Podcast - 20th February 2013
We start this week's podcast with financial results from EE - along with new phones from LG and HTC.
There's also a merger between mobile browser companies, mobile security from Vodafone, free WiFi from Barclays bank, a preview of Ubuntu for smartphones... and much more.
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Categories: Handsets and manufacturers, Networks and operators, Operating systems, Applications, Podcasts
Tags: podcast, ee, uk, lg, htc, smartphone, wifi, barclays, browser, opera, security, vodafone, ubuntu, iphone, apple, research
There's only one MWC...
Mark Bridge writes:
As the final days before this year’s Mobile World Congress approach, we discover there are two types of scheduled news announcements from the wireless telecoms industry.
There are the announcements delayed until MWC begins because the company wants to be part of the buzz at Barcelona. And there are the announcements made in the fortnight beforehand because they don’t want their story to get lost.
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Categories: Handsets and manufacturers, Networks and operators, Operating systems, Applications, Opinion
Tags: mobile world congress, lg, smartphone, android, ubuntu, inq, social networking, vertu, opera, research
Opera Software, best known for its PC and mobile web browsers, has acquired California-based rival Skyfire Labs.
Skyfire offers consumers a mobile browser that can handle Flash Video and a variety of other video formats. In addition, its ‘Rocket Optimizer’ software can be used by mobile operators to reduce the size of video and other multimedia material when mobile bandwidth is under demand.
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Web browser company Opera has been looking at European web site usage in its latest State of the Mobile Web report.
Ignoring international online services such as Facebook and Google, Opera has produced top ten lists of local websites for each country.
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Opera Software has introduced a new ‘one click’ service that enables mobile operators to offer their customers access to the web as a value-added option.
It’s called Opera Web Pass and allows operators to package mobile internet use in time or site-specific bundles.
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