Verizon Wireless is snubbing Google's Linux-based Android initiative to go with the LiMo Foundation's mobile Linux spec for its next wave of mobile phones expected next year. Along with Verizon, Mozilla signed up - giving the consortium its first major open source ISV - and a key one for conveying applications.

Adoption of federated identity technology has been slower than the hype might indicate, despite the maturity of standards such as SAML 2.0 and Web Services Security. This presentation examines the distinct business and technical identity management issues in both the commercial and user-centric spheres, and important catalysts to drive successful deployment.

This session will investigate what is happening out there in the world of Mobility that uses Services, some are calling this MOA (Mobile Oriented Architecture). We will also discuss architectures, application design & considerations for mobility

Adaptec unveiled a new family of entry-level Unified Serial RAID controllers. The new low-profile Series 2 RAID controllers, built on the same Adaptec dual core RAID-on-Chip (ROC) architecture used in its successful Series 5 RAID controllers, provide significant performance enhancement and scalability to low-cost data storage systems. The Series 2 controllers eliminate the limitations of software RAID-based hardware solutions commonly found in entry-level systems, delivering a wide range of advantages for inexpensive SATA and SAS disk and tape drive systems.

It seems as though whenever I bring up PNRP and its benefits, I am immediately inundated with a list of questions or comments indicating that Microsoft is re-inventing the wheel and that PNRP has already been implemented before in the form of ZeroConf and, more specifically, Apple's implementation of it called Bonjour (formerly known as Rendezvous).

For a 22% interest, Intel, Google, Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks are putting $3.2 billion into a new company that Craig McCaw's Clearwire and Sprint Nextel, two of the walking wounded, are forming that combines their WiMax wireless broadband businesses. Trilogy Equity Partners is investing directly.

I took the advice of a friend of mine and steered clear of the 'normal' movie theaters and went a little out of the way to go to a DLP movie theater. The experience of comparing a regular movie theater to a DLP movie theater is like comparing standard def analog TV with a 1080i HDTV signal. The movie itself was awesome. I was pleasantly surprised. I expected, wrongly so, another loosely connected chain of high-impact special effects moments like most of the other recent comic book adaptations have been.

AccuRev announced that PacketVideo (PV) has standardized on AccuRev for process-centric software configuration management (SCM) to enhance the efficiency and collaboration of its worldwide development organization. PV conducted an exhaustive evaluation of SCM solutions to replace its existing SCCM tool. AccuRev was chosen as it proved to be the best performer and for its ability to efficiently manage PV's geographically distributed software development release process, eliminate merging and branch mastership issues and substantially reduce administration and training costs.

Intel wants to transition from 300mm to 450mm wafers in 2012 and has gotten Samsung and TSMC to agree to an 'industry-wide collaboration' to ensure that everything's in place and there are pilot lines being tested by then. It should mean lower-cost MPUs, diminish overall use of resources per chip and cut air pollution, global warming gases and water use.

Microsoft, which spent $6 billion on aQuantive and was chasing Yahoo for its ads before it came to a dead stop, has been supporting - as in helping write - legislation in New York and Connecticut that would regulate the data that companies like Yahoo and Google collect for targeted advertising. The New York bill, which Google, Yahoo, AOL and Facebook oppose, would let consumers opt-out of tracking.

ShoZu announced that it has expanded its mobile social media service to Photobucket, Dailymotion, Friendster, Twitter and four additional Web 2.0 and Mobile 2.0 communities. With these eight new integrations, ShoZu now enables mobile users to interact with their choice of 36 social networks from a single screen on their handsets - reducing the time, effort and money required to upload images, update social profiles and check friends' latest posts from the phone.

During my last trip to Best Buy, on a whim I picked up a DVI-to-HDMI connector (male DVI, female HDTV). This little doohickey plugs into the side of my Macbook Pro and then I plug the HDMI cable into that. I run the other end of the HDMI cable into the HDTV and I get something that is pretty awesome. I'm sure all of you techheads and mediaphiles have been doing this for years but I'm generally a little behind the times. I was expecting to get the same experience I get when I plug in a projector, where the projector and the main monitor become synchronized and I see everything really fuzzy on the laptop monitor and clearly on the projector.

Sun Microsystems announced it has entered into a multi-year agreement with On2 Technologies to add comprehensive video capabilities, using On2 Technologies TrueMotion video codecs, to Sun's JavaFX, a family of products for creating Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) with immersive media and content across all the 'screens of your life'.

Interest from the international arena for CeBIT Bilisim Eurasia is on the increase every year. CeBIT Bilisim Eurasia, serving as a gateway between East and West is enriching its content every year in line with the global trends. In 2007 the show hosted 140,000 local and international visitors and 1,852 press members and it is expected to attract a myriad of professional visitors this year. CeBIT Bilisim Eurasia hosts delegations from international non-governmental organizations in ICT sector from the Eurasian countries such as Egypt, Ukraine, India among others. It is, thereby, poised to offer a complete job development platform.

