The basic idea of the cellphone was introduced to the public in 1945—not in Popular Mechanics or Science, but in the down-home Saturday Evening Post. Millions of citizens would soon be using ...

An umbrella term for non-stationary telephone service such as in a moving vehicle. Two-way radios were conceived shortly after the turn of the 20th century and were in use during World War I. Police ...

Over the past few weeks we’ve been discussing fixed-mobile convergence from a number of angles, all primarily focusing on future technologies and ultimate solutions that we might see in ...

The era of mobile telephony started much longer ago than one might imagine. On June 17, 1946, a man driving through the streets of St. Louis made a telephone call from his car—and thereby made history ...

As a Linux Journal reader, you've probably stumbled across Google Android here and there. You've probably read an introductory article or maybe you even downloaded an ...

Mobile telephony has evolved from a niche innovation to a ubiquitous component of modern communication infrastructures. This evolution is underpinned by the interplay of technological innovation, ...

Listen to Computerworld’s TechCast: UMTS. Podcast duration: 5 minutes. For effective, efficient communications, standardization is critical, and nowhere is this more evident than in the areas of ...

As mobile operators migrate to 3G networks and services, they see video telephony services as the killer app that will differentiate new 3G service from existing 2G and 2.5G ones. Although it is ...

When Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, he did more than create an object of amusement. He created a tool that has become the primary means of alerting public safety. In addition to ...