Wireless News Desk

"Like all Sony Ericsson handsets, the W600 is a phone first with superb functionality and easy access to digital content and applications that allow consumers to do more, hear more and experience more," said Miles Flint, global president of Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications, as Sony Ericsson yesterday announced a second Walkman phone with the introduction of the Sony Ericsson W600, a unique all-in-one compact device. The W600 is the second in a series of Walkman phones. "Sony Ericsson led the way with high quality photos from a mobile phone, and now consumers can use their mobile phone to easily access their favorite music any where any time." Flint continued. "The W600 is an exciting new product leveraging the heritage of our parent companies and demonstrates the vision when we combined Sony and Ericsson," he added. With the W600 consumers can: Handle phone cal... (more)

Can Yahoo! Out-Skype Skype?

According to Reuters reports, within the next few days Yahoo! will enable free PC-to-PC voice calling between Yahoo! users, using VoIP-based technology developed by a team from Dialpad, which Yahoo! acquired last year. The new service, Reuters notes, will be available in 180 countries - though whether Yahoo! will succeed in this bold bid to play catch-up with Skype (now a subsidiary of eBay) is difficult to gauge. Customers who sign up for Yahoo!'s "Phone Out" service will apparently be able to call the US for just a penny a minute. Calls to thirty-plus countries including Argentin... (more)

Microsoft and Sprint Collaborate on Mobile Search

Microsoft and Sprint, have announced a strategic alliance through which the companies will develop and deliver a range of innovative new service offerings for Sprint’s business and consumer customers. The first consumer offering in this collaboration enables Sprint customers to use Windows Live Search for mobile on their wireless phones to conveniently search location-based content from the Internet, such as nearby stores and restaurants, as well as Sprint’s catalog of ring tones, games, screen savers and related services. The service also provides new opportunities f... (more)

Mobile Executive Christensen Leaves MS

(November 6, 2003) - The head of Microsoft's Mobile Devices division, Juha Christensen, is leaving the company, sparking rumors that the company's mobile initiatives may have encountered a speed bump or two. Juha Christensen, a Danish national, was a cofounder of Symbian, Microsoft's mobile market rival, but he left Symbian to join Microsoft four years ago, where he was responsible for the launch of Windows mobile software products. Christensen will leave Microsoft on December 1, to start his own San Francisco Bay-area mobile devices services company. Christensen's departure, jus... (more)

Intel To Hit 30M Mark In Mobile Phone Market

British mobile phone operator, mmO2 Plc, is going to be featuring Intel's Manitoba chip. The world's largest chipmaker giant said in a statement on Thursday that mmO2 will begin selling a new music and camera phone next week featuring a re-engineered version of Intel's first-generation Manitoba processor. The new phone will cost $361 (£199) and will be available in the UK and Germany. Intel is on track to release its second-generation cell phone processor later this year. The compant plans to ship some 30 million-plus processors to the mobile phone market this year. ... (more)