'What better way to show we are committed to turning our Outdoor assets into next-generation interactive platforms than providing free Wi-Fi service in what is arguably the busiest stretch of real estate in the world?' said Wally Kelly, Chairman and CEO of CBS Outdoor, as he announced

FFE Software has announced the first release of its new Java DB - FirstSQL/J Embedded Mobile Edition. Embedded Mobile is a special packaging of the standard FirstSQL/J Java DB for a small footprint, supporting JME and suitable for other embedded configurations.

The Android Developer Challenge will provide $10 million to developers who build mobile applications for Android, a complete, open, and free mobile platform. The Challenge is designed to support the developer community and spark innovation on the Android platform by awarding cash prize

I want to counter a lot of the press and blog comments stating that the release of the SDK is a reversal or some kind of about face. If anybody had done their homework, they would know that Steve Jobs himself stated that he wanted to create an environment that supported native 3rd part

The three-year-old Dojo Foundation has put out version 1.0 of Dojo, an open source JavaScript toolkit for AJAX development meant for building rich Web 2.0 applications without proprietary plug-ins or single-vendor solutions. The widgetry makes use of Google Gears, Google's solution for

Egenera, which claims it's the archetype Virtualization 2.0 company to VMware's Virtualization 1.0 - and is going put its PAN Manager software on other people's hardware to prove it - has convinced Fujitsu Siemens, which OEMs Egenera's BladeFrame servers, to put PAN on its own industry

MIR3 has announced the availability of an enterprise notification and command interface for the Apple iPhone and iPod touch (dubbed 'iTouch' by the media) mobile communications platform. These full-featured Web-based management applications from MIR3 run under Apple's mobile Safari bro

HP has announced an enhanced network platform to help telecom operators provide services to millions of customers. HP Service Delivery Platform (SDP) 2.0 enables operators to offer their customers greater access to convergent, multimedia, and 'Web 2.0' services on their mobile devices.

My own personal install of Leopard seems to be having periodic trouble completing a shutdown on the 17' MBP. Annoying? Yes. Worthy of posting something inflammatory such as 'wrong with Leopard's spots'? Doubtful. So, in looking at eWeek's Microsoft Watch's latest article, I leave you w

So it seems as though a few minutes after I wrote this blog entry, Google put forth the announcement about Android, a project named after the company they purchased a while back. Google is essentially spearheading an open source project that is an open SDK for mobile devices that runs

Google made its first public move today to put its brand on the mobile sector, announcing an Open Handset Alliance of 33 partner companies committed to advancing an open source platform called Android. Google's partners, gathered apparently over the last year, include T-Mobile, Motorol

Google has made its first public move to put its brand on the mobile sector, announcing an Open Handset Alliance of 33 partner companies committed to advancing an open source platform called Android. Google's partners, gathered apparently over the last year, include T-Mobile, Mo

Do I care just because I am a Google fanboy? Not exactly, although that does amp up my excitement. With an open platform for development for mobiles, plus Google's conquest of Jaiku for its mobile/presence capabilities - I am a big fan of Jyri Engestrom, the founder of Jaiku, a smart a

Google is supposed to be inching closer to unveiling its fabled 'Gphone,' according to the Wall Street Journal Tuesday. The paper says that in the next couple of weeks Google should trot out 'advanced software and services that would allow handset markers to bring Google-powered phone

Sprint Nextel shares, which have already lost 12% this year, fell further on the announcement yesterday of a massive 77% profit dive in its latest reported results. 2007 profits will be less than $11BN on sales of $41BN. CEO Gary Forsee left the company recently, leaving CFO Paul Saleh

Now that Leopard is out and everyone is, I suspect, feverishly reformatting their laptops and desktops to install the retail copy of Leopard, developers can finally start sharing their Leopard code samples. Rather than me sitting around making up stupid reasons why such-and-such code s

Let's consider the pages of a traditional corporate Website. They include an 'about me' page, a contact page, a careers section, and probably a page with news and press releases. The words look good on paper, and, more than likely, a committee gave the final sign-off on the site's cont

Readers of TIME's November 5 edition, which will be on on US newsstands tomorrow November 2, will find that the iPhone is TIME Magazine's Invention of the Year 2007. Among the reasons cited are 'It's touchy-feely' and 'It will make other phones better.' The award also recognizes that t

According to Umang Gupta, chairman & CEO of Keynote, 'Zenprise's BlackBerry customers will greatly benefit from this service. Now, Zenprise customers will be continuously aware of an end user's experience with their carrier network. Keynote's emphasis on real-time network visibility is

Leopard introduces a bunch of amazingly powerful new controls, but one of my favorite new controls is the NSCollectionView. This control works a lot like the FlowLayoutPanel if you're familiar with Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). It essentially is a layout container responsible

