You may have heard about the failure of the T-Mobile USA Sidekick smartphone– known for its remote data storage and the fact that (gad!) Paris Hilton is a devotee – and how Microsoft’s $500 million 2008 Danger acquisition, which invented the thing, managed to lose what looked for a whi...

Cisco, which just plunked down $3 billion to buy Tandberg ASA, makers of videoconferencing gear, said Tuesday morning that it’s going to buy nine-year-old Starent Networks for $2.9 billion, a 21% premium. Starent supplies mobile and converged carriers with IP-based mobile infrastru...

Market research firm, In-Stat (www.instat.com), believes we are entering a very critical time for smartphone OSs, as exemplified by four major smartphone announcements on October 6 from AT&T, Verizon Wireless, Palm, and Microsoft. “With Android on the upswing, Palm’s Web OS starting to...

AT&T is reportedly going to offer a Dell Android-based smartphone to U.S customers of its cellphone network next year, according to an unconfirmed piece in the Wall Street Journal. Reuters says the thing will be a version of the Marvell Technology-designed oPhone “prototype” Dell showe...

W. David Gardner who writes for InformationWeek has a very interesting article here. He states the J.D. Power's study of smartphone satisfaction, which reports that the Apple iPhone topped the Blackberry and other devices.

Best Buy Mobile, the mobile specialty retail unit of Best Buy Co., has announced the launch of mIQ, a new Web-based service that will transform the way customers use, manage and engage with mobile content and smartphone features. The mIQ service allows smartphone users to take the info...

NETGEAR, Inc., has announced the launch of RangeMax Wireless-N Gigabit Router with USB (WNR3500L), a full-featured Wireless-N router offering high-performance wireless range and speed along with Gigabit Ethernet ports and ReadyShare(TM) USB storage access. The RangeMax Wireless-N Gigab...

Cisco and Openet today announced that Turkcell, Turkey's leading communications and technology company, has deployed a combined solution to provide a flexible charging system for its general packet radio service (GPRS) mobile data network. The joint solution from Cisco and Openet, w...

In response to a growing demand for advanced security solutions among mobile device users, VeriSign, Inc., is putting its VeriSign® Identity Protection (VIP) strong authentication into the hands of millions more users. VeriSign today announced that the latest release of VIP Access for ...

Unisys Corporation (NYSE: UIS) announced Unisys End-User Productivity Services, an innovative suite of services designed to provide organizations with the ability to support an increasingly mobile, technology-smart workforce that values integration of consumer technologies into the wor...

The Gustavo microsite prominently features a brand-new interactive online game and iPhone application, Bravo Gustavo, designed by Hello Design to simulate the experience of conducting an orchestra. The Bravo Gustavo online game invites users to interact with Gustavo and the LA Phil per...

Alvenda, which enables customers to shop inside Shoplets, or checkout-enabled storefronts, placed Shoplets on Facebook for a leading florist and gift retailer that allowed customers to shop without leaving the Facebook site. Using the Omniture solution for Facebook app measurement, Alv...

Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM)(TSX: RIM) has exciting news for Mac® users that want an easy and reliable solution that syncs their contacts, calendar appointments, tasks and notes with their BlackBerry® smartphones. A new version of the BlackBerry® Desktop Manager software has...

There are more than 20 typhoons each year in the Philippines, on average. But Ondoy broke all records for the amount of rainfall in a short period of time. Hundreds of people were killed, hundreds of thousands made homeless, and millions directly affected. I was lucky that Typhoon Ondo...

The agreement gives Host.net its first colocation, cloud computing, and storage facility outside of Florida, broadening the network infrastructure services previously available to Atlanta customers as well as benefiting Florida-based colocation customers who require secondary sites out...

Last Friday I was lucky enough to stumble across and attend 'Over The Air 2009' in London's Imperial College, which was part of the London Digital Week 09. They said it could not be done in this economy, a free event for 200+ developers with sessions on development, design etc...

Xerox, which squandered the chance to bring about the PC revolution itself, has needed a growth solution for quite a while. Monday it said it found one and would spend $6.4 billion in cash and stock buying Affiliated Computer Services (ACS), whose $6.5 billion in revenues reportedly ma...

Mark/Space, creator of award-winning desktop and handheld synchronization software, announced immediate availability of The Missing Sync for Palm Pre, for Windows XP and Windows Vista. Transfer and synchronize information and files between Palm Pre and Windows applications: Microsoft O...

Thousands of companies use NetSuite to manage their key business processes, leveraging its Software as a Service (SaaS) design to access invoicing, customer records, inventory, and financial reporting from any Internet-enabled computer. Now, for the first time, iPhone and iPod touch us...

The survey showed that 86 percent of U.S. drivers believe handheld texting while driving is "very dangerous" and 93 percent support a nationwide ban on texting. At the same time, only 42 percent of respondents believe drivers would stop texting behind the wheel if the practice was bann...

