Conflict is brewing in the mobile world over the adoption of a new, smaller standard for the SIM card — the chip in each GSM phone that dictates which network you connect to and your cellphone number.

Apple wants to take the SIM cards used in GSM phones even smaller. The iPhone-maker has proposed the smaller format to the European telecoms standards body and French carrier Orange is behind the ...

Apple has submitted a proposal to the European Telecoms Standards Body (ETSI) that would define a SIM card that's smaller even than the microSIM it uses in the iPhone 4 and iPad. Apple proposed the ...

Current micro-SIM (bottom right) punched out of a mini-size SIM card (top right) The Financial Times reports that Apple is up against rival smartphone makers over the next industry standard for ...

Following on Apple's proposed standard for smaller SIM cards, a German company has proposed its own standard. Giesecke & Devrient, the company that developed the world's first SIM card, has proposed ...

Apple’s new iPad 3G will use a different type of SIM card, a Micro SIM card which is slightly smaller than existing SIM cards. It turns out that the design of the Micro SIM card will allow it to be ...

Apple has been attempting to get its new Nano SIM card standard approved for use in future smartphones, although they have come up against opposition from companies like Nokia. Now according to a ...

The iPad's Subscriber Identity Module connects the tablet to cellular data when Wi-Fi is unavailable. Unlike the iPad Mini, which uses a nano SIM card, the standard iPad uses a slightly larger micro ...

While most players in the mobile phone industry would agree that near-field communication is an up-and-coming technology, some remain divided over how it should be deployed. Near-field communication ...