What I am going to do in this regular column is feed my habit by highlighting some of the books I am reading, and (mostly) enjoying. (I will only rarely write negative reviews; it's a rare book that I 'do not put down gently but throw across the room with great force' after all.) Geeks

The first Rich FAQ we are presenting is the long overdue Mobile Ajax FAQ and was created by Ajit Jaokar, Rocco Georgi and Bryan Rieger. We welcome comments and feedback. AJAX is a browser technology that involves the use of existing Web standards and technologies (XML/XHTML, DOM, CSS,

There's a really interesting (free) article by Amol Sharma in the Wall Street Journal about Google's expected cellphone software, and whether Google will be able to do the necessary deals with the mobile carriers. In addition to providing core Google apps (search, maps, YouTube, etc.),

Gee whillikers. After hours on Monday Apple, the PC company people love to love, started behaving like Google. While its Q4 conference call was in progress its stock price went up almost $13 to over $187, a personal best, a position it then failed to hold. Even if it pulled in its Dece

According to a report this morning in the Wall Street Journal, and quoting 'people familiar with the situation,' within the next two weeks Google is expected to announce advanced software and services that would allow handset makers to bring Google-powered phones to market by the middl

Anything you can do on your Facebook web page you will shortly be able to do instead on your BlackBerry, thanks to a new Facebook app being released by RIM, the makers of BlackBerries. RIM co-CEO Mike Lazaridis made the announcement yesterday at the CTIA conference in San Francisco. Fo

'Sideloading can take mobile video advertising where it has never gone before -- directly to the consumer without the intermediation of a mobile carrier network,' said Philip John, founder and CEO of Clippz.com, as he today announced what he described as the world's first and only way

In 2008, the last frontier of broadband access will finally be conquered. Air travelers in the U.S. can look forward to surfing the web as they fly through the sky. Using air-to-ground (cellular) technology, AirCell, a 15-year leader in airborne communications, will pioneer the launch

Opera Software, the company known for 'redefining Web browsing for PCs, mobile phones and other networked devices,' has launched a new way of mobilizing content across a wide range of devices and web browsers: Opera Link. 'We refuse to believe people should compromise their experience

Buongiorno, il mio nome Amanda Chapel. I have 15 plus years experience in marketing communications. I am a former vice president in the Consumer Marketing Group at Weber Shandwick, one of the world's largest PR firms. Prior to Shandwick, I spent about 10 years bouncing around various t

Voice Perspective 2.0 will help contact centers and businesses improve the voice quality delivered to customers whether or not the call is originating either from a traditional PSTN landline-based phone or an IP-enabled phone. This is an important distinction as most VoIP calls today t

'We are leveraging Qualcomm's expertise in multi-mode wireless chipsets to bring unparalleled connectivity to notebook users, who can now be confident they can instantly access the Internet without searching for a hotspot - today,' said Dr. Sanjay K. Jha, COO of Qualcomm and president

So Steve Jobs has finally announced the availability of the iPhone SDK. It will be available sometime in February of 2008.There are a lot of compelling reasons to build web applications for the iPhone. If you're already thinking of an application then you might have an idea of whether

The BBC carried a report yesterday that raises the alarming possibility of extending cellphone use on board airplanes from just either end of a journey to throughout the duration of the flight. The key to the whole thing, the technical trick that circumvents the problem found in 2003 b

Of the nearly 1.4 million iPhones sold since it was introduced in June, an estimated 250,000 of them were purchased by people trying to unlock them so that they can use the iPhone on a cell phone carrier other than Apple's dedicated partner, AT&T. This admission came yesterday from App

Social.FM yesterday unveiled a new version of its innovative social music service with a newly optimized user interface, marking a significant re-design of the industry's first and only social music service for Windows Mobile 6 devices and improving usability for Social.FM mobile users

Virgin Mobile USA, Inc. announced today that its initial public offering of 27,500,000 shares of Class A common stock has been priced at $15.00 per share. The shares are expected to begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange today, October 11, under the symbol 'VM'. Of the total 27,5

I completely understand that Apple have to protect their exclusive deal with AT&T and disable _unlocking_ exploits (and that?s fair enough, although their decision to go with a single carrier in the first place is anything but commendable) but their stance towards 3rd party application

'Your Jaiku phone, the Web site, IM, SMS, and API will continue to work normally,' wrote Jaiku's Finnish co-founder Jyri Engeström as he revealed yesterday that Jaiku had been acquired by Google. Jaiku's technology can hopefully help Google develop new ways to use mobile presence and '

In a cautionary tale about the tulip-like valuations assigned too many of these Internet acquisitions these days - as well as the returns one gets off of a free business model - eBay as much as admitted Monday that it paid way, way too much for Skype and said it will write off $900 mil