T-Mobile G1 getting its first Over the Air update tomorrow.

"Less than 24 hours after the G1 made its official debut, T-Mobile has let it be known that an OTA update is already on its way to knock out a few issues that have popped up since the handsets left the factory."

The rise of application stores for mobile software.

"Probably as a result of pressure from Apple's highly successful application store, the maker of the BlackBerry smartphone, Research In Motion (RIM), has unveiled an application storefront for the BlackBerry operating system. Indeed, Google also announced an Android Market earlier, which will serve as an online center for its open-source operating system. Not to be outdone, Microsoft has also been spotted posting job advertisements for new staff for a Windows Mobile related 'Skymarket' service."

The Android fine print: Kill switch and other tidbits.

"In the Android Market terms of service, Google expressly says that it might remotely remove an application from a user's phone."

Enterprise Services: Device Management - Managing for the future.

"2008 does seem to have been the year when operators have come to market with device management solutions aimed at the enterprise. As well as solutions now available through Vodafone and Telefonica, Orange UK has announced the launch of its Device Management service, claimed to be the first product of its kind that enables businesses to effectively manage their employees' mobile devices in-house, without having to bring them into the office or contact customer services."

Interview - Caring about device management.

InnoPath's Managing Director for EMEA, Mark Banfield, states: "With operators needing to compete effectively and reduce their rising cost base, MDM is not a useful tool, but a mission critical must have capability. Any operator not considering MDM investments should spend some time looking closely at their Customer Care environments and they will discover quickly that they are facing a massive problem which MDM can help them fix."

Sybase iAnywhere goes after Intellisync market.

"Sybase’s mobile subsidiary iAnywhere this week launched its new Nokia Intellisync Migration Program. The program is aimed at supporting Nokia Intellisync partners and customers affected by Nokia’s decision to stop the development and marketing of its behind-the-firewall business mobility solutions."

Analysts cut 2009 mobile phone growth estimates.

"The global mobile phone market should grow at much slower-than-expected rates next year as consumers put off buying new devices due to deepening economic concerns, according to forecasts from analysts... UBS analyst Maynard Um halved his forecast for 2009 global handset growth to 3 percent from 6 percent, pointing to particular weakness in Europe and North America."

T-Mobile USA rolls out on-device app for customer care.

"T-Mobile USA Inc. announced it will install a do-it-yourself customer-service application from Nuance Communications Inc. on 'select' handsets, which the carrier said will allow customers to solve common service and handset problems without contacting the carrier’s customer-service representatives. The offering is an effort to offload sometimes costly customer-care calls."

Device Management - The last leg is in your hands.

In a guest post from Dominique Schmidt, CEO of Sicap, at Telco 2.0: "There are four key principles of effective device management: know, set-up, update, secure." (read the entire post here)

What effect will the financial crisis have on the tech sector?

"Expect to see a slowdown in smartphone sales as consumers cut back on their 'discretionary' purchases, says Charles Arthur in The Guardian."

Sprint's WiMax efforts doomed to failure?

Marguerite Reardon of CNET writes: "It may only be a test bed for future WiMax deployments, but I think the business model Sprint is using in Baltimore looks eerily similar to what EarthLink attempted to do with its citywide Wi-Fi business. As a result, I see Sprint facing many of the same hurdles that EarthLink faced in trying to sell this service to consumers."