Africa to be attracting major attention in the mobile phone market today.
Mugabe is threatening Orascom in Zimbabwe while Portugal Telecom has its eyes on
the continent. ...More
Nokia has decided to go the the USA's ITC (International Trade Commission).
It's saying that Qualcomm has engaged in unfair trade practices through
infringing five Nokia patents ...More
3 long-term licences issued in Iraq
Three
Middle Eastern companies won 15 year licences to operate mobile phone networks
in Iraq yesterday. The news puts paid to any American hopes that Cdmaone might
be used instead of GSM...More
Fujitsu supplies Raku phone to DoCoMo
A new addition
to Japan's NTT DoCoMo's Raku-Raku range, the Phone IV from Fujitsu, has
officially shipped today. Raku loosely translated means comfortable or easy...More
Snippets
A Croatian hacker claims to have finally broken
Apple's Iphone protection and enabled the handset to
work on a T-Mobile network. There's pictures to prove
it, too.
www.hackint0sh.org ...
Forensic Telecommunication Services (FTS) lost a server
from its offices in Sevenoaks, Kent which contained data
collected as the result of phone tapping. The company
describes itself as a world leader in recovering
evidence from mobile phones.
www.forensicts.co.uk
In Site of the Week (by Tony Dennis)
This week
Honda F1 Mobile
For a site described as "One of the most exciting and informative mobile WAP sites in the automotive sector to date", you'd expect something special.
Sadly Honda's F1 WAP site is hugely disappointing.
So what does it offer? Video clips from the last race at Monaco? Results and summary of performance from the Monaco GP?
Predictions for the next race? None of the above. What it does have are three pathetic F1 style ringtones and three wallpapers showing Jenson Button plus Rubens Barrichello.
The best part is probably the chance to win a tour of the Honda F1 factory in
GB.
For a company which offers state of the art technology, you might expect Honda to have tied location based techniques to displaying where the nearest Honda garage is located.
But, no. Surfers find the nearest Honda dealer by typing in their postcode.
Unfortunately the site's provider – the Mobile Interactive Group (MIG)– seems to think the site is industry leading.
This site definitely does nothing for the Honda brand. But at least it wasn't foolish enough to utilise a dotmobi (.mobi) address for the site.
http://mobile.honda.co.uk
