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Alcatel-Lucent, the French-American telecommunications equipment maker, reported a third-quarter loss of $373 million today. To help the bottom line, the company plans to layoff another 4,000 employees beyond the February announcement of 12,500 layoffs. This amounts to a 20% reduction in payroll. It is hoped this move will save the company an additional $578 million by 2009.
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Myxer, a mobile content delivery company, announced that it has reached over 3 million users, making it one of the largest distributors of mobile content. In April of this year Myxer reached 1 million users and has tripled that number in less than six months. If growth continues at this pace, within ten years aliens in a galaxy far, far away will be downloading wallpaper and ringtones from Myxer.
For someone who is very addicted to Skype to maintain my long distance relationship with my wife in Toronto (for 3 years now), you can't imagine how delighted I am with the launch of . 
The low-cost advantage inherent in VoIP services and the power of mobility …
If you find it important to synchronize your Google Calendar and Gmail contacts with your mobile phone, you might want to try . It enables you sync your Google data with different compatible mobile phone models from Alcatel to Windows Mobile. However, I did not see iPhone in their list of supported devices. 
is a revolutionary, patent pending mobile billing and music delivery platform that allows anyone, anywhere in the United States to purchase music simply by sending a premium text message with their cell phone. The purchase is billed to the customers' cell phone bill and the music is downloaded off of the Textango website. 
There is no doubt that the convergence of the Internet and mobility is the wave of the future. While most mobile Internet players are mum about their progress, is very transparent in sharing their innovations towards this trend via their exclusive briefing dubbed as . 
Finally, someone very intelligent and influential like Wall Street Journal Writer/Editor has the guts to the blatant secret of the US wireless phone industry: It's full of BS!
From lousy customer service to its backward stifling system, mobile consumers are duped because this industry “severely limits consumer choice, stifles innovation, crushes entrepreneurship, and has made the U.S. the laughingstock of the mobile-technology world, just as the cellphone is morphing into a powerful hand-held computer.”
Handset manufacturing giant Nokia is doing what other leading mobile companies simply can't do - make money from low-end mobile phones. According to , Nokia's third-quarter profit soared 85%, to $2.2 billion, handily beating analysts' estimates and sending its stock surging.
Riding the recent developments on , is taking its business mobile with its new partnership with to develop a global mobile money transfer service. The scheduled roll out is in 2nd quarter 2008. 
This new money transfer service will empower average …
is a new FREE mobile web browser promising that we will “NEVER TYPE a URL using multitap on your mobile phone again!” No need to download any software but you must have a mobile device with a web browsing capability and mobile data access. 
How it Works?