From Application Virtualization to Xen, a round-up of the virtualization themes & topics being discussed in NYC June 23-24, 2008 by the world-class speaker faculty at the 3rd International Virtualization Conference & Expo being held by SYS-CON Events in The Roosevelt Hotel, in midtown Manhattan.

Red Hat is a trusted open source provider. Red Hat offers enterprise customers a long-term plan for building infrastructures on the quality and innovation of open source. Combining open source operating system platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, together with applications, management, and Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) solutions, including the JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite.

Sun Microsystems and the GlassFish community announced the availability of the technology preview release of the Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server version 3 and new Sun GlassFish Communications Server. Sun also announced a new GlassFish Partner initiative designed to provide developers, Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and System Integrators (SIs) with access to a large number of frameworks and applications running on the GlassFish application server.

Continuing employing an open application model, Sprint introduced the latest version of its developer toolkit, relaunching its Professional Developer Program and preparing to deliver new Sprint devices and a new Java platform that will open the door to millions of developers who have traditionally designed for a desktop environment.

Mobile phone maker Nokia has announced that they are now going to work with Ikivo to develop tools for java development on the mobile platform. The two companies announced their collaboration at the JavaOne conference. They would offer a tool set that integrates Nokia?s Platform SDK for Java, Adobe Illustrator, Ikivo Animator, and NetBeans.

Truvo has launched a downloadable Java search service for mobile users in Belgium based on mobilePeople's liquid platform. Truvo, formerly called World Directories, is an international directory publisher that adds multiple content sources in a searchable format next to their own yellow and white pages listings.

Like many mid-sized enterprises, the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst was interested in consolidating servers to streamline operations, improve its storage architecture, reduce downtime and conserve resources. The school's outdated storage network, used primarily for operations (shared storage, faculty files documents, multimedia, etc.) along with student information and documents, was plagued with frequent service disruptions. This downtime was wreaking havoc with the network's user base - 145 full-time faculty and staff, plus 120 computer lab desktops that serve students.

Cybera in conjunction with Shell Oil announced that Cybera's Wireless Broadband network connectivity solutions are approved for use within the Shell Coolband program. Shell's Coolband program provides a set of approved network connectivity options for Shell branded payment solutions. Now any Shell branded store can access Shell's payment processing solutions through Cybera's managed Wireless Broadband services. As a wireless broadband solution approved for use in the Coolband program, Cybera's fully managed services are deployed in the c-store environment to meet three critical areas of need: rapid deployment for store grand openings, primary network connectivity, and diverse-routed broadband backup.

Paybox announced the release of the fourth generation of its Mobiliser Platform providing a state-of-the-art Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) as well as a Service Development Platform (SDP) for true dynamic real-time integration and rapid application development of mobile Commerce, mobile Money and mobile Payment relevant solutions to further scale its business.

Intel has set up a community-enabled web store portal for SMBs called the Intel Business Exchange or Intel BX to push bundled software and hardware, standalone business applications and services. It includes product descriptions, interactive demonstrations, white papers, case studies, blog entries and user-submitted product ratings and reviews. Right now it covers storage, security, telecommunications, on-premise business applications and on-demand business applications.

Atom, the new chip that Intel built for so-called netbooks and phones in hopes of touching off the Internet-in-you-pocket phase of the computer revolution and widening its earnings, is in short supply. Asustek, which is supposed to launch an Atom-based Eee next month, said during its earnings call Wednesday that it thinks the part will be quite scarce into Q3 when MIDs are supposed to start flooding the market.

Cisco and Nokia announced growing customer and partner acceptance of their combined mobile unified communications solution. The Mobile Business Solution from Cisco and Nokia extends the rich Cisco Unified Internet Protocol (IP) Phone capabilities to Nokia Eseries smartphones over Cisco Unified Wireless Networks to offer users a seamless mobile experience in the enterprise environment and public cellular networks. The two companies also announced that they are beginning to deploy each other's mobile solutions. Cisco is beginning to deploy Nokia Eseries smartphones for its sales organization in the United States, Europe and Asia Pacific theaters, while Nokia will begin with Cisco Unified Wireless Network in its offices, labs, and manufacturing sites.

Microsoft and Beijing Komoxo Mobile announced a patent licensing agreement on text-input technologies for mobile devices. The licensed patents allow Komoxo to integrate Microsoft's statistical language modeling methods into its next-generation text-input engine for reduced keypad and touch-screen devices, and deliver new mobile innovations to consumers around the world.

AccuWeather.com and Rhythm NewMedia announced that AccuWeather.com forecast videos are now included in Rhythm's range of ad-supported mobile content. Local forecasts for over 100 cities, regional forecasts, national forecasts, and breaking severe weather videos will now be available inventory for mobile video ads sold by Rhythm NewMedia. AccuWeather.com forecasting videos will be offered in two-minute segments, alongside other snack-sized video content offered to consumers for free in exchange for watching a short pre- or post-roll video ad.