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/3d123b/mobile_wimax_devic) has announced the addition of the "Mobile WiMAX Devices—2009 Global Mid-Year Update" report to their offering. This report provides an update to In-Stat's annual 802.16e, mobile WiMAX, device fo...

"Making contents and services available to your customers on mobile phones up to now used to mean choosing between a mobile website and a client application," says Michael Neidhoefer, Managing Director of Netbiscuits. "Both channels have their specific advantages: a Netbiscuits-based w...

"Other local search applications present the user with a fog of information. World Surfer totally avoids that fog, providing just the information users seek - quickly, reliably 24/7," explains John Ellenby, GeoVector's CEO. Initial US content channels for World Surfer include Google, M...

Visionaries such as Steve Dreamer, Head of global Pharmaceutical Engineering for Novartis, Rene Labatut, VP Global Manufacturing technology for Sanofi Pasteur and Gerald Orlik, VP EMEA / COO for Mylan met along with many others to discuss their plans to work with new technological adva...

Yell today announces an agreement that makes its Yell.com local business search service available as a widget on a range of Samsung touch-screen devices. The agreement marks the first time a Yell.com search widget has been made available for a device manufacturer's widget gallery. The ...

SYS-CON Events announced today that Sybase, the largest enterprise software and services company, was named "Silver Sponsor" of SYS-CON's iPhone Developer Summit. The Summit is co-located with the 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, which will take place on November 2 ...

Today Sybase and Siemens Enterprise Communications (SEN) Group (a leader in Unified Communications Solutions for the enterprise) announced a partnership that will provide customers with a fully integrated mobile and fixed line voice and data solution that supports and includes the mana...

Cima Telecom Group, the parent company for Auris technology, Cima Telecom and Anew Broadband®, a leading provider of alternative telecommunications products and services, has chosen to consolidate its data centers in Telx’s Miami facility at 36 Northeast 2nd Street. Cima Telecom offers...

Adult super star Sunny Leone's first app, the free "lite version" that offers exclusive pictures, a blog and video clips, is now available. Version 2.0, a premium version with more features, photo sets and videos is currently awaiting approval. Version 2.0 is packed with all new intera...

Since its introduction less than six months ago, there has been more than 200,000 downloads of Citrix Receiver for iPhone. Users have ranged from Doctor's to Lawyer's to Systems Admin's, all with a common desire to get their job done whenever and wherever they are.

Netbiscuits, a web software platform for the creation, publication, and monetization of mobile websites, today announces the launch of a mobile couponing solution. The new “Messaging and Couponing Tool”, which will go live in October, allows the creation of SMS-based mobile coupons tha...

Well-known as CEO of Adobe Systems, Chizen transformed the company into one of the world's largest and most diversified software companies in terms of revenue, global reach and breadth of products. During his tenure, Chizen tripled revenue and transformed a company known mainly for its...

The Internet’s terrible twosome, Skype and Kazaa inventors Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, have thrown a monkey wrench into eBay’s plans to sell off 65% of Skype to an investor group led by Silver Lake and involving Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen for around $2 billion. Zenstr...

In an effort to provide mobile device users an easier and more natural way to control their applications, AT&T* and Vlingo today announced a licensing agreement and strategic alliance to incorporate AT&T's Watson technology into Vlingo's speech-enabled applications. The alliance will d...

WhitePages now reaches more than 2 million mobile users through its iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, SMS and m.WhitePages.com mobile offerings. With popular features like caller identification and reverse phone lookup, click to call, GPS-aware directory services and directions, WhitePages ...

With Comodo Discovery Scanning IT managers can save money and time by tracking deployment of all network digital certificates using Classless Inter-Domain Routing.

Online video provider Justin.TV has expanded its San Francisco presence within Telx's facility at 200 Paul Street. The expansion facilitates uninterrupted, enhanced quality, live video feeds from a greater community base than Justin.tv has enjoyed previously.

Netbiscuits helps you distribute your mobile web services. Just get your website listed with GetJar, the world's largest independent app store, and create a free "Mobile Site Shortcut". Mobile site shortcuts are micro-apps that fit for any mobile phone and open your mobile website by o...

“Cloud Computing technology is quickly transforming computing into a utility, making Telcos logical providers for cloud services,” said Barry X Lynn, Chairman and CEO, 3Tera, Inc., as it was announced today that KDDI, Japan’s second largest telecommunications carrier, is using the 3Ter...

Deutsche Telekom and France Telecom plan to merge their declining UK mobile operations. The move will create Britain’s largest mobile operator with 37% of the saturated market and 28.4 million users, pushing the 50-50 venture ahead of O2 (27%) and Vodafone (25%). The move, which will c...