Archive for the ‘Services’ Category

The Text Message/SMS Turns 19 Years Old

Saturday, December 3rd, 2011

  [caption id="attachment_98" align="alignright" width="119" caption="SMS Text Message Turns 19 Years Old"][/caption] According to Wikipedia, the first SMS text message was sent over the Vodafone GSM network in the United Kingdom on 3 December 1992, from a man named Neil Papworth using a personal computer to Richard Jarvis of Vodafone using an ...

Top 10 Key Information Technology Trends For 2012

Monday, October 31st, 2011

At the Gartner Symposium IT/Expo, David Cappuccio, managing vice president and chief of research for the Infrastructure teams with Gartner, said the Top 10 Trends show how IT is changing in that many of them in the past been outside the traditional purview of IT, but they will all affect ...

Facebook Adds Skype Video Chat Feature

Friday, July 8th, 2011

Facebook has announced a partnership with Skype to add video chat to the social networking site. The move is likely to be seen as a shot across the bow of Google, which recently launched a Facebook rival, Google+, also featuring video calling. This is not the first time Facebook and Skype have ...

Nokia Offers Free Ovi Maps Navigation

Friday, January 22nd, 2010

Nokia announced it will introduce a new version of Ovi Maps including free walk and drive navigation tools, a move the handset giant claims could nearly double the size of the current mobile navigation market.

Verizon Wireless Set To Rollout 4G In 2010

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009

Verizon Wireless completed its first successful Long Term Evolution (LTE) Fourth Generation (4G) data call in Boston based on the 3GPP Release 8 standard; the company also announced that it had earlier completed the first LTE 4G data call based on the 3GPP Release 8 standard in Seattle. While Verizon ...

Internet Connection Speed: The Top 10 Countries

Wednesday, April 8th, 2009

At the end of 2008, approximately 19 per cent Internet connections around the world were at speeds greater than 5 Mbps — a 21 per cent increase over the average global connection speed at the end of 2007. -- UPDATE : For the latest report(2009-2010), click here: Broadband Internet Speeds 2009-2010: The ...