Software AG announced that T-Mobile International is developing its IT-Governance methodology and tools in conjunction with Software AG. One of the goals of this program is to accelerate the introduction of new products and service plans using Software AG's technologies for service-oriented architecture (SOA) and business process management (BPM). The two companies are also developing a joint competency center to support their planned multiyear, international collaboration. The competency center is tasked with further development of T-Mobile's SOA/BPM strategy and with moving the company's IT infrastructure forward using SOA/BPM process models.

Intrinsyc was appointed a Symbian Competence Center by Symbian Limited. Symbian recognized Intrinsyc's expertise in mobile device software development, as well as Intrinsyc's contribution to the successful development of Symbian OS handsets. As one of only ten Symbian Competence Centers worldwide, and the only center based in North America, Intrinsyc helps handset manufacturers, operators, partners and silicon vendors reduce product development time and cost while improving time-to-market and quality.

Array Networks introduced WiFiProtect, a comprehensive, identity-based access control solution for WLAN networks. WiFiProtect's virtualization technology funnels all WLAN traffic through a scalable gateway that enables enterprises to provide customized wireless access for partners, guests and employees. By using standard browsers present on virtually every client device, it eliminates the need for IT intervention or a pre-installed client every time a user requires wireless access.

Gooer announced a mobile phone service that enables customers to access their remote PC using mobile phones or PDAs. Unlike other service providers, Gooer does not need the remote PC to have a public IP or route configuration. Customers can access their PC behind NAT or firewalls without any configuration to their network.

QSound Labs announced that its mQFX and QSurroundMobile technologies will be made available on Symbian OS as a reference component. mQFX, for 3D stereo audio enhancement effects, and QSurroundMobile, the multichannel audio virtualization technology, will be available in Symbian OS developer and customer kits and can be used for test and demonstration purposes. QSound's mQFX and QSurroundMobile will provide extended functionality for Symbian OS mobile phones, delivering a superior listening experience for all types of multimedia content.

Apple has finally bought PA Semi, the fab-less low-power PowerPC start-up that supposedly swooned when Apple switched from the PowerPC Intel. What Apple's going to do with it now become fodder for the speculators. The iPhone uses an 32-bit ARM-derived chip that Intel would love to displace with its newfangled Atom processor.

After a $1.5 million angel round, Desktone, which was started in 2006 by Eric Pulier, who also started SOA Software, US Interactive and IVT, picked up $17 million in first-round funding about a year ago from Highland Capital Partners, SoftBank Capital, Citrix Systems and the China-based Tangee International. SoftBank as well as Deutsche Telekom could become service providers. Ruda says the brains behind the technology is Paul Gaffney, the former CIO of Staples. The company has maybe 40 people, more than half of them in Shanghai doing development, which explains Tangee's involvement.

While SCO is only days away from a court appearance in Utah that's supposed to determine how much money it owes to Novell, a necessary step before it tries to get all legal decisions related to Novell overturned, it's cut a revenue-sharing deal with FranklinCovey that will put the mobile widgetry it's developed for FranklinCovey on Blackberries, Windows Mobile smart phones and PCs.

An on-the-beach IT executive who's been watching a lot of political coverage lately called to ask what cabinet post Carly Fiorina was likely to get if John McCain is elected because Carly, now the so-called 'victory chairman' of the Republican National Committee, has become McCain's Siamese twin - in every shot, he said.

Nuance Communications announced that Avaya has selected speech solutions from Nuance to enhance the employee productivity and collaboration options of its unified communications offering. As part of the agreement, Nuance speech recognition will ship as a standard component of Avaya Modular Messaging 4.0, with the inclusion of Avaya one-X Speech. Avaya one-X Speech is a 'hands-free' user interface enabling users to access, interact with and manage email and voice mail, tasks and calendaring, and calling and conferencing capabilities - all via speech commands from any telephone.

Zimbra announced the availability of its ZimbraME (Java Mobile Edition) client and source code for businesses. Users of any Java-enabled mobile phone will have access to the complete collaboration solution. The ZimbraME client provides Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) Open Source and Network Edition users worldwide with free access to the Zimbra experience with e-mail and calendar on mass-market Java-enabled mobile phones. This extends Zimbra's reach of services to the broadest range of devices available in the market and builds on Yahoo!'s standing in e-mail and mobile Web services and as a key starting point for consumers.

Curl announced the beta release of Curl Nitro, the code name for an extension of the Curl Rich Internet Application (RIA) platform which offers enhanced desktop capabilities required by today's enterprises. The Nitro extension simplifies the process of installing and managing Curl applications accessed via a browser as well as directly from the desktop. Curl Nitro is the only platform for both traditional RIA and Desktop RIA that provides enterprise-level security, high performance and support for large data sets.