Sybase, Inc., a provider of enterprise infrastructure and mobile software, and HTC Corp., a provider of Microsoft Windows Mobile-based smart devices, have formed a global alliance. The companies are teaming on strategic business, engineering and marketing initiatives designed to deliver optimized Sybase iAnywhere mobility software on HTC devices.

Apple's official announcement that AJAX is the iPhone's SDK of choice reinforced Laszlo Systems' vision, having already built its OpenLaszlo RIA development platform to inherently support AJAX. This session will discuss how OpenLaszlo is architected to work with iPhone today, and will provide insight into how Laszlo gurus, Ben Shine and Bret Simister, created an animated news game from scratch in only 24 hours. Named one of the 8 coolest iPhone apps by Wired Magazine, 'NewsMatch' exemplifies the power of the OpenLaszlo platform and its cinematic user interface.

A blogger calling himself 'Fake Steve Jobs,' whose parody of the Apple Inc. (AAPL.O: Quote, Profile, Research) chief executive amused and enthralled Silicon Valley, revealed himself on Sunday as an editor of Forbes business magazine. Dan Lyons is also known with his 'Who is Pamela Jones?' Forbes cover story. This Adweek blog says 'Daniel Lyons has no love for bloggers.'

Sony and the Cell chip, used in its bedeviled PlayStation 3, have been charged with patent infringement in the patent-savvy prosecution-leaning Texas federal courts by an entity nobody ever heard of that can't be found on the Internet - or for that matter in corporate filings in California or Delaware, according to Ars Technica who says it looked - called Parallel Processing Corporation. Whoever it is - and the blogosphere seems to think it's part of Acacia Technologies, a great patent troll - is the 'exclusive licensee' of the 1991 patent (No. 5,056,000), originally filed by International Parallel Machines, that describes a high-speed computer that breaks programs down 'into smaller concurrent processes running in different parallel processors' and then resynchronizes them into faster processing speeds. Hmmm. Sound very Cell-ish.

The AJAX Company Backbase announced that its Enterprise AJAX software suite will support Apple's long-anticipated iPhone. Aligning its development with Apple's unfolding strategy for the sexy new device, Backbase has added support for the new platform, including Apple?s Web browser for iPhone, Safari 3, and the code-named Leopard operating system. The Backbase SDK enables developers to bring Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) and rich user interfaces to the iPhone.

Last month an EU ruling limited how much providers can charge for 'roaming calls' i.e. those call made whilst abroad. At the moment users are charged between 50p to £1.50 to make calls and are also charged to receive them. The new legislation cuts the maximum charge for European calls to 33p a minute and to just 16p per minute to receive calls.

Flat-data rate tariffs introduced by Orange, Vodafone and 3 networks in the UK are the first sign that the Mobile Web is set to become as ubiquitous as normal web use with the these flat tariffs bringing affordable mobile web access to nearly everyone who has a mobile web enabled phone. These tariffs critically remove the single impasse that has prevented even wider spread adoption - 'fair us' browsing within a single payment. Astonomical costs have previously put off users from going online from their mobile device - no wonder given the, often, several pounds per megabyte charge that most providers locked you into if you wanted to surf or access email from your phone.

AJAXWorld 2007 West will take place on September 23-26, 2007, at the Santa Clara Convention Center, in Santa Clara, California, and will offer a new dedicated 'iPhone Track.' Another dedicated track will offer a comparative education opportunity for conference delegates on emerging RIA tools, including a Diamond track on OpenLaszlo and sessions on Microsoft's Silverlight, Adobe's AIR and Sun's JavaFX.

Wall Street Journal reported today 'The company, which has made billions of dollars in Web advertising on computers, is courting wireless operators to carry handsets customized to Google products, including its search engine, email and a new mobile Web browser, say people familiar with the plans. It wants to capture a big chunk of the fast-growing market for ads on cellphones. Google has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in the cellphone project, say people who have been briefed on it. It has developed prototype handsets, made overtures to operators such as T-Mobile USA and Verizon Wireless, and talked over technical specifications with phone manufacturers. It hopes multiple manufacturers will make devices based on its specs and multiple carriers will offer them.'

