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Article | 27/06/2005 Plan ahead now for triple play, says Alcatel
Triple play is slowly growing from the fluff of headlines, according to Alcatel, but this provision of integrated voice, data and video services requi...
Article | 27/06/2005 Java spec promises better mobile experience
Work is being wrapped up on the first draft of a set of new Java technologies that could bring big benefits to mobile phone applications for both work...
Article | 23/06/2005 Samsung plans thin phone to battle Motorola Razr
Samsung Electronics is planning to launch at least one thin cell phone later this year to battle Motorola's Razr handset in international markets, a c...
Article | 23/06/2005 Interface design gaining importance for MP3 players
With more and more MP3 player makers improving their devices' external designs, the user interface is becoming an important differentiating factor, th...
Article | 23/06/2005 Telstra drops off Microsoft IPTV early-adopter list
Telstra this week dropped out of a Microsoft early adopter program for its end-to-end IP (Internet Protocol) TV software platform.
Article | 22/06/2005 Humax hit with $150,000 fine for price fixing
Hardware manufacturer, Humax, has copped a $150,000 fine for attempting to fix the retail price of its digital set-top boxes.
Article | 22/06/2005 IPod Shuffle mods a hit online
White is the new gold. Whether you're out shopping for a new Aibo on Rodeo Drive with your entourage, or kicking it with Paris and The Game at P. Didd...
Article | 22/06/2005 Multimedia broadcast technology selected
Digital Fountain, a vendor of telecommunications infrastructure technology, announced Tuesday that 3GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Project) selected ...
Article | 21/06/2005 Boombox meets Boombooks
Toshiba and BenQ are challenging the notion that convergence is based around the office and lounge room, releasing a range of audio-visual notebooks.
Article | 21/06/2005 Freescale's new PowerPC chip targets home media devices
Freescale Semiconductor hopes to move its 7400 series PowerPC processors beyond the telecommunications and industrial design markets with the fifth ge...
Article | 21/06/2005 IRiver reveals four new MP3 players
Reigncom, the company behind IRiver-brand digital music players, has shown four new flash-memory based music players ahead of this week's SEK exhibiti...
Article | 20/06/2005 JVC to sell 30G-byte HDD camcorders in October
Victor Co. of Japan (JVC) will start selling Everio G series palm-size camcorders in Australia this October. The camcorders contain hard-disk drives w...
Article | 17/06/2005 IDC: Traditional PDAs on the way out
Latest IDC figures indicate shipments of pen-based PDAs are continuing to slide, falling by 26 per cent in the first quarter of this year.
Article | 17/06/2005 Music player market set to double by 2009, study says
The market for MP3 players is set to double between 2005 and 2009 amid strong demand from consumers and hundreds of vendors striving to follow the suc...
Article | 16/06/2005 Call Skype for free from your mobile phone
A Norwegian company has found a use for that old cell phone that's been kicking around in your desk drawer.
Article | 16/06/2005 Ericsson, Napster team up for mobile phone music
The world's biggest telecommunications equipment provider has teamed up with popular Internet music service Napster to make it simpler for mobile phon...
Article | 16/06/2005 BT launches converged fixed/mobile phone service
BT's converged fixed/mobile phone service -- called Bluephone during development -- has been launched. BT Fusion, as it is now known, operates as a mo...
Article | 10/06/2005 Mobile standard gets Wi-Fi pick-me-up
UMA, the standard behind BT's imminent Bluephone, got a double boost from Alcatel and Nokia at the SuperComm exhibition in Atlanta.
Article | 9/06/2005 Taiwan research center developing wearable gadget
A government-funded Taiwanese research group plans to show off its prowess in flexible display technology by developing a wearable and flexible electr...
Article | 8/06/2005 Cellnet takes on HP Pocket PCs
Cellnet has struck its first Australian deal with HP to stock its converged handheld devices.

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