BARCELONA, Spain — With a saturated market in Western Europe and North America and a user base adopting costly new third-generation features at a seemingly glacial pace, the mobile phone industry is turning to the Third World and asking the heads of developing countries to lift regulatory barriers.

According to Motorola CEO

Google is looking to beef up its corporate-search presence by inking a partnership with global management and consulting firm BearingPoint.
 
As part of the deal, BearingPoint will launch a search-solutions service that will emphasize bringing Google's search technology to complex enterprise environments. The consulting firm will give Google's enterprise customers

Slow off the mark in developing any citywide Wi-Fi network, the City of Boston has received major boost in its Wi-Fi effort via a report from the non-profit Boston Foundation.

In its 40-page report, the Boston Foundation further said: "Respected technology companies like Earthlink, Google, and Hewlett-Packard are extremely interested in partnering

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates on Tuesday laid out a comprehensive security strategy designed to highlight improvements in the forthcoming Windows Vista operating system.
 
He also spoke about other technologies that are becoming integral components of Microsoft's software and services as the company attempts to stay one step ahead of those

LONDON — Ntera Ltd., an electrochromic display startup originally based in Dublin, Ireland, has partnered with Seiko Epson Corp. and the two companies have produced working direct drive display prototypes, Ntera said.

The partnership is set to continue in a quest to produce full color video-speed reflective displays that can be produced

Sun Microsystems is trying to persuade Hewlett-Packard to move its HP-UX Unix customers over to Sun's Solaris, Sun President/COO Jonathan Schwartz said at the Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco on Tuesday.
 
But HP is not interested, an HP representative said.

During his presentation at the conference and

BANGALORE, India — France’s Thomson Group will supply set-top boxes manufactured in India to the direct-to-home (DTH) video provider, Tata Sky Ltd.

Tata Sky is a joint venture between India’s Tata group and Rupert Murdoch’s Star TV. Tata Sky will launch its services in a few months, and plans to offer digital

PalmSource on Tuesday announced their long-awaited Linux-based handheld operating system, the Access Linux Platform (ALP), which will bring full Palm compatibility to handhelds with a Linux core.

"ALP brings the best of all worlds" to the handheld community, with the ease of use of Palm OS and the power and openness of

Apple on Tuesday shipped its recently introduced Intel-based MacBook Pro, surprising customers with processors speeds that are faster than previously announced. The new laptops are available beginning this week with speeds up to 2.16GHz.

"We are shipping the fastest available microprocessor available in the Intel Core Duo family that they can produce,"

Amazon.com plans to launch its own Internet music service to rival Apple Computer's iTunes Music Store, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday, citing unidentified sources.

The world's largest online retailer also plans to sell its own-branded portable music players and a subscription service that would offer deep discounts and preloaded songs to