Nortel Networks, the big multibillion-dollar Canadian telecommunication equipment house whose fall from grace has been long in the making, filed for bankruptcy protection in both Canada and the states Wednesday morning. The petitions include a certain number of its Canadian and US subs...

Palm took the wraps off its overhauled mobile operating system introducing a touch-screen phone in hopes of winning back customers from rivals like Nokia and Apple. Palm debuted the Palm Web OS, the new operating system created under the watch of former Apple executive Jon Rubenstein, ...

Recursion Software announced the release of Voyager 7.1, a pervasive software platform that now enables Smartphones and other small devices to access OSGi services remotely. OSGi-based architecture is predominantly used in embedded environments, yet the mobile and embedded software lan...

Despite hiring former Motorola executive Mike Zafirovski to turn things around after its accounting and management imbroglio a few years ago, Nortel Networks has opted today to file for bankruptcy protection in Canada and the U.S. The Toronto Globe & Mail notes ruefully that filing for...

Sony introduced the VAIO P-series notebook that has been leaking over the last couple weeks. The new ultra portable PC comes with a unique dimension slightly larger than an office letter envelope. The Sony VAIO P weighs less than 640 grams and sports 3G connectivity. The screen measure...

Skype has announced the release of a lite version of Skype, a 'thin' client for Skype that can be downloaded on Android-powered devices, as well as more than 100 other Java-enabled mobile phones. This launch builds on public testing last year and the incorporation of user feedback to a...

Volante offers a Java-based, wireless point of sale solution for Linux. By using PC notebooks, the entire POS software is loaded on the unit and it runs as a terminal with peer-to-peer, data synching, etc. Volante has evolved its software into the peer-to-peer architecture, and now POS...

Palm has unveiled its Palm webOS mobile platform, to be constantly connected to the web, and the new Palm Pre, the phone based on the new platform. Palm webOS is a platform invented exclusively for mobile use. It automatically brings your information from the many places it resides - o...

Dell and AT&T Mobility announced a new offer that brings nationwide high-speed connectivity to the Inspiron Mini 9 with built-in mobile broadband. Customers can purchase a select Inspiron Mini 9 that is regularly $449 for $99 after a $350 Dell mail-in rebate and the purchase of a quali...

The concept of telecommunications has rapidly been redefined by the “tele-my-experience” multimedia convergence. Competitors from within and outside of the traditional telco world are marketing new, integrated service packages to an audience of subscribers, who are more receptive than ...

Open Range Communications, a wireless broadband services provider to rural America, announced an investment of $100 million from One Equity Partners (OEP), the private equity arm of JPMorgan. In March 2008, the United States Department of Agriculture's Rural Development Utilities Progr...

InterDigital announced that its patent licensing subsidiaries have signed a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-bearing patent license agreement with Singapore-based iWOW Connections. The agreement covers the sale of wireless terminal units and infrastructure, including wireless machine-...

The new UPA828TD Twin Transistor from NEC combines two closely matched silicon NPN chips in a miniature 1.2 x 1.0 x 0.5mm 6 pin leadless RoHS-compliant package. Designed for VCO applications, the UPA828TD enables oscillator and buffer amplifier functions to be combined in one miniature...

IGG Software announced the forthcoming release of iBank Mobile, a native iPhone counterpart to iBank 3. Capable of running on both the iPhone and iPod Touch, this new release will be available exclusively for download from the iTunes App Store in the first quarter of this year. Among t...

Leap Wireless International announced that it gained approximately 385,000 net customer additions during the fourth quarter of 2008, including approximately 173,000 net additions in the company’s existing markets, approximately 133,000 net additions in the company’s expansion markets, ...

Trimble has introduced the AT&T-enabled Nomad 800X Series computers, three new models of its outdoor handheld computer that offer WWAN functionality and integrated quad-band GSM cellular data transmission, digital photography and barcode scanning in one device. The Nomad 800X Series mo...

LogRhythm announced that it has joined the PCI Security Standards Council as a new participating organization. As a Participating Organization, LogRhythm will work with the Council to evolve the PCI Data Security Standard (DSS) and other payment card data protection standards. The Coun...

Apple has unveiled the new 17-inch MacBook Pro featuring a durable aluminum unibody enclosure, and a built-in battery that delivers up to eight hours of use and up to 1,000 recharges. The 17-inch MacBook Pro has a high resolution LED-backlit display and a glass Multi-Touch trackpad. In...

DeviceAnywhere announced the addition of the Google Android G1, reported as the first handset from the open source Android alliance available on the T-Mobile network. The Android G1 device is the latest addition to over 1500 handsets offered on the DeviceAnywhere service, which include...

