The Register - Comms: MobileBiting the hand that feeds ITEU grabs 30MHz of spectrum for talking cars- August 6, 2008 My other car's a right nag The EU has agreed to reserve 30MHz of spectrum (around 5.9GHz) for cars that want to talk to each other, in the belief that doing so will save lives rather than add more driver-distracting gadgets.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/06/talking_cars/ MySpace elbows into the Cloud- August 6, 2008 Social netvomit now available wirelessly MySpace has teamed up with The Cloud to offer UK social networkers free access to Wi-fi hotspots, so they can keep up with what their pretend friends are up to while out socialising.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/06/myspace_on_a_cloud/ Jobs in 'Apple not perfect' shock- August 5, 2008 MobileMe could have been better, admits Steve An internal email sent by Steve Jobs admits that MobileMe was "not up to Apple's standards" and that the company tried to do too much too quickly.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/05/apple_not_perfect/ Analysts slam iPhone security and battery life- August 5, 2008 Gartner puts brakes on biz takeup Industry analysts have decreed that the new iPhone's lack of security and poor battery life make it unsuitable for all but the lightest enterprise use.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/08/05/iphone_enterprise_again/ LiMo lands seven new phones- August 5, 2008 21 partners join Linux mobile fold The battle of open-source mobile systems continues to heat up. Motorola, NEC and Panasonic are rolling out seven new mobile handsets based on the LiMo (Linux for Mobile) software platform.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/05/limo_lands_seven_new_phone... Motorola hires Jha to get handset biz out of a pickle- August 4, 2008 Ex-Qualcomm COO gets Moto co-CEO role Motorola has finally found a new CEO for its ailing handset division, after tempting Sanjay Jha away from mobile chip giant Qualcomm.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/04/motorola_jha/ Microsoft harpoons Nokia to fine tune Zune- August 4, 2008 Playing catch-up with iTunes Word on the street is that Microsoft and Nokia are cooking something up for Microsoft's Zune. But rumours that the result will be a Zune phone, appear wide of the mark.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/08/04/zune_nokia_deal/ Apple pulls posted pulled iPhone modem app- August 4, 2008 Netshare, the iPhone App Store's fastest moving product The strange case of Netshare, the application that turns the iPhone into a modem - whenever it exists - became stranger still over the weekend, when it appeared and disappeared for a second time in the iPhone App Store. Apple and AT&T (widely assumed to be the bad guy here) remained tight-lipped, leaving the world trying to figure out the significance of the strange and brief manifestations.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/04/netshare_in_out_in_out/ Rumour of redesigned iPhone- August 4, 2008 Will Santa's stocking hold a new iPhone Nano O2s pay-as-you-go customers could find a remodelled iPhone under the Christmas tree this year, according to the latest word on the grapevine.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/08/04/nano_iphone/ Apple 'jams iPhone-as-modem app'- August 1, 2008 No ad hoc Wi-Fi for you Updated Apple has apparently put the blocks on an iPhone application that turns the device into a modem for a PC. Macrumours reports that Canadian software company Nullriver Inc. released the application, called NetShare, yesterday through Apple's iTunes store, but it was withdrawn within hours.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/01/apple_nixes_netshare/ |