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RIM’s smartphones could be taken off shelves in the UK, US and Canada if manufacturer doesn’t agree to pay licence fees Nokia is seeking a ban on the sale of BlackBerry smartphones in the UK, US and Canada following a patent dispute with the company’s parent, Research In Motion (RIM). The Finnish manufacturer said an [...]
But elsewhere in the world Android is storming ahead Apple has snatched back its lead of the US smartphone market from Google’s Android platform, though it’s at the expense of RIM’s BlackBerry devices and Microsoft’s Windows Phone. It is the first time since February [2012], when sales of the previous iPhone 4S were declining, that Apple has [...]
Two major trends in the workplace are converging fast – remote working and BYOD (Bring Your Own Device). Spotting this opportunity, Kadrige Innovative Software has created what it claims is first of its kind – Kadridge iSharing a collaborative app for Apple iPad users. iSharing allows users to share interactive content as well as offering web app sharing. Plus [...]
O2 is trying to attract Christmas shoppers by offering free £20 vouchers with selected smartphones O2 are offering customers £20 vouchers for shops including Next and Debenhams when they buy selected smartphones including the BlackBerry Curve 9320. The Christmas deal also applies to Samsung’s Galaxy Ace, Blackberry’s Curve 9360, Nokia’s Lumia 800, Sony’s Xperia tipo [...]
A statement on Microsoft Czech’s website says Office Mobile will be available as an app from March 2013 on the operating systems Microsoft Office will work on Apple and Google products as well as Windows Phone. The company have said that Office will work across iOS and Android. According to a press release from Microsoft’s [...]
Court injunctions fail to dent rise of Korean manufacturer One in ten smartphones now sold globally is Samsung’s Galaxy S III, overtaking even Apple’s iPhone. Latest figures from Strategic Analytics show the Korean manufacturer shipped 18.0 million units worldwide during Q3 2012, compared to an estimated 16.2 million iPhone 4s. Though the impact of Apple’s [...]
Pierre Combelles charged with helping operators roll-out mobile wallet and other NFC services The GSMA has appointed former France Telecom vice president for open innovation Pierre Combelles as the new business lead for its NFC programme, which will continue to be ramped-up in the next year. Combelles takes over on November 1, replacing interim business lead Reed [...]
Company to distribute EE and Three consumer contract airtime to new and existing resellers under the new sub-brand, Shair Data Select has become a consumer contract airtime distributor for EE and Three, as first exclusively revealed by Mobile News in August (issue 520). It is now distributing the airtime from the networks to both existing and new [...]
We were excited to learn that RIM had introduced a new version of its BlackBerry App World – namely 4.0. However, GoMobile Newshas a nasty habit of checking things out and to our astonishment here in the UK (at least), we weren’t actually able to download version 4.0 to our BlackBerry Bold immediately. We followed the [...]
Union claims operator is using compromise agreements to avoid having to give employees 30-day consultation period Vodafone has been accused of using a legal loop-hole to avoid giving staff a 30-day redundancy consultation period by telecoms union Prospect. Rather than giving a consultation period, the group claims the operator has offered staff ‘compromise agreements’ which [...]