By Maureen O'Gara  Microsoft Thursday came in with revenues over a billion dollars short of Wall Street projections, fooling punters who had run the stock up and perhaps explaining why it RTM'd Windows 7 24 hours before - to cushion the blow even if 7 won't be out until October 22 and even if Microsoft d... Jul. 23, 2009 06:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,199 |
By Ian Thain  Sybase reported historical Q2 records achieved in operating, income, operating margin, net income, EPS, and cash flow. Revenue and EPS exceeded first call consensus. Management raised full-year guidance for revenue, EPS, and cash flow. Jul. 23, 2009 11:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,438 |
By iPhone News Desk  Lightstreamer and Valemobi from Sao Paulo, Brazil have signed an agreement where Valemobi will distribute Lightstreamer's push technology as part of Valemobi's platform for Real-time iPhone solutions.
"We chose Lightstreamer because this is the state-of-the art middleware for distri... Jul. 22, 2009 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,560 |
By Salvatore Genovese  Monitise Americas announced the launch of its Mobile Money application on the App Store. Mobile Money gives iPhone and iPod touch users simple access to their account information using a dynamic application that is easy to navigate and safe to use. Mobile Money is a leading global solu... Jul. 21, 2009 09:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,175 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Apple hit one out of the park Tuesday when it reported fiscal third-quarter earnings of $1.23 billion, or $1.35 a share, up 15%, on revenues, up 12%, to $8.34 billion with a tickled gross margin of 36.3% despite higher component costs and iPhone price cuts. Cash flow from operations ca... Jul. 21, 2009 09:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,159 |
By Yeshim Deniz  MPAM Wireless., an affiliate of MatlinPatterson, submitted to Nortel and its creditor constituencies a proposal to acquire substantially all of Nortel's CDMA and LTE Access assets for US$725 million. MatlinPatterson believes that its alternative proposal is higher and better than the "... Jul. 21, 2009 08:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,379 |
By Liz McMillan  AT&T Interactive and Yahoo! announced an agreement, under which AT&T’s advertising sales force of more than 5,000 will sell Yahoo! display inventory to local businesses across the United States. The collaboration adds Yahoo!’s display inventory to AT&T Interactive’s robust local online... Jul. 21, 2009 08:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,129 |
By Nadezhda Lukyanova  CloudBerry Explorer freeware is a powerful Windows program that helps to manage all aspects of Amazon S3 storage. Many people use Amazon S3 to host their media content or entire websites to offload static content from their web servers, increase scalability or deal with so called TechC... Jul. 21, 2009 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 680 |
By Jennifer Moebius  After web browsers and social media sites, you were probably wondering how we’d top ourselves for the next uTest Bug Battle. Well, after months of debate and deliberation, uTesters will compete to find bugs in six of the top Twitter desktop apps!
Unless you’ve been asleep, in a coma... Jul. 21, 2009 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 679 |
By Liz McMillan  TIBCO Software Inc. (NASDAQ: TIBX) today
announced that it received a Stevie Award for Best House Organ/Publication
in the Corporate Literature category at The 2009 American Business Awards.
