Matt Hines

Wireless handset maker Sony Ericsson announced that it has sold its M2M (machine-to-machine) communications business to French wireless provider Wavecom in a deal valued at roughly $39 million. Under the sales agreement signed by the firms, Wavecom, which markets embedded wireless communications technologies for use in automotive, industrial and mobile applications, will pay all cash […]

Major League Baseball wanted to make sure that its inaugural World Baseball Classic tournament was a hit, so it rolled out a roster of online collaborative tools to help keep its teams on the same page. Starting work after the end of 2005 World Series last October, MLBs IT department had less than six months […]

With tournaments, players and other workers scattered around the globe, and a business that changes its primary address almost every week, the PGA Tour has long been searching for new ways to keep its people on the same page. In the old days, the Tour would simply mail out reams of paper to its golfers […]

Apple released another version of the security patch it distributed on March 13 to users of its OS X operating system software, in order to address a problem reported with the update. The company said it distributed the new patch, dubbed Update 2006-002 v1.1, in order to fix an issue with Apples Safari Web browser […]

As part of a concerted push to distribute its mobile Web browsing technologies to business users, Opera Software announced the week of March 13 that a new carrier partner in Europe will begin offering its Web services applications development platform to end users. Such work provides a template for the design of future wireless business […]

Consumer research specialist J.D. Power and Associates reported that the overall quality of wireless calling in the United States has improved for a second straight year. The customer satisfaction expert released its 2006 Wireless Call Quality Performance Study, which polls mobile subscribers regarding the frequency with which they experience a range of potential problems with […]

Speaking to reporters in China, Motorola CEO Ed Zander said that his company has addressed the problems that led it to halt shipments of its popular Razr handsets earlier this week. The issue, which affected models of the diminutive phone designed for use on GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) wireless networks, reportedly caused some […]

Opera Software is celebrating a pair of wins after signing on two European carrier partners to help promote its mobile browsers. News of the deals drove shares of the companys stock up by 20 percent to an all-time high on its native Norwegian exchange. The more significant of the two partnerships announced by Opera was […]

Whether or not anyone will actually care at the end of the day is debatable, but one device retailer has published a list of dos and donts for those conflicted over the use of their handheld devices. Mobile device e-tailer LetsTalk released its users guide to cell phone etiquette, which while seemingly obvious, is actually […]

Enterprise content management specialist Open Text introduced a package of integrated applications aimed at helping companies tackle issues related to compliance with government regulations. Labeled as Open Text Internal Controls 3.0, the software offers a centralized system for managing many types of corporate information, including many forms of so-called unstructured data, or materials stored in […]

Patient: Excuse me, doctor, but what is that thing that youre checking my medical records on? Doctor: Hold on, its a peaceful swan right now, but Im sorry to tell you that Ive been forced to change it into a striking dragon. As a licensed physician and expert in the field of human-computer interaction, Dr. […]

Microsoft announced that it has purchased Onfolio, a maker of online information and content sharing tools, whose technology the software giant has already integrated into the latest version of its browser-based tool bar application. Based on the acquisition, terms of which were not immediately released, Microsoft said that it is permanently adding Onfolios tools into […]