http://wbt.sys-con.com/ Latest articles from Wireless News Desk Copyright 2008 WIRELESS DEVELOPER'S JOURNAL Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:50:00 GMT WIRELESS DEVELOPER'S JOURNAL 10 http://backend.userland.com/rss http://wbt.sys-con.com/read/616718.htmhttp://wbt.sys-con.com/read/616718.htm Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:30:00 GMT Sybase iAnywhere announced immediate support for the new iPhone 3G model to extend wireless email from Lotus Notes and Microsoft Exchange email systems. Sybase iAnywhere was early to market in offering iPhone users wireless email access to Lotus Domino with its product release in Q1 2008, and continues to innovate with support of the new iPhone 3G. http://wbt.sys-con.com/read/603919.htmhttp://wbt.sys-con.com/read/603919.htm Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:30:00 GMT ARC Wireless Solutions' Wireless Communications Solutions Division announces that the Freedom Blade and supporting Freedom Clip Pack have been fully launched and are now available to ship domestically and internationally via their retail and distributor partners. The Freedom Blade is the natural progression from the Freedom Antenna. It is the sleeker, more compact wireless signal booster that uses the same patented technology as the Freedom Antenna. http://wbt.sys-con.com/read/602591.htmhttp://wbt.sys-con.com/read/602591.htm Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:15:00 GMT Carlson Wireless Technologies announced a trade-in program for Optaphone telephone line extenders. Carlson is offering a $500 trade-in credit that can be applied to an upgrade toward any of Carlson's Trailblazer point-to-point or point to multipoint digital radio systems. While Carlson Wireless was not the manufacturer or distributor of the Optaphone, Carlson's position in the fixed wireless phone market provides them with an opportunity to assist Optaphone owners as their equipment come to the end of its life. http://wbt.sys-con.com/read/601617.htmhttp://wbt.sys-con.com/read/601617.htm Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:00:00 GMT Nokia announced it has launched a cash offer to acquire all of the shares of Symbian Limited that Nokia does not already own, at a price of EUR 3.647 per share. The net cash outlay from Nokia to purchase the approximately 52% of Symbian Limited shares it does not already own will be approximately EUR 264 million. http://wbt.sys-con.com/read/599772.htmhttp://wbt.sys-con.com/read/599772.htm Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:30:00 GMT Lifeboat Distribution announced the availability of Sybase's iAnywhere Mobile Office to its worldwide network of solution providers, value-added resellers (VARs), systems integrators, corporate resellers and consultants. iAnywhere Mobile Office, a component of the Information Anywhere Suite, is a flexible and powerful solution that lets enterprises securely extend Lotus Domino and Microsoft Exchange email and PIM data, as well as business processes, to mobile workers. http://wbt.sys-con.com/read/599260.htmhttp://wbt.sys-con.com/read/599260.htm Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:15:00 GMT Sybase iAnywhere announced that it has expanded its mobile security portfolio to include handheld antivirus and firewall capabilities. Sybase Information Anywhere Suite's Afaria management and security solution will be enhanced with antivirus and firewall technology, addressing growing concern over an increase in malware, viruses, hackers and spam targeting handheld devices. These new security components, combined with Afaria's mobile device authentication and encryption technology, provide complete protection for Windows Mobile, Symbian and Blackberry mobile devices from viruses, data compromise, hackers and the effects of mobile device loss or theft. http://wbt.sys-con.com/read/600163.htmhttp://wbt.sys-con.com/read/600163.htm Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:15:00 GMT Recursion Software released a private beta version of their Voyager mobile platform, with powerful interoperability for Android, Microsoft .NET and Compact Framework (CF), all Java editions (JME CDC, JSE and JEE), and more than 15 embedded operating systems. The Voyager platform is a powerful cross-platform development environment that allows developers to write one code-set natively in either Java or .NET and publish the code to mobile or desktop nodes that can execute transactions at runtime regardless of the virtual machine they employ. This beta version is an important step towards write once, run everywhere for application messaging and communications. http://wbt.sys-con.com/read/592138.htmhttp://wbt.sys-con.com/read/592138.htm Thu, 19 Jun 2008 09:45:00 GMT Aperto Networks announced the complete line of PacketMAX base stations and subscriber units supporting the IEEE 802.16e-2005 standard. This line