Microsoft released an invite only beta to their Mesh service recently, a service that currently is meant to sync your files and folders across multiple machines and to the cloud. Everyone is saying what's the point? The point is Microsoft just laid down one of the key pieces of infrastructure for the future of the [...]

Just in time for the first round of the NHL Playoffs, Transcontinental Media's TheHockeyNews.com (THN.com) is going mobile, o a partnership with Redboom Solutions. The mobile website will bring all of the hallmark features of THN.com – blogs, columns, analysis and other regular features – to the mobile web and make them available to users around-the-clock, [...]

This is getting ridiculous. It seems that banning a mobile phone use is becoming a trend. I do acknowledge some people can be quite annoying when using their mobile phones, but banning their use on public transport is simply ridiculous. To be fair, you can't get a decent (if any) signal in metros in many cities, [...]

Russian telecom giant Sistema, which recently acquired a controlling stake in India's Shyam Telelink, announced that it will be launching a nation-wide mobile services by April 2009. Sistema-Shyam is the first company among the new players to get CDMA spectrum in 13 circles and it hopes to get the frequency in remaining ones to become a [...]

Starting from June 13, mobile phone users in Singapore will be able to switch service providers without changing their numbers. At the moment, about 130,000 mobile phone users have ported their numbers under a current call-forwarding solution, which assumes that consumers have to use their old and new mobile numbers concurrently. These consumers will have until [...]

A new Juniper Research's report titled "Mobile Financial Services: Banking & Payment Markets 2007-2011" suggests that the number of consumers accessing banking services and products via their mobile phones will reach 816 million by 2011, a tenfold increase on the number using such services in 2007. Financial institutions are bringing an increasing number of products and [...]

 We're seeing a trend here — if there's an accelerometer built inside a mobile phone, let's use it. With their I-Play Bowling title, the mobile games publisher wants to deliver the Wii-like bowling experience to mobile phone users. Not that the game won't work with ordinary handsets, on the contrary. However, if you happen to [...]

Street repair services for mobile phones are a big industry in India, with technicians getting a full fledged diploma from a "Mobile Repairing Institute."Jan Chipchase is leading Nokia's team which is trying to lower the cost of phones for emerging markets, an effort that also has an eco-friendly character. The group of 15 has scanned bazaars [...]

Sony Ericsson's Q1 2008 financial figures are out and they don't look too rosy. Sure 22.3 million devices have shipped, a 2% increase from Q1 2007, but with the average selling price of said devices falling to 121 EUR compared to 134 EUR this time last year, the high end phones that do make money [...]

The Sony Ericsson G502 and Z780 were announced today, no price points were given, but supposedly they're going to be affordable when they hit the market in the second quarter of 2008. The Z780 above looks like an amazing device, with the specs to match, but there are 2 versions apparently. SE's official PR says [...]

Today Sony Ericsson announced the G502, a device that has been flittering through the rumor mills quite a bit this week. The G502 is Sony Ericsson's least expensive HSDPA/UMTS compatible handset. Read the full story here.

Sony Ericsson today introduced the Z780a, a new HSDPA high-speed Internet phone designed for the web. Targeting markets outside of Europe, the Z780a features tri-band 3G and HSDPA functionality, packaged in a stylish clamshell frame. Built with mobility in mind, the Z780a features aGPS for an integrated navigation solution, while letting users receive email or browse the web at high speed in countries across the world. The Z780a can view high-quality maps and satellite views of local areas with ...

Sony Ericsson today announced the G502i, an affordable handheld with high-speed HSDPA capability for faster browsing and downloading. The G502i can access high-quality maps and satellite views with Google Maps for Mobile, including listings of the restaurants and hotels with reviews and ratings. With the G502i, users just enter start and finish locations, and receive point-by-point directions. Integrated aGPS lets them find addresses or routes, while Google Maps for Mobile provides the turn-by-t...

Today Sony Ericsson unveiled the Z780, a product that shares much with the previously announced Z770, but adds support for North American 850/1900MHz HSDPA/UMTS networks. We might end up seeing this phone on AT&T eventually. Read the full story here.

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Delivers Local Results Using GPS with Live Search and Fandango Movie Info Launches First on BlackBerry Phones Read the full story here.

This week at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, Microsoft unveiled its vision of an interconnected future: Live Mesh. Live Mesh aims to provide centralized device management and automatic media synching between phones, computers, and other connected devices. Read the full story here.

Ebay-owned Skype has recently unveiled a new $10/mo unlimited international calling plan. Considering that Skype clients for Windows Mobile smartphones and Nokia's internet tablets are available, that should interest an awful lot of people. Read the full story here.