Evolving Systems announced that its Tertio Service Activation solution has been selected by a global tier 1 telecommunications group with wireless operations in Asia, Latin America and Africa, for deployment in seven countries.

China TechFaith Wireless Communication Technology Limited announced the formation of TechFaith Tech-Interactive Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary focusing on the development and operation of wireless application and content. The new wireless content unit will initially set up three st

Astral effects are now being released as screensavers for mobile phones. The company Mobile Visuals has developed ten hypnotic screensavers to help mobile users to relax and stress down. The screensavers are included in their product Astral Effects.

OK OK, so I admit I'm already running version 1.1.3 of the iPhone firmware. While I think it's fantastic that I now get the ability to add web icons to the home screen, and that the home screen has multiple pages, I usually spend my first few minutes on a new version of the firmware lo

MicroMonster is ready for the mobile world. The new real-time multiplayer role-playing game comes with fine graphics and action loaded game play ideas. The fresh game uses a fair payment model instead of subscription fees.

Openwave Systems Inc. announced a joint collaboration with Japanese Internet start-up, Zero Start Communications Co. Ltd, to launch a new mobile Mini-Blog service branded 'chopi' in Japan. Openwave's carrier-grade, standards-based converged communications platform, will serve as the me

I plugged in the iPhone and now I've got several episodes worth of 'The Universe' that I can watch in the palm of my hand while I'm on the train. I'm sure everybody reading this has already realized how cool this ability is, but I'm new to the whole video conversion thing. So with the

Tokiva announced the public beta launch of its Mobile Communications Platform that provides open and cost effective voice, messaging, and sharing services on Mobile, Web, and Instant Messaging systems.

Trolltech, Acrodea, ETRI, Huawei and Purple Labs have joined the LiMo Foundation started a year ago by Motorola, NEC, NTT DoCoMo, Panasonic Mobile Communications, Samsung Electronics and Vodafone to deliver a mobile Linux platform. Said platform would perforce have to compete against t

Intel turned up at the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas this week loaded down with 16 new 45nm Penryn chips, including its first 45nm Centrino mobile chips, and the idea that it can now cultivate a new category of tiny gadgets that'll put broadband Internet access 'in your pocket.' T

You have perhaps heard - given the amount of ink spilled on the story - that Intel quit the One Laptop Per Child board last week rather than get thrown off for badmouthing and competing against the altruistic non-profit and its cute little kid-friendly, customer-shy, AMD Geode-based gr

MobiForms includes a free copy of HSQLDB for server, standalone or mobile database applications, complementing the MobiForms Developer tool and the Mobiforms runtime interpreter. MobiForms offers all the tools in one box for the creation and deployment of any type of mobile application

Since the iPhone was first released, early adopters haven't stopped talking about what they think of the device. While the free promotion can be a great marketing tool for wireless carriers, it can be crippling if users have issues with session and network quality. This is the backgrou

Google's new-year special logo, which went live briefly as 2008 began, celebrated the 25th anniversary of TCP/IP - adopted by Arpanet on January 1st, 1983. While 'invisible' to most users, many of the layers built on top of TCP/IP are well-known even to laymen: HTTP (Hyper Text Transfe

Roughly two years ago, when I was writing an article on 'New Features for Device Developers in Visual Studio 2005' that was published in the August 2005 issues of this magazine, our program management team was already busy shaping the next release of the product, which is soon to be re

The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC), legal guardian of the sanctity of the GPL, has sued the mighty Verizon Communications Inc on behalf of the two open source developers who wrote the Busybox utility, charging the phone company with patent infringement because it is allegedly viola

Perforce Software announced that Ixonos Plc, headquartered in Helsinki, Finland, has chosen Perforce, the Fast Software Configuration Management (SCM) System, to manage software development projects for its leading smartphone customers. Ixonos' telecommunications business unit speciali

In keeping with the longstanding SYS-CON tradition of being at the very forefront of software development with all its online and offline resources, SYS-CON Media & Events jointly today announced a double whammy, launching both 'Open Web Developer's Journal' (htt p://openweb.sys-con.com

Ikivo AB and Sun Microsystems announced that Ikivo has joined the NetBeans Strategic Partner Program. This alliance will assure that the NetBeans community of developers, have access to enhanced authoring tool solutions for rapid creation and deployment of Mobile SVG content and rich

CNBC reported on Monday at 'Closing Bell' that Motorola maybe a logical take over target by Dell, HP, or Rim, at $21-22 per share target price. Motorola CEO Ed Zander's chair wasn't even cold yet when the company's CTO Padmasree Warrior, with the company for 23 years, suddenly decided