Clearwire claims it has transformed Portland into the fastest unwired city in the West, making the city home to one of the first 4G WiMAX wireless broadband services in the world, called Clear. With Clear, consumers and businesses can access the Internet wirelessly, at broadband speeds...

iHome unveiled the details of its 2009 home audio product line, including a variety of new speaker solutions featuring a wide range of styles, price points and feature sets. iHome’s 2009 line-up includes: iP1 Speaker System for iPod/iPhone, iP71 iPhone/iPod Computer Speaker System with...

"As many of you know," Steve Jobs tells the Apple worldwide community in a heart-rendingly frank memo, "I have been losing weight throughout 2008. The reason has been a mystery to me and my doctors. A few weeks ago, I decided that getting to the root cause of this and reversing it need...

ShapeWriter simultaneously announced the launch of its text entry products on Windows Mobile, Android, and Windows XP/Vista with its upgrades to WritingPad 1.0 for the iPhone, now called ShapeWriter 2.0. Rather than “hunting and pecking,” ShapeWriter 2.0 allows users to produce an enti...

The BlackBerry Technical Seminar took place live in December 3, 2008, but these new breakthrough sessions are now available on demand. Managing and extending applications to your mobile users, overcoming development hurdles, and leveraging mobile technology to create new opportunities ...

Globaltel Media (GTM) launched the pre-release version of its new application, dubbed Cherple, which allows two-way text communication between online computers and mobile wireless cellular devices. Cherple will officially launch in 2009. Globaltel Media claims Cherple will eventually p...

SayType.com is offering a service that uses voicemail to instantly turn talk into text and send converted messages to any phone, e-mail address or license plate. SayType also searches the internet and translates messages into selected languages. In 2008, the CTIA reported 85 billion te...

CX2 Technologies announced that it has completed the installation and testing of a 220 MHz data communications system for Kennedy Wireless Partners in Brooklyn, New York. While the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has distributed many 220 MHz licenses, the CX2 installation for K...

Cloud computing has the power to revolutionize non-information "soft" product sectors. We haven’t seen too much clear synergistic benefits between mobile apps PLUS cloud computing/SaaS yet, but I sense that we can expect to see more good things out of the intersection of these two. I’l...

The iPhone continues to gain steam in Japan, evidenced by Softbank's latest software announcement promoting Speeek, a voice-enabled electronic dictionary application that translates Japanese to English or Chinese. Using voice recognition technology the application can translate up to 1...

Retail behemoth Wal-Mart announced Friday that is would begin selling Apple’s popular 3G iPhone at 2,500 of its stores. Contingent on a 2-year service agreement with AT&T, the 8 GB model will sell for $197, while the black or white 16 GB model is being offered at $297. Both models will...

Rand McNally today introduced significant additions to its IntelliRoute® and MileMaker® commercial trucking solutions to help carriers and shippers save time and money. These enhancements will provide more flexibility and customization in freight rating and truck routing, more specific...

InterDigital has announced that its patent-licensing subsidiaries have signed a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-bearing patent license agreement with Paris-based ModeLabs Group. The agreement covers the sale of certain wireless terminal units and infrastructure built to the Second Ge...

TeleCommunication Systems (TCS) has announced that the company expects its customers' platforms to deliver a record number of text messages this New Year's Eve across its globally deployed Short Message Service Centers (SMSCs). Based on previous years' statistics and the threefold incr...

3G Americas has announced that a historic milestone was achieved for the wireless industry in December 2008 with 4 billion connections to mobile devices worldwide. This estimate by Informa Telecoms & Media represents 60% of the entire global population today. In some countries, million...

Nokia and Aptana have started shipping the beta release of Nokia WRT Plugin for Aptana Studio. Nokia WRT (Web Runtime) lets you build native apps and widgets for Nokia S60 phones using your JavaScript, AJAX, HTML, and CSS skills – the stuff standard web pages are made from, but install...

The Android-loving Open Handset Alliance says it's added 14 more members, bringing its total to 47 companies. Of course it’s only produced one phone so far, the iPhone's leagues ahead, and the crummy economy is expected to hurt even cell phone sales, but this is a matter of covering mu...

We now have the second iconic moment of the Bush presidency. This is how he'll be remembered, if only because shoes seem to be so psychologically powerful: Khrushchev is remembered in this country for pounding his shoe on the UN's lectern, and Adlai Stevenson is remembered for the hole...

Movero Technology and Ezwim announced a global partnership to deliver a joint mobile lifecycle management service based on the integration of their respective TTM and Maestro Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platforms. The joint offering enables organizations to gain visibility into and co...

The Estonian Riigikogu (Parliament) this week approved a law making Estonia the first country in the world to allow voting in a national election by mobile phone. The first "cellular election" will be Estonia's next parliamentary elections in 2011.

With our dynamic business environment and fluid business models, enterprise communications is becoming increasingly focused on mobility. The associates and managers who are key to supporting customers, resolving production problems, and addressing other critical business tasks can rare...