Residents of Oklahoma can receive immediate access to National Weather Service alerts during severe weather season and throughout the year through the use of the Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management’s (OEM) Weather Notification System. At no cost, subscribers can receive weather alerts for up to five counties sent to their email address and/or mobile device (cell phones, smart phones and PDAs). Standard text messaging rates apply.

Napster, the pioneer of digital music, unveiled its latest music offering combining the freedom of MP3s with the discovery benefits of a high-quality streaming music service - all for one low price. For as little as $5 per month, Napster users get five unrestricted MP3 downloads, and unlimited access to Napster’s award-winning on-demand music streaming service.

Sony Ericsson unveils latest panels for the Sony-Ericsson Xperia X1 handset offering further opportunities for consumers to personalise the multimedia cell phone with the content they want most. The new Xperia panels add to those announced last month as part of the Sony Ericsson Content Awards, further enhancing the unique user experience of the Sony-Ericsson Xperia X1 and offering yet more ways to customise their handset. Sony Ericsson unveils four new panels for its Xperia X1 mobile phone. Available to download from mid-march March 2009, the latest panels enhance the unique user interface of the X1 that enables users to customise the handset, bringing the content and applications they want onto their active desktop.

Print images and photos directly from your BlackBerry smartphone using Cortado Basic Print. Cortado, a global leader in mobile applications, is announcing an enhancement of its basic mobile printing solution 'Cortado Basic Print' to allow users to print images and photos directly from their BlackBerry smartphone to Bluetooth enabled printers. Cortado Basic Print from Cortado, which specializes in mobile business applications, thus establishes a bridge between BlackBerry smartphones and Bluetooth enabled photo printers available on the market.

HP announces HP iPrint Photo, a free application available on the Apple App store that gives iPhone and iPod touch customers the ability to easily print photos anytime, anywhere. HP iPrint Photo is the first photo printing application of its kind and allows for quick and easy wireless printing of 4 x 6-inch photos from an iPhone or iPod touch to most HP inkjet printers connected to a local Wi-Fