Relentless rise of the mobile phone rings changes for world's poor (AFP)   21 Apr 2005 17:21 GMT
AFP - With just four calls from a mobile phone, remote Bangladeshi farmer Mir Jahid Hussein can now ensure he gets the best price for his seasonal jute seeds -- something he could once only dream of.
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WiMAX Market To Be $29.3 Billion By 2008, Trade Group Says   21 Apr 2005 17:00 GMT
Wi-Fi and WiMAX infrastructure revenue is expected to reach $5.2 billion and $115 million respectively in 2005, according to the Telecommunications Industry Association's 2005 Telecommunications Market Review and Forecast.
Source: Mobile Pipeline

Experts urge wireless security integration   21 Apr 2005 16:05 GMT
CAMBRIDGE, MASS. -- Corporations should think of wireless security as an add-on to their existing security architecture, not as a separate entity, according to analysts and vendors at the Wireless Security Conference & Expo. IT managers should either integrate the new wireless piece into the overall company security policy, if one already exists, or take the opportunity to create a plan for the entire IT infrastructure, security experts urged Wednesday at the event, being held in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Source: InfoWorld

'Let us go forth,' new pope says in first text message (AFP)   21 Apr 2005 15:15 GMT
AFP - Pope Benedict XVI sent his first text message to Italian cellphone users -- "Let us go forth" -- carrying on a service launched by his predecessor, the late John Paul II.
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In Brief: Fourteen vendors collaborate on WS-Security OASIS InterOp   21 Apr 2005 15:10 GMT
Fourteen organizations teamed up at the Gartner Application Integration and Web Services Summit in Los Angeles Wednesday to demonstrate interoperability of the WS-Security standard. WS-Security was developed by OASIS to deliver a foundation for implementing security measures such as integrity and confidentiality in messages using Web services applications. WS-Security allows security methods such as authentication and access control to be reliably associated with SOAP messages. The OASIS InterOp at the Gartner Summit demonstrated the exchange of messages protected by WS-Security using the X.509 Token Profile.
Source: InfoWorld

Report: Major Carriers To Snub Moto's iTunes Phone   21 Apr 2005 14:46 GMT
Verizon, Sprint and possibly Cingular will snub an iTunes phone being developed by Motorola and Apple because the operators are planning to launch their own music services, a business publication claims.
Source: Mobile Pipeline

Bottom Fishing Reveals Interesting Wireless Data   21 Apr 2005 14:12 GMT
Often, the most interesting information is at the bottom, not the top, of quarterly financial statements. This week, for instance, the bottom of public statements from Cingular and Sprint revealed just how little cellular data services are being used so far.
Source: Mobile Pipeline

Operators Earning Less From More Subscribers: Study   21 Apr 2005 14:06 GMT
Wireless operators worldwide are gaining lots of customers but their profits are falling because many of those customers aren't spending very much, according to a new study.
Source: Mobile Pipeline

Update: Nokia's first-quarter profit jumps 18 percent   21 Apr 2005 13:43 GMT
Higher demand for handsets in the first quarter gave Nokia a welcome boost. The world's largest handset maker reported an 18 percent jump in net profit coupled with a 17 percent gain in net sales, it said Thursday.
Source: InfoWorld

Regional Operator Alltel Posts Strong Financials, Customer Stability   21 Apr 2005 13:22 GMT
Besides strong profitability, regional wireless operator Alltel reported customer stability that would be the envy of larger operators.
Source: Mobile Pipeline