…when it’s an “R4 IMS”.For those of you not deeply involved in 3GPP’s acronymic world, IMS is part of Release 5 of its huge standards programme. Releases 6 and 7 provide enhancements to it.One of the original ideas behind IMS was to stop operators wa […]

Many of you own or at least have trialed Resco Explorer. One of the more overlooked features of Explorer is the backup function. Yes, it has a backup function: Menu->Options->Backup RAM. Altogether, the backup itself is almost identical to Resco’s similar product, aptly named Resco Backup, though it lacks the major features such as […]

Thanks to Navizon software, owners of Blackberries can now:

See where they are on a map and find their next
destination

See the whereabouts of their friends or coworkers.

Search for businesses such as bars or restaurants near where they are.

A GPS device is not required. Navizon’s Virtual-GPS is able to triangulate […]

The Associated Press reports that a test of a new first-responder wireless system, designed by Northrup Grumman, was conducted yesterday at the World Trade Center site. “Some 100 firefighters participated in Sunday's simulated fire at 7 World Trade Center,…

TECH.BLORGE.com's John Pospisil picks up on a Daily Telegraph story reporting that Professor Lawrie Challis of the UK's Mobile Telecommunications and Health Research Programme (MTHR) says children shouldn't put Wi-Fi notebooks on their laps. This follows recent warnings from…

Multiple readers recently asked me about Resco’s update policy. Thus, as a “PSA”, here is what Jan Slodicka sent me:

Explorer upgrade will be free for the customers who did the purchase less than 1 year ago. Older customers will get 50% discount on the actual product price.
All customers will need a new unlock code to […]

RFID Journal LIVE! 2007, produced by RFID Journal, runs April 30 to May 2, 2007 in Orlando.

You can hear from the top industry leaders in a comprehensive RFID agenda.
Learn the benefits of RFID in Retail/CPG, Health Care/Pharma, Aerospace/Defense, Manufacturing and Transportation/ Logistics.
Industry solutions and demos will be featured from RFID vendors along with the […]

A statewide wireless broadband network is planned for South Carolina. The goal is for schools, homes, public safety workers, municipalities, hospitals and health care workers, businesses and visitors to have Internet access anytime and anywhere, in rural or urban areas, says Rep. Dwight Loftis, a Greenville Republican who co-authored the bill to fund the project. […]

Celrun, a Korean IPTV solution provider developed a real-time Digital Right Management System for H….

SK Telecom upgrades T Interactive so that users can have direct access from the idle screen to wirel…

KTF launches location-tracking MMS, allowing a user to attach his or her location information to a m…

The New York Times has a story today about mobile social networking applications - particularly focusing on the new hot thing, Twitter, as well as Jaiku, social image site Radar, and Kyte. While the article doesn't break any new ground,…

ZTE Corp has won a USD200 million contract to supply equipment to Ethiopian Telecommunications Corp (ETC). The three-year agreement will include CDMA-based wireless network equipment. China agreed to invest USD1.5 billion in Ethiopia’s telecommunications networks in February. The Chinese government also agreed to loan Ethiopia USD500 million and make provision for an additional USD1.5 billion in short-term trade credits.

French vendor Alcatel-Lucent and Japanese supplier NEC will jointly deploy the Asia America Gateway (AAG), the first direct terabit submarine cable network between south-east Asia and the United States. Spanning over 20,000 km with a capacity of 1.92Tbps, AAG will link Malaysia to the US west coast via Singapore, Thailand, Brunei, Vietnam, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Guam and Hawaii. The contract that will see the cable laid is worth approximately USD500 million and was signed by a consortium formed by ten parties including the Government of Brunei, AT&T (USA), Bharti (India), CAT (Thailand), PLDT (Philippines), Telkom (Indonesia), Telekom Malaysia (Malaysia), Telstra (Australia), StarHub (Singapore) and VNPT (Vietnam). The project is scheduled to be completed by late 2008.

Etisalat will launch Egypt’s third mobile phone network tomorrow, and will be operating over a 3.5G platform. The new network has been built by Ericsson of Sweden and China’s Huawei at a cost of USD1.2 billion. The network will initially cover Greater Cairo, Alexandria, Aswan, Sharm El Sheikh, Hurghada and Luxor. Etisalat won the third wireless consortium on 4 July 2006, with a bid of EGP16.7 billion (EUR2.29 billion). The new venture will compete with existing service providers Vodafone and Mobinil.