Nov 18, 2009,
MD&D News Staff
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. will launch its bada open mobile platform in December. It will enable developers to create applications for new Samsung mobile phones while providing a fun and diverse mobile experience for consumers....
Oct 27, 2009,
MD&D News Staff
The Symbian Foundation has announced the launch of the Symbian Horizon publishing program. Developers can sign up to have their applications listed in the Symbian Horizon Directory, processed through Symbian Signed, and published to a growing list of application store partners....
Oct 5, 2009,
MD&D News Staff
Adobe Systems Inc. has unveiled its Flash Player 10.1 software for Internet-connected devices, allowing content created using the Flash platform to reach users wherever they are. A public developer beta of the browser-based runtime is expected to be available for Windows Mobile, Palm webOS, and desktop operating systems....
Jul 28, 2009,
MD&D News Staff
Mirics Semiconductor is developing mobile TV and radio solutions for smart-phone applications by migrating its FlexiTV platform to the ARM Cortex-A8 and Cortex-A9 applications processors. The company also is launching a range of mobile TV and radio applications for products targeted by the Intel Atom CPU platform....
Jul 9, 2009,
MD&D News Staff
Airvana Inc., ip.access, and Ubiquisys will support the Femto Forum’s Services SIG by working together toward a common service framework and APIs. The SIG’s mission is to develop a framework to simplify the development and deployment of femtocell applications, which includes efforts to establish a set of standard APIs. ...
May 21, 2009,
By Louis E. Frenzel, Editor in Chief
The virtualization of computers has been going on for years in the enterprise to save on hardware and software costs, decrease power consumption, and generally improve efficiency. Commercial virtualization software is widely available. Now you can virtualize a handset, as Open Kernel Labs has announced software that brings the benefits of virtualization to cell phones...
May 14, 2009,
MD&D News Staff
mimoOn GmbH will demonstrate end-to-end LTE on platforms from Cavium Networks and ARM Ltd. The mimoOn mi!InfraStack advanced LTE software package will run on Cavium’s Octeon MIPS64 multicore processor on the infrastructure side, which is connected via a PHY emulation to an LTE UE mobile implementation by partner Qasara running on an embedded ARM 926 processor. ...
May 12, 2009,
MD&D News Staff
Intrinsyc Software International and Ubiquisys have teamed up to develop UX-Zone, a femtocell application that automatically changes the appearance of Android phone interfaces as users enter their home or office. The application incorporates femtocell presence triggers from the Ubiquisys FemtoApps initiative. ...
May 11, 2009,
MD&D News Staff
Cellcrypt Mobile, from Cellcrypt Ltd., is now available for BlackBerry smart phones. It introduces end-to-end real-time encryption to prevent private conversations from being compromised, enabling individuals within corporations and governments to converse in a highly secure manner without the need for specialized equipment or the expense of new infrastructure. ...
Apr 28, 2009,
MD&D News Staff
The 3G Dev Kit for the Texas Instruments OMAP35x evaluation module (EVM) and Microsoft Windows CE 6 operating system (OS) from Bsquare Corp. now supports UMTS/EDGE/GPRS/GSM embedded radios. The kit includes the radio, pre-integrated Windows CE six-radio interface layer (RIL) software, and an interface board to connect the embedded radio to the TI OMAP35x EVM along with associated drivers. ...
Apr 21, 2009
Aricent will create a complete Long-Term Evolution (LTE) eNodeB reference solution that includes Layer 1 (PHY) and Layer 2 protocol stacks based on the next-generation Intel Xeon processor for LTE basestation applications. According to Aricent, the Intel architecture provides performance benefits and simplifies the development of eNodeB solutions. ...
Apr 14, 2009
Palm is expanding its early access program for the Pam Mojo software development kit (SDK), with plans to integrate cloud services into the new platform. The company also announced an application from MotionApps that will allow legacy Palm OS applications to run on webOS devices. ...
Apr 6, 2009,
MD&D News Staff
First launched as part of the Sierra Wireless HSPA product line in 2007 to address reduced data transfer speed during simultaneous upload and download, the company’s TRU-Flow technology now includes EV-DO products. According to Sierra Wireless, it is the only technology in the world to improve Web page load times during uplink congestion even with VPN enabled. ...
Mar 31, 2009
Tuned to optimize the media playback experience on mobile devices, Elite Compression from Envivio Inc. enhances the company’s 4Caster C4 and M2 mobile TV encoders. Envivio will present the compression tier at CTIA Wireless 2009 in Las Vegas in Booth 8962....
Mar 30, 2009
Skype has announced the beta version of Skype for SIP for Business users. Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is an open standard and the leading Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) used in business telephony networks at millions of locations around the world, according to Skype....