OTTAWA (Reuters) - Research in Motion shares fell about 4 percent on Friday after a Fortune.com story said that a high-speed wireless version of its BlackBerry smartphone for top U.S. phone company AT&T Inc is facing delays.
The introduction has been pushed back as far as August from June, the story on Fortune magazine’s website said, […]

As Telstra prepares to close off its CDMA network at the end of the month amidst concerns over customer migration to Next G, industry observers have said that after the dust settles, the new network could hold promise for bush users.
The Federal government gave Telstra the all-clear to close its CDMA network last week, with […]

 At the World Mobile Congress in Barcelona this year Sony Ericsson announced two new CyberShot branded phones and in the process changed the CyberShot branding prefix from K (as in K850i) to C (C902). This left us wondering if the K prefix may get recycled to mean something new. If the K660i is indicative of […]

Mobile phones could represent a public-health time bomb akin to asbestos or smoking, according to a study by neurosurgeon Dr Vini G Khurana.
During a 14-month-long study Khurana reviewed more than 100 studies on the effects of mobile-phone use in recent medical and scientific literature — in addition to press and internet coverage — and concluded […]

All of a sudden, customers in the U.S. are finding it a lot harder to track down an iPhone.
A few weeks ago, New York iPhone shoppers noticed that Apple’s Manhattan retail stores were running low on iPhones. Gene Munster of Piper Jaffray, during an intermission in his three-part series on why Apple is the coolest […]

Sony Ericsson’s imaging-centric Cyber-shot phones started with the K-series back in early 2006, so imagine our surprise when the Japanese-Swedish company announced that its latest range of camera-phones would be the C702 and the C902 at this year’s Mobile World Congress. Although it may take a while for consumers to start associating the Cyber-shot brand […]

ANZ Bank has launched a new Java-based mobile banking application to give ANZ customers the opportunity to perform a selection of banking transactions from their mobile phones.
Registered ANZ customers will be able to make payments and transfer money from their accounts using M-Banking and request statements as SMS messages.
To ensure the security of its customers’ […]

Fuel cell maker Angstrom Power and mobile phone maker Motorola have teamed up to create a prototype mobile phone that runs on a hydrogen fuel cell.
Hydrogen is produced by cracking water molecules with a desktop fueling station and then inserted into a metal hydride storage container on the phone, says Aron Levitz, manager of business […]

Execs say they’re happy with Sun Microsystems’ performance in Australia, but much of that can still be attributed to a single customer — Telstra.
Australia represents Sun’s third-largest market in the Asia-Pacific region, after Japan and China. China is growing rapidly and fourth place Korea has almost outstripped Australia due to rapid expansion, but Australia is […]