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  • 18 February 2008

  • News: GPS used to find friends and toilets

    Location-based services were the talk of Barcelona at the Mobile World Congress last week, as service providers manoeuvred to take advantage of the increasing number of mobile phones shipping with integrated GPS modules. Many of the services put the emphasis on finding your friends, not finding your way, as GPS evolves into more of a social tool.

  • 15 February 2008

  • News: Touchscreen BlackBerry could mimic iPhone

    Research in Motion (RIM) executives are being grilled over a potential touchscreen BlackBerry at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, where RIM co-CEO Jim Balsillie suggested such a model could be in the offing.

  • News: Microsoft mobile boss defects to Vodafone

    The head of Microsoft's mobile phone group is jumping ship to Vodafone, where he will run the mobile operator's internet services. Pieter Knook will join Vodafone on March 10, where he will lead a new unit delivering consumer internet services.

  • 14 February 2008

  • News: Yahoo CEO: We're bigger than Microsoft

    Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang has encouraged investors to reject Microsoft's bid to acquire the company, citing the growing online advertising market and his company's position to take advantage of that growth.

  • News: BenQ smartphone pays for underground tickets

    BenQ is to trial a new mobile phone - the T80 – in Taiwan that uses near-field communications (NFC) technology to access home security systems and pay for items including subway rides.

  • News: Google Android mobile OS gets updated SDK

    Google has released an update to the software development kit (SDK) for Android, its mobile-phone operating system.

  • 13 February 2008

  • News: BlackBerry users urged to back up

    The recent BlackBerry outage has one consulting company advising clients not to rely solely on the hugely popular smartphones for business-critical email messages.

  • News: T-Mobile ditches Google for Yahoo

    T-Mobile has dumped Google as its preferred mobile-search provider in Europe and switched allegiances to Yahoo.

  • News: Mobile phone operators to measure advert success

    Five UK mobile operators are working with the GSM Association in a bid to create a system to measure the effectiveness of mobile advertising.

  • News: Mobile WiMax to hit UK in near future

    Mobile WiMax, a long-range, high-bandwidth wireless technology, may soon be making its debut in the UK. Mobile-phone manufacturer Motorola told ZDNet.co.uk it had been working with a new operator in a bid to offer the technology to the UK.

  • 12 February 2008

  • News: Video: Google Android phones demoed at MWC

    Google’s Android software platform for mobile phones has made its debut on a number of devices at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

  • News: Picture: BenQ's new Mobile Internet Device

    BenQ is showing off a new user interface on an ultramobile PC at the Mobile World Congress, and said it plans to start marketing the product in the second quarter of this year

  • News: BlackBerry service recovers after US outage

    Research In Motion's BlackBerry service suffered an outage in the US yesterday, but the company insists no messages were lost during the incident.

  • News: 3G iPhone coming this summer?

    The 3G iPhone could be with us by the summer, according to a financial analyst who said that waning inventory of Apple's current model and the increasing demand in Europe for 3G products could be a sign that the handset maker is preparing the first major iPhone upgrade.

  • News: Nokia unveils successor to popular N95

    Nokia has introduced the successor to its popular N95 mobile phone, the N96, featuring a slightly larger screen, as well as an upgraded mapping program.

  • 11 February 2008

  • News: Mobile phone companies warned over prices

    Once again, mobile-phone operators have come under fire for the charges users are subject to when texting and surfing the web abroad.

  • News: Sony launches first Windows Mobile phone

    Sony Ericsson is to launch its first Windows Mobile handset at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Until now, Sony Ericsson has primarily used the Symbian operating system to power its smartphones.

  • News: LiMo Linux phones coming from Motorola & LG

    The LiMo Foundation plans to announce 18 mobile phones based on its platform - from manufacturers including Motorola, LG, NEC, Panasonic and Samsung, among others - at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona today.

  • News: Samsung launches multimedia smartphone chip

    Samsung Electronics is launching a new mobile-phone chip that combines a 667MHz processor core with hardware acceleration for multimedia, including 3D graphics and video.

  • 09 February 2008

  • News: February's coolest gadgets revealed

    February sees the world's first commercially available thin TVs, as well as a DivX-enabled mobile phone and Sony's latest DSLR range.

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