March 26, 2004 articles

Philippines considers a tax on text messages

Mar 26 2004 - 06:19 PM ET | SMS
While goverments being strapped for cash is nothing new, looking to text messages to help ease the pain is. The Philippine goverment is considering putting a tax on text messages that would bring in an estimated 500 million pesos per...

T-Mobile USA to carry BlackBerry 7730

Mar 26 2004 - 05:56 PM ET | Research In Motion, T-Mobile
T-Mobile USA yesterday announced that it will begin to carry Research In Motion's BlackBerry 7730 at the end of April. The device is currently only available in Europe, and was announced in November 2003. The features are pretty standard for...

AT&T Wireless ships Nokia 6820

Mar 26 2004 - 05:40 PM ET | AT&T Wireless, Nokia
AT&T Wireless has started to ship the Nokia 6820. The phone was announced back in October 2003, but is an AT&T Wireless exclusive. It is an updated version of the Nokia 6800. The biggest feature of the Nokia 6820 its...

Alcatel, Intel team up for WiMAX standard

Mar 26 2004 - 10:15 AM ET | In The News
Alcatel, a French telecommunications equipment maker, and US based sillicon giant Intel announced an agreement to try and make WiMAX compete with GSM and 3G. The two companies hope to have something out to market in the second half of...

90% of mobile devices lack hacker protection

Mar 26 2004 - 10:06 AM ET | In The News
According to a new study by Gartner, 90% of mobile devices lack protection from hackers. This was most recently shwon by the "bluejacking" phenomenon, though that was largely harmless. bq. The most commonplace scenario occurs when a user accidentally loses...