A seasoned Java professional has to know more than just the syntax of the Java language. Java EE offers a set of standardized technologies for enterprise development. A number of open-source frameworks such as Spring or Hibernate are widely used in a variety of Java applications. Familiarity with new 'beyond-Java' languages and technologies will widen your horizons and make you a more valuable Java professional. Real-World Java Seminar is sponsored by CodeGear, Red Hat, Nexaweb, Farata Systems, and PushToTest.

In the past if you cannot access the Internet then you cannot use your Web 2.0 applications. This model is rapidly changing. New pogramming models are emerging that alllow Web 2.0 to be offline /online dependent on what is needed. The first of these is Adobe Apollo, which is a cross-platfrom technology that combined Flash, HTML, PDF and JavaScript into one universal application programming model / paradigm. What is unique is that id doesn't care if if it runs on its own or embedded in a webpage, the API calls remains the same.

Wall Street got vicious and took nigh on to a $9 bite out of Apple on Tuesday, the stock's worse day in seven years, after AT&T, the iPhone's sole carrier, reported that only 146,000 of the gadgets were activated in the first 30 hours of sales. That was the 30 hours before the second quarter closed shut, and the number was far below the market's opium eaters-like expectations of hundreds of thousands moving.

Intel has started the Mobile & Internet Linux Project (moblin.org) in support of Intel-based widgetry. It's supposed to be an umbrella operation under which a number of key elements for embedded distributions like Ubuntu's Mobile and Embedded Edition, Pepper Linux and Red Flag's Midinux are hosted. It's also supposed to be a point of integration to ensure interoperability.

Today's the 25th of July, the iPhone shipped on June 29, that's the day I got mine, so we're getting pretty close to the end of a month with the iPhone. The tech press usually doesn't review products after a month of use, but that's when you really find out if it was worth the initial hype. The NY Times reports that iPhone sales are disappointing, I'd like to add that the product itself is disappointing. I still own and use a Blackberry for its email and web capabilities, both of which outshine Apple's product. Because the iPhone doesn't have a search command, and apparently doesn't store messages locally, it makes a poor choice for a mobile email client.

Two-year-old a la mobile is promising to announce the world's most secure Linux operating systems platform for smartphones any minute now. Its patented Mobile Security Engine combines enterprise security features like sandboxing and encryption with the bootloader and kernel in the handset, widgetry that's supposed to make it virtually impenetrable to outside hardware or software nasties.

It's widely recognized that the telecommunications industry is riding the crest of change and evolution on the back of new access technologies such as 3G, GPRS, and Wi-Fi. Such IP-centric access mechanisms must also be considered in conjunction with the emergence of feature-enabling technologies such as VoIP, instant messaging, and presence. A whole new converged telecommunications world is emerging that requires an appropriate complementary IP-based infrastructure as opposed to the legacy, circuit-switched solutions of the past.

I recently wrapped up an 18-month stint on the business subcomittee of the Wireless Washtenaw Initiaitive, a project to bring wireless broadband to the citizens of Washtenaw County, Michigan. It's part of a growing movement by local government to help citizens participate in today's high-speed data networks.

The single-day, multi-track Real-World Java Seminar will be held at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York on August 13. Produced by SYS-CON Events, this is the largest Java developer event on the East Coast, and features a business track as well as two technical tracks. All attendees will have full access to all sessions at the event, so can either stay with one track or pick and choose specific sessions.

Can afford to take just one day off, get out of your cubicle and see what other people up to these days? Is J2EE still in favor? What's this ESB is about? Have you even heard of using Flex as a Web front end of your Java applications? Do not miss an event in NYC this Monday, that is created for people who think that they are way too busy to take several days off and spend them in the class. Just take one day off and attend the Real-World Java event. The discounted rate for this event is $395. To get this discount, enter the coupon code ?JUGgold' while registering

The city of Dallas has a population of 1.2 million and spans 385 square miles, while the metropolitan Dallas area has nearly 6 million people. Founded in 1841, Dallas is world-renowned as a center for IC technology, banking, telecommunications, and transportation. Yet the city nicknamed 'Big D' has a troubling side when it comes to criminal activities.

