Latest News from WIRELESS DEVELOPER'S JOURNALLatest News from WIRELESS DEVELOPER'S JOURNALAsurion Mobile Applications Announces Mobile Services Platform 2.0- May 30, 2008 Asurion Mobile Applications has released CellBackup on its next generation Mobile Solutions Platform (MSP 2.0), providing subscribers with the power to easily share the user-generated content stored on their mobile phones wherever and with whomever they want.read morehttp://wireless.sys-con.com/node/579213 Product Review: Adobe Flash Player 10- May 30, 2008 I might have skipped some of the new features of Flash Player 10, but you can always refer to the official FAQ page. Visit Plash Players 10 page on Adobe Labs to download new player (there is no debug version yet). The standalone debug versions are also available. You can use the official demos and Flash Player 10 API documentation to build your applications using special version of Flex SDK. Adobe's Flash Player team made a substantial progress with new release of this very solid VM, which...http://wireless.sys-con.com/node/577928 AJAX RIA World - The Tale of Two Webs- May 27, 2008 When talking about the 'web' what are we referring to For most people it's what can be experienced through their web browser including HTML, audio and video streaming, Flash-based animation, or rich Internet Application (RIA) interfaces. The key to this perspective is the web browser, which is viewed as essential for experiencing any type of content available via a hyperlink on the web.read morehttp://wireless.sys-con.com/node/560597 Virtualization - HP Signs Up for DaaS- May 23, 2008 Desktone, the start-up with the desktop-as-a-service (DaaS) vision, has signed up Hewlett-Packard to deliver virtual desktops as a service. Desktone is already supposed to have Verizon, IBM, Softbank and Deutsche Telekon interested - and Merrill Lynch is a pilot site - but HP and its utility-style Flexible Computing Services are the first members of Desktone's just unveiled partner program, which is targeted at service providers that are already in the hosting or outsourcing business.read morehttp://wireless.sys-con.com/node/569304 IONA Advances SOA Data Interoperability- May 23, 2008 IONA announced the latest release of Artix Data Services, an open and standards-based development tool for building model-driven data services, and a key component of IONA's Artix advanced SOA infrastructure suite. Artix Data Services shortens the data services development, test and maintenance lifecycle and improves the quality of data as it flows across heterogeneous environments.read morehttp://wireless.sys-con.com/node/572413 British Telecommunications Selects SMobile Systems to Secure Its Newest Broadband Offering- May 20, 2008 Subscribers to British Telecommunications (BT) BT Total Broadband Anywhere service, will receive the top-of-the-range broadband service at home and BT ToGo, an all-in-one, Internet-enabled phone designed to email and surf the Internet, in-or-out of the home. These new phones will come protected with mobile security software provided by SMobile Systems.read morehttp://wireless.sys-con.com/node/572443 Motorola Invests in VirtualLogix Virtualization- May 19, 2008 Motorola through Motorola Ventures, its strategic venture capital arm, announced it made an equity investment in VirtualLogix, a maker of virtualization software for communications devices and infrastructure equipment. Financial terms of the investment were not disclosed. VirtualLogix specializes in real-time virtualization - an innovative technology that is shaping the future for communications devices and equipment. Their technology enables the mobility of applications from the desktop to...http://wireless.sys-con.com/node/547849 DataCore's Storage Virtualization Software Is Citrix Ready for XenServer 4.1- May 19, 2008 DataCore Software announced that its two storage virtualization solutions, SANsymphony and SANmelody, have been verified as Citrix Ready for XenServer 4.1 as virtual SAN appliances running on XenServer virtual machines as well as in a standard physical storage server configuration. Rigorous testing verified that both implementations will support XenServer 4.1 virtual machines with virtual storage and advanced storage services critical to demanding virtual server environments, such as fail-safe..http://wireless.sys-con.com/node/565280 AMD Whistles Up New Champions To Slay its Dragons- May 19, 2008 AMD has kissed Mario Rivas good-bye and turned processor development over to Randy Allan, the head of its star-crossed server and workstation business, reporting to president and COO Dirk Meyer. Allan is now the new head of AMD's Computing Solutions Group, responsible for the bulk of the company's revenues.read morehttp://wireless.sys-con.com/node/566429 Kevin Hoffman's Review of Iron Man- May 19, 2008 I took the advice of a friend of mine and steered clear of the 'normal' movie theaters and went a little out of the way to go to a DLP movie theater. The experience of comparing a regular movie theater to a DLP movie theater is like comparing standard def analog TV with a 1080i HDTV signal. The movie itself was awesome. I was pleasantly surprised. I expected, wrongly so, another loosely connected chain of high-impact special effects moments like most of the other recent comic book adaptations...http://wireless.sys-con.com/node/563210 |