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Symbian tablets 'very likely', says Foundation chief

Symbian tablets 'very likely', says Foundation chief

Q&A Symbian Foundation CEO Lee Williams tells ZDNet UK what the open-sourcing process meant for the mobile OS's code base, and talks about tablet plans [05 Feb 2010]

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Images: TSF helps Haiti quake survivors reconnect

Photos Communications aid agency Télécoms Sans Frontières is giving Haitians the chance to call family and providing broadband networks to emergency efforts [26 Jan 2010]

Opera to show off iPhone browser despite Apple ban

News Opera has not submitted the browser to the App Store, but says it hopes Apple will change its policies and 'not deny their users a choice' [13:05 GMT]

Cisco research predicts data-traffic deluge

News The company's Global Mobile Data Forecast predicts a 39-fold increase in mobile data traffic over the next four years [08:34 GMT]

BT may share ducts with rival broadband providers

News The telco is reportedly in talks with Ofcom about opening access to its ducts and poles so other providers can install their own broadband fibre lines [09 Feb 2010]

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Ericsson to show off fastest 3G network yet

News The company plans to demonstrate an HSPA+ network providing download speeds of 84Mbps, a new record, at Mobile World Congress next week [08 Feb 2010]

Key VoIP patent to be re-examined

News The Electronic Frontier Foundation has successfully applied for the so-called '373 patent to be reviewed by the US Patent and Trademark Office [08 Feb 2010]

File-sharing crackdown criticised for 'lack of detail'

News Parliamentarians and lords want the government to better explain why it is necessary to disconnect unlawful file-sharers, and how the process would work [05 Feb 2010]

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Symbian fully open-sourced ahead of schedule

News The Symbian Foundation, which has made all its source code available for free, says the migration to open source was the largest in software history [04 Feb 2010]

Google Apps gains remote admin controls for mobile

News The controls make it possible to remotely administer ActiveSync-supporting smartphones without needing a dedicated enterprise mobile server [04 Feb 2010]

3 promises to strengthen 'weak' data network

News The operator has admitted that people see its mobile broadband network as slow, and has pledged to boost coverage by October [03 Feb 2010]

ARM aims to secure smartphone transactions

News A partnership between ARM and the German security firm G&D could make it safer to enter usernames and passwords on mobile devices [03 Feb 2010]

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Global mobile-phone sales bounce back

News It seems the recession is over for the global handset market as sales in Q4 2009 grew for the first time since the Q3 2008 [02 Feb 2010]

4G handset to be demonstrated this month

News The Japanese operator NTT DoCoMo will show off a working prototype of an LTE handset in Barcelona in February, phone maker NEC has revealed [01 Feb 2010]

Tories pledge to lay out 100Mbps fibre broadband

News If they win the election, the Conservatives plan to extend high-speed broadband across the UK, using the BBC licence fee to pay for it [01 Feb 2010]

Virgin to make some landline-to-mobile calls free

News Customers on a home phone plan will be able to call Virgin Mobile handsets without charge, in what the company says is a first for the UK [01 Feb 2010]

Agito readies enterprise 3G VoIP for iPhones

News The unified comms company will release its Agito Global Enterprise system in March, adding iPhone support to its portfolio for the first time [01 Feb 2010]

EU telecoms super-regulator starts work

News Berec will advise the EC on areas such as next-generation broadband access, net neutrality and universal service obligations [29 Jan 2010]

BPI condemns copyright cash demands

News Letters being sent to suspected unlawful file-sharers demanding money are not the right approach, the UK's music industry body has said [29 Jan 2010]

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Smartphones bump Nokia to recovery

News The smartphone maker has seen its market share rebound slightly, while quarterly operating profits are up 132 percent year-on-year [29 Jan 2010]

Mobile operators to offer free DWP helpline calls

News The Department for Work and Pensions expects all UK mobile operators to end charges for calls to its benefits and pensions lines by the end of April [29 Jan 2010]

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Cisco opens up video conferencing protocol

News The networking giant is pitching its telepresence protocol as an open standard in an effort to get more businesses to use the technology [27 Jan 2010]

4G spectrum auction 'unlikely' for 2010

News The 2.6GHz spectrum auction, originally scheduled for 2007, is unlikely to happen until next year at the earliest, the independent spectrum broker has said [27 Jan 2010]

BT rolls out 40Mbps fibre broadband for businesses

News The fibre-optic-based service offers download speeds of 40Mbps and a 'fast lane' to ensure business traffic gets the right of way at busy times [26 Jan 2010]

Juniper, Polycom team up on telepresence

News The companies have linked up on a joint telepresence and video-conferencing offering that is designed to serve as a counterweight to Cisco [26 Jan 2010]

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