TechWeb Mobile & Wireless Update - Monday, May 18, 2009
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*Interop Preview: Making A Mobile Enterprise
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*T-Mobile Looks To Settle Early Termination Fee Lawsuit
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*iPhone App Store Downloads Worth Less Than One Billion
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*Sybase, Samsung Team For Enterprise Mobility
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*iPhone Helps AT&T Lead U.S. Smartphone Market
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Interop Preview: Making A Mobile Enterprise
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Cutting-edge trends in enterprise mobility will be spotlighted at the Mobile Business Conference at Interop in Las Vegas, May 17 - 21.
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A Clearer Case For Cloud Storage
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Vendors are touting storage-as-a-service as a cure-all. But to skeptics, cloud-based storage is an idea that's so '90s. To see what cloud storage can really do for enterprises, we invited leading vendors to respond to an RFI we built for a fictional company. Five answered the call with compelling arguments for storing at least some corporate data in the cloud.
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Step-By-Step: Moving Your Server To Linux
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You can make the move Ubuntu Linux Server in no time at all by following the steps in this hands-on guide where you'll learn how to install the software and start using your Linux server.
Windows 7 Revealed: 24 Screen Shots Of Microsoft's Next Operating System
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Here's a first visual look at the Vista successor, as previewed at Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles.
HP Recalls 70,000 Fire-Hazardous Batteries
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The faulty lithium-ion batteries are used in laptops sold under a variety of brands, including HP Pavilion, Compaq Presario, HP, and HP Compaq.
Windows 7 Expected To Kill Vista
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Researchers at Gartner urge clients to skip Vista altogether if they haven't already deployed the OS.
Atlantis Crew Enjoying Views, Tweets On Hubble Mission
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NASA astronaut Mike Massimino's first "tweet" from orbit read, "Launch was awesome!"
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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.
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State of Open Source Adoption
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When selecting applications to meet growing business needs, enterprise IT organizations have more options than ever. But has the overabundance of commercial, open source, and hybrid software choices really made our lives easier, or just added more complexity to an already lengthy evaluation and buying process?
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(Mobile News of the Week)
T-Mobile Looks To Settle Early Termination Fee Lawsuit
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The suit was originally filed in August 2008, and it covered subscribers affected between July 1999 and February 2009.
iPhone App Store Downloads Worth Less Than One Billion
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No worries, say analysts, noting that, much like iTunes, Apple is using the App Store to drive demand for its hardware.
Sybase, Samsung Team For Enterprise Mobility
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The move is an attempt to capitalize on the trend of businesses wanting to get more out of their deployed smartphones than just mobile e-mail.
iPhone Helps AT&T Lead U.S. Smartphone Market
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The carrier has more than twice as many smartphone users as others, according to a report by ComScore.
Cell Phone Service For Mt. Everest? Because It's There
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Nepal Telecom's approach calls for a series of satellite antennas to be set up below the heights of Mount Everest, and cell phone users can link to the NT network over them.
Google Giving Android A Barcode Scanner
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The move could make it easier for Android users to find and buy products online, which would help Google move its lucrative ad platform to the mobile space.
MBTA Drivers Cell Phone Use Ban Protested By Union
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The action follows a driver's admission that he was texting when the trolley he was driving went through a red light and crashed into another trolley, injuring 50.
Will MySpace, Facebook Dominate Mobile?
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MySpace expects nearly half of its members to access the social networking site via a mobile phone within five years.
Four In 10 Interop Attendees Increasing IT Spending
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Target investment areas include virtualization, cloud computing, IT energy conservation, mobility and wireless, and network infrastructure and data center upgrades.
Sprint MiFi Hotspot Offers Personal 3G
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The portable device uses Sprint's EV-DO Rev. A mobile data network to connect up to five devices.
Government-Regulated Power Efficiency Sought For Consumer Electronics
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The amount of power consumed worldwide by mobile phones, TVs, and PCs could jeopardize efforts to reduce emissions linked to global warming, says an advisory group.
Clearwire Prepares Mobile WiMax Launch In Atlanta
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The service is expected to expand this summer in Las Vegas and Chicago with Philadelphia and Dallas/Fort Worth to follow later in the year.
Sony Reports First Annual Loss In 14 Years
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The company reports a net loss of $1.01 billion on revenue of $78.9 billion, prompting more cost-cutting measures.
Samsung Intros Next-Gen BlackJack
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The i637 Jack has the messaging prowess the BlackJack line is known for, and it has Wi-Fi, 3G, GPS, and will be upgradeable to Windows Mobile 6.5.
RIM, SAP Team For Mobile CRM
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The collaboration means BlackBerry users will be able to securely access real-time information from their CRM software.
Verizon Sells Wireline Assets For $8.6 Billion
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The company is selling its traditional wireline business in 14 states to focus on growth areas like wireless, fiber-optic lines, and Internet services.
Nokia Stops Investing In Ovi Share
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The company will stop updating its social networking service to concentrate on its app store and collaborations with established players like Facebook.
Verizon Adds Business Calling Plans
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The carrier is targeting small businesses with wireless calling plans that offer unlimited mobile-to-mobile calls, free technical support, and online management tools.
SlingPlayer For iPhone Taxing AT&T's Network
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The application enables customers with a Slingbox to watch and control their televisions, including cable boxes and digital video recorders, through the iPhone.
Clearwire, Cisco Team Up On Wireless WiMax
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The companies are pairing Cisco's mobile WiMax infrastructure with Clearwire's ecosystem of partners to deploy mobile broadband.
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Madoff Investors Probed by U.S. Prosecutors-WSJ
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U.S. prosecutors have broadened their criminal investigation of the Bernard Madoff case beyond the friends and family of the confessed swindler to at least eight investors and associates, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday, citing people familiar with the matter.
Derivatives Rule Changes May Not Hurt Banks Much
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The U.S. government's crackdown on the $450 trillion over-the-counter derivatives market -- a high-margin business for major banks -- may not threaten bank profits as much as some analysts initially thought.
AT&T To Offer Cloud-Based Storage
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The telecom giant joins IBM, Amazon, Symantec, and others in offering a storage-as-a-service product to businesses.
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