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EQO Rolls Out Skype Client For Mobile Phones

EQO Communications announced the rollout of its EQO Mobile Internet Phone Service for Skype onto the J2MEE platform yesterday. The move will enable some 150 million J2MEE-compliant mobile phones to see the presence status of their buddies, send and receive text messages to other Skype users, and start multiparty chat sessions, as well as place and receive Skype calls. The EQO client runs on Nokia, Motorola and Sony-Ericsson handsets.

EQO is hardly the first to deliver mobile Skype, but it is the first to deliver it on such a breadth of telephones.

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Verizon (Finally) Offers BroadbandAccess EV-DO on Cell Phones

BEDMINSTER, NJ -- Verizon Wireless, the nation's leading wireless service provider, announced today that customers with The V and VX8100 from LG or the RAZR V3c and E815 from Motorola can use their wireless phone as a modem and get BroadbandAccess on Verizon Wireless' award-winning Evolution-Data Optimized (EV-DO) network.

Microsoft CEO Sees Smartphones At $100 Within Two Years

Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer expects smartphones powered by the company's Windows Mobile software to sell for $100 within one or two years, which would create a huge market.

"We will get smartphones at consumer style prices," Ballmer said in an interview on Tuesday at the 3GSM wireless trade show. "I think it will take a year or two before we get to $100 type offerings (of Windows Mobile devices). I may be wrong, but not by much," he told Reuters.

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Syncing Computers And Mobile Devices

The bits that make up our digital lives are increasingly spread over a growing number of gadgets, such as cell phones that snap pictures, handheld computers that play music and a growing number of PCs that do all the above and more.

But amid all this connectedness, something has been left out: a seamless way for all the gadgets and all the computers to stay current with all the information captured, created and edited on other devices.

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Verizon's new XV6700

Verizon has begun offering a branded version of HTC's Apache platform in the US, marketed by UTStarcom Personal Communications. The XV6700 runs Windows Mobile 5.0 and features a QWERTY keyboard that slides out from the side, as well as built-in WiFi and Bluetooth.

Sprint began offering its version of the XV6700 in the US, the PPC-6700, last fall.

Palm 700w with Windows Mobile

The latest smartphone from Palm will also be the first to ship without a Palm operating system. Instead, Palm is supplying Windows Mobile from long-term rival Microsoft. The new Palm 700w will be available from Verizon on January 5.

Pricing has not been announced but the hot rumors claim that you'll be able to buy one for $549.99 with a 1-year contract, $499.99 with a two-year, and $619.99 with no contract at all.

Sell Your Old Cell Phone

Do you have an old cell phone lying in the drawer unused? Now you can sell it and earn a few dollars. Best of all, it is easy to do so.

McAfee says that Mobile Malware will Rise in 2006

Anti-virus major McAfee has sounded a warning bell for users of mobile phones. The harm caused by new mobile threats are likely to be more extensive than compared to today's PC threats. This is mainly due to the large volume of smartphones being shipped around the world and a small percentage of them being protected by mobile-security measures.

Cicero Software Supports Wi-Fi/cellular roaming

Cicero Networks has launched a platform that could enable smart phone users to roam between Wi-Fi hotspots and cellular networks without dropping their voice calls. Cicero's offering is unusual in this space because fixed line carriers wishing to offer the converged service to users won't need to forge partnerships with mobile operators, which may see such converged services as a threat to their main revenue source.

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