News Articles

Skype explains last week's outage - and launches video calling for iPhone

Skype CIO Lars Rabbe has published a blog post detailing the problems that affected the company’s VoIP service for around 24 hours from 4pm on Wednesday 22nd December.

Skype has also announced the new version of its iPhone application, which adds the option of video calling over 3G and WiFi networks.

Author: The Fonecast
0 Comments
Article rating: No rating

ABI Research expects more than 7 trillion SMS messages will be sent next year

ABI Research has estimated that more than seven trillion SMS messages will be sent worldwide in 2011. With nearly 4.2 billion mobile subscriptions worldwide, that’s theoretically approaching five text messages per phone per day.

Author: The Fonecast
1 Comments
Article rating: No rating

McAfee Labs expects geolocation, mobile devices and Apple to top the list of targets for new threats next year

Online security company McAfee has published its 2011 Threat Predictions report, detailing the new internet-related threats its researchers expect to see next year – and some have a decidedly mobile flavour.

Author: The Fonecast
0 Comments
Article rating: No rating

New research tool delivers mobile internet insight

Market research business GfK Retail and Technology has revealed a unique ‘Network Intelligence Solution’ tool that analyses mobile behaviour via operators’ IP traffic. It’s already been used to look at the mobile activity of over 200,000 mobile internet consumers in three European countries.

Author: The Fonecast
0 Comments
Article rating: No rating

Podcast predictions for 2011

Mark Bridge writes:

Every year since we started podcasting in 2006, we've used our last regular show of the year to make some predictions for the following 12 months.

This year's podcast on 22nd December was no exception.

Author: The Fonecast
0 Comments
Article rating: No rating
RSS
First840841842843845847848849Last

Follow thefonecast.com

Twitter @TheFonecast RSS podcast feed
Find us on Facebook Subscribe free via iTunes

Archive Calendar

«October 2024»
MonTueWedThuFriSatSun
30123456
78910111213
14151617181920
21222324252627
28293031123
45678910

Archive

Terms Of Use | Privacy Statement