Open Range Communications, a wireless broadband services provider to rural America, announced an investment of $100 million from One Equity Partners (OEP), the private equity arm of JPMorgan. In March 2008, the United States Department of Agriculture's Rural Development Utilities Progr...

InterDigital announced that its patent licensing subsidiaries have signed a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-bearing patent license agreement with Singapore-based iWOW Connections. The agreement covers the sale of wireless terminal units and infrastructure, including wireless machine-...

The new UPA828TD Twin Transistor from NEC combines two closely matched silicon NPN chips in a miniature 1.2 x 1.0 x 0.5mm 6 pin leadless RoHS-compliant package. Designed for VCO applications, the UPA828TD enables oscillator and buffer amplifier functions to be combined in one miniature...

IGG Software announced the forthcoming release of iBank Mobile, a native iPhone counterpart to iBank 3. Capable of running on both the iPhone and iPod Touch, this new release will be available exclusively for download from the iTunes App Store in the first quarter of this year. Among t...

Leap Wireless International announced that it gained approximately 385,000 net customer additions during the fourth quarter of 2008, including approximately 173,000 net additions in the company’s existing markets, approximately 133,000 net additions in the company’s expansion markets, ...

Trimble has introduced the AT&T-enabled Nomad 800X Series computers, three new models of its outdoor handheld computer that offer WWAN functionality and integrated quad-band GSM cellular data transmission, digital photography and barcode scanning in one device. The Nomad 800X Series mo...

LogRhythm announced that it has joined the PCI Security Standards Council as a new participating organization. As a Participating Organization, LogRhythm will work with the Council to evolve the PCI Data Security Standard (DSS) and other payment card data protection standards. The Coun...

Apple has unveiled the new 17-inch MacBook Pro featuring a durable aluminum unibody enclosure, and a built-in battery that delivers up to eight hours of use and up to 1,000 recharges. The 17-inch MacBook Pro has a high resolution LED-backlit display and a glass Multi-Touch trackpad. In...

DeviceAnywhere announced the addition of the Google Android G1, reported as the first handset from the open source Android alliance available on the T-Mobile network. The Android G1 device is the latest addition to over 1500 handsets offered on the DeviceAnywhere service, which include...

Clearwire claims it has transformed Portland into the fastest unwired city in the West, making the city home to one of the first 4G WiMAX wireless broadband services in the world, called Clear. With Clear, consumers and businesses can access the Internet wirelessly, at broadband speeds...

iHome unveiled the details of its 2009 home audio product line, including a variety of new speaker solutions featuring a wide range of styles, price points and feature sets. iHome’s 2009 line-up includes: iP1 Speaker System for iPod/iPhone, iP71 iPhone/iPod Computer Speaker System with...

"As many of you know," Steve Jobs tells the Apple worldwide community in a heart-rendingly frank memo, "I have been losing weight throughout 2008. The reason has been a mystery to me and my doctors. A few weeks ago, I decided that getting to the root cause of this and reversing it need...

ShapeWriter simultaneously announced the launch of its text entry products on Windows Mobile, Android, and Windows XP/Vista with its upgrades to WritingPad 1.0 for the iPhone, now called ShapeWriter 2.0. Rather than “hunting and pecking,” ShapeWriter 2.0 allows users to produce an enti...

The BlackBerry Technical Seminar took place live in December 3, 2008, but these new breakthrough sessions are now available on demand. Managing and extending applications to your mobile users, overcoming development hurdles, and leveraging mobile technology to create new opportunities ...

Globaltel Media (GTM) launched the pre-release version of its new application, dubbed Cherple, which allows two-way text communication between online computers and mobile wireless cellular devices. Cherple will officially launch in 2009. Globaltel Media claims Cherple will eventually p...

SayType.com is offering a service that uses voicemail to instantly turn talk into text and send converted messages to any phone, e-mail address or license plate. SayType also searches the internet and translates messages into selected languages. In 2008, the CTIA reported 85 billion te...

CX2 Technologies announced that it has completed the installation and testing of a 220 MHz data communications system for Kennedy Wireless Partners in Brooklyn, New York. While the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has distributed many 220 MHz licenses, the CX2 installation for K...

Cloud computing has the power to revolutionize non-information "soft" product sectors. We haven’t seen too much clear synergistic benefits between mobile apps PLUS cloud computing/SaaS yet, but I sense that we can expect to see more good things out of the intersection of these two. I’l...

The iPhone continues to gain steam in Japan, evidenced by Softbank's latest software announcement promoting Speeek, a voice-enabled electronic dictionary application that translates Japanese to English or Chinese. Using voice recognition technology the application can translate up to 1...

Retail behemoth Wal-Mart announced Friday that is would begin selling Apple’s popular 3G iPhone at 2,500 of its stores. Contingent on a 2-year service agreement with AT&T, the 8 GB model will sell for $197, while the black or white 16 GB model is being offered at $297. Both models will...

