The UK communications regulator Ofcom has opened a consultation on (amongst other things) easing restrictions on the 900mhz mobile phone frequency in Britain. The most significant effect of this would be to allow 3G on this frequency, at the moment it's only used for 2G. The reforms could also help increase signal coverage. Anyone who lives in Britain can make their own opinions known by visiting Ofcom's website. (via BBC News)
More and more online data storage services are becoming available, letting you access anything from emails to video through the web rather than storing it on any particular device. But will they work if people don't trust these services to keep their data safe? Following up our review of SoonR, Krisse asks if we really want a Ken Dodd Internet?
Want to save up to 80% on the cost of international roaming? That's Cubic Telecom's promise with the MaxRoam Sim. Ewan's over in the USA on a two week trip, but he bumped into Cubic CEO Pat Phelan at the TechCrunch40 event to find out more about the product. Here's the audio podcast (no. 35).
Symbian has finalised its agenda and show layout for its annual Smartphone Show in London, on 16-17th October at the ExCeL centre. Listed below are some of the last minute speaker sign ups and some thumbnails, plus links. The show is free to attend, as is the AAS pub meet on the evening of the 15th, details to be announced, but the prize list is pretty impressive....(!) Oh, and keep the evening of the 16th free as well - watch this space.
During the Nokia Go:Play event, I had a chance to conduct a long interview with Dr Mark Ollila, head of Nokia games Publishing, on the new N-gage Platform. It's our latest podcast , and in it we talk about the history of the N-Gage brand, about the new platform, and some of the decsions behind it. And a bit more about renting the games.
Stefan Constantinescu (as Rafe and I discovered) is not only a young guy with enough life force to power a submarine, he's also very insightful - here's a great post by him on why Ovi is 'the next page in the Nokia story', a story that goes back around 140 years.
Symbian has established a global Research and Development center in Beijing, in China. At the inauguration ceremony today, Symbian announced that seven Chinese companies have joined the Symbian Platinum Program and also unveiled details for a local Symbian Academy program in collaboration with several local universities. The full press release follows.
Symbian today announced that 18.7 million Symbian OS handsets shipped in Q2 2007, a year on year increase of 52%. There are now 122 Symbian models in the market (up from 86 this time last year) with a further 62 in development (55 last year). Cumulatively 145 million Symbian OS phones have been shipped.
