Scream when your Mobile Phone is Stolen

A new service from security experts at Remote XT delivers a high-pitch earpiercing sound to your mobile phone when it is reported stolen and a meesage on the phones screen displaying "This phone is stolen".

The phone becomes automatically disabled, with contact numbers, texts, images and emails removed, even if the SIM card is removed rendering the phone useless.

The service works on all mobile carrriers which makes it easy to deploy anywhere.

China Mobile the new Title Holder

China Mobile is now world's largest mobile phone company. Not bad for a six year old company. China mobile has taken over the title from Vodafone with subscribers than Vodafone. Vodafone however still has a bigger turnover than the company.

Sprint Leads the way - 4G with WiMAX

Sprint has finally decided to go with WiMAX after months of testing different technologies and since the have joined forces with Nextel they have all this 2.5G infrastucture laying arourd. We'll see if Qualcomm can keep up the pace. Hopefully they can be competitive since Sprint is working with Motorola, Samsung Electronics and Intel Corp. to help develop the underlying network. Sprint is expecting to complete the infrastucture by 2008 with a budget of $1 -$4 billion

Telstra Tunes out of this Universe

Australian incumbent Telstra has reportedly cooled on the idea of launching a DVB-H network, after a 12-month trial with some other companies. Instead it’s looking at 3G-based video technology MBMS pushed by Ericsson, which is building out Telstra’s 3G network. The article is a bit confusing about which technology is better and/or cheaper, which I think accurately reflects the fact that nobody really knows. If DVB-H does launch it will require new spectrum, but the government has a couple of frequencies bands it plans to auction off for “new services”, so that shouldn’t be too much trouble.

Incidentally, a good place to check out the various mobile TV technologies is here.

US MMS traffic surges 40% over last quarter

Mobile 365 is reporting that US based Multimedia Message Service (MMS) traffic has surged 40% in the second quarter of the year. MMS is most commonly called picture messaging by carriers, but other types of multimedia can be included. The US now leads the world in MMS traffic.

Total U.S. MMS Mobile Originated (MO) traffic for the second quarter was 52,071,114 MO messages; total traffic for the first quarter was 34,405,598 MO messages. MMS mobile content includes video, photos, audio, and rich text such as wallpaper, ringtones, games, and applications.

Mobile 365 handles messaging interoperability among carriers and currently processes over 2 billion messages per month.