Gabz FM, a radio station in Botswana, is another example of how the media and entertainment business, particularly in emerging markets, embraces mobile messaging as a premier tool to add more interactivity to radio and...

The Swedish prosecutor in the Pirate Bay trial in Stockholm dropped a bombshell when he scrapped half the charges against the quartet behind the popular P2P website Although technically it doesn't host any copyright files -...

After a torturous 2008, Symbian have recaptured some of the tech high ground, but not through Nokia. With a new breezy image and some killer graphics, SF is on a real uptick at MWC. Unfortunately although Nokia announced some...

Taiwanese Tech giant Acer has released four new smartphones at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona as it re-enters the crowded mobile market after the purchase, last year, of smartphone specialist E-Ten. The four models...

Keeping their long acrimony at bay, Nokia and Qualcomm have announced to collaboratively develop a range of mobile devices initially for the markets of North America, the companies announced at the Mobile World Congress in...

Nokia has presented its most advanced cameraphone yet as the 8-megapixel snapper took centre stage in Barcelona at the Mobile World Congress. The device comes with a dual LED flash, Carl Zeiss Tessar optics, a 8-megapixel...

Vodafone has announced that it will be shipping the HTC Magic, the second phone based on Google's Android platform, later in April 2009; punters can already pre-register to get it first. The phone is essentially a leaner,...

17 major mobile operators and manufacturers together with the GSM Association have pledged to introduce a cross-industry standard by 2012 for a common mobile phone charger that will use the Micro USB interface. The move is set...

Finnish manufacturer Nokia, has announced that it will be shipping some of its mobile phones with Ebay's Voice over IP software, Skype, starting from later this year. Skype has more than 405 million Skype accounts worldwide and...

Vodafone has confirmed that it achieved download speeds of more than 20mbps using its evolutionary 3G HSPA+MIMO Mobile Broadband technology in southern Spain, not far from the 21mbps target that the company set itself...

With the massive economic disaster that has hit the UK, companies are looking at how they can minimise expenditure in all areas of their operations including in training. However to get rid of or reduce training will cause a...

Responding to a swell of doubts triggered from the changes Facebook brought in its terms and conditions for using the platform, the website’s chief executive stepped up to clarify the muddle. Users of the website will be...

Adobe will be rolling out a full-fledged version of its signature Flash technology for smartphones by the year 2010, the company announced at the Mobile World Congress yesterday.  The firm is working on its Flash Player 10...

According to a new ruling, British soldiers have been directed to stop using social networking platforms, such as Facebook and MySpace, in a bid to secure crucial information against any sort of inadvertent leak, The Sun...

The music industry is closely watching the trial of BitTorrent tracker website Pirate Bay, which began yesterday in Stockholm, as it would presumably have a significant impact on the way people share content across peer-to-peer...

Launched in 1984, LIGHTWAVE is the only publication serving fiber-optic communications technology and applications worldwide. LIGHTWAVE reaches a predominantly management audience from the fiber-optic and communications...