The company's winning publication, NOW Magazine, provides IT professionals
worldwide with a... Jul. 20, 2009 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,196 |
By Yeshim Deniz  Modulation Index, LLC announced that the Tuner2 Hi-Fi Radio app for Apple iPhone is the first ever iPhone application to natively support the true RTMP protocol for streaming audio via Adobe Flash Media Server. Radio stations can now use a single standard streaming format to serve MPE... Jul. 16, 2009 01:15 PM EDT Reads: 6,192 |
By Karyn Price  Veramark Technologies President and CEO Tony Mazzullo will deliver a presentation at the IT Financial Management Association’s (ITFMA) “Financial World of Information Technology” Conference, being held July 13-17 at the Francis Marion Hotel in Charleston, South Carolina. Mazzullo’s pre... Jul. 15, 2009 09:57 AM EDT Reads: 597 |
By Ian Thain  I'm really proud to announce that I have been asked to present at the Wireless World 2009 event, at the Sydney Convention Centre, 9-10 September 2009. During this two day event, which will be my first trip down under, I will be addressing the attendees twice on two different but, conne... Jul. 15, 2009 07:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,049 |
By Pat Romanski  Apple’s iPhone sparked an explosion in consumer awareness of mobile applications. New applications are proliferating and “app stores” are springing up. But most of today’s applications need handsets with robust computing power, limiting their potential market. However a new architectur... Jul. 8, 2009 01:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,651 |
By Ian Thain  Whenever I speak or write (check out other recent articles) about Enterprise Mobility, I always express the necessity of Mobile Device Management, to cover all of the mobile devices that an Enterprise may have, in the very important areas of... Jul. 8, 2009 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,445 |
By Ian Thain  Today Sybase iAnywhere announced that it had added add the Android framework to its growing list of Bluetooth ported products. This is part of a new version of its Blue SDK (Software Developer Kit)... Jul. 8, 2009 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,815 |
By Liz McMillan  Sybase iAnywhere today announced a new version of its iAnywhere® Blue SDK (Software Developer Kit) that will help developers and product managers incorporate Bluetooth® capabilities into Android devices. With the underlying Bluetooth functionality running on a Linux based 2.6.x kernel,... Jul. 8, 2009 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,301 |
By Rita O'Brien FatWire Software today announced that Rail Europe, the largest distributor of European rail products in North America, launched its new website (www.raileurope.com) using the FatWire Content Server web content management (WCM) solution. Jul. 7, 2009 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 597 |
By AfterLogic Team  Why are we so confident about the first point? Because IMAP support in WebMail Pro now includes quotas for automatic mailbox size management, direct search on IMAP server, and new easy-to-use approach to deleting e-mails.
And what's so special in cPanel support? Because it's now rea... Jul. 1, 2009 11:00 PM EDT Reads: 965 |
By Nazli Ekim  Business users already heavily rely on their BlackBerry smartphones for telephone and wireless email communications. The OCS for Blackberry solution adds secure instant messaging and presence, to fill in the missing gap, and provide true remote connectivity and productivity capabilitie... Jul. 1, 2009 10:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,264 |
By Katharine Hadow  Comodo's free pc security software, Comodo Internet Security, has earned five stars, the maximum number possible, at CNET/Download.com. Comodo Internet Security is a combination antivirus and firewall product boasting Default Deny Protection. The suite's Host Intrusion Prevention Syste... Jul. 1, 2009 01:36 PM EDT Reads: 879 |
By Maureen O'Gara  HTC has showed off its third Android phone, a little anti-fingerprint touch screen gismo called Hero that will surely be a hero to Adobe since it’s the first Android phone to support Adobe Flash. Flash Lite 3.1 to be precise, which should give users a more complete web browsing experie... Jun. 29, 2009 06:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,860 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Former Sun president Ed Zander has suddenly resurfaced on the NetSuite board. Oracle CEO Larry Ellison owns most of the on-demand Salesforce.com rival and Oracle is buying Sun. NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson also used to work for Zander at Sun. Zander, who was ousted as CEO of Motorola after... Jun. 26, 2009 04:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,762 |
By Maureen O'Gara  HP has added to the telecom versions of ProLiant, BladeSystem, and Integrity server families as well as its StorageWorks portfolio. It says the customer has become “king” and that telecom operators are racing to streamline their networks. Proprietary technologies are giving way to open... Jun. 26, 2009 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,030 |
By Wireless News Desk  Toshiba America Information Systems Inc., Telecommunication Systems Division (Toshiba — www.telecom.toshiba.com) has announced the availability of its Unified Communications Suite, which bundles Toshiba’s unified communications applications in a single software package. All application... Jun. 24, 2009 11:01 AM EDT Reads: 869 |
