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While wireless number portability will give corporate customers a chance to consolidate service plans, experts say CIOs would be wise to wait a few months. Beginning Nov. 24, wireless subscribers in the United States will be able to keep their phone numbers when changing carriers to take advantage of better prices and services, thanks to […]

A senior mobile official at Microsoft Corp. this week announced that he will leave the software giant to start his own company. The corporate vice president of the Mobile Devices Marketing Group, Juha Christensen joined Microsoft four years ago. A spokeswoman for Microsoft in Redmond, Wash. said Christensen will move to the San Francisco Bay […]

Discuss This in the eWEEK Forum A Massachusetts startup this week will launch new products in the crowded WLAN switching space, differentiating itself with security and customization features. Legra Systems Inc.s wireless LAN system includes a cryptography chip called the Cryptoflex, which prioritizes the encryption of data packets on a wireless network. Other WLAN systems […]

As camera phones become standard equipment for wireless providers, they are causing new problems for enterprise customers. In the first half of this year, camera phones outsold stand-alone digital cameras, according to Boston consultancy Strategy Analytics Inc., which predicts camera phone sales will reach 65 million units for the whole year, or 13 percent of […]

BOSTON—Technology is not about the next best thing; its about everything. Thats the keynote message Hewlett-Packard Co. Chairman and CEO Carly Fiorina delivered this morning here at Forrester Research Inc.s Executive Strategy Forum. “I think the technology era of the next best thing, technology of the silver bullet, maybe was never here, but its certainly […]

Seven Networks Inc. has unveiled a behind-the-firewall mobile e-mail server that competes directly with Research In Motion Ltd.s BlackBerry Enterprise Server. The Seven Server supports a wide array of devices and requires no desktop software or cradle synchronization, said officials at Seven, in Redwood City, Calif. It supports Microsoft Corp.s Exchange e-mail platform, with support […]

Wireless carriers are stepping up efforts to woo corporate customers as the countdown to local number portability begins. AT&T Wireless Services Inc. plans to roll out its high-speed EDGE (Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution) network nationwide by the end of the year, according to AT&T officials who demonstrated EDGE at the CTIA Wireless IT […]

Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB has unveiled a new, high-end smart phone that is smaller than its predecessor and better equipped for multimedia applications. Based on Version 7.0 of the Symbian operating system, the P900 supports 65,536 colors, compared with 4,096 colors in the P800, and has 48MB of RAM, compared with 32MB of RAM […]

LAS VEGAS—Motorola Inc. on Wednesday announced a new chip architecture designed to decrease the size—as well as simplify and cut application development times—for mobile phones. The Mobile Extreme Convergence (MXC) architecture is a postage-stamp-sized smartphone chip designed to let tiny devices run high-end data applications. While MXC is a single chip, it separates the modem […]

LAS VEGAS—Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB on Monday unveiled its latest high-end smartphone. The P900 is smaller than its predecessor, the P800, and better equipped for multimedia applications. Based on Version 7.0 of the Symbian operating system, the P900 supports 65,536 colors, compared with 4,096 colors in the P800, and 48MB of RAM, compared with […]