China boasts nearly 373 million mobile phone users   30 Sep 2005 20:02 GMT
The number of mobile phone users in China continues to expand at over 3 million new subscribers per month, hitting 372.8 million as of the end of August, the government said.
Source: InfoWorld

RIM Claims Initial Victory In Patent Battle   30 Sep 2005 16:21 GMT
US Patent and Trademark Office issues a ruling on the last of the disputed patents that is favorable to RIM, but appeals and other legal activity could still take years, experts say.
Source: Mobile Pipeline

RIM Claims Initial Victory In Patent Battle   30 Sep 2005 16:21 GMT
US Patent and Trademark Office issues a ruling on the last of the disputed patents that is favorable to RIM, but appeals and other legal activity could still take years, experts say.
Source: Mobile Pipeline

Industry Group Draws Fire for Cell Phone Vendor Proposals (Ziff Davis)   30 Sep 2005 15:30 GMT
Ziff Davis - The TCG has created a new set of use cases for improving mobile phone security, involving tighter vendor controls over digital rights management, device authentication, and more secure software downloads.
Source: Yahoo

New Study Finds Steep Growth For Smartphones   30 Sep 2005 14:51 GMT
Sales of smartphones and wireless handhelds such as BlackBerrys grew at a rate of 170 percent in the first half of the year in the Europe, Middle East and Africa region, compared to only 11 percent growth for standard cell phones, a new study found.
Source: Mobile Pipeline

Japanese Cellco: Fuel Cell Mobile Phone In 'Near Future'   30 Sep 2005 13:38 GMT
Claiming its fuel cell system is coming in "the near future," the hybrid methanol fuel cell/battery system reportedly lasts more than twice as long as traditional batteries.
Source: Mobile Pipeline

In Brief: Quest releases Application Assurance Suite for Java and Portals   30 Sep 2005 13:35 GMT
Quest Software announced at BEAWorld the release of its Application Assurance Suite for Java and Portals, which lets users rapidly measure, analyze, and optimize applications during development. The suite is the next generation of Quest PerformaSure integrated with Quest JProbe, and it enables development and QA teams to correlate end-user transactions to performance impacts on Java applications and portals. New to this solution are features for diagnosing issues in portals, memory performance analysis, and automated performance blueprinting. Other features include automatic optimization of SQL statements in Java applications when used in conjunction with Quest's database tools; line-of-code isolation; automatic application mapping, which reveals the interdependencies of components; and transaction correlation, which speeds problem diagnosis. Quest's Application Assurance Suite for Java and Portals is available now priced starting at $7,000 per CPU.
Source: InfoWorld

PalmSource Sale Cleared By Federal Agency   30 Sep 2005 13:30 GMT
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has decided to take no action to prevent the acquisition of PalmSource by a Japanese software vendor.
Source: Mobile Pipeline

Sony, SanDisk announce smaller Memory Stick card (MacCentral)   30 Sep 2005 12:39 GMT
MacCentral - Sony Corp. and SanDisk Corp. Friday announced a smaller Memory Stick card format, called Memory Stick Micro, that is designed to be used with mobile phones.
Source: Yahoo

Mobile industry focuses on handsets for the poor   30 Sep 2005 12:15 GMT
The 3GSM World Congress Asia wrapped up with a major achievement: reducing the cost of a mobile phone to below $30, making wireless communications even more accessible to people in poor nations.
Source: InfoWorld