Archives / October 2005


   UMTS, old technology already?
The Japanese internet service company Softbank, Nortel Networks and LG Electronics announced last Tuesday their successful testing of the enriched 3G ...   read more

 



   Pay your metro with your mobile
In France, Bouyges Telecom will be starting in Q1, 2006 in partnership with the RATP (public transport of Paris) a test to allow about 100 public tran ...   read more


 



   Wakamaru - Your new friend at home
Mitsubishi launched its home companion called "Wakamaru". At first, it will be sold in Japan only for about 12 000 euros. Old dream from human bein ...   read more


 



   Blackberry taste for Treo
Palm has decided to launch in 2006 a combined offering with its TREO 650 range equipped with the RIM softwares so that any Palm user will be able to d ...   read more


 



   Anty, the intelligent green robot friend of hospitalized kids
The Robotics & Multibody Research Group (a research group within the department Mechanical Engineering at the VUB - Brussels university) has started w ...   read more

 



   3rd & 4th world children closer to IT
The United Nations has launched a program in Geneva 2003 to offer underprivileged children from anywhere in the world to benefit from a cheap portable ...   read more

 



   Top 10 list books on Innovation
1. Seeing What's Next: Using Theories of Innovation to Predict Industry Change by Erik Roth, Clayton Christensen and Scott Anthony 2. The Medici ...   read more

 



   Mobility towards ubiquity
More and more companies become mobile. Mobile workers are travelling around every day everywhere. People could already connect using Wi-Fi & broadband ...   read more

 



   UMA (Unlicenced Mobile Access) - End of the traditional phone?
UMA allows any mobile user using a mobile phone equipped with Bluetooth or Wi-Fi receiver as well as a high speed broadband connection to use their mo ...   read more

 



   3G phone festival
Last weekend, the first 3G film festival happened in France with about 400 films of which 85 were retained for the award competition and 13 were consi ...   read more

 



   Treating China's online addicts
Dr Tao Ran, head of the clinic, said the scale of the problem in China was enormous: "Every day in China, more than 20 million youngsters go onlin ...   read more


 



   Meet the "Millennium Generation"
These are children born between 1984 and 2005 and whose generation experienced these events: the Columbine shootings, the Oklahoma City bombing and th ...   read more

 



   Retired online shoppers
With the online shopping market set to grow to £60bn by 2010, retailers could be throwing away billions if they fail to invest in the older online sho ...   read more


 



   Proximity-based broadcasting
You already saw it in the movies, the speaking billboard recognizes you at the entrance of the supermarket. Future ideas ? Almost, your mobile on b ...   read more

 



   Aging, a global problem ?
It's not just Europe -- China and other emerging-market economies are aging fast, too. There are solutions, but it's time to act. Business Week Onl ...   read more

 



   Outsourcing, it's cheaper in China
CIOs are beginning to see China as a cheaper alternative to India. Nypro, a global plastics manufacturer, shares some lessons from its experiences ove ...   read more

 



   A camphone will be a high-precision scanner
New software, developed by NEC and the Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST) in Japan, goes further than existing cellphone camera technolo ...   read more

 



   Why does the US chase China ?
For more than two decades, Western bosses chased the China dream. They professed to love the scorching Maotai served at those endless government banqu ...   read more