TechWeb Mobile & Wireless Update - Monday, May 11, 2009
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*iPhone, Android Developers Tap Skyhook For Location Data
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*Rollout: AirWave Suite Boosts Enterprise Features
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*Apple's New Rule: iPhone 3.0 Compatibility Required
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*Apple Backtracks, Accepts Nine Inch Nails App
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*Facebook Finds A Friend In Windows Mobile
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iPhone, Android Developers Tap Skyhook For Location Data
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The company triangulates Wi-Fi access points with GPS cell phone tower data for extremely accurate and fast results.
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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.
Star Trek: The Last Generation?
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President Obama has ordered a full review of NASA's manned space exploration programs.
Windows 7 Ready? Microsoft Tool Provides Answer
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Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor lets a user know whether a computer can run the company's new operating system.
Viral Art: A Gallery Of Security Threats
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Visually, online threats such as viruses, worms, and trojans can be as beautiful as they are menacing to individual PC users, enterprises, and IT security professionals.
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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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(Mobile News of the Week)
Rollout: AirWave Suite Boosts Enterprise Features
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AirWave Management Suite 6.2 sports new reporting flexibility and compliance capabilities, but it needs a more effective user interface.
Apple's New Rule: iPhone 3.0 Compatibility Required
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Applications already in the App Store will be removed if they don't work with the upcoming firmware, Apple warns developers.
Apple Backtracks, Accepts Nine Inch Nails App
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Rock band's program will be allowed in the App Store after all, despite its ability to stream "objectionable" content.
Facebook Finds A Friend In Windows Mobile
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Windows Mobile's social networking app is the first to let users to upload videos to Facebook directly and tightly integrates with a phone's contacts and calendar data.
Boost Mobile Seeks Retail Expansion
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An expanded retail presence could put Boost on a similar growth pattern as AT&T and Verizon Wireless.
Qwest Offers Free Wi-Fi To Broadband Customers
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The carrier is piggybacking on AT&T's Wi-Fi service, which offers access at Barnes & Noble bookstores and McDonald's and Starbucks locations.
More U.S. Homes Ditching Landlines
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Many of the respondents say they only have landlines in order to get high-speed Internet access like DSL.
Deutsche Telekom Posts $1.4 Billion Loss
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The telecommunications company is struggling in the U.K. and Polish markets, but it sees T-Mobile USA's 3G as a large growth sector.
Mozilla Weaves Its Firefox Cloud
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Weave aims to transform Firefox from a Web page presentation tool into a platform for cloud-based services.
Sony Still Committed To Ericsson Cell Phone Partnership
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Rumors of a Sony Ericsson breakup were fueled by the partnership's loss of up to $533 million in the first quarter.
Android 1.5 Coming Next Week
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T-Mobile will push the "Cupcake" update to G1 users next week, adding a virtual keyboard, home-screen widgets, and an improved browser.
Verizon Rolls Out 3G Wi-Fi Hotspot
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The MiFi uses Verizon's mobile broadband to create a personal Wi-Fi cloud to connect up to five devices to the Internet.
WiGig Alliance Plans Short-Range Wireless Standard
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Heavy hitters LG Electronics, Microsoft, Nokia, Panasonic, Samsung, and partners are up against 802.11n Wi-Fi technology.
Mobile Subscriber APRU Drops 15%
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Concerns about the economy resulted in lower average revenue per user in the fourth quarter, but smartphones and mobile data are seeing strong growth, according to a study.
Verizon Switches To Smartphones For Maintenance Requests
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The company unveiled its iSite open source tool that allows service techs to analyze problems and manage work lists in real time from their BlackBerrys.
AT&T Brings Out 'Send To Mobile' Feature
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The feature is part of AT&T's three-screen strategy, and it lets users send content links to their cell phones from the desktop.
Canada's Bell Nabs Palm Pre
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Bell Mobility is the second carrier to officially say it will offer the Pre, but it remains tight-lipped about a release date or price.
Nokia Rolls Out E52 Smartphone
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The Symbian-powered handset packs Wi-Fi, 3G, corporate e-mail capabilities, and a battery that Nokia says can provide up to eight hours of talk time.
Broadcom Takes Bid To Acquire Emulex To Stockholders
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The $764 million tender offer for the smaller company is scheduled to expire on June 3.
iPhone, iPod Touch Get Organized With Bento
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FileMaker's iPhone version includes 25 prebuilt templates and is a standalone application that doesn't need the desktop version.
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Microsoft Shoots Blanks At Windows 7 Users
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Redmond this week plans to send a batch of test files to Release Candidate users to validate auto-update systems.
Taming Gmail: Streamline Your Inbox With Google's Filters
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Krugman Fears Lost Decade for U.S. Due to Half-Steps
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The United States risks a
Japan-style lost decade of growth if it does not take aggressive
action to stimulate its economy and clean up its banking system,
Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman said on Monday.
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