Rand McNally today introduced significant additions to its IntelliRoute® and MileMaker® commercial trucking solutions to help carriers and shippers save time and money. These enhancements will provide more flexibility and customization in freight rating and truck routing, more specific...

InterDigital has announced that its patent-licensing subsidiaries have signed a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-bearing patent license agreement with Paris-based ModeLabs Group. The agreement covers the sale of certain wireless terminal units and infrastructure built to the Second Ge...

TeleCommunication Systems (TCS) has announced that the company expects its customers' platforms to deliver a record number of text messages this New Year's Eve across its globally deployed Short Message Service Centers (SMSCs). Based on previous years' statistics and the threefold incr...

3G Americas has announced that a historic milestone was achieved for the wireless industry in December 2008 with 4 billion connections to mobile devices worldwide. This estimate by Informa Telecoms & Media represents 60% of the entire global population today. In some countries, million...

Nokia and Aptana have started shipping the beta release of Nokia WRT Plugin for Aptana Studio. Nokia WRT (Web Runtime) lets you build native apps and widgets for Nokia S60 phones using your JavaScript, AJAX, HTML, and CSS skills – the stuff standard web pages are made from, but install...

The Android-loving Open Handset Alliance says it's added 14 more members, bringing its total to 47 companies. Of course it’s only produced one phone so far, the iPhone's leagues ahead, and the crummy economy is expected to hurt even cell phone sales, but this is a matter of covering mu...

We now have the second iconic moment of the Bush presidency. This is how he'll be remembered, if only because shoes seem to be so psychologically powerful: Khrushchev is remembered in this country for pounding his shoe on the UN's lectern, and Adlai Stevenson is remembered for the hole...

Movero Technology and Ezwim announced a global partnership to deliver a joint mobile lifecycle management service based on the integration of their respective TTM and Maestro Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platforms. The joint offering enables organizations to gain visibility into and co...

The Estonian Riigikogu (Parliament) this week approved a law making Estonia the first country in the world to allow voting in a national election by mobile phone. The first "cellular election" will be Estonia's next parliamentary elections in 2011.

With our dynamic business environment and fluid business models, enterprise communications is becoming increasingly focused on mobility. The associates and managers who are key to supporting customers, resolving production problems, and addressing other critical business tasks can rare...

The finalists have been chosen. Now is your chance to vote for the technology or product that you think is the best in its category. Voting is now underway and will end on Monday, December 15, 2008.

InnerWireless has announced that the University Medical Center of Southern Nevada (UMC) is deploying InnerWireless’ broadband Horizon solution as the platform to deliver its 802.11 (WLAN) services as well as future wireless clinical applications. UMC chose InnerWireless because its Con...

The Java Community Process (JCP) Program Management Office has announced the final results of the 2008 JCP Executive Committees (EC) elections. After two ballot rounds – for ratified and elected seats – the winners are Ericsson, SpringSource, SAP, Intel, and Werner Keil for the Java SE...

Keynote Systems has expanded its on-demand mobile test and measurement network to include Beijing, China; Chennai, India; Mexico City, Mexico and Madrid, Spain. Keynote and its subsidiary Keynote SIGOS give its customers the ability to test mobile performance in over 700 locations on o...

The Planet has announced limited availability of its new highly scalable and on-demand storage cloud service. The Planet has merged on-premise storage performance with cloud storage capabilities, which opens a whole new world for companies to extend their hosted environments directly i...

LG, Sharp and Chunghwa have pled guilty to charges of fixing the price of LCD panels in defiance of the Sherman Antitrust Act and have agreed to pay $585 million in fines, the Justice Department said Wednesday. LG will pay $400 million, the second-highest criminal fine ever imposed by ...

Sybase 365 manages inter-carrier messaging services for more than 3 billion of the estimated 3.7 billion mobile subscribers worldwide, and for more than 700 mobile operators worldwide. Sybase 365's systems process more than 100 billion messages annually. With responsibility for over 80...

Cisco has got a new “close to the user” edge router that can push 250,000 songs or 200 feature films a second. (Figure 6.4 terabytes a second.) The widget, which starts at $80,000 and reportedly took $200 million to develop, is called the Aggregation Services Router (ASR) 9000 Series a...

Please read the news story below filed today by my colleague Maureen O'Gara and think about the once-in-a-life-time lottery ticket this man had last February with Microsoft's acquisition offer, and then again through Carl Icahn's unasked-for help. He blew it and in my Wikipedia, this m...

Last week Circuit City, the second-biggest electronics retailer in the US, decided to close down 25% of its stores, some 155 shops, by December 31 – in part because suppliers wanted to be paid upfront. When its suppliers heard the news it spooked them into demanding even more money upf...