A group of the world’s mobile operators and handset makers said on Thursday they are to join together to develop an open-source Linux-based operating system that could to be used in phones by the end of 2007.
Mobile network operators Vodafone and NTT DoCoMo and handset makers Motorola, Samsung, NEC and Panasonic, said they would form [...]
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3SIXTY Secures Investment and joins DCSH Group - June 2006
We are delighted to announce that 3SIXTY Systems Ltd is proudly an official entity of the DCSH group of companies. The group comprises of leading organisations in their field comprising of a Legal Commercial Insurance Firm, a Claims Management Company and a Loss Adjusters.
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Verizon Wireless, plans on Monday to launch a wireless service that lets parents check their children’s whereabouts and alerts them when they venture out of bounds.
Parents can use the service to set up geographic limits and receive text alerts if their children, who also carry phones, go too far from home. The service also lets [...]
A Miami man and his cohort have been arrested and charged with hacking into Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) networks and stealing more than 10 million minutes of call time. Federal prosecutors allege that Edwin Pena, who owned and operated two VoIP telephone companies, sold the minutes, earning more than $1 million altogether.
Pena, 23, is [...]
A U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) ruling requiring Voice Over IP (VOIP) providers to give law enforcement agencies wiretapping capabilities is legal, a court ruled Friday.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia upheld the FCC’s August 2004 ruling saying interconnected VOIP (voice over Internet Protocol) providers must allow wiretapping by May 14, [...]
Ennovative Commerce Solutions, a Jacksonville-based developer of enterprise-class marketing and sales solutions, has installed a new, company-wide VoIP solution from TelCove, a leading provider of business critical telecommunications services to enterprise customers and carriers.
“Quite simply, we deployed the TelCove network based VoIP solution for all the classic reasons companies like Ennovative are driven towards VoIP,” [...]
Samsung’s SPH-M250 has received approval from the FCC and Sprint will be the carrier of choice. The Bluetooth-capable SPH-M250 takes after a clamshell design and looks rather similar to the B250 T-DMB phone that was launched in Korea. You can rotate the M250’s screen up to 90 degrees in landscape mode to watch video. [...]
Cingular Wireless offers tips on how to make the best use of cell phones if there is a hurricane or other catastrophe.
# Program all vital and emergency numbers like police and fire departments into your cell phone. Also program the numbers of family members.
# Have a family communications plan. Cingular suggests designating someone outside the [...]
Just eight years ago, only society’s upper class and prominent professionals such as doctors and attorneys had access to cellular phones.
Since then, cell phones have evolved dramatically. Today, millions of teens not only have access to cell phones, they own them.
More than 13 million teens ages 13 to 17 have cell phones, said Jaimee Minney, [...]
Got an old cell phone you want to get rid of? The Area Agency on Aging of Pasco-Pinellas Inc. and its Senior Victim Advocate Program are collecting used cell phones for their 9-1-1 Senior Safety Phone Project.
The phones are collected and then distributed as 9-1-1 emergency only or “Safety Phones.” Largo has a new [...]
Micron Technology Inc. Monday (June 5) entered the “fusion memory†chip business for mobile phones — a move that puts the company in direct competition against M-Systems Flash Disk Pioneers Ltd. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
Micron’s technology, dubbed Managed NAND, is an embedded multi-chip package (MCP) product line that combines the company’s NAND flash memory [...]
iBasis, the global VoIP company(TM), today announced that Pingo (www.pingo.com), its online prepaid calling card service, has reduced long distance calling rates by as much as 30%. Now, Pingo customers using the service’s local access numbers in the U.S. can call more than 75 countries for 3 cents or less per minute.
“Pingo’s RateWatcher(TM) promise is [...]