1. Stellant Adds Management Of Wikis, Blogs, And RSS Feeds

1. Stellant Adds Management Of Wikis, Blogs, And RSS Feeds

Content management developer Stellent Inc. yesterday rolled out new capabilities for managing wikis, blogs, and really simple syndication (RSS)feeds within corporate environments.

For more on this:
- read full story from messagingpipeline.com, Feb 15 2006


2. Mobile Phone Providers Urged To Back Internet Protocol-based IM

Esperanto never caught on, but the GSM Association's CEO still likes the idea of a universal language. During a keynote session of the 3GSM World Congress here Tuesday (Feb. 14), GSMA chief Rob Conway called for the mobile-phone industry to push Internet Protocol-based instant messaging as a global unifier.

For more on this:
- read full story from messagingpipeline.com, Feb 14 2006


3. Microsoft Releases Public Beta of Windows Defender Anti-Spyware Utility

Microsoft announced today a public Beta 2 release of a significant upgrade to its free anti-spyware utility. Renamed Windows Defender, the anti-spyware software has an updated spyware-detection engine and a heavily revised interface.

For more on this:
- read full story from messaingpipeline.com, Feb 14 2006


4. Cellular Service to Offer MySpace Phones

The social networking site MySpace, hugely successful among teenagers and twenty-somethings, is about to become more ubiquitous with the launch of a cellular service that will let users read and post to the site for free.

For more on this:
- read full story from Yahoo! News, Feb 16 2006


5. Helio announces launch devices, MySpace partnership

Helio LLC, a youth-oriented mobile phone service created by SK Telecom and EarthLink Inc., said on Wednesday it will launch in the spring with two branded handsets and a mobile partnership with networking Web site MySpace.

For more on this:
- read full story from reuters, Feb 16 2006


6. Sprint Nextel Music Downloads Hit 1M Mark

Sprint Nextel Corp. said Wednesday that customers of its Sprint Music Store have downloaded 1 million songs since it opened Oct. 24. The Music Store was the wireless industry's first service allowing customers to buy songs and download them into their mobile phones over the air. Customers can choose from a library of 320,000 songs, paying $2.50 for two copies of each tune — one for the phone and one to be played on a home computer.

For more on this:
- read full story from Yahoo! News, Feb 15 2006


7. Skype goes 3G

3GSM Skype has clinched a deal with Hutchinson that paves the way for cheaper VoIP calls to be offered on the Hutchison 3G networks. Limited trials, which have begun in Sweden, are expected to precede a wider launch in Austria, Australia, Hong Kong, Sweden, the UK and Italy by the end of the year.

For more on this:
- read full story from theregister.co.uk, Feb 15 2006


8. Skype and Vonage: thank you, and goodnight

3GSM It's small, it's boring and won't turn any heads - but it probably spells the end of the road for Skype, Vonage and any other hopeful independent VoIP companies. It's Nokia's 6136 phone, which allows you to make calls over your home or office Wi-Fi network, as well as on a regular cellular network. UMA, or unlicensed mobile access, is the mobile operators' answer to the threat of VoIP - and now it's reality.

For more on this:
- read full story from theregister.co.uk, Feb 14 2006