TECHWEB TODAY: MOBILE & WIRELESS
Monday, September 12, 2005
IN THIS ISSUE
1. Today's Top Story: Oracle CRM Strategy Centers On $5.85 Billion
Siebel Deal
2. Mobile & Wireless News Of The Week
Breaking News
3. Execs: EBay Plans To Keep Skype 'Separate,' For Now
4. Oracle Seeks Top Spot In Business Apps With Siebel Buy
5. Mozilla Fixes Firefox Flaw
6. Microsoft Delay Of Patch Underscores Slow Fix Process
Today's Most Popular Stories
7. Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 Releases As First Bug Surfaces
8. Interview: Cerf Discusses His Jump To Google
9. Microsoft Looks To Developers To Close Rivals' Search Lead
10. Movie, Recording Industries Join Internet2
11. FEMA Will Fix IE-Only Assistance Site, Open Access
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1. TODAY'S TOP STORY: Oracle CRM Strategy Centers On $5.85 Billion
Siebel Deal
Oracle's acquisition is likely to send ripples through the
application market, affecting competitors from Salesforce.com to IBM.
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2. MOBILE & WIRELESS NEWS OF THE WEEK
Ericsson To Invest $1 Billon In Chinese 3G
Swedish mobile phone supplier Ericsson has announced it would invest
$1 billion in China over the next three years to meet growing demand
for 3G and 4G telecom services there.
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Vendors Investing Heavily In Mobile TV
The cellular industry is spending a lot of money in hopes that
subscribers soon will make mobile television the first mainstream
application for wireless data.
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PalmSource's Value Questioned By Investors
At least one financial analyst questions the price a Japanese company
is paying for PalmSource, calling the purchase 'dumb.'
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WiMAX To Aid Katrina Recovery Effort
Intel will help deploy WiMAX wireless broadband access to help
provide access and phone service to those in the Katrina recovery
effort.
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'WiBro' Has Global Wireless Broadband Potential: Study
Once thought to be only a regional variant of WiMAX, the Korean WiBro
standard has the potential to spread worldwide, a new study says.
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WiMAX Said To Complement Wi-Fi, 3G
Despite predictions that WiMAX will compete with 3G, those two
technologies and Wi-Fi will co-exist peacefully, a new report claims.
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Motorola (Finally) Releases iTunes Phone
After months of fervent speculation, the device is now available from
Cingular in the U.S.
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BREAKING NEWS
3. Execs: EBay Plans To Keep Skype 'Separate,' For Now
The auction giant will package PayPal's e-payment service with
Skype's VoIP, even as Wall Street does not seem impressed with the
proposed merger.
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4. Oracle Seeks Top Spot In Business Apps With Siebel Buy
Oracle's blockbuster deal to acquire Siebel Systems shows that the
database kingpin remains dead serious about building up its business
applications power.
http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/eqGo0Hi7YQ0G4U0DgxO0Ek
5. Mozilla Fixes Firefox Flaw
Mozilla posts a temporary workarounds for the most recent bug in its
Firefox and Mozilla browsers that include both manual and automated
fixes.
http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/eqGo0Hi7YQ0G4U0DgxP0El
6. Microsoft Delay Of Patch Underscores Slow Fix Process
Microsoft has withdrawn the single security patch once scheduled for
Tuesday, saying that it needs more time to test the fix.
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TODAY'S MOST POPULAR STORIES
7. Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 Releases As First Bug Surfaces
Mozilla has released the first official beta of Firefox 1.5, the next
major update of the group's open source browser.
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8. Interview: Cerf Discusses His Jump To Google
Vinton Cerf sees a growing need for innovation in software that can
find creative uses for the sea of data flowing into the Internet each
day.
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9. Microsoft Looks To Developers To Close Rivals' Search Lead
Microsoft Corp. is turning to developers in trying to close the lead
in search enjoyed by rivals Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc.
http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/eqGo0Hi7YQ0G4U0DgxS0Eo
10. Movie, Recording Industries Join Internet2
The movie and music industries said they have joined the Internet2
consortium in order to work with researchers on new digital rights
management technologies.
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11. FEMA Will Fix IE-Only Assistance Site, Open Access
FEMA criticized earlier this week for blocking access to its
assistance Web site to all but Microsoft's Internet Explorer, now
says it is working on opening to other browsers.
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