Whitacre and Dorman are expected to appear on CNBC's SquawkBox together 8:30 AM on Monday morning. David Faber of CNBC, who originally broke the news, has been following the story for some time now and more details regarding the merger expected to be announced during the CNBC interview...

SafeZone IP 2.0 is the embedded hardware security foundation for all security-sensitive applications such as digital rights management (DRM), mobile commerce enterprise, and anti-fraud solutions. Designed for cost-effective integration into any mobile or consumer device, SafeZone IP 2....

SYS-CON Media (www.sys-con.com), the world's leading i-technology media company, announced today that SYS-CON.TV (www.sys-con.tv), the first streaming live i-technology television is scheduled to debut on February 15, 2005 to coincide with the first day of the upcoming Web Services Edg...

Prior to joining Infitel, George was Vice President of Marketing, North America at SchlumbergerSema. There, George directed both inbound and outbound North American telecom marketing for the division. In addition George was responsible for seeding the North American market with the com...

Xybernaut Corporation (Nasdaq: XYBR), a leading developer of wearable/mobile computing solutions, today announced that Casema, one of the largest cable television network operators in the Netherlands, purchased 120 Xybernaut Atigo? mobile/wearable computers.

Research In Motion (RIM) (Nasdaq: RIMM; TSX: RIM) today announced that BlackBerry Enterprise Server v4.0 will support IBM Lotus Domino 7.0. RIM continues to advance the BlackBerry wireless platform for enterprise and government customers with tightly integrated support for IBM's latest...

SYS-CON Media (www.sys-con.com), the world's leading i-technology media company, announced today that the first branded blogging community, www.blog-n-play.com (TM), will go beta on February 15, 2005, to coincide with the opening day of the Web Services Edge 2005 East International Web...

Microsoft Corp. and Verizon Wireless today announced that Verizon Wireless, the nation's leading wireless provider, has chosen the Microsoft Windows Media Format to power V CAST, the nation's first 3G consumer wireless broadband multimedia service, delivered over Verizon Wireless' high...

Cingular will carry MobiTV, the world's first TV network for mobile devices.

The Socket USB Adapter with Bluetooth Wireless Technology enables wireless connections from Windows PCs to other Bluetooth compatible devices.

Reports this morning said that Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael K. Powell will resign from his post. Thrust in almost a no-win position between large telecommunications companies on one side and more entrepreneurial technology and service providers on the other, Powel...

Toshiba has introduced software that allows mobile devices to remotely control PCs. Japan's KDDI is expected to offer Ubiquitous Viewer-equipped phones beginning in March.

7-Eleven has added Nokia's entry-level phone, the Nokia 1100, to its selection of prepaid handsets offered for sale in stores across the US.

Oracle has come up with a thing it's calling Oracle Database Lite 10g, a derivative of its 10g grid technology and an update of its eight-year-old Data Lite mojo, meant for the mobile and embedded crowd on the theory that mobile deployments have emerged as critical business systems tha...

The company's money-losing Communications Group has been merged into a new Mobility Group, which will be run 'two-in-a-box'-style by former Communications chief Sean Maloney and mobile VP Dadi Perlmutter.

Is the Oracle/Peoplesoft battle stressing people out? Well, it's not helping, says a Bay Area stress management expert. 'People are having to live with the uncertainty of 'will I have a job tomorrow,' or on a larger scale, 'will the company be here tomorrow?',' says Lucy Yaldezian, who...

Roger Strukhoff, SYS-CON Media West Coast Bureau Chief, reports on a multi-pronged tsunami relief effort was outlined and discussed early this morning at the 11th Annual WCA International Symposium and Business Expo (www.wcai.com) in San Jose, California.

Realm is providing enterprises with secure mobile networks that employ biometric security, along with a USB powered mobile server.

Alltel's purchase of Western Wireless will create the nation's fifth largest carrier. The multi-billion deal is pending shareholder approval.

CommTel Network Solutions Australia, a value added re-seller of Nokia's network solutions, has signed an agreement for the supply of Nokia broadband DSL solutions and related services to a new customer, Telecom Cook Islands Ltd in the Pacific, marking a new market entry for Nokia. Deli...

NTT DoCoMo, the Japanese wireless house, put $3 million in MontaVista Software, the privately held embedded Linux outfit, last week. DoCoMo uses MontaVista in its 3G phones.

Pakistan has introduced the world's first tracking system designed to monitor the buying and selling of second hand mobile handsets.

Hewlett-Packard said it would marshall its resources to develop more offerings aimed at consumer entertainment. Carly Fiorina is scheduled to provide details at the annual CES in Las Vegas, on Friday.

At the CES Unveiled press event last night, Fossil Inc unveiled a wrist-sized Palm-powered PDA with a 160x160 pixel grayscale LCD touchscreen, 66MHz processor, and 8MB of memory.

At this week's annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Samsung is demonstrating the advanced voice recognition features that it has added to its latest models, the p207 and a890. 'VoiceMode' lets users dictate the content of text messages and speak commands to control addressing...

Samsung introduced a number of feature-rich mobile phones at CES, which, if rolled out successfully, may close the technology gap between Korea and the US.

Intel is showcasing its next-generation Sonoma mobile technology platform with a number of media initiatives designed to display its capabilities.

Kyocera is moving ahead with the testing of a new wireless technology known as iBurst. Japan's official body monitoring communications gave the green light, granting a testing permit.

Four Moscow-based security experts with Kaspersky Labs have reported that the number of new entries to its malware database jumped by more than 30 in 2004 - with the two record holders for damage caused being Mydoom.a (February) and Sasser.a (May).

Enterprises for the first time have the ability to deploy wired and wireless security access on a per user basis, with Aruba Wireless Networks' grid security controllers.

Once inaugurated, Taipei Financial Center will take the mantle and become the world's tallest building. The project is not only an architectural and engineering achievement, but a telecommunications one as well.

China announced it is the first country to implement a large network using IPv6. This next-generation Internet protocol can transmit data at 10 gigabits per second. China says it has achieved speeds of 40GB per second, a world record.

A group of European scientists has concluded that the radiation cell phones emit is harmful to human cells. They said this alone is not enough to link disease onset with mobile phone use.

Sprint announced it has added Music Choice to its Sprint PCS Vision Multimedia Services channel. This will provide mobile subscribers access to a variety of music and video streams delivered over their mobile handsets.

The boards of Sprint Corp. and Nextel Communications Inc. have both unanimously approved a 'merger of equals' transaction. Each company's shareholders will own about 50 percent of the new company. Associated Press reports say that 'Sprint Nextel also intends to spin off Sprint's local ...

A panel discussion on the challenges of defining a new Wi-Fi standard, 802.11n, concluded that products based on the advanced data transfer specification would not arrive until 2006.

Superscape and Taiwan-based iaSolution announced an agreement that will bring mobile games from Superscape, to this are of Asian via leading mobile networks.

2k development has launched jbag.net, a new mobile platform allows businesses to launch their own internet services 'with unprecedented speeds' and deliver them to mobile customers.

As consumers demand that carries provide greater support for a variety of rich media appliances, software and platforms must be maintained and created that are up to the task. To service this growing consumer market, Esmertec and ARM have partnered to improve Java performance.

Leaders in the mobile industry have come together in order to advance new specifications designed to make Java applications more secure and reliable when used with wireless devices.