TechRepublic Resources
- Frost & Sullivan: Assessing the ROI of Palm Treo Smartphones
- This white paper by Frost & Sullivan presents an ROI model that can be used to build a business case for the deployment of Palm Treo smartphones. Smartphones combine the features of wireless handsets with the flexibility of PDAs. They enable mobile employees to: Use their time...
- Tags: mobile, phone, wireless handset, wireless, telephone, smart phone, ROI, PDA, Palm Treo, Palm Inc., mobile marketing, laptop computer, handset, Frost & Sullivan, e-mail, cell phone, business case
- White papers
- Extend Productivity with Intel XScale Handheld and Handset Platforms
- Help your employees do more, respond faster, and be productive anyplace, anytime with Intel XScale Technology-based handheld and handset platforms. Intel offers a series of case studies and benefits documentation that show how other businesses have benefited from standardizing on clients that provide performance, manageability, security and application compatibility. Visit...
- Tags: Intel XScale, Handset, Intel Corp., Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware
- Case studies
- Catapulting to Success: The Story of MMS at VIVO
- A joint venture of Telefonica and Portugal Telecom, VIVO is the southern hemisphere's largest mobile operator, and it ranks among the ten largest operators in the world. VIVO's need was to get as many MMS-enabled handsets as possible into the hands of users, and to get a high percentage of...
- Tags: MMS, Comverse Technology Inc., Handset, VIVO, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications
- Case studies
- Images: The Morph concept phone
- Nokia Research Center is collaborating with University of Cambridge on development of nanotech concept handset that can stretch and bend. by CNET News.com
- Tags: news, nokia, Morph, handset
- Image galleries 2008-02-26
- Designed a Feature-Rich Satellite Handset With Mobile Handset Form Factor to Enable Nera Satcom to Expand Their Market Reach
- MindTree Consulting designed an advanced satellite handset for a Norway-based communication equipment supplier, Nera SatCom. MindTree's extensive knowledge in designing and engineering handheld devices, combined with its expertise in building UI frameworks and MMI, helped Nera SatCom in developing a compact and feature-rich handset. The handset has communication access via...
- Tags: MindTree Consulting, Mobile, Handset, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Case studies 2008-01-26
- Palm has problems, but smartphones aren't going anywhere
- Last Wednesday, the 23rd, Palm Inc. announced that they would be offering cash rebates to customers who have experienced problems with their Treo 600 or 650 handsets. The rebates can be applied toward a replacement phone from Palm. In addition, any qualifying handsets that haven't been serviced twice already are...
- Tags: Palm Inc., Smart Phone, Handset, Palm Treo, Smart Phones, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, William Jones
- Blog posts 2008-01-29
- Fring UIQ (SIS)
- Fring is a free mobile VoIP software that lets you talk and live chat using your Symbian UIQ handset's Internet connection instead of costly mobile airtime (GSM) minutes. fring enables free mobile calls over Wi-Fi Internet access or your GPRS, EDGE or 3G Internet data plan.fring lets you easily communicate...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Cellular phones, handset, mobile, EDGE, SIP, firmware, GPRS, GSM, 3G, VoIP, phone, Internet access, Wi-Fi, cell phone, PC, Internet, software
- Software downloads 2007-11-15
- iPhone hype hits UK
- The long awaited iPhone hit the UK market on Friday; over 300 people queued outside Apple's central London store for the launch. The first unit was bought by 20-year-old student Tom Jasinski who had been waiting in line for 26 hours. He told one BBC reporter, "It was...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Handset, U.K., Cellular Phones, Advertising & Promotion, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Justin Fielding
- Blog posts 2007-11-11
- Enterprise thoughts on the GPhone / Open Handset Alliance
- Google unveiled their plans yesterday for what's become rumored as the GPhone. The bottom line on the announcement is that Google's work to date on a "GPhone" has only been internal prototypes and proofs of concept; from what Google has said, there won't be a wireless phone displaying a Google...
- Tags: Software, Google Inc., Mobile, Handset, Wireless Phone, GPhone, Wireless, Wi-Fi, Open Source, Steve Stroh
- Blog posts 2007-11-06
- P2P technology on mobile phones can make phone calls free
- TerraNet, the Swedish firm, is testing a peer-to-peer technology that is based on VoIP to enable mobiles to act as peers and nodes on a network. The could result in technology to establish phone calls without the need of base towers, which would also prove a boon for communication in...
