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Android 5.0 'Jelly Bean' autumn launch will be on Google devices first

Android 5.0 'Jelly Bean' will first appear on several new mobile devices sold by Google itself as part of the Nexus line when the new mobile operating system launches this autumn.
LTE mobile shipments predicted to increase 10-fold in 2012

LTE mobile shipments will grow 10-fold to reach 67 million units in 2012, making it a breakout year for the 4G technology, Strategy Analytics said last week.
Nokia Siemens hopes data use growth can aid recovery

Nokia Siemens Networks CEO Rajeev Suri believes that by 2020 the average wireless network user will generate 1GB of data traffic on wireless networks every day, and this will require networks 10 times as fast.
Samsung debuts smart TVs with face recognition, voice and gesture control

Samsung Electronics announced a host of new gadgets at the International Consumer Electronics Show on Monday, including smart TVs with face recognition, plus voice and gesture control, and a super-thin ultrabook laptop with a DVD drive.
NFC-enabled phone sales top 35m in 2011

Thirty-five million Near Field Communications (NFC)-enabled phones were shipped in 2011, in what has been described as a ?breakthrough year? for the mobile payments technology.
T-Mobile gets YouMail voicemail app removed from Android Market

YouMail, an app that provides visual voicemail services for smartphones, has been removed from the Android Market, apparently at T-Mobile's request.
Clearwire plans £192 million stock offering for deploying LTE

Clearwire plans to raise as much as £221 million ($345 million) in stock transactions to help fund its LTE (Long Term Evolution) network deployment and other activities.
Verizon claims it doesn't use Carrier IQ tracking software

Verizon Wireless said Thursday it doesn't add to its phones any software from Carrier IQ, the company that has come under fire in the past few days for what some say amounts to spying on mobile phone users.
Google to release volume fix to Samsung Galaxy Nexus users

Google is rolling out a fix to a volume fluctuation problem in the Galaxy Nexus smartphone's. The fix is due to reach current customers by next week.
Mobile phone payments to replace cash by 2016: report

Using mobile phones to pay for good and services rather than cash, cheques or cards, will be commonplace by 2016, says PayPal.

Latest Features

LTE-Advanced is the future, but don't expect a rocket ship

The 4G network standards approved last week by the ITU may improve the mobile data experience soon, even if consumers don't actually see the 100M bps mobile speed for which they were designed.
Will Blu-ray be the last physical media format?

Just as Netflix and its customers are ditching plastic DVD media, Blu-ray discs and players are growing in popularity. The two trends seem incongruous, so what gives?
Four technologies for faster broadband in 2011

A number of different technologies are being developed or improved to offer higher speeds for fixed and mobile broadband networks, as operators are preparing to compete with each other and carry video traffic in 3D and at higher resolutions, which is expected to happen in the coming year.
The top 12 green IT departments: Green from the ground up

Computerworld's third annual Top Green-IT Organisations awards showcase the achievements at 12 IT departments that are reducing power demands and using technology to create energy efficiencies.
What is 4G? WiMax and LTE don't qualify

If someone is trying to sell you 4G wireless these days, don't believe them. The truth is, neither WiMax nor LTE (Long-Term Evolution) qualify as 4G (fourth-generation) technologies, according to the International Telecommunication Union Radiocommunication Sector (ITU-R).
Testing LTE wireless in Stockholm

A test of TeliaSonera's LTE (Long Term Evolution) network and its new multimode modem shows the next-generation mobile technology at its best, delivering speeds at up 59.1Mbps (bits per second), when used at 2.6GHz. But it also reveals how the technology sometimes struggles when used indoors.
Palm ponders survival

Smartphone industry pundits wonder whether Palm can survive another year, given Palm's guidance that its smartphone sales failed to meet expectations.
BlackBerry rumour round up

Keeping new BlackBerry smartphones under wraps is not exactly one of Research In Motion's (RIM) strengths. In fact, details, technical specifications and even images of RIM's upcoming BlackBerry devices typically leak months in advance of the products' official releases.
WiMax in 2010: Too little, too late?

By the end of 2010, users in more than 80 US cities may be able to ditch their cable modems, T1 setups and DSL lines - and the Wi-Fi routers that go with them - in favour of WiMax broadband wireless technology.
Why Chrome OS will change computing forever

Google says it is working on an operating system designed for netbooks that boots in seconds, is impervious to viruses, and is designed to run web-based applications really well. What's not to like? Plenty - if you're the number one software maker, Microsoft. Expect a showdown.

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