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Virgin Mobile is now using an open-source MySQL database platform to manage its back-end SMS database, a move which seems to say that MySQL is enterprise-ready, a good thing for MySQL. The system was developed internally at Virgin is said to be highly scalable.

A La Mobile, a start-up software developer based in San Ramon, California, is planning to show off a suite of applications based on Google’s “Android” operating system. The applications, which include a phone dialer, Google browser, Google maps, camera, audio player, calendar, calculator, contacts manager, and note pad, were installed on a Qtek 9090

BBS News has chosen five technologies that it feels will be key in 2008. Heading up that list is web to go, followed up Ultra Mobile PCs, IPTV, WiMAX, and then Mobile VoIP.

Portable (PSP) to function as a device that is capable of making and receiving phone calls. PSP users can also purchase Skype credits in order to call landlines and cellular phones.

Cordless home phones are getting a makeover from Thomson, who will introduce

smartphone (from HTC). A La Mobile is planning to present the device to handset makers soon.

Bill Gates has announced that Microsoft has no plans to launch any sort of product that will compete with the iPhone. In an interview with Germany’s Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Gates is quoted as saying, “No, we won’t do that. In the so-called smart phone business we will concentrate solely on software with our Windows Mobile program.” This is most likely viewed as good news by other handheld manufacturers who are already competing with the very popular Apple iPhone device.

Yahoo is not planning to make its own mobile phone software, but instead plans to make its Internet services compatible with existing phones in the hopes that it will become the top gateway to the web on mobile phones. Yahoo has plans to allow other companies to create “widgets,” or mini-web sites, that will be featured inside Yahoo web pages.

In another move to broaden its scope, Skype has made an agreement with Sony Computer Entertainment to allow the PlayStation

GE-branded phones with some interesting features. Among these features will be a phone/digital photo frame, and a Bluetooth adapter, useful for making a landline phone into a combination landline/cellular phone, among other features. Thomson also has several other high-tech features to offer on phones, something that may get customers to sink some more money in the landline industry.

SR Telecom has sold its legacy product lines to the French Duons Group. SR Telecom plans to focus more on its WiMAX Forum-certified symmetryMX product line, which led to the decision to sell the legacy product line, leading to a reduction in SR Telecom’s expenses.

BBS News has chosen five technologies that it feels will be key in 2008. Heading up that list is web to go, followed up Ultra Mobile PCs, IPTV, WiMAX, and then Mobile VoIP.

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