Bluetooth, UWB groups mesh efforts   04 May 2005 16:04 GMT
Companies supporting the wireless networking technologies will work together to increase transfer speeds and diversity of products.
Source: ZDNet

IDC downgrades 2005 global IT spending growth forecasts   04 May 2005 15:57 GMT
International Data Corp. lowered its growth forecast for global information technology spending this year, due mainly to weakness in Europe and Japan, the market researcher said Wednesday.
Source: InfoWorld

In Brief: Eiffel releases tool for authoring ASP.Net pages   04 May 2005 15:20 GMT
Eiffel Software has released Eiffel for ASP.Net, a free tool for developing dynamic Web sites and Web applications in Eiffel. Eiffel's Design by Contract feature makes it easy to write bug-free code to build business-critical applications. The tool runs with the latest Eiffel compiler on both Versions 1.0 and 1.1 of the .Net Framework.
Source: InfoWorld

BlackBerry Is Now The Best-Selling PDA, Study Says   04 May 2005 14:17 GMT
The popularity of always-on e-mail enabled the BlackBerry to vault into the lead as the worlds best-selling PDA in the first quarter of 2005.
Source: Mobile Pipeline

Study Finds T-Mobile Business Customers Most Satisfied   04 May 2005 13:58 GMT
Survey of 1500 businesses found that T-Mobile scored best overall, but Verizon Wireless scored strongly in terms of network quality.
Source: Mobile Pipeline

Pre-WiMAX Service About To Launch In Seattle   04 May 2005 13:52 GMT
Broadband vendor Speakeasy says it is starting to accept orders and its pre-WiMAX network for enterprises will go online in June.
Source: Mobile Pipeline

BCE Q1 profits rise slightly to $474M from $470M, revenues jump to nearly $4.9B (Canadian Press)   04 May 2005 13:37 GMT
Canadian Press - MONTREAL (CP) - Communications giant BCE Inc., the parent of Bell Canada, says its first-quarter profit rose to $474 million, from $470 million a year earlier, as revenue climbed 4.8 per cent to $4.9 billion despite hot competition in the cellphone business.
Source: Yahoo

Bluetooth, Ultra-wideband Technologies To Merge   04 May 2005 13:16 GMT
Ultra-wideband capabilities will be built into future versions of Bluetooth, giving devices faster short-range wireless data speeds.
Source: Mobile Pipeline

Car-To-Car Communications Next Big Thing, Study Predicts   04 May 2005 12:54 GMT
A report claims that future safety and telematics systems will need to use a dedicated wireless technology based on 802.11.
Source: Mobile Pipeline

Bluetooth looks to UWB for bandwidth   04 May 2005 11:28 GMT
The body that oversees the Bluetooth personal-area wireless specification wants to take advantage of emerging UWB (ultrawideband) technology to create fast networks that are backward-compatible with current Bluetooth products.
Source: InfoWorld