Small Wireless Operator Offers Flat Rate Voice Plans   05 Apr 2005 12:19 GMT
Leap offers all-you-can-eat voice and messaging service plans for between $35 and $45 a month.
Source: Mobile Pipeline

Nokia Agrees to Sell Mobile Radio Unit (AP)   05 Apr 2005 11:20 GMT
AP - Nokia Corp., the world's biggest mobile phone maker, said Tuesday it will sell its mobile radio business to European Aeronautic Defence & Space Co. in a deal valued at more than 90 million euros ($116 million).
Source: Yahoo

Should cities hook up to WiFi?   05 Apr 2005 11:00 GMT
Commentary-- Ron Sege of Tropos Networks says we need policies that encourage the development of broadband wireless networks, not ones that stifle their creation.
Source: ZDNet

Nationwide Campus Wi-Fi Network Started   05 Apr 2005 05:41 GMT
New system will allow roaming among participating college campuses and public school systems.
Source: Mobile Pipeline

HP releases software fix for h6315 PDA phone   04 Apr 2005 21:53 GMT
Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) released a software update last week for its troubled iPaq h6315 handheld that promises to fix several issues that left users frustrated and caused retail partner T-Mobile USA to remove the device from its stores.
Source: InfoWorld

TV Listings Heading to Mobile Phones (TechWeb)   04 Apr 2005 19:25 GMT
TechWeb - For TV junkies, Gemstar-TV Guide International Inc. is developing a mobile-phone application that would let people search program listings, set reminders for showings and forward reminders to friends' mobile devices.
Source: Yahoo

New Smartphone Worm Spreads Via MMS, Bluetooth   04 Apr 2005 18:48 GMT
The new virus is a variant of an older Symbian smartphone virus and, besides spreading via Bluetooth, now spreads via multimedia messaging.
Source: Mobile Pipeline

In Brief: Open source group goes international with new board   04 Apr 2005 16:10 GMT
SOA Software (formerly Digital Evolution) has added a registry-based dashboard to its Service Manager. The registry-based dashboard uses real-time alerts to improve Web services performance by securing, monitoring, and managing XML and Web services and providing centralized management of service-oriented architectures (SOAs). The dashboard offers an easy-to-use graphical interface with visual indicators such as live charts and color-coded graphs that enable customers to monitor service-level agreements, security thresholds, and performance metrics. The registry-based dashboard will be included in the SOA Software Service Manager 3.0, which is slated to ship in May.? Service Manager pricing starts at $5,000 per CPU.
Source: InfoWorld

Net telephony set to surge, IDC says   04 Apr 2005 15:25 GMT
Voice over Internet Protocol is finally starting to overcome what has so far been a trend of slow growth, the market researcher says.
Source: ZDNet

RIM: The Next WordPerfect?   04 Apr 2005 15:09 GMT
Will Research In Motion be the next Netscape, Novell and WordPerfect? Microsoft is reportedly reworking its Windows Mobile platform to be a BlackBerry killer and it would be naive to think it will fail.
Source: Mobile Pipeline