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. T

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) Ser

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 f

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 mob

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 i

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 i

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 custo

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

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 forthcom

The mouse was the original idea of Doug Engelbart who was the head of the Augmentation Research Center (ARC) at Stanford Research Institute. Engelbart's philosophy is best embodied, in my opinion, in the design of another device that he invented, the five-finger keyboard - with keys li

Now, what Google announced is really exciting! I'm not kidding. It's even better than I hoped. Yes, it's only Python, but IBM's PC-DOS was only BASIC and Pascal when it first came out, and it didn't matter. Yeah, I preferred C, but I coded in Pascal because that's what you had to do to

Told ya Adobe was gonna reorganize and put its mobile/devices operation in with its platform operation in the name of moving to a single technology platform and runtime for PCs, handsets and consumer devices. Adobe's new CTO Kevin Lynch, the creator of AIR, is basically in charge of th

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 reduce

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 Ac

You're going to be 20 minutes late for a final review sales meeting. Traffic is slow, but moving, so you don't want to risk sending a text message to your contact and get in an accident. You know she's in a meeting so you don't want to call her cell phone either. What do you do? Until

Intel introduced five versions of its new Atom chip and the Atom Centrino platform, once code named Menlow, at its Developer Forum in Shanghai Wednesday, the stuff of its so-called life-altering Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) and newfangled embedded solutions. Four years in the making,

Rumor has it that in the next few weeks Adobe is going to 'reorganize' its Mobile and Device business unit where its Jobs-criticized Flash Lite lives and send the engineers to go work with the larger platform effort and Flash proper, which Jobs has also criticized. Presumably, Adobe is

Friday morning the local Fox television station in New York City broke the news - Apple was suing New York City. Six out of 100 of their viewers thought Apple had the right to sue the City, but 94 out of 100 viewers are now calling for New Yorkers to drop Apple and its products, includ

Zimbra announced the availability of its ZimbraME (Java Mobile Edition) client and source code for businesses. Users of any Java-enabled mobile phone will have access to the industry's most complete collaboration solution. The ZimbraME client provides Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) O

Adobe has put an alpha pre-release of AIR for Linux up in hopes, it says, of getting feedback from the community, not to mention winning adherents. It's English-only. The company also joined the Linux Foundation to encourage the growth of RIA technologies on Linux, it said. The company

If you're like me, you've probably been spending every waking moment you have eating, living, and breathing the iPhone SDK. Since March 6th, that's pretty much all I can think about once I get home. So, what do you do if you want to learn how to write iPhone apps, but you want to becom

Mobyko has announced the launch of its web 2.0 online photo, video and text galleries, providing a way for mobile users to manage their social media. The galleries provide a desktop application experience on the web. The implementation and depth of functionality provides a seamless use

Greenlight Wireless announced the release of the Skweezer Application Programming Interface (API), which assists developers with integrating Skweezer's content mobilization technology into new applications. Skweezer, a Web-based service that compresses desktop Web content for use on ce

The City of Augusta, Ga., announced that it is ready to proceed with its plan to implement a wireless broadband internet network by the end of this year. The second largest city in Georgia and home to the PGA's Masters Tournament will be releasing its Request for Proposal (RFP) within

'Unlocking content to be remixed into new business value' is the driver of Web 2.0 in the enterprise, says Rod Smith, IBM VP of Emerging Internet Technologies, in this Exclusive Q&A with Jeremy Geelan on the occasion of IBM's release of a new technology created by IBM researchers, code

Outbid by Verizon Wireless in the great American airwaves auction last week, Google plunked a six-page letter on the Federal Communication Commission's desk asking the government to make the 'white spaces' - the airspace between TV channels - available for unlicensed wireless data use

'With Yahoo! oneSearch 2.0, we are fundamentally changing the way consumers use the Internet on their mobile phones,' said Marco Boerries, executive vice president, Connected Life, Yahoo! as the search giant unveiled Yahoo! oneSearch 2.0, a new version of its award-winning mobile searc

Innaworks announced version 2.1 of alcheMo for BREW, the automated Java Platform, Micro Edition (Java ME) to BREW porting solution. This new version of alcheMo is a product that targets the needs of the mobile application industry. alcheMo for BREW version 2.1 is capable of porting a b

Here is a question that I have been pondering on and off for quite a while: Why do 'cool kids' choose Ruby or PHP to build websites instead of Java? I have to admit that I do not have an answer. Why do I even care? Because I am a Java developer. Like many Java developers, I get along w

Apple's iPhone is a massive hit; the company has sold millions of handsets since the product's launch in June 2007. Within weeks of the iPhone hitting the market, the first of several highly publicized security exploits, a Trojan virus targeting the device, was identified. SMobile Syst

Remember that suit that the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) filed against Verizon Communications back in December for not providing source code as the GPL 2 requires? Well, it's been settled. Verizon, the biggest name among the four companies SFLC has sued so far for non-compliance,

Cisco announced that Xanadoo Company has utilized Cisco Internet Protocol Next-Generation Network (IP NGN) infrastructure to launch one of the first commercial North American mobile WiMAX broadband wireless networks. Mobile WiMAX, based on the Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave A

The US Postal Service has started piloting a program that will let people recycle small electronics and inkjet cartridges for free by mail. The postage will be paid by Clover Technologies Group, a company that recycles, remanufactures and remarkets inkjet cartridges, laser cartridges a

U.S. Cellular has awarded Nortel a five-year contract to provide advanced wireless capabilities that deliver high-quality mobile voice and data services while supporting addition of new subscribers. The deal builds on Nortel and U.S. Cellular's long-standing relationship for supplying

Nortel has won an agreement with India's BSNL (Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd.), valued at over US$100 million, to put mobile connectivity in the hands of millions of new subscribers in the southern area of the country.

Qualcomm announced that it is offering BREW managed service, a new solution for operators that want to outsource their data services. With BREW managed service, Qualcomm hosts a single catalog of BREW applications that operators may offer to their respective subscribers who purchase BR

According to a recent report published by The 451 Group, 2009 is the year that will see attention on the delivery to mobile devices of business intelligence from enterprise applications - particularly those utilizing the 'service-oriented' software architecture model (SOA). Additionall

I want to thank everyone who showed up to share my enthusiasm for the iPhone as it is, what I believe, the mobile development platform to target. I also want to thank those people who tolerated my evasiveness and lack of detail during the SDK session. As I've said before, just because

Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel will soon redefine the guest experience through a technology deployment that is built on a unified communications platform from Cisco. To be designed and built by Cisco-certified systems integrator 3D Networks, Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel's planned

During the Q&A period after one of my sessions at the iPhone Developer Summit last Thursday, there was someone there from Microsoft Competetive Intelligence. She asked myself and some other folks who were lingering nearby to describe, in our unbiased opinions, what we thought was wrong