2008

The Associated Press on Monday unveiled an iPhone program for accessing its newly launched service that delivers news, photos and video to mobile phones.

Back in February we reported that Buzzd , a Mobile Web social networking service used at bars, clubs and restaurants, had won a bunch of awards at the MobileMonday Peer Awards.

Monitise has announced that MONILINK, its UK joint venture with VocaLink, has signed a contract with an unnamed UK retail bank to offer mobile banking and payment services to it customers.

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Six big technology companies are spearheading a plan to jointly license patents that cover the wireless technology called WiMAX hoping to limit royalty rates that could deter customers from using it.

Boston’s business community is filled with bloggers who offer opinions, speculate and – sometimes – even make news. Globe columnist Scott Kirsner compiles excerpts from some recent life sciences and technology postings.

FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Korean technology group Samsung launched a new touchscreen smartphone on Monday, hours before Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs was expected to announce a new version of the iPhone.

Will the next iPhone be thinner, cheaper, perhaps cooler? Will it come with new features such as video chat and a global positioning system? For months, speculation has swirled.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs is widely expected to introduce iPhone 2.0 at the start of the tech firm’s Worldwide Developers Conference today.

People rarely need coins to make a call these days, but don’t ditch your coppers just yet because manufacturer Handlink has designed a coin-operated Wi-Fi access point.

We all love the concept of mobile search. For today’s busy mobile professional, it is reassuring and convenient to have all the information the Internet can hold just a few mobile-phone clicks away.

Gemalto says that it has provided Italian MVNO, PosteMobile with a software solution that allows BancoPosta customers to securely carry out payment transactions with their mobile phone. Both PosteMobile and BancoPosta are part of the Poste Italiane Group (Italian Post …

Today accessory maker Otas unveiled its newest product, the so-called aigo Camera sunglasses MP3 F566+ .

You’d think a cellphone’s screen is too tiny for any, uh, “intimate” viewing. Apparently not.

The sparse, rural areas that AlltelCommunications L.L.C.’s network covers and the demographics it serves lead some to assume Alltel would have relatively little data uptake, but the numbers tell a different story. The No. 5 carrier is outperforming its four …

US researchers have developed a Walkman-like headset for cows .

Dell teamed up with Ericsson to support the latter company’s favorite 3G technology: High Speed Packet Access (HSPA).

One of the first of many native third-party apps to show at Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference will be an iPhone version of Sling Media’s well-known remote TV viewing utility.

‘Battlestar Galactica’ is headed for a handheld galaxy, through a new mobile phone extension deal. <img src="http://feeds.pcworld.com/~a/pcworld/latestnews?

Intel is known for its support of WiMax technology but sales and marketing exec Sean Maloney says that there should be more of an effort to unify this technology with LTE technology in order to reduce customer confusion.

Disaster reliefVerizon Wireless launched a program designed to make it easy for its customers to donate to disaster relief efforts targeted at China and Myanmar. The program allows postpaid customers to send a text message to the shortcode 4SAVE with …

Chip provider, and thorn in Qualcomm’s side, Broadcom saw its co-founder Henry Nicholas III indicted last week on fraud, conspiracy and . wait for it . drug charges. While the fraud and conspiracy charges are bad news for the company …

Smaller entrepreneurial wireless developers could lose a friend with Verizon Wireless’ acquisition of Alltel Communications L.L.C. Alltel supports a number of cool applications on its deck. Celltop, which allows you to customize your user interface with widgets; Ontela, which offers …

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION CHAIRMAN KEVIN MARTIN APPEARS DETERMINED to win approval for a free, family-friendly national wireless broadband plan, despite being forced to delay an upcoming vote on the measure after concerns were raised about potential interference to mobile-phone systems …