Microsoft gets serious about mobile: Best of Mobile World Congress 2010

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	Windows Phone 7: Microsoft gets serious about mobile Microsoft Monday announced the new version of its phone operating system, Windows Phone 7. It's a sweeping redesign, coupled with an aggressive new partnership with handset makers and mobile carriers. Read More WHITE PAPER: BeyondTrust Building a Secure and Compliant Windows Desktop While removing administrator rights from end users may be the Holy Grail of desktop security, doing so can have an impact on what end users need to do their jobs. Read this white paper to discover powerful strategies to effectively remove administrator rights and improve desktop security. Read Now In this Issue Best of Mobile World Congress 2010 GSM Association adopts carriers' framework for LTE voice Mobile operators talk up prospects of voice on LTE phones Windows Phone 7, Meego OS herald new start for smartphones Biggest mobile operators join forces on app store project Samsung hopes super screen will boost Bada platform Juniper sharpens up mobile delivery Google-T-Mobile speculation spreads over Web 10 Microsoft Windows Mobile blogs worth tracking Are iPhone Hackers Lying in Wait? Microsoft vies with Apple in device battle Adobe AIR 2.0, full-featured Flash Player coming to smartphones SlingPlayer Mobile iPhone app adds 3G support Verizon users to get Skype in late March WHITE PAPER: Force10 Three Steps to Saving with Cloud Computing Discover how cloud computing dynamically streamlines your infrastructure, delivering freely scalable application service levels; dramatic capital and operational cost savings; flexibility and agility without new hardware; and more. Read Now! Best of Mobile World Congress 2010 MWC is the premier global event for the mobile phone industry. Here's the latest in mobile innovations, from Barcelona this week. Read More GSM Association adopts carriers' framework for LTE voice The mobile world is one step closer to adopting a single standard for voice over Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology now that the GSM Association has adopted the carrier-sponsored 'One Voice' initiative. Read More Mobile operators talk up prospects of voice on LTE phones While LTE modems delivering mobile broadband services already appearing on the market, LTE phones are still some way off -- not least because manufacturers and operators have yet to agree how calls will be placed and voice traffic carried over LTE's all-IP networks. One of the solutions to that problem got a boost Monday, though, with more operators and vendors lending it their support. Read More Windows Phone 7, Meego OS herald new start for smartphones Three traditional powerhouses in computing and communications -- Microsoft, Intel and Nokia -- moved today to adapt to a quick-changing smartphone and mobile device market. Read More WHITE PAPER: Brocade Q&A: Virtualization and Cloud Preparedness As more applications are added per compute node in a virtual environment, there is a corresponding increase in I/O requirements. In this Q&A with Brocade CTO, Dave Stevens, he answers questions on how to ensure your network infrastructure, all the way down to the storage level, is ready for virtualization. Read More! Biggest mobile operators join forces on app store project Twenty-four mobile network operators have formed the Wholesale Applications Community to avoid fragmenting the apps market and to give developers one point of entry to all the members, the GSM Association announced on Monday. Read More Samsung hopes super screen will boost Bada platform Samsung is hoping a "Super-AMOLED" capacitive touchscreen will set the GT-S8500 Wave, the company's first smartphone based on its own Bada platform, apart from the competition, it said on Sunday. But analysts are questioning if the platform will be able to attract developers as well. Read More Juniper sharpens up mobile delivery Juniper Network has new offerings to improve mobile delivery Read More Google-T-Mobile speculation spreads over Web Web discussion: Google Inc. should buy T-Mobile USA from its German parent and distribute free Nexus One Android-based smartphones to the carrier's 33 million subscribers. The free smartphones, of course, would run location-aware Google mobile ads. Read More WHITE PAPER: Qwest Connecting to Better Customer Service Less than a third of surveyed IT executives believe their companies are "highly effective" at adapting to changing customer needs and priorities. Businesses that build a robust voice and data network infrastructure can achieve a high level of responsiveness, and transform customer information and feedback into actionable results. Click here. 10 Microsoft Windows Mobile blogs worth tracking Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is expected to talk up Windows Mobile 7 at the Mobile World Congress next week. We hope you'll turn first for the smartphone news to Network World, but if you're looking for a variety of viewpoints, these blogs will round things out for you. Read More Are iPhone Hackers Lying in Wait? A new survey shows the fallibility of iPhone owners when it comes to security. Read More Microsoft vies with Apple in device battle A presentation at the Global High-Tech Summit 2010 shows Microsoft software on devices like tablets Read More Adobe AIR 2.0, full-featured Flash Player coming to smartphones Goal is to give desktop and mobile users the same capabilities for AIR and Flash, and to give developers a common runtime and set of APIs Read More SlingPlayer Mobile iPhone app adds 3G support Sling Media, a subsidiary of EchoStar Corporation, has announced its SlingPlayer Mobile iPhone application has been updated to support 3G networks and is available now from the iTunes App Store. However, the UK iTunes App Store is still showing Wi-fi only for the Slingbox compatible application. Read More Verizon users to get Skype in late March Verizon Wireless has joined forces with Skype, and its subscribers will be able to start making calls using Skype on nine selected smartphones in late March, the operator said on Tuesday. Read More
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