A surge in early adoption of the new G1 mobile handset - the first to incorporate Google’s Android open mobile computing platform – indicates Apple’s iPhone may have a challenger for the title of trendiest mobile device, according to analysts WebTrends.
Finnish mobile handset giant Nokia has been rated number one in an evaluation of on-board handset-based navigation software vendors by analysts ABI Research.
Telsyte’s latest research into Australia’s smartphone market reveals that the country’s annual smartphone shipment has grown by almost 40 times from five years ago and that nearly three in 10 mobile phones sold this year will be smartphones.
National broadband company Internode has added free and seamless access to advanced services such as push email and Google Maps for any iPhone using an Internode Wireless hotspot.
The success of social networks such as MySpace and Facebook has created a fertile ground for predators, scammers and identity thieves, warns an Australian information security expert.
Google has announced that the University of Auckland will be rolling out Google Apps Education Edition to 50,000 students, staff and alumni.
La Trobe University double-degree honours graduate Graham Rivers-Brown says he can fix Victoria’s traffic gridlock for $120 a vehicle using a battery-powered, wireless data-management system the size of two-and-a-half matchboxes.