I was speaking to a friend of mine this week about iPhone development, especially around database development. I posed, what I thought was a straight forward question to him, which opened a hole can of worms, but worms that I've seen before.

Chairman, CEO and President of tw telecom, Larissa Herdam, called on the competitive business broadband providers to engage Congress and the FCC in establishing a national Broadband Policy for Businesses that will spur innovation for enterprises and create jobs in a New Broadband Econo...

Intel has signed a strategic memorandum of understanding to ship its low-cost little Atom chip over to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), the world’s largest build-to-order foundry, for System-on-Chip (SoC) treatment in order to push the gismo into new unexplored, "post...

I read a great article from Paul deBeasi where he hits spot on the drivers and risks of mobility. My opinion is that Mobile users can use mobile devices safely.

The Wireless University Forum (www.twuf.com) is the largest global on-line community for academia and industry in the field of wireless technology. It is my opinion that, in the times of Economic slowdown, acedemia is our future... an Investment in tomorrow.

Well, it’s finally happened. Microsoft, which has only sued two other companies for patent infringement in its whole life, is exercising its patent rights over Linux and suing TomTom, the Dutch-based portable GPS device house, for ignoring its pleas to license its patents like other GP...

Xirrus has announced the release of the latest addition to its family of Wi-Fi utilities for Windows clients. The Xirrus Wi-Fi Inspector is a standalone application for managing and troubleshooting a laptop’s Wi-Fi connection in addition to scanning and monitoring the Wi-Fi environment...

I wanted to flag a post on PhoneScoop by Eric Zeman that appeared recently...Eric writes that "Google has added editing capabilities to the mobile version of their spreadsheet program". These new features will allow users to open the document on their smartphone and make changes that w...

Ditech Networks, a leading provider of voice processing solutions to the world’s communications industry, announced today that Qtel, the leading telecom operator in Qatar, is deploying Ditech’s Voice Quality Assurance (VQA) and Experience Intelligence (EXi) applications on its Quad Voi...

"Most emails are not secure messages. To a moderately skilled person, inside the organization or out, they are as easy to read or even to change, as a postcard written in pencil." Comodo Secure Email allows users to encrypt all their messages, without need to exchange public keys.

RMI Corporation has announced that Digital Cube has selected the Alchemy Au1300 Processor for its next generation platform. Digital Cube’s next generation platform will fuel its Mobile Internet Devices and Portable Media Players with high definition video playback and a rich 3D user in...

It was just a matter of time before Android worked its way onto netbooks – there have been rumors of Intel supporting it on Atom – and now Freescale Semiconductor, which is literally days at the netbook game, says it’s going to put Android on its shiny new RM-based i.MX515 netbook chip...

Flash Player 10 will soon be introduced on high-end mobile phones, Adobe announced during the GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Adobe also announced today the availability of the Flash Lite 3.1 Distributable Player, an over-the-air mobile runtime which is available immediately a...

Enterprise open source commentator Glyn Moody says that Android-based ARM systems, such as the chipsets for Google's Android operating system announced this week by Freescale, could be part of the next wave of price reductions that will push netbooks down to $150 and less.

Esmertec AG, a publicly held Swiss company that specializes in Android and Java phone widgetry, is buying French-based LiMo ISV Purple Labs for stock worth about $80 million plus an earn-out in shares now worth about $18 million. Together they will create the Myriad Group worth an esti...

Adobe announced the availability of the new Adobe Reader Mobile SDK, a software development kit (SDK) designed to enable companies to deliver mobile phones and handheld devices that can easily download, manage, and display PDF content and eBooks. The new software engine delivers suppor...

Esmertec, a Swiss firm specializing in Android and Java virtual machines, is acquiring Purple Labs, French vendor of mobile stacks compatible with the LiMo Platform. In a stock deal worth about 19.7 million shares, the two European companies will be renamed as Myriad Group AG. The new ...

Parvus Corporation announces the availability of the DuraCOR 820, a rugged, ultra-small tactical mission computer measuring less than 3.0" in height and 3.0 lbs in weight. The DuraCOR is fully qualified to MIL-STD-810F environmental specifications (altitude, thermal, shock, vibration, ...

Keane has entered into an asset purchase agreement with BearingPoint, Inc. to purchase a portion of the BearingPoint Public Services business in North America, which would include BearingPoint’s New York City practice. Finalization of this transaction is subject to customary closing co...

San Francisco — February 9, 2009 — Global IP Solutions (Oslo Børs: GIPS), the leading provider of IP multimedia processing solutions, released today a survey conducted by Ovum, a global advisory and consulting firm.

NEC is pulling out of the PC business in EMEA, intending to shutter its assembly plant in France where it also makes servers and leave what remains of its 1% PC share to the likes of HP, Dell and Acer. It will outsource server production. It’s been shipping around 400,000 laptops and d...

