Phone.com Shares Soar 150% on First Day.
Phone.com Inc saw shares from its Friday IPO rocket to close up 150.78% to $40.125 after the first day trading. Late Thursday, Phone.Com's lead underwriter, Credit Suisse First Boston, had said there had been strong demand for the initial offering and pushed up the price to $16 a share...

Microsoft to Upgrade Windows CE.
Microsoft Corp wants to improve Windows CE's ugly duckling image, preparing new variants of the small footprint operating system for release later this year. The OS, which has been overshadowed by Palm Computing's runaway success in the US and Psion Plc in Europe, has long been criticized for a...

Yahoo! and Mannesmann Offer Mobile Web in Germany.
Yahoo! Inc will soon offer its online services to mobile phone users in Germany, after a deal announced yesterday with D2 Mannesmann Mobilefunk, the cellular arm of German conglomerate Mannesmann AG. Yahoo boasts that the deal is the latest stage of its Yahoo Everywhere strategy to get is services...

FRANCE TELECOM BEGINS TRIALS OF INTERNET PHONES.
France Telecom is to begin piloting a suite of internet services for mobile GSM users. Services such as weather, banking, news, directories and navigation aids will be offered to a hundred users on France Telecom's Itineris GSM cellular network. The two-month trials will begin in April, with a full...

Nedecon Readies June Flotation on Helsinki Stock Exchange.
Finnish internet applications developer Nedecon Network Development Consulting Oy is making an initial public offering prior to a listing on the Helsinki stock exchange, with trading likely to start in early June, according to marketing director Jyrki Eklund. The company, based in Espoo, just outside the Finnish...

Nokia Phils. and GTZ sign pact to provide J2ME training in RP.
In line with the Philippine government?s commitment to develop ICT (Information and Communication Technology) competence in the country, GTZ and Nokia have combined their resources to train and support Filipinos to develop mobile ICT via J2ME ? the micro edition of Sun Microsystems? Java language designed for mobile terminals....

Nokia Phils. and GTZ sign pact to provide J2ME training in RP.
In line with the Philippine governments commitment to develop ICT (Information and Communication Technology) competence in the country, GTZ and Nokia have combined their resources to train and support Filipinos to develop mobile ICT via J2ME the micro edition of Sun Microsystems Java language designed for mobile terminals. ...

No wires attached: usability challenges in the connected mobile world.
Mobile computing platforms combining small, lightweight, low-power devices with wireless network connectivity enable the performance of familiar tasks in new environments and create opportunities for novel interactions. Since mobility imposes significant cognitive and ergonomic constraints affecting device and application usability, ease of use is central to devices in the...

Virgin Mobile and Burger King Offer Ringtones from Warner Music.
FOOD AND BEVERAGE CLOSE-UP-1 May 2008-Virgin Mobile and Burger King Offer Ringtones from Warner Music(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Virgin Mobile USA has teamed up with Burger King and Warner Music Group (WMG) to bring music-loving customers more of the tones they want. For a...

Globe Telecom and Yahoo! Sign Strategic Mobile Partnership; Yahoo! Mobile services to be available on the myGlobe WAP site.
Globe Telecom, one of the Philippines' largest telecommunications service providers, announced recently that it signed a strategic mobile partnership agreement with Yahoo!. Under the terms of the agreement, Globe Telecom will distribute Yahoo!'s popular mobile search service, Yahoo! oneSearch, Yahoo! Go for Mobile and other mobile Internet services on...