 Ã¨ un
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Web search leader Google Inc  is expected to announce advanced software and services enabling handset makers to bring Google-powered phones to market by mid-2008, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter.
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Company's Esprimo range of business laptops, all featuring integrated 3G connectivity, will become available in August.Photos: Esprimo Mobile notebook
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(InfoWorld) - As part of a strategy to generate greater revenue from mobile data services, Vodafone Group has collaborated with Palm to launch a smartphone modeled after theÂ Treo 750vÂ but at a fraction of the price and with a newly designed user interface. Vodafone will exclusively sell theÂ Palm Treo 500v, which debuts in Europe in October, for three months, after which the handset will be available to other operators and retail outlets, in Europe and Asia, Roy Bedlow, vice president and general manager of Palm Europe, said Wednesday. Vodafone had a similar agreement with Palm when the operator launched the Treo 750v last year. Pricing of the 500v will vary according to market. The handset will be available free or for a small fee together with a 12- to 18-month contract in the U.K., according to Vodafone spokeswoman Helen Brockett. In Germany, pricing for the handset will begin at â¬30 ($41) and increase slightly according to the conditions of the operator's two-year contracts. By comparison, the Treo 750v sold for more than â¬500 with a two-year contract in Germany when it was launched. However, unlike the Treo 750v, which is targeted primarily at business users, the 500v lacks touchscreen capabilities, largely to lower the handset's cost, Bedlow said. The phone runs Microsoft Windows Mobile 6 Standard operating system, which doesn't support touchscreen capability, unlike the Professional version used in the 750v model. Although the Treo 500v runs on 3G (third-generation) networks, it doesn't support the more recent version HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access) protocol, again mostly for cost reasons, according to Bedlow. But the new smartphone is packed with a few features missing in the 750v, including a new interface designed to give users faster and easier access to Vodafone Live mobile Internet applications. The applications are shown in a carousel that users can manipulate for easy navigation, according to Bedlow. In addition to Live, the carousel includes a number of applications such as Google Maps, YouTube and eBay. The Treo 500v is designed for one-hand use, according to Bedlow. Like the Treo 750v, the 500v supports Microsoft Direct Push technology to deliver Outlook mail, as well as Vodafone's own push e-mail service. Users can also configure the handset to send and receive e-mail from the Vodafone account or from other e-mail accounts. "With the Treo 500v, Vodafone wants to broaden its user base for mobile data services such as the Internet and e-mail," Bedlow said. "The handset makes more features of high-end mobile phones available to more users." The new smartphone has 150MB of internal memory and a slot for a microSD expansion card. It is also equipped with Bluetooth wireless technology. As part of the European rollout, Vodafone will offer the Treo 500v next month in Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, and the U.K., with other European countries as well as the Asia-Pacific region to follow, according to Bedlow. The Treo 500v will not be available in the U.S., although Palm is planning new devices later this year for North American market, according to a company spokesman. Â
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Wu'll be lucky Analysts are predicting that Apple will launch a mobile phone in the first half of 2007.â¦