includes the new Wave-2 compliant PacketMAX 4000, the company's 1-4 sector modular Mobile WiMAX base station. http://wbt.sys-con.com/read/592307.htmhttp://wbt.sys-con.com/read/592307.htm Thu, 19 Jun 2008 09:45:00 GMT Aperto Networks announced that its line of PacketMAX base stations has been chosen by NextPhase Wireless, a service provider based in Southern California, for a nationwide WiMAX network in the 3.65 GHz band. http://wbt.sys-con.com/read/579213.htmhttp://wbt.sys-con.com/read/579213.htm Fri, 30 May 2008 08:30:00 GMT Asurion Mobile Applications has released CellBackup on its next generation Mobile Solutions Platform (MSP 2.0), providing subscribers with the power to easily share the user-generated content stored on their mobile phones wherever and with whomever they want. http://wbt.sys-con.com/read/578131.htmhttp://wbt.sys-con.com/read/578131.htm Thu, 29 May 2008 14:00:00 GMT comScore announced the acquisition of M:Metrics. The acquisition places comScore in high standing within measuring the emerging and strategically important mobile Internet market and adds to comScore's standing in measuring PC-based Internet usage. The transaction involves a cash payment of $44.3 million and the issuance of approximately 50,000 options to purchase shares of comScore common stock to certain M:Metrics unvested option holders. http://wbt.sys-con.com/read/572371.htmhttp://wbt.sys-con.com/read/572371.htm Fri, 23 May 2008 14:30:00 GMT Celio announced its REDFLY Mobile Companion has joined the Citrix Ready Program, and compatibility with Citrix Application Delivery Infrastructure. Using a REDFLY-tested and Citrix ICA enabled smartphone and Citrix XenApp, a user can connect to a back-end server and then access Windows applications on the REDFLY Mobile Companion, allowing the user to fully use the power of a smartphone with an 8-inch screen and full QWERTY keyboard. http://wbt.sys-con.com/read/575035.htmhttp://wbt.sys-con.com/read/575035.htm Fri, 23 May 2008 13:15:00 GMT Velocent Systems announced that Si.mobil will be launching its solution. As the second largest mobile operator in Slovenia, part of the mobilkom austria group and a partner of Vodafone Group, Si.mobil has integrated the Velocent Session Engine (VSE) 2000 into its existing network. This will give Si.mobil the tools to monitor the quality and performance of its wireless data network so that they can resolve problems before customers experience any issues. http://wbt.sys-con.com/read/574105.htmhttp://wbt.sys-con.com/read/574105.htm Thu, 22 May 2008 15:00:00 GMT Raising the bar even higher for Web browsing capabilities, Opera announced the availability of Opera Mobile 9.5 on the new HTC Touch Diamond. The customized HTC-specific version enables one-handed viewing and effortless navigation. As a result, your favorite Web sites look exactly the way they were intended to be seen without compromise. The HTC-specific version of Opera Mobile 9.5 introduces a new intuitive user interface (UI) and includes numerous innovative features that elevate the Internet experience on a phone. http://wbt.sys-con.com/read/571597.htmhttp://wbt.sys-con.com/read/571597.htm Tue, 20 May 2008 14:00:00 GMT DeviceAnywhere unveiled the new public Palm Virtual Developer Lab (VDL) - a remote testing service designed to reduce the time and resources required to develop, test, monitor, and deploy applications and content for Palm smartphones. The on-line service is available globally to all developers who register for DeviceAnywhere's Palm package and provides support for in-market devices released by Palm, including the Treo 755p and the new Palm Centro smartphone. http://wbt.sys-con.com/read/572443.htmhttp://wbt.sys-con.com/read/572443.htm Tue, 20 May 2008 14:00:00 GMT Subscribers to British Telecommunications (BT) BT Total Broadband Anywhere service, will receive the top-of-the-range broadband service at home and BT ToGo, an all-in-one, Internet-enabled phone designed to email and surf the Internet, in-or-out of the home. These new phones will come protected with mobile security software provided by SMobile Systems. http://wbt.sys-con.com/read/570967.htmhttp://wbt.sys-con.com/read/570967.htm Mon, 19 May 2008 16:00:00 GMT Handango and Capcom Interactive announced a partnership to distribute top gaming titles to North American smartphone users. Capcom's top franchises include Who Wants to be a Millionaire, Are you Smarter Than a 5th Grader?, Street Fighter and Mega Man, among many others. The first titles to launch on Handango will be from the Who Wants to be a Millionaire franchise. This partnership marks Handango's continued goal of bringing high-profile, branded games and other popular consumer applications to its customers. http://wbt.sys-con.com/read/564386.htmhttp://wbt.sys-con.com/read/564386.htm Mon, 12 May 2008 13:45:00 GMT AccuRev announced that PacketVideo (PV) has standardized on