By Roger Strukhoff  Yet I spent too many years writing, publishing, and producing for Sun to let this deal go uncommented upon. The relationship started when we shook hands and signed a deal with Ed Zander to acquire an in-house magazine on the day the Loma Prieta earthquake hit the Bay Area (I was with I... Jun. 23, 2009 04:30 PM EDT Reads: 3,612 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Intel, the world's largest chipmaker, and Nokia, the world's largest cell phone maker, have banded together to engineer a new class of x86 mobile device - widgets beyond smartphones, notebooks and netbooks - that apparently shrinks the power of a desktop into something that fits in you... Jun. 23, 2009 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,477 |
By NeonDrum News Leading Femtocell Vendors Come Together to Advance Common Approach to Femtozone Applications. Femtocells sit at the intersection of multiple networks including mobile, Internet, home and office - all of which are fundamental to people’s lives. The intelligence within the femtocell, for... Jun. 23, 2009 10:40 AM EDT Reads: 751 |
By John Funnell  The question has been asked by many. Where is the telecommunication market headed over the next decade? The subject was highlighted last week by visionary technology leader Dr Hossein Eslambolchi, Chairman & CEO of 2020 Ventures , who addressed over 50 telecom heads last week in Califo... Jun. 23, 2009 10:38 AM EDT Reads: 1,924 |
By Wireless News Desk  Boingo Wireless, the world’s largest Wi-Fi network, announces that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued the company patent No. 7,483,984, covering the method and apparatus for accessing networks by a mobile device. The patent advances the company’s client technology... Jun. 23, 2009 07:15 AM EDT Reads: 745 |
By Ian Thain  Today was the first day of SYS-CON's iPhone Developer Summit, in the Roosevelt Hote in NYC. Jun. 22, 2009 07:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,773 |
By RIA News Desk  Magic Software, a provider of application platforms and business and process integration solutions, has announced the release of the latest version of the uniPaaS application platform, now with .NET integration for Rich Internet Applications (RIA) Clients and equivalent support for mob... Jun. 22, 2009 04:30 PM EDT Reads: 2,466 |
By Ted Kenney  In a major upgrade to its software as a service (SaaS) that connects companies with their field workforces, Argentina’s Movimiento ATM has integrated the Perst™ Lite all-Java embedded database from McObject® in client software for roaming employees’ BlackBerry, Nokia and other popular ... Jun. 19, 2009 05:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,349 |
By Adrian Bridgwater  With the pending acquisition of Sun by Oracle and speculation over whether a new stream of monetization is about to tarnish and dishonor the good name of open source, industry eyes are watching the open code zone more keenly than ever to try and gauge whether a new playing field is abo... Jun. 19, 2009 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,825 |
By Ian Thain  We now have 3 days until SYS-CON's iPhone Developer Summit in New York's Roosevelt Hotel. During the two-day event, there will be nine presenters as well as exhibitors, such as Sybase. I'm guessing that for some like me, tomorrow Saturday will be travel day... Jun. 19, 2009 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,881 |
By Karyn Price  Telecom expense management (TEM) can significantly reduce an organization’s telecom expense. But many companies are missing out on these savings for one of the following reasons. Leading TEM vendor Veramark Technologies offers 11 timely tips to ensure your organization isn't making any... Jun. 18, 2009 05:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,372 |
By Maureen O'Gara  IBM said Wednesday that it’s going to pour $100 million into cell phone research over the next five years. It’s thinking of services for the so-called “Next Billion,” largely the folks who have bypassed the PC for mobile devices to connect to the Internet. The money is earmarked for wh... Jun. 17, 2009 04:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,674 |
By Neli Voynova  Interlecta (http://home.interlecta.com/mobile) offers software solutions for the mobile market that greatly facilitate communication on a global scale - from travelling and globalized social networking to conducting business internationally or learning a foreign language outside of the... Jun. 17, 2009 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,278 |
By NeonDrum News  ip.access and Blue Ocean Wireless won the Award for Blue Ocean’s global service, which uses ip.access nanoGSM picocells on commercial ships to provide on-board 2G mobile phone connectivity to merchant seafarers. Using the cellular signal generated by the ip.access nanoGSM, crew members... Jun. 17, 2009 11:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,011 |
By Ian Thain  Today is the day that iPhone OS 3.0 is available to the masses for download... On May 6th 2009, after a few rapid cycles, iPhone OS 3.0 Beta 5 was released for general consumption, still within the iPhone Developer Program and under NDA. Though the big news that accompanied it, was tha... Jun. 17, 2009 06:45 AM EDT Reads: 8,221 |