Amazon has introduced Amazon Kindle 2, the new reading device that offers Kindle’s wireless delivery of content in a new slim design with longer battery life, faster page turns, over seven times more storage, sharper images, and a new read-to-me feature. Kindle 2 has a high-resolution,...

PC sales in Western Europe were up 12% to 20.1 million units in the fourth quarter on the back of netbook demand according to Gartner, which said, “If it wasn’t for mini-notebooks, the overall Western European market would be showing a decline. This does not bode well for 2009, as we e...

Mojiva, whose powerful advertising platform makes it easy for marketers to reach customers via the growing mobile Web, today announced it has served over one billion mobile ads in its first eight months of operation. This achievement establishes Mojiva as one of the fastest growing mob...

The billions of pixels spent in the last few days in feverish anticipation of the Indian government pulling off what was supposed to be a $10 laptop were spent for naught. It’s not a laptop; it’s some sort of cockamamie 2GB UBS storage device whose price is more like $100.

India is promising to unveil a prototype $10 laptop meant for its schools. If it can pull off such a wonder, it’ll beat the pants off of One Laptop Per Child, Intel’s Classmate, NComputing and the Eee. Next to nothing is known about the creature. India has been working on it for about ...

Lenovo said Wednesday that it has acquired Seattle-based start-up Switchbox Labs Inc for some undisclosed sum, and that Switchbox co-founders Michael Sievert, Robert Dickinson and Blake Ramsdell will join Lenovo. Sievert, an ex-Microsoft VP who also did stints at AT&T Wireless and E* T...

AT&T announced that it has achieved a major milestone in its program to move some 5,000 high-tech jobs that had previously been outsourced back to the payrolls of AT&T's U.S. operating companies. The vast majority of the jobs had been placed offshore by contract vendors. The company ha...

2008 proved to be a Year of Two Halves. In the first half, mobile handset shipments happily chugged along at ~14% YoY. In the second half, 3Q handset shipments slowed to 8% before crashing into the Red in 4Q with -10%. The underlying root cause? “Sheer fear sapped the confidence of con...

Aligned with government's top priorities, Wireless Sensor Networking (WSN) is attracting hundreds of millions of R&D funding in several recession-proof markets, according to a recent study by ON World. Including both public and private sources, WSN R&D spending will reach $1.3 billion ...

Bytemobile announced the new Media Optimization application of its Media Fidelity Suite. This application enables operators to manage video traffic on mobile broadband networks, which is increasing rapidly due to consumers’ growing appetite for rich multimedia content. The Media Optimi...

ComAbility has been awarded another contract to provide subscriber management on a European Tier 1/PTT operator network. The initial stage of the project will include several million subscribers, and is the third win of similar scope for ComAbility over the past year. The neXus platfor...

Telegent Systems has announced the TLG2300, a single-chip CMOS hybrid TV receiver that adds live TV to PCs and portable devices. The TLG2300 delivers the performance, low power and high integration needed to embed live TV in laptops, netbooks and mobile internet devices. The TLG2300 su...

Genius Inside announced several important product unveilings for Genius Project and Genius Project4Domino: Genius Project Version 2.0 and Genius Project4Domino Version 6.0. Heading the list of new capabilities are an invoicing module that speeds calculation and creation of invoices, an...

IBM and RIM have unveiled new Lotus collaboration software and developer tools on the BlackBerry platform that will bring collective intelligence to BlackBerry smartphones. The new features aim to help customers find expertise, form teams, share information, and stay in touch in real-t...

Keynote Systems has announced Mobile Application Perspective 3.0, an on-demand service for real-time interactive testing, monitoring and diagnosing of mobile content utilizing a library of over 1,600 wireless device profiles. MAP 3.0 introduces features for monitoring and diagnosing th...

Ultra-high-speed wireless connectivity – capable of transferring 15 gigabits of data per second over short distances – has taken a significant step toward reality. A recent decision by an international standards group could help bring this technology to market soon. Short-distance 60 g...

AML, a developer and manufacturer of wired and wireless automated data capture products, announced the new M8050 PDA. Purpose built functionality and power manageability, the new AML M8050 PDA is equipped with a choice of 1D or 2D imager bar code scan engine, magnetic stripe reader (MS...

AMD has announced ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4000 series graphics, its next generation series of notebook graphics processors. These graphics processors have advanced capabilities including support for the latest Microsoft DirectX 10.1 games, an HD multimedia experience, and energy-efficie...

Skyhook Wireless upgraded the publicly available Skyhook SDK to include Android support, hybrid positioning that combines WPS, cell tower triangulation, and GPS, and reportedly simpler deployment models. The supported platforms list now includes Windows, Windows Mobile, Mac, Android, S...