With the advent of new technology the way of communication is also changed. In very early days of history, pigeons were used as means of communication. Later, written messages are sent through letters by post.

Police in New Zealand are seeking a change in the law to compel the mobile operators to archive text messages sent through their networks so that police could study an "audit trail" of messages sent for crime fighting purposes. Previously New Zealand's police has been able to go into phone records once they have obtained a [...]

Let me tell you one thing - Alltel is one strange company. They've just rolled out their unlimited offering yet you can't find a word about it on their homepage. Scrap that, there's no press release in their media zone. Why is that is beyond me. Are they trying really hard to hook you up [...]

Gameloft keeps pushing its Derek Jeter Pro Baseball series of titles. The 2008 edition vows to be the best yet, offering the most realistic mobile baseball game to date as well as exclusive tips and trivia from Derek Jeter himself. There's also a newly rendered stadium that sets the back-drop for a whole new look. [...]

Handango has recently announced that they've raised an additional $9.5 million in its Series C round of financing. The money will be used to support new distribution deals, improve the scalability of infrastructure and global expansion. In addition, with all the fuss surrounding the phenomenon called "user experience", the smartphone content distributor will work to [...]

In order to "help merge social networking and multimedia", Research In Motion (RIM) is partnering with pop artist Will.i.am to gain more traction in the consumer retail market. Will.i.am's Dipdive online community and content that will probably include the famous "Yes We Can" Barack Obama video are set to hit BlackBerrys around the world. According to [...]

We all understand when people get upset because something's not right in their lives. However, why oh why, would someone want to burn hundreds of mobile phones because of his/her frustration is beyond me. And that's exactly what happened in Weifang, China, when a spurned wife set fire to more than 400 mobile phones worth [...]

We've already talked about SpinVox's visual voice-to-text voicemail service in the past. Now Canada-based Telus is adding the service to its offering, allowing users to read their voice mail as text messages or email. According to Telus' official release, users will be able to "see what was said", hence be more productive while on-the-go. That being [...]

It's an interesting idea when you think about it. With its huge buying power mobile operators could drive laptop sales through the roof while getting more mobile data users at the same time. The problem is that with an exception of Apple and Sony, most computer makers have razor-thin margins, giving them little space to [...]

Asus is showing off its latest handset design, a laptop-style Windows Mobile 6 smartphone with a standard numeric keypad and QVGA display on the front. The M930 opens to reveal a second WQVGA resolution display and full QWERTY keyboard. Read the full story here.

Sprint today announced a software upgrade for the Mogul, a Windows Mobile device packed with advanced wireless capabilities. EV-DO Rev. A technology supports faster data rates and higher system capacity letting users send and receive data at broadband speeds (comparable to basic DSL). Average download speeds will increase from 400-700 Kbps to 600 Kbps-1.4 Mbps and average upload speeds will increase from 50-70 Kbps to 350-500 Kbps. Besides increased data speeds, the free software download also p...

03/10/08 - Sync your Microsoft Outlook Calendar and Contacts to your RAZR or other Motorola phone.

Did you manage to get up on time today? There's nothing worse than losing an hour of sleep. That is, unless you have a high-end smartphone in your pocket with a crippled GPS and EVDO Rev. A radio. Well, Sprint Mogul owners are waking up to find that they can now go full-throttle with heir [...]

If you fancy yourself some sort of Guitar Hero rockstar, then you'll be glad to hear that AT&T has launched the uber-popular game for mobile phones on their network. Guitar Hero Mobile went live on AT&T last week, so if you've got that Guitar Hero itch, head on over to AT&T's website. The AT&T version of [...]

Does anyone even use public telephones anymore? I don't even use fixed landlines anymore. With the pace of development in the wireless landscape, it makes sense that wireless broadband solutions could sound the death knoll for WiFi hotspots. And, to make that notion all the more plausible, Ericsson's Chief Marketing Officer Johan Bergendahl proclaimed during his [...]

You don't say. Lowering the price on the flat-rate, unlimited calling plan caused  an up-swing in new-subscriber growth? It seems obvious that more subscribers would opt to pay a bit more per month for the all-you-can-eat calling plan from Verizon, but investors weren't as convinced. Following the industry change-up that saw all the major (and a [...]

Today Sprint and HTC released an update for the popular HTC Mogul that unlocks the GPS receiver and adds EV-DO Rev. A data support, which doubles download speeds and provides a ten fold upload speed increase. Read the full story here.

The thing that attracts a lot of potential TracFone customers to the cheap, pre-paid wireless service is the fact that they can get cheap or free handsets to use with TracFone's decent rates for pre-paid wireless minutes. TracFone subsidizes the cost of these handsets to make them more affordable - under the presumption that the [...]

It comes as no surprise that the Japanese have the most advanced handsets in the world, but what makes them different compared to their European and Korean competitors? The components are the same, they're available for anyone to purchase, but the level of engineering knowledge required to put together something that has a 1 seg [...]

In an age where almost every aspect of our lives is dependent on the constant flow of electrons through our digital gear, a reliable source of electricity is a must. Especially when we're talking about the electricity that powers the cell towers throughout the nation. As we saw with the Hurricane Katrina disaster, cellular communications failures [...]