15th April 2007 Archive

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• CDs, chocolate, and cigarettes dumped in favour of phones

  Youths change their priority list

  The latest survey of how da youth uses mobile phones, due to be released soon, shows that European youngsters will get their first phone around the age of 8, and will sink $28,000 into the device during their lifetime. Today's young people are spending eight times more on telephony than music. Up to 20 per cent of their …

  Mobile 15 Apr 2007, 06:02

• Inside Amazon's web services

  SLAs for us but not for you, says Amazon's CTO

  In 2006, Amazon.com launched several web services aimed at developers: the Simple Storage Service (S3) offering unlimited internet storage, the Simple Queue Service for reliable message delivery, and the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) which lets developer create and manage virtual server instances programmatically. They are …

  Developer 15 Apr 2007, 07:02

• Nextwave plan begins to take shape – as IP Wireless finds a home

  Analysis Eating its own dogfood

  Rags to riches broadband wireless operator NextWave has acquired TDD pioneer IP Wireless, completing a cluster of acquisitions that make a nonsense out of the age-old rule that operators should not own the technology they use. IP Wireless, a California based start-up with much of its operations in the UK, is a leader in time …

  Wireless 15 Apr 2007, 09:02

• Samsung SGH-i600 Ultra Edition smartphone

  Review Would-be BlackBerry beater from the consumer electronics giant

  This is the first Samsung smartphone that features 1.8Mbps high-speed downlink packet access (HSDPA). In addition, 3G UMTS, GSM/GPRS/EDGE connectivity is supported, along with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. It also supports web applications such as podcasting and RSS Reader. The handset itself is extremely compact, measuring 11.3 x 5 …

  Reg Hardware 15 Apr 2007, 09:59