Red Bend Software opens new office in South Korea.

"Red Bend Software... today announced that it has established a new office in Seoul, South Korea... The office will provide sales, marketing and technical support for Red Bend's Korean customers, including LG Electronics, a leading provider of advanced wireless handsets."

mFormation opens new facility in Bangalore.

"mFormation Technologies Inc., a mobile device management solutions company, on Thursday announced the opening of its new facility in Bangalore. This facility will be its India headquarters and will be one of its three main hubs for product development as well as providing professional services and support for customers across the globe. mFormation is on course to grow the India team to 200 people over the next few years, says a release."

India set to overtake US in mobile market.

"Adding five million subscribers per month, India will become the world's second largest mobile phone market by 2008."

Insignia announces 6 new customers signed by Huawei.

"Strategic Reseller [Huawei] Signs Six Mobile Operators Based on Insignia's Device Management Suite... In June 2005, Insignia and Huawei entered into a partnership agreement to address an impending need by operators worldwide to remotely manage and update mobile devices."

Making the Web fit for mobile.

"The first draft of a language designed for mobile Web content - called Device Independent Authoring Language (DIAL) - was released today by The World Wide Web Consortium."

SmartTrust: Sending the right signals.

"SmartTrust's mobile device management promises to enhance the operator, subscriber relationship... According to Strategy Analytics nearly five million handsets were subject to a firmware recall last year at a cost of $145 per unit. At present, 7 per cent of handsets have a problem that requires customer care interaction. By 2010, MDM technologies will provide operators with a combined annual saving in customer-care costs of nearly $1.5 billion."

European mobile enterprise business market at 'inflection point'.

"vnunet.com reports that 'the European mobile enterprise market is at an 'inflection point' characterised by growing demand that has caught many operators unprepared.' According to new research from Yankee Group, 'several mobile network operators are only now rushing to adapt their strategies to take advantage of demand from business customers.'"

InnoPath, Red Bend push new FOTA standard.

"InnoPath Software and Red Bend Software proposed a new format standard for packaging and distribution of firmware over-the-air updates between mobile industry players to make FOTA between parties easier and less expensive... Red Bend and InnoPath said they plan to collaborate to obtain approval on the new format, dubbed Package Ingest Container, as part of the Open Mobile Alliance’s device management standard."

Motorola offers open source mobile phone framework.

"Motorola will release the framework and sample test cases for the Mobile Information Device Profiles (MIDP) 3.0 specification as a freely available download. The company has set up a site to host the framework and sample test cases."

Nokia Staff forbidden to say "Mobile Phones."

"The 63,000 employees of Nokia, the largest cellphone manufacturer in the world, are banned from using the term 'Mobile Phones'. Instead, they call them 'Multimedia Computers.'"

Optical mouse/Skype phone combo.

"Sony announced the launch of the MouseTalk... a new VAIO PC peripheral that acts as both an optical mouse and an Internet phone. The clamshell mouse, which will be Skype certified, flips open to become an Internet phone to make and receive calls around the world through Skype."

Mobile device trends: Security, consolidation and more.

"Companies will need to continually update their mobile strategy over the next few years to utilize the latest productivity-improving technologies."

Fastest growing region in the world for mobiles.

"Nokia 'expects 200 million more people in Africa and the Middle East to start using cellphones by 2008.'"

Odyssey SMS add-in enables remote mobile device management.

"According to Odyssey, the Athena Device Management Suite is installed co-resident with the SMS DMFP on each Windows Mobile or Windows CE device, such that its XML Web Services engine and plug-in services can provide remote access to any on-device function. Capabilities include remote control, software metering, hardware/software asset reporting and management, and software package delivery/installation. Operation is supported over any IP-based network to which the SMS Administrator Console has access."

Samsung patents text messaging through virtual screen.

"Samsung Electronics has developed a method for writing or drawings in a cell phone using an electronic pen and a projected virtual screen. "

SoonR: Use Skype on your cell phone.

"On Thursday SoonR will be announcing Soonr Talk, which will allow Skype calls to be made from a standard cell phone. It will work through SoonR’s basic product - access Skype on your home PC through your browser and initiate a call with a contact or contacts. SoonR will then call your cell phone from that PC (using Skype Out credits), and call the contacts via normal Skype calling."

Net Neutrality: The shareholders of the IT tech giants are losing out to the "valued customers".

"If the Telcos and cable TV companies are allowed control the choke point--the last mile connection into the digital home then that cuts out competition. Without competition you have far fewer infrastructure builders.

This means that to get to the next stage of high speed broadband is going to take a lot longer because the Telcos and cable TV companies operate a duopoly in most markets. They'll get around to upgrading their networks when they get around to it."

A web server on your mobile phone.

"Nokia Research Center has been working on a project to put a web server on your mobile phone."

McAfee granted wireless update patent.

"McAfee said Monday that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office had awarded it a patent regarding methods to update computer files on mobile devices. The company says that the technology could be used to update a file on a mobile device with a newer version that exists on another device."

Japan's bleeding-edge cell phones.

"The NEC N902i videophone, for example, boasts advanced features such as an anti-shake camera, a text scanner, and speech output of text that 'speaks' e-mails. Perhaps most significantly, the phone also includes a digital wallet for making contactless micropayments, and a bar-code reader that can read bar codes placed on ads to provide the user with more information through the cell phone."

Gartner Voice: The importance of mobile device management.

"Learn how your enterprise can cope with rising costs, security concerns and management issues in the flourishing mobile device market."

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