December 15, 2003 articles

Hutchison 3G subscribers top 200K

Dec 15 2003 - 09:02 AM ET | 3G
There are now more than 210,000 Hutchison 3G subscribers in Britain according to the company. In all markets, Hutchison has 660,000 3G subscribers. Despite the low numbers, 2.5 million new phones are on their way to the carrier. The company...

Phone on the field [updated]

Dec 15 2003 - 08:35 AM ET | Unique
Sports Illustrated has a piece on Joe Horn--after scoring a touchtown yesterday, the New Orleans receiver was given a cell phone that was hidden in the goal post padding and placed a call. A 15 yard penalty was assessed for...

DoCoMo announces e-wallet trial

Dec 15 2003 - 01:17 AM ET | DoCoMo
NTT DoCoMo has announced that its today launching a trial of an e-wallet technology dubbed "i-mode FeliCa preview service." bq. "The phones will be used for public transport tolls, electronic money, personal identification and other trial services between December 17,...

Vodafone K.K. cracks down on spam

Dec 15 2003 - 01:03 AM ET | Vodafone
Vodafone K.K. sent out a press release stating that customers who, "send more than 120 mails in the space of three hours from Vodafone PDC (2G) handsets will have mail sending access restricted for the next 21 hours." This is...

Toshiba makes hard drive for phones

Dec 15 2003 - 12:58 AM ET | Unique
Toshiba announced that it created a hard drive the size of a nickle aimed directly at the mobile phone sector. The drive can hold as much as 3GB of information and will start shipping in 2005....