Sybase Tools Evangelist Jonathan Baker discusses Sybase's vision of mobility, including integrating and accessing mobile databases on any number of mobile devices (phones, blackberries, etc.) in this interview recorded at JavaOne 2007.

It's going to cost at least $1,976 to own and operate one of Apple's iPhones over two years, the only term available - and that's before any add-ons. On the high end, it's going to cost at least $3,036 for a 4.8-ounce do-not-drop-thi s-in-the-john widget whose battery-life, Internet speed and touch pad are real-life unknowns although early reviews, with some reservations, say it lives up to the frenzied hype. Newsweek calls it a 'significant leap?superbly engineered, cleverly designed and imaginatively implemented the rare convergence device where things actually converge.' Walt Mossberg, the Wall Street Journal's columnist, is simply in love with the 'beautiful and breakthrough handheld computer.'

Linspire developer of the commerical desktop Linux operating system of the same name and Freespire, the community desktop Linux operating system, and SageTV, a pioneer in personal video recording and home media center technologies that combine television, music and related media into a complete, easy-to-use home media experience, today announced the availability of SageTV Media Center Version 6 for users of the Linspire and Freespire desktop Linux operating system. SageTV Media Center software lets users watch, pause and record TV programs on their desktop Linux PCs without the monthly subscription fees required by current personal video recorder (PVR) services and provides a single user interface for accessing online video as well as personal music, photos and videos stored on the personal computer.

Apple put its Safari browser on Windows, a browser that isn't even supposed to be the best browser for the Mac. Immediately the move was cast as a reprise of the browser wars and by jingo within 48 hours Apple was reporting more than a million downloads. Safari has previously had 5% market share. Apple claims the Safari 3 rev can render web pages twice as fast as IE7 and 1.6 times faster than Firefox 2. It has bookmarks, tabs, a built-in RSS reader and private browsing to ensure information about the user's browsing history isn't stored.

iPhone, one of the most hyped products ever and occasionally called the 'Jesus phone' like it was the Second Coming, is about to hit the market so Apple figured it had better say 'one more thing' before it casts off. The gadget is going to be able to access YouTube content. IPhone will be the first mobile device to take advantage of YouTube's new H.264-encoded format, which is supposed to improve video quality and preserve battery life. This, and AJAX, we're told, makes it a platform, not to say the newest high school fashion accessory, although third-party programmers say they are barred from creating real applications.

Recursion Software a provider of intelligent middleware and distributed computing solutions, has announced a powerful, mobile application development and .NET interoperability for the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform. Building on its partnership with Red Hat?s JBoss Division, Recursion Software has integrated JBoss Messaging with its Voyager Edge 6.1 intelligent agent platform. As a service bridging JBoss Messaging to and from any Java Message Service (JMS) compliant service and Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ), Voyager provides JBoss customers with access to the complete .NET architecture on any embedded or edge device.

Users of the Mozilla's experimental 'Joey' service can archive their data on their own personal page, for retrieval by remote server to their cell phones later. It's being touted as a 'self-syndication' service, and can also be used to store and retrieve items such as movie times or stock price quotes.

'The 7240 and 7280 pack enough punch to provide breakthrough scalability and performance to handle the demands of the largest business-critical applications,' said Scott Sellers, chief operation officer and co-founder of Azul Systems. 'The Vega 2 processor is the only solution with a Java-optimized instruction set, hardware-assisted garbage collection, and support for optimistic thread concurrency -- making the Vega Compute Appliances the industry's first and only platform to deliver the speed and consistency IT departments need to use Java for business-critical and demanding applications.'

This coming Saturday (16th June) will be Yahoo! Hack Day here in London, and a few members of my buddy's company (the Nestoria team) will be on hand. But rather than just attending, they though it might be a bit of fun if they tried to subvert the event and turn it into their own hack contest. As such, they are delighted to present 'The quasi-official Nestoria Hack contest' to be held at Yahoo! Hack Day.