According to SMobile Systems, the launch of Google Phone platform will be among the most positive transformational moments in mobile communications history by further merging computers with mobile devices. But while millions of people will now be able to 'compute on the run,' those sam

This year's hottest new security innovation for laptops and PCs makes its first time appearance at the 2008 CES International in Las Vegas. The Yoggie Pico, winner of the CES Best of Innovations 2008 - Computer Accessories, is the world's first hardware-based security solution for lapt

Motorola CEO Ed Zander's chair wasn't even cold yet when the company's CTO Padmasree Warrior, with the company for 23 years, suddenly decided to 'pursue other opportunities' and was out the door. Twenty-four hours later she turned up at Cisco as CTO, reporting to CEO John Chambers, who

In a partnership with Yahoo! and Research In Motion, the Canadian company behind the BlackBerry, JetBlue is equipping one of its Airbus A320s with a special version of WiFi that's compliant with the FCC ban on in-flight cellular communications. The result is that passengers with WiFi-e

For building applications, BundleWorks includes ant tasks and command line tools to allow developers to build standard bundles for both custom and third-party applications. For testing, BundleWorks allows a developer to create and manage multiple environments to test multiple versions

Why are you opening private message directed to someone else? This is a private message not directed or intended for you. As I'm a long time member of the HR community - shame on you! Eileen Sirrell

Since Ed Zander led Sun into the valley of the shadow of death back, what? over five years ago now, it has never recovered. And there's a good chance the same thing may happen to Motorola. With a year left to run on his contract, Zander quit yesterday and clearly not a moment too soon

Mitch Randall, the company's founder and Chief Technology Officer, adds that 'With the recent introduction of our first products, we made a step towards eliminating the need for consumers to regularly lug around multiple bulky chargers, adapters and cords for every battery-powered mobi

Within minutes of my blog entry, I received the strangest email notification, alerting me to another blog written by Alan Zeichick, 'co-founder and editorial director of BZ Media, which publishes SD Times and Software Test & Performance, and which also produces the Software Security Su

Reuters reports this morning that according to communications industry analysts there are now some 3.3 billion mobile phone accounts worldwide. 'In recent years the industry has seen surging growth in outskirts of China and India, helped by constantly falling phone and call prices, wit

My money is on targeting iPhones and WM devices until Android actually shows up live and in the wild on more than 500,000 devices. Also, don't be fooled about the Android developer challenge. That's not $10million in prize money, that's a $10 million bribe in order to obtain the critic

iPhone Developer Summit (www.iphonedevsummit.com) announced today Kevin Hoffman as the Tech Chair of the Conference. The letter from the Tech Chair at the conference Website contained the following message: What's the impact of the iPhone going to be on the delivery of rich conten

'Our proprietary technology enables direct peer-to-peer connection rather than using several peers (i.e. devices from other and unknown users) in between - like Skype does,' said Wizzl CEO Jaap Korevaar as Wizzl officially launched today the beta version of the first all-in-one virtual

With 34 years' experience as a journalist - the last 27 of them with NBC - Gary Krakow has seen all the best and worst technology that's come along. So when Krakow writes of the iPhone that 'the cell phone part is merely average, data speeds are on the slow side and it's not really des

'Our monitoring of retail site performance has shown a definite slow-down in site performance over the course of Black Friday for many leading sites,' said Shawn White, director of external operations for Keynote. 'Almost a third of the thirty leading retail sites we monitor for our ho

Burst.com, the company that has for 2 years alleged that Apple's iTunes Music Store, iTunes software, the iPod devices, and Apple's QuickTime Streaming products infringe various of its U.S. Patents, this week settled with Apple in return for a one-time payment of $10M cash, giving Appl

Keynote Competitive Research announced Europe's first performance index for the mobile Web. The Keynote Europe Mobile Index is a weekly performance ranking of 10 popular European mobile sites compiled from more than 26,000 measurements taken on multiple carriers from different geograph

Countless companies rely on machine-to-machine (M2M) communications, from asset tracking to fleet management to security and beyond. However, very few companies that offer integrated communications services have what they need to effectively manage this aspect of their system. The time

A Google spokesman told the Wall Street Journal today that Google is 'making all the necessary preparations to become an applicant to bid' for a chunk of 700MHz spectrum from the FCC. 'Our goal is to make sure that American consumers have more choices in an open and competitive wireles

Google, as promised, put the Android SDK out in early access - along with a $10 million pot for the best apps written for its open Android mobile platform by third-party developers. It said the platform would be open and it's going about proving it. It also needs the buzz - and a kill