AccuRev for process-centric software configuration management (SCM) to enhance the efficiency and collaboration of its worldwide development organization. PV conducted an exhaustive evaluation of SCM solutions to replace its existing SCCM tool. AccuRev was chosen as it proved to be the best performer and for its ability to efficiently manage PV's geographically distributed software development release process, eliminate merging and branch mastership issues and substantially reduce administration and training costs. http://wbt.sys-con.com/read/563024.htmhttp://wbt.sys-con.com/read/563024.htm Fri, 09 May 2008 16:00:00 GMT ShoZu announced that it has expanded its mobile social media service to Photobucket, Dailymotion, Friendster, Twitter and four additional Web 2.0 and Mobile 2.0 communities. With these eight new integrations, ShoZu now enables mobile users to interact with their choice of 36 social networks from a single screen on their handsets - reducing the time, effort and money required to upload images, update social profiles and check friends' latest posts from the phone. http://wbt.sys-con.com/read/562220.htmhttp://wbt.sys-con.com/read/562220.htm Thu, 08 May 2008 14:45:00 GMT Interest from the international arena for CeBIT Bilisim Eurasia is on the increase every year. CeBIT Bilisim Eurasia, serving as a gateway between East and West is enriching its content every year in line with the global trends. In 2007 the show hosted 140,000 local and international visitors and 1,852 press members and it is expected to attract a myriad of professional visitors this year. CeBIT Bilisim Eurasia hosts delegations from international non-governmental organizations in ICT sector from the Eurasian countries such as Egypt, Ukraine, India among others. It is, thereby, poised to offer a complete job development platform. http://wbt.sys-con.com/read/561710.htmhttp://wbt.sys-con.com/read/561710.htm Wed, 07 May 2008 11:00:00 GMT Truvo has launched a downloadable Java search service for mobile users in Belgium based on mobilePeople's liquid platform. Truvo, formerly called World Directories, is an international directory publisher that adds multiple content sources in a searchable format next to their own yellow and white pages listings. http://wbt.sys-con.com/read/561081.htmhttp://wbt.sys-con.com/read/561081.htm Tue, 06 May 2008 15:45:00 GMT Cybera in conjunction with Shell Oil announced that Cybera's Wireless Broadband network connectivity solutions are approved for use within the Shell Coolband program. Shell's Coolband program provides a set of approved network connectivity options for Shell branded payment solutions. Now any Shell branded store can access Shell's payment processing solutions through Cybera's managed Wireless Broadband services. As a wireless broadband solution approved for use in the Coolband program, Cybera's fully managed services are deployed in the c-store environment to meet three critical areas of need: rapid deployment for store grand openings, primary network connectivity, and diverse-routed broadband backup. http://wbt.sys-con.com/read/556441.htmhttp://wbt.sys-con.com/read/556441.htm Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:45:00 GMT Cisco and Nokia announced growing customer and partner acceptance of their combined mobile unified communications solution. The Mobile Business Solution from Cisco and Nokia extends the rich Cisco Unified Internet Protocol (IP) Phone capabilities to Nokia Eseries smartphones over Cisco Unified Wireless Networks to offer users a seamless mobile experience in the enterprise environment and public cellular networks. The two companies also announced that they are beginning to deploy each other's mobile solutions. Cisco is beginning to deploy Nokia Eseries smartphones for its sales organization in the United States, Europe and Asia Pacific theaters, while Nokia will begin with Cisco Unified Wireless Network in its offices, labs, and manufacturing sites. http://wbt.sys-con.com/read/556411.htmhttp://wbt.sys-con.com/read/556411.htm Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:30:00 GMT Microsoft and Beijing Komoxo Mobile announced a patent licensing agreement on text-input technologies for mobile devices. The licensed patents allow Komoxo to integrate Microsoft's statistical language modeling methods into its next-generation text-input engine for reduced keypad and touch-screen devices, and deliver new mobile innovations to consumers around the world. http://wbt.sys-con.com/read/555735.htmhttp://wbt.sys-con.com/read/555735.htm Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:15:00 GMT AccuWeather.com and Rhythm NewMedia announced that AccuWeather.com forecast videos are now included in Rhythm's range of ad-supported mobile content. Local forecasts for over 100 cities, regional forecasts, national forecasts, and breaking severe weather videos will now be available