- Tags: Phone, Mobile, P2P, Handset, Cell Phone, TerraNet, Peer To Peer (P2P), Advertising & Promotion, Telecom & Utilities, Cellular Phones, Internet, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Arun Radhakrishnan
- Blog posts 2007-09-12
- Nokia in deal with Microsoft for Windows Live services on S60 Handsets
- Nokia, the Finnish mobile manufacturer, has embraced Microsoft Windows Live; a suite of Live services will run on S60 mobile handsets, reports internetnews.com. Here's a quote from the article: The suite includes Windows Live Hotmail, Live Messenger, Live Contacts, and Live Spaces. Additionally,...
- Tags: Nokia Corp., Handset, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Arun Radhakrishnan
- Blog posts 2007-08-24
- Zipit's Wi-Fi-based Z2 Handset IMs
- Zipit Wireless' $150 Wi-Fi-enabled mobile device is different from text-messaging enabled cell phones in that there are no ongoing charges associated with wireless connectivity, text messaging or data transfer. In an interview with company founder Ralph Heredia, ZDNet Exeutive Editor David Berind gets a preview of the product, which also...
- Tags: IM, Handset, Zipit, Zipit Wireless, Wireless LANs, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Wi-Fi, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, TechRepublic Inc.
- Videos 2007-09-27
- download text msg database from Samsung SCH a990 (Verizon) cell phone?
- PLEASE HELP!!! I need to transfer the text messages, INCLUDING the header data (eg., date, time sent, recipients, delivery status, etc) from my Samsung sch-A990 Verizon cell phone, either to my pc, a disk or to a replacement A990 handset. Background: Flash broke on phone & am getting a replacement...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Cellular phones, dlynwild1, cell phone, database, phone, A990, handset, Verizon Communications Inc., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
- Discussion threads 2007-09-29
- transfer text msg database from Samsung A990 (Verizon) cell phone?
- PLEASE HELP!!! I need to transfer the text messages, INCLUDING the header data (eg., date, time sent, recipients, delivery status, etc) from my Samsung sch-A990 Verizon cell phone, either to my pc, a disk or to a replacement A990 handset. Background: Flash broke on phone & am getting a replacement...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Cellular phones, dlynwild1, cell phone, Samsung A990, phone, subpeona, header data, handset, Verizon Communications Inc., database, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
- Discussion threads 2007-09-27
- AppLabs Case Study: Broca
- Broca provides secure interactive and multi-channel communication solutions, capable of supporting mobile messaging, fixed-line telecommunications and internet technologies. Working with a number of mobile phone handsets on the market, it was vital to the success of SAMS that Broca undertook physical testing of each handset. One of the main issues...
- Tags: Handset, Messaging, Broca, Groupware, Cellular Phones, Enterprise Software, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Case studies 2007-07-23
- Malaysia to bar stolen Handsets
- According to ComputerWorld Singapore, the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) plans to set up a national database for reported lost and stolen mobile phones in an effort to curb mobile phone crime. This is similar to schemes launched in Australia and Britain, in which a nationwide...
- Tags: Phone, Mobile, Handset, Cell Phone, Advertising & Promotion, Cellular Phones, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2007-06-14
- Motorola mobiles send Linux Handsets stateside
- Motorola CEO's debuted Linux-based "Rokr" and "Razr2" models at a Manhattan event with new top execs last week. Finally, Moto, after four years of hiding Linux mobiles in Asia and South America, brings the Penguin to your pocket in the US. The metal-finished Razr2, 2mm thinner...
- Tags: Mobile, Handset, Motorola Inc., MotoRokr Z6, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, John Bartley K7AAY
- Blog posts 2007-05-21
- Nokia into deal with Microsoft for Windows Live services on S60 Handsets
- so now my phone is going to bluescreen?thats just great. I will have to miss phone calls because of a blue screened phone!http://www.astawerks.nethttp://www.xtremedirectory.com
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Microsoft Corp., giftedwon@..., phone, Microsoft Windows Live, handset, Nokia Corp., Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2007-08-24
- Scaling Images Using Qualcomm Brew
- Perhaps the image is one in a resource file, or maybe it's one downloaded from the Web. Regardless, it's on the handset, and one wants to scale it to best fit a specific handset's screen. As it turns out, Qualcomm Brew offers two means to do this, one a quick...
- Tags: Handset, Jupitermedia Corp., Qualcomm Inc., Image, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- White papers 2007-04-11
- Managing Personal Information - Summary of PIM Fields
- Mobile handsets such as cellphones typically have an address book to keep track of people one likes to stay in touch with, a calendar to keep track of important events, and a to-do list to keep track of items one doesn't want to forget. This type of personal information is...
- Tags: Personal Information, Handset, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- White papers 2007-04-01