Carriers and content providers are looking to boost revenue streams through the introduction of new applications and services such as data-rich and multimedia 3G services. Another key area of revenue growth for carriers is mobile workforce automation applications, which include tracking an organization's sales force or managing its field service using mobile technologies. Today's handset silicon designers, manufacturers, and software developers are building the next-generation mobile handsets that will provide the foundation for these new applications and revenue streams.

So I have decided to retire my Sprint PPC 6700, a device that runs Windows Mobile 5.0 and has simultaneous access to voice networks, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and Sprint's broadband (EVDO). I frequently used this phone as a wireless modem and connected my laptop to the internet on the train. This phone is quite possibly one of the coolest devices I've ever owned.

The Real-World Java Seminar is a one-day event that's packed with technical presentations delivered by the Java industry experts. Attending this event will allow you to take a fresh look at the architecture of the projects you're working on now and can serve as a roadmap for your further development as a Java professional. The largest Java developer event on the East Coast, Real-World Java Seminar will offer sponsorship and exhibit opportunities to the leading Java technology companies. Additional information on sponsorship and exhibit opportunities can be obtained by e-mail at events(at) sys-con.com or by phone at 201 802-3021.

AMD dreams about its Centrino-like Puma widgetry, called its 'first explicitly mobile platform,' mauling Santa Rosa as though the new Intel device had been thrown to wild beasts in the arena. However, Santa Rosa is here and Puma notebooks aren't due before the middle of next year - if then (DigiTimes, for one, suspects AMD won't make the schedule).

Shimon Systems and AuthenTec announced an integrated solution to provide strong user authentication for WiFi networks. The integrated solution combines the unique technologies of both companies to help organizations overcome the historical weaknesses of WiFi security: the lack of user authentication; crackable encryption keys; and WiFi clients that auto-connect to rogue networks.

Sybase iAnywhere is enhancing its presence in the telematics and embedded devices markets by enabling embedded applications to provide intelligent user interfaces and context-aware user interactions.

Nexaweb Technologies, Inc., provider of the leading standards-based platform for building and deploying Enterprise Web 2.0 (EW2.0) applications, and BlueNote Networks, the leading provider of Business Communications Platforms for delivering real-time interactive communications as services in a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) environment, today announced a partnership to market integrated Enterprise Web 2.0 (EW2.0) and IP Telephony functionality.

Dr. Karuv's students, their parents, and his stundent alumni whom he mentored for more than 13 years were outraged with Aloia's decision to close the research program and assign Dr. Karuv to a teaching job. Dr. Karuv brought close to 500 awards to his students and to Bergen County Academies, in Hackensack, New Jersey, during his tenure with the Academy. He was appointed to his research position by the previous superintendent, who passed away in 2004.

Bahadir Karuv (Ph.D., Physics) has been the research specialist at Bergen County Academies in Hackensack, New Jersey, for the past 13 years. Dr. Karuv has been the advisor to the Academy's students in their research projects for more than a decade. On Saturday morning he returned from Albuquerque, New Mexico, with his student, 17 year-old George Hotz, after attending the annual International Science and Engineering Fair. Hotz Jr. won one of the top three national honors at this year's science competition. Dr. Karuv's students have won close to 500 awards in national and international science fairs and competitions during his tenure at the Academy.

A major update (but not requiring a migration) will soon be looking for some beta testers. I was hoping to start the beta program right after Easter, but PB-11 and UL-10 kept sucking time away from PocketBuilder-centric activities.

Search Brands Still Offer Stronger Reach on PCs According to inaugural results from the MobileWeb Metrix service, The Weather Channel, Yahoo! Weather and AccuWeather achieved mobile reach that outpaced their PC reach. All three sites had mobile-to-PC reach index scores above 120, pointing to significantly stronger reach among mobile Web users than among PC Web users (see Table 1). With an index of 190, ESPN also has stronger reach among mobile Web users.