inventory for mobile video ads sold by Rhythm NewMedia. AccuWeather.com forecasting videos will be offered in two-minute segments, alongside other snack-sized video content offered to consumers for free in exchange for watching a short pre- or post-roll video ad. http://wbt.sys-con.com/read/553654.htmhttp://wbt.sys-con.com/read/553654.htm Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:30:00 GMT Gooer announced a mobile phone service that enables customers to access their remote PC using mobile phones or PDAs. Unlike other service providers, Gooer does not need the remote PC to have a public IP or route configuration. Customers can access their PC behind NAT or firewalls without any configuration to their network. http://wbt.sys-con.com/read/553374.htmhttp://wbt.sys-con.com/read/553374.htm Sat, 26 Apr 2008 15:15:00 GMT Nuance Communications announced that Avaya has selected speech solutions from Nuance to enhance the employee productivity and collaboration options of its unified communications offering. As part of the agreement, Nuance speech recognition will ship as a standard component of Avaya Modular Messaging 4.0, with the inclusion of Avaya one-X Speech. Avaya one-X Speech is a 'hands-free' user interface enabling users to access, interact with and manage email and voice mail, tasks and calendaring, and calling and conferencing capabilities - all via speech commands from any telephone. http://wbt.sys-con.com/read/549508.htmhttp://wbt.sys-con.com/read/549508.htm Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:30:00 GMT Fortress Technologies announced that it has been selected to assist in the development and delivery of a prototype mobile ad hoc wireless network for deployment in the wireless tactical battlespace. Partnering with the Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Dam Neck - a component of the Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) - Fortress will execute the delivery of the prototype protocol system, which includes a complete mesh network, under the $1.4 million grant program titled 'Secure, Robust Tactical Wireless 'Mesh' Network.' http://wbt.sys-con.com/read/548611.htmhttp://wbt.sys-con.com/read/548611.htm Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:00:00 GMT kannuu announced the kannuu Developer Network (kDN). kannuu unveiled its network with SDKs, which will boost content discovery, in multiple environments. Expected to drive a needle moving advancement, kannuu's Developer Network provides SDKs, empowering effective application development for indispensable services to consumers, developers, and publishers. http://wbt.sys-con.com/read/548068.htmhttp://wbt.sys-con.com/read/548068.htm Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:00:00 GMT The SCO Group announced the availability of a new release of its HipCheck solution, version 1.1. HipCheck sets triggers for real-time event alerts and the ability to respond to alerts by viewing critical parameters and executing system commands from the convenience of a mobile phone. These new enhancements provide system administrators with monitoring and intervention features, and provides support on a wider variety of smart phones, including BlackBerry, Nokia, and Samsung models. HipCheck is a mobile administration solution that combines system monitoring and alerts with secure mobile intervention. HipCheck allows IT managers to use Windows Mobile or Java-capable mobile phones to monitor Windows or UNIX systems or other UNIX variants. http://wbt.sys-con.com/read/547644.htmhttp://wbt.sys-con.com/read/547644.htm Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:30:00 GMT Siemens Communications introduced the OpenScape Contact Center, a comprehensive voice, unified communications and customer interaction software solution designed to work with virtually any existing telephony environment. It is based on Siemens' OpenScape Unified Communications (UC) Server, which removes the artificial legacy barriers between separate voice, video and unified communications systems to enable a comprehensive suite of UC applications. http://wbt.sys-con.com/read/545626.htmhttp://wbt.sys-con.com/read/545626.htm Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:00:00 GMT Apatar announced the CDYNE Phone Verification connector for the Apatar Open Source Data Integration toolset. The new connector determines the validity of any U.S. or Canadian phone number using CDYNE Web services, all without coding. Now Apatar enables any business user to verify and filter customer phone numbers extracted from databases (such as MySQL, Microsoft SQL, Oracle), files (Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, CSV/TXT files), applications (Salesforce.com, SugarCRM), and the top Web 2.0 destinations (Flickr, Amazon S3, RSS feeds). http://wbt.sys-con.com/read/545965.htmhttp://wbt.sys-con.com/read/545965.htm Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:00:00 