Many analyst houses are now predicting more ecommerce will eventually be done over mobile devices than desktop PCs, and the Radicchio grouping quotes figures showing Web-enabled mobile phones will outnumber televisions worldwide by 2004.
And it all comes down to one acronym: WAP. WAP. So whether we're on the cusp of a worldwide hijack of the digital economy via wireless (Ellison), or whether we're playing catch-up to the United States' colossal lead (Barrett), Europe should take...
Europe's first flirtation with internet mobiles using wireless application protocol (WAP) technology over slower 2G networks disillusioned customers because handsets were in short supply and web access was limited, slow and sometimes impossible.
Despite suffering through difficult second and third quarters, Intel on Thursday said that revenue for the fourth quarter is likely to fall somewhere between $6.8bn and $7bn - somewhat higher than its original projection for the quarter - due to...
The results should come as no surprise, given that the Chinese Ministry of Information Industry said there are more than 250 million cell phones in China, compared with 140.7 million in the United States.
Distributed by Dubai-based developer i-Mate, the $850 PDA2K and PDA2 cell phones come equipped with voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), a software that shifts phone services from the highly regulated and taxed traditional local phone networks...