TechWeb Mobile & Wireless Update - Monday, Feb 9, 2009
(Table of Contents)
*BlackBerry Enterprise Server Revealed
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*BlackBerry Prepped To Challenge Desktop Phones
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*U.S. Wireless, Internet Companies Vying For Stimulus
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*Purple Labs Revenues Jump On Openwave Deal
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*Google Makes 1.5 Million Books Available For iPhone, Android Phones
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( Today's Top Story)
BlackBerry Enterprise Server Revealed
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Version 5.0 of RIM's back-end server software is expected to improve administrative controls, enhance e-mail capabilities, and offer 450 security policies.
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Getting The Most Out Of Your SSD
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Our guide to your solid-state disk options, as well as how to get the best performance from your flash-based mass storage unit, with a look at Intel's X25-M drive and offerings on HP, Apple, and Sony portables.
Google Gmail Within Striking Distance Of Hotmail
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Between September 2007 and September 2008, Gmail's visitor total grew 39%, from 18.8 million to 26 million.
Solid State Disks, Demystified
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The HP Mini 1000 netbook, MacBook Air, and Vaio TT all sport solid state disks, a technology that's still evolving. Our hardware expert explains where SSD is today -- and where it's going.
Ubuntu Linux Vs. Windows Vista: The Battle For Your Desktop
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Is Linux finally ready to take on Windows as a desktop OS? We tried out both Vista and Ubuntu on individual PCs to see which works better. Here's who won.
Wolfe's Den Image Gallery
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BAI Retail Delivery News: HP Sees Infrastructure as Key to Branch Transformation
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HP launches Banking Innovation Center to show potential impact of emerging technologies.
UBS Joins DTCC Managed Accounts Service
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The centralized platform is designed to automate and standardize communications among sponsors, investment managers and service providers.
DTCC Launches New ID Net Service
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The new service streamlines clearance and settlement, cuts customer costs and reduces fails associated with affirmed institutional equity trades, the utility said.
(Mobile News of the Week)
BlackBerry Prepped To Challenge Desktop Phones
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Research In Motion is trying to give its smartphones the same functionality as enterprise desk phones with its Mobile Voice System.
U.S. Wireless, Internet Companies Vying For Stimulus
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Nearly $10 billion in federal grants and loans and $100
million in tax credits could be spent.
Purple Labs Revenues Jump On Openwave Deal
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Quadrupled revenues are attributed to the acquisition and relaunch of the Openwave mobile browser business.
Google Makes 1.5 Million Books Available For iPhone, Android Phones
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The mobile version of Google Book Search gives would-be Amazon Kindle buyers another option for reading classic literature on the go.
VeriSign Sells Mobile Messaging Unit
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The move is part of a larger strategy to sell off noncore business so VeriSign can focus on domain registry and Internet security technology.
Verizon Wireless-Alltel Market Shoppers Lining Up
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The estimated 2.1 million wireless subscribers in the 100 markets could represent values of as much as $3 billion.
Apple Delay In iPhone App Feature Not Serious, Analysts Say
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The technology would enable third-party iPhone applications to run in the background, letting users immediately receive alerts, messages, and other content.
Broadcom Adds Wireless Drivers To Android
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By including the drivers for combo chips in the Android platform, Broadcom is paving the way for handsets that are sleeker and use wireless connectivity.
RIM CEOs Reach Settlement With Regulators
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Canadian regulators were seeking to fine the co-CEOs about $80 million for their roles in a backdating scandal that stretched back more than 10 years.
T-Mobile Brings Out 8-Megapixel 'Memoir'
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The Memoir has the highest megapixel count of any U.S. phone, and it also can browse the Web, and send and receive e-mails with T-Mobile's 3G network.
Wavesat Gets $14.4 Million In VC Funding For 4G Silicon
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The WiMax-to-LTE supplier's 4G Odyssey chipsets have been chosen by Japanese wireless operator Willcom for use with its XG-PHS services.
Free Visual Voice Mail Comes To BlackBerry
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YouMail is bringing the ability to scroll through voice messages and forward them to multiple BlackBerry handsets.
Apple, AT&T Face Multiple iPhone Lawsuits
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Four lawsuits have been filed in the last two weeks regarding the touch-screen smartphone's ability to surf at 3G speeds and cracks in the casing.
Asus, Garmin Jointly Developing GPS Smartphones
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The upcoming release of the Nuvifone smartphone is expected integrate location information into the core functionality of the handset.
Google Unveils 'Latitude' Location Sharing
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Users can opt in to share their location with friends and family -- or mask their location, if they'd rather.
Alcatel-Lucent Looks To 4G For Growth
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After a $5 billion loss in its fourth quarter, the company says investments in LTE infrastructure may bring it better days ahead.
Tibco Launches Hardware Messaging Appliance
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The supplier of Rendezvous infrastructure messaging software is bringing out its first hardware product, looking to speed up communications for brokerage houses and other industries requiring fast messaging services.
Samsung To Launch App Store
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The competitor to Apple's App Store will debut 1,100 programs for Samsung's Symbian and Windows Mobile handsets.
Motorola Launches LTE Networking Lab In U.K.
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The facility will be used to test OFDM-based mobile broadband networks and to develop 4G migration strategies.
Vodafone Sees $14.9 Billion In Sales
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The cellular provider saw its 289 million customers use more minutes and data services for the last quarter.
Toshiba's TG01 Challenges iPhone 3G
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The Windows Mobile smartphone uses the powerful Snapdragon chipset from Qualcomm, and it also has Wi-Fi, 3G, Bluetooth, and GPS.
Sprint Rolls Out Loyalty Program
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In another move to shake the stigma of having poor customer service, Sprint is debuting a rewards program that offers early upgrades, discounts, and access to new handsets.
Exploding Cell Phone Kills Man In China
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A faulty cell phone battery could have caused the explosion, which severed an artery in the man's neck.
G1 Users Get Voice Search With Update
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An over-the-air software update will be pushed to G1 users over the next two weeks and will add Google's Voice Search application.
Motorola Loses $3.6 Billion, CFO Departs
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The company expects to launch next-generation devices during the fourth quarter of 2009.
India Unveils $20 Laptop
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Makers of the Sakshat laptop aim to make it commercially available in six months -- and promise to drop the price to $10.
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Microsoft To Launch Windows Mobile App Store
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