GMT Microsoft unveiled Microsoft BizTalk RFID Mobile - a lightweight platform for a variety of mobile devices, which simplifies the development of mobile applications that expose relevant, real-time business information. BizTalk RFID Mobile enables delivery of relevant information from mobile devices to core business processes. Microsoft made available a private beta with general availability expected in late 2008. http://wbt.sys-con.com/read/544405.htmhttp://wbt.sys-con.com/read/544405.htm Wed, 16 Apr 2008 11:45:00 GMT Sigma Resources & Technologies announced that the company grew its customer base in key verticals by 250 percent in 2007. Companies who bought Sigma's flagship product SigmationTF, an automation framework for testing TCP/IP-based network products, and/or Sigma's professional services include Motorola, NetXen and Supermicro. http://wbt.sys-con.com/read/543983.htmhttp://wbt.sys-con.com/read/543983.htm Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:45:00 GMT Fiorano Software announced that ThirdScreenMedia, a software company dedicated to advertising on mobile devices, selected FioranoMQ to increase its throughput from 30 million messages per day (MPD) to 100 million MPD. Mobile advertising is a guerilla type venture to an evident market in a cost effective manner but both time and accuracy are very critical. FioranoMQ allows ThirdScreenMedia to connect their native C++ applications to their mobile advertisement platform enabling them to reliably manage the rapid increase in traffic from 1 million MPD to 100 million MPD. http://wbt.sys-con.com/read/540790.htmhttp://wbt.sys-con.com/read/540790.htm Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:45:00 GMT Cisco announced new solutions that further optimize branch offices of all sizes, allowing companies to customize branch networks to meet their unique business needs. By opening its Cisco Integrated Services Router (ISR) and Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) platforms to customers and third-party application developers, Cisco enables its customers to optimize the branch infrastructure while extending their accessibility to business resources. It also provides Cisco channel partners with new opportunities to deliver differentiated solutions and services that better align with customers' business needs. http://wbt.sys-con.com/read/540233.htmhttp://wbt.sys-con.com/read/540233.htm Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:00:00 GMT AccuWeather.com announced that their Zumobi weather has ranked in the top three most downloaded Tiles since its launch in January 2008. 'Zumobi widgets for your mobile phone have revolutionized the way our users access, retrieve, and share mobile data, but in order to fully realize the value to the user, that data has to be relevant to the user's needs,' Eric Hertz, CEO of Zumobi said. 'We are happy to work with content partners like AccuWeather.com to provide content that is truly localized, timely, and personalized to the user experience.' http://wbt.sys-con.com/read/540121.htmhttp://wbt.sys-con.com/read/540121.htm Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:45:00 GMT Opera Software announced that the Opera Mini browser for mobile phones is available for the Android platform. This technical preview release is available at labs.opera.com, inviting the Android development community to test the fresh build and share feedback with Opera for the forthcoming beta. Opera Mini for Android makes the company's fast-performing and device-adapting Web experience available to any range of handset built on Android. http://wbt.sys-con.com/read/539357.htmhttp://wbt.sys-con.com/read/539357.htm Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:45:00 GMT Airwide Solutions announced version 5.0 of its AirGate products. AirGate is an advanced application and traffic management platform for delivery of third-party applications and value-added services across multiple delivery channels - SMS, MMS, WAP and the Web. The latest version reduces the time to launch innovative services from days to minutes, and enables operators to define new business models and adapt to changing technology. http://wbt.sys-con.com/read/539335.htmhttp://wbt.sys-con.com/read/539335.htm Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:15:00 GMT Fortress Technologies announced that it has been selected as part of the Telos Corporation team to support the U.S. Army's Combat Service Support Automated Information System Interface (CAISI) program. Under the terms of the agreement, Fortress will provide its ES520 Secure Wireless Access Bridges as part of the overall implementation. Telos will deploy the Fortress component as the anchor of the solution, creating the CAISI Bridge Module that the Army will use to provide connectivity from soldiers on the battlefield to their logistics networks.