PCs will be configured by Intel and its partners according to Red Cross requirements to allow shelters to exchange important information with the organization?s headquarters regarding victim status, resource needs and case management. The systems, along with broad...

The Verizon Foundation has started a 2-to-1 match for every dollar donated by Verizon employees to the American Red Cross to aid relief efforts in New Orleans and sections of Alabama, Florida and Mississippi that were devastated by Hurricane Katrina.

Cingular Wireless yesterday announced a multi-pronged approach to raising millions of dollars to provide relief to the victims of Hurricane Katrina, and to assist its own employees who have been affected by the disaster.

Since it went live, The Hurricane Katrina Information channel has been providing viewers with the ability to send text messages to family and friends separated by the hurricane and its aftermat. Messages are scrolled across the bottom of the television screen on DIRECTV channel 100.

The NTT DoCoMo M1000 is the first 3G phone to use Opera's Extensible Rendering Architecture (ERA. The speed of 3G and WLAN networks combined with a larger screen size lets users browse the Web with a look and feel that is remarkably close to a desktop experience, Opera says.

A Calgary-based designer and manufacturer of GPS and wireless products used in more than 50 countries, CSI Wireless has become a CTAPP sponsor by providing vehicle-tracking services that will enable CTAPP organizers and supporters to closely track the cyclists thr...

Sprint Nextel Corporation and IWO Holdings, Inc. today announced an agreement for Sprint Nextel to acquire IWO Holdings for approximately $427 million, including the assumption of approximately $208 million of net debt.

Vodafone Germany and The Cloud have formed a strategic WLAN partnership. The Cloud plans to establish a nationwide network of 10,000 hotspots over the next four years, which will provide wireless Internet at key public access points.

Forget Web surfing only on advanced phones capable of running a browser; now comes Opera Mini, a small Java client capable of running on mid-tier and even low-tier phones - with the rest being taken care of by the remotely located Opera Mini server.

'The wireless industry is focused on bringing additional rich media experiences and a new generation of interactive services to the mobile consumer, and we are committed to being a leader in that arena,' said John McKinley, America Online's CTO and President, Digi...

Is the world's largest maker of infrastructure equipment interested in acquiring Nokia's wireless infrastructure technology by buying the company? Nokia is the world's second-largest provider of mobile network infrastructure after Ericsson.

'We are thrilled to be bringing the iTunes Music Store to Japan, and hope music fans here love it as much as others around the world do,' said Apple CEO Steve Jobs as Apple today launched its revolutionary iTunes Music Store in Japan.

'The FCC has agreed that uniting these two great companies is in the public's interest,' commented Tim Donahue, president and CEO of Nextel, as Sprint and Nextel Communications Inc. yesterday announced that they have received Federal Communications Commission (FCC...

Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, Nokia's new CEO, commented: 'It is a privilege to be offered this position. Nokia is a dynamic company in a fast-changing and fluid environment. I look forward to working together with our team to help Nokia shape the future of mobile commu...

'Leveraging Answers Anywhere allows developers to build highly intuitive applications that 'know' and can anticipate users' needs,' said Ilan Dar, senior architect of Sybase's Answers Anywhere group, talking exclusively to SYS-CON Media as iAnywhere Solutions, I...

With cell phone (or mobile phone) usage reaching deep penetration in the U.S., the new frontier is web browsing and searching. An existing standard, WML, seems inadequate, so now a number of companies are trying to blaze the trail along this frontier.

America Online announced that it is testing a suite of new AOL Mobile Search Services that give mobile users easy access to the AOL Search service, Pinpoint Shopping Search and AOL Yellow Pages. Now available as a public beta test, the AOL Mobile Search Services ...

A revamped CBS News Web site that greatly increases the amount of video available to advertisers has been introduced by CBS, reports AdWeek. CBSNews.com at present carries 25,000 video clips and will feature news videos throughout the day. CBS Digital will sell ...

Remote Dynamics, Inc., a provider of mobile resource management solutions for commercial fleets, announced that four additional technology companies have joined the company?s REDIpartner reseller program to extend REDIview sales within mobile resource management...

