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You Can't Call There from Here

Cell tips for the international traveller.READ MORE

Vodafone Cuts Roaming Fees for Cellphone Calls--To Zero

Vodafone U.K. has done something astonishing, something very uncharacteristic of a cellphone operator--it made things much cheaper for its users. Specifically, the mobile network operator is experimenting with totally abolishing ...READ MORE

As AT&T Struggles With 7.2mbps, Europe Rolls Out 21 mbps Mobile Broadband

AT&T is about to upgrade its cellphone network to 7.2 mega bits per second to support the tech in the new iPhone 3G S. But over in Portugal, where 7.2 mbps rates are already common, Vodafone's going for 21mbps. Vodafone ...READ MORE

Making Friends, Creating Customers

Intel's World Ahead Program is an ambitious billion-dollar venture, but other tech and telecom companies are also building relationships in developing countries that promise to become the most massive of mass markets. Among ...READ MORE

Vodafone To Sell New Dell Netbook

Dell's [NASDAQ:DELL] new netbook, the Mini Inspiron 9, is reportedly being sold with built-in mobile broadband service by European telecom provider Vodafone [NYSE:VOD]. The computer, which is aimed at entry-level and ...READ MORE

Is an iPhone revolution about to take place in the UK?

O2 have enjoyed a monopoly on the iPhone in the UK since its launch in 2007. This week though marks a new dawn for consumers, with Orange and Vodafone both committing to offer the iPhone alongside O2 in the near future. We look at the choice ahead for consumers.READ MORE

The Cell-Phone Symphony

Vodaphone NZ reproduces Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture, using 1,000 cell phones. Seriously, just watch this video.READ MORE

Unearth Growth by Digging in the Dirt

Everything you need to know about innovation is growing (and dying) in a garden near you. So forget balanced scorecards, six sigma and SWOT analysis and read this instead.READ MORE

Vodafone Wireless Innovation Project

Vodafone Americas Foundation launched a new initiative called the Vodafone Wireless Innovation Project, where we’re seeking to identify and fund the best innovations using wireless related technology to address critical social ...READ MORE

Wireless for Social Good: $650k Up for Grabs

With a special focus on health, Vodafone wants you to be the next mobile innovator.READ MORE

Psst! Wanna Cheap iPhone? Try France, Monsieur

The iPhone 3G S is only six months old, but in France the public and cell phone networks think time is ripe to stir things up a bit--by slashing prices to levels that'd make U.S. consumers swoon. France is one of the many countries ...READ MORE

A Day of Two Halves at Copenhagen

It's been a day of significant contrasts at Copenhagen as the end of the first week of COP15 draws to a close. The day started with a clear challenge at the Climate Summit "Business Day" from Yvo de Boer, the UN's chief ...READ MORE

xpPhone Smartbook Is Real, Set for Global Release

Back in June we reported on what could be considered as the first real smartbook device--a hybrid smartphone/netbook machine that could be the next big thing in mobile computing. Now it looks like the xpPhone's ready for the ...READ MORE

HTC Abracadabras the Android G2 into the "Magic," But Omits the Sparkle

We covered the leaked details of HTC's follow-up to the Android G1 cellphone that popped up a few weeks ago, but now the wraps have officially come off the device at Mobile World Congress. And the first thing to learn is that it's not ...READ MORE

3! 3! 3! Memes in 1! Amsterdam's Augmented Reality-Flashmob-Human-Statue Art Jam!

This weekend in Amsterdam you may see a whole bunch of people waving their smartphones around at once. It's the first social net/augmented reality flashmob, aka a fabulous way to combine three novel Net memes into one event.The ...READ MORE

How Sustainability Survived the Great Recession

Around this time last year, the deathwatch for sustainability was on full alert. Many wondered whether the "green bubble" would burst the same way the tech bubble and the housing bubble did. Would sustainability follow Lehman Brothers into the pages of history, a relic of the good times?READ MORE

Mobile Phones as Outbreak Predictors?

A new global consortium wants to predict disease outbreaks in a matter of 24 hours.READ MORE

An Evolutionary Approach to Innovation

Can biology teach us anything about innovation? The essence of Darwinism is that progress is created by adaptation to changed conditions. What starts as a random mutation can also spread to become the norm through a process of natural ...READ MORE

Beyond the Wireless Bubble

Kenny Hirschhorn, executive VP of strategy, imagineering, and futurology at Orange PLC, a leading European telecom company, is betting that he knows what's next for wireless access to the Internet.READ MORE

Two Augmented Reality Soccer Apps--USA 1 Germany 0

Lining up against each other today in the arena of augmented reality football apps are two teams: one from Germany, the other from the U.S. Both sides play mightily different football--while Germany's is a model of teutonic ...READ MORE

World Economic Forum Selects Dilithium for Technology Pioneer Award

Company recognized for developing and applying highly transformational and innovative technologies that bring video to any 2.5G/3G mobile phone, PCs and set top boxes.READ MORE

An Exclusive Peek Inside Citi's Banks of the Future

Inside the financial giant's lab, where it's engineering the bank of the future -- to be more like a convenience storeREAD MORE

Major Companies Are Downloading the Data From Those 100 Million Public Facebook Profiles

Yesterday, a white hat hacker (the good kind) made the public data from 100 million Facebook profiles available to everyone. Today, somebody found out who's interested in it. The names include Apple, Disney, the Church of Scientology, Halliburton, and the UN.READ MORE

Cellphone Makers Agree on Universal Charger, But is it a Good Idea?

Yesterday the GSM Association announced, surprisingly, that they had reached an agreement on a universal standard charging system for cellphones--and a large number of major manufacturers have signed up. But is it actually a good ...READ MORE

Cell Phone Networks Gang Up on Apple, Google

A is for apps--and agitated cell phone networks. They've formed a consortium in an attempt to fight back against the overwhelming dominance from Apple and Google in the smartphone market, and make some money from the mobile app ...READ MORE