Symbian Foundation and China’s largest search engine Baidu agreed to co-establish a joint laboratory with the goal to bring wireless “box computing” to the Symbian platform. As a result, developers will be able to incorporate robust search functionality into their apps and leverage this “platform within a platform” to expand the Symbian/Baidu ecosystem. From the…
ARM, Freescale, IBM, Samsung, ST-Ericsson and TI form Linaro to speed the rollout of Linux-based devices
A new company has been formed by the leading semiconductor System-on-Chips (SoCs) developers like ARM, Freescale, IBM, Samsung, ST-Ericsson and Texas Instruments. It’s called Linaro and it’s made to speed the rollout of Linux-based devices. My first reaction was “Here’s another LiMo Foundation,” but I figured that’s not the case after reading the whole press…
Skype Will Be Coming to More Verizon Handsets Soon
Skype users, it’s time to get more excited about Verizon once more as the two have announced that the VoIP service will be hitting more Big Red handsets soon. Back in February, Verizon and Skype struck up a deal just before Mobile World Congress and announced that they would be working together. The exciting part…
HP Didn’t Buy Palm for their Smartphones – CEO
At the Bank of America Merrill Lynch conference, HP’s CEO Mark Hurd let slip something interesting about their acquisition of Palm: [HP won’t] spend billions of dollars trying to go into the smartphone business; that doesn’t in any way make any sense. … We didn’t buy Palm to be in the smartphone business. And I…
SK Telecom teams up with Indonesia’s Telkomsel over a digital content venture
South Korea’s SK Telecom has entered Indonesia’s mobile market via a digital content joint venture with Telkomsel-owned PT Telekomunikasi. The partnership, which is 51% owned by PT Telekomunikasi and 49% by SK Telecom, will be a data exchange hub for music, games and video clips in the Southeast Asian country. The initial combined investment will…
iDev3 launches the web-based mobile application incubator
iDev3 has launched what they say is the web’s first mobile applications cooperative in the U.S. The company was created to reward smaller and independent mobile application developers by “equitizing” their investment in their own intellectual property. As a result these smaller players become part of the larger parent company, TGFin Holdings, therefor diversifying risk…
AT&T’s iPhone deal was for five years
As AT&T’s network quickly became a national punchline, many thought it would just be a matter of time before Apple brought its iPhone to Verizon. But it appears that it can’t bring the touchscreen handset to another network until at least 2012, as Engadget has dug up evidence that the companies signed a five-year exclusivity…
WiFi Alliance, WIGIG team up for speedy wireless data
So, bare with me a bit because this story’s going to be filled with alphabet soup but it’s worth knowing because it will eventually lead to handsets with super fast wireless Internet capabilities. The WiFi Alliance and the Wireless Gigabit Alliance (WIGIG) said Monday it will share technologies for the next generation of WiFi devices…
Tickets.com teams-up with Txtstation Global Mobile Marketing to offer real-time mobile interactivity with fans
Tickets.com is partnering with Txtstation Global Mobile Marketing to expand and enhance its mobile ticket transactions and mobile barcode delivery services. The idea is to make it possible for clients to dynamically interact with fans at games, concerts, events and broadcasts in real-time! This one-to-one dialogue with event attendees will allow Tickets.com clients to identify…
Shoppers Drug Mart and Rogers Shake Hands on Pilot Project
This story caught my eye, as it should many Canadians. Turns out that Shoppers Drug Mart and Rogers have come to some sort of agreement, allowing Rogers/Fido to sell their wares via the national chain of drug stores. Starting on July 1st, Rogers and Shoppers will kick-off a pilot project to sell smartphones and rocket…