Remote Dynamics, Inc., a provider of mobile resource management solutions for commercial fleets, announced that four additional technology companies have joined the company?s REDIpartner reseller program to extend REDIview sales within mobile resource management...

Thanks to Skype International and Boingo Wireless partnership - users will now be able to access Skype's VoIP technology from 18,000 Wi-Fi hot spots worldwide. Skype spokesperson Kelly Larabee said that Skype Zones powered by Boingo are geared not only toward bu...

The new Reef Point UMA Security Gateway provides comprehensive security for Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA) networks, the company says, and unlike other solutions, such as session border controllers, is massively scalable, securing up to half a million simultaneous connections.

Nokia is demonstrating its leading commitment to mobile software development and advancing open end-to-end mobile Java platform architecture in the mobile space here at the 2005 JavaOne conference in San Francisco this week. Nokia's global developer support prog...

By improving Java JIT and DAC performance, code size and power efficiency, Jazelle RCT technology aims to enable advanced consumer electronic devices including smart phones, digital TV and portable media players, spearheading a new wave of applications using Jav...

3G Americas, a trade association supporting the wireless industry throughout the Americas, has published a technical recommendation position paper on wireless Java technologies to drive application interoperability on handsets in the Americas.

KT and Intel are going to collaborate on WiBro 802.16e and WiMAX. 'With Mobile WiMAX, Koreans can take the broadband Internet access they have enjoyed for years in their home on the road,' said Intel's chief executive Paul Otellini.

Wi-Fi and WiMAX infrastructure revenue are expected to reach $5.2 billion and $115 million respectively in 2005, according to the TIA's recent Telecommunications Market Review and Forecast. The Wi-Fi equipment market is increasing at a fast pace and will continue ...

'Ericsson and Napster are uniquely suited to offer mobile operators a simple, cohesive and personalized digital music experience for their consumers,' said Chris Gorog, Napster's chairman and CEO, as Ericsson and Napster recently announced a global partnership to ...

Yahoo Inc. has acquired DialPad Communications, whose VoIP technology converts conversations into data packets that can then be transmitted across the Internet using today's widely prevalent broadband connections.

Intel took a step toward a holy grail of wireless communications with the announcement of a chip that will receive many types of WiFi signals being sent under the 802.11X family. This is a milestone along the way to producing a chip that will enable reception of a...

Google Mobile, says the search giant, 'makes it easy to access online information - over 8 billion pages and a billion images - on your cell phone or mobile device.' You can also search more than a billion images and get the one you need on your phone with Google Image Search.

Aplicom, a Finnish manufacturer of wireless platforms for professional applications, today announced that the company will take over the manufacturing, sales and support of Nokia's M2M (machine-to-machine) GPRS modules. The products will subsequently be sold g...

Rocket Mobile won a pair of BREW 2005 Developer Awards at Qualcomm's BREW 2005 Conference in San Diego for its Song IDentity application.

Deephaven Capital Management, a 5-percent stakeholder in MCI, is urging other stockholders to vote against MCI's acquisition by Verizon. Deephaven believes that MCI shareholders can receive a better offer.

palmOne has announced that Optus, an Australian leader in integrated telecommunications, is offering an integrated corporate e-mail package on the highly acclaimed 650 smartphone.

Britain's largest telco, BT, has launched a cellular phone that switches between fixed and mobile networks. The phone works like a mobile outdoors but automatically switches to a broadband line once users enter their home.

'Ericsson and Napster are uniquely suited to offer mobile operators a simple, cohesive and personalized digital music experience for their consumers,' said Chris Gorog, Napster's chairman and CEO, as Ericsson and Napster yesterday announced a global partnership to...

Mobile operators worldwide are ramping up deployments of next-generation softswitch platforms, a new report finds, as they seek to address the demands of massive subscriber growth and huge increases in voice traffic.

The Tokyo Interop show is known for its leading-edge announcements and a large, enthusiastic audience in a country that is among the global leaders in communications technology. A U.S. company, Firetide recently showed well at this event.

Location-based services (LBS) just became possible on non-Java phones when Nextle unrolled its Nextel Wireless GPS Platform. LBS applications developed on the Nextel Wireless GPS Platform will support all Nextel Assisted-GPS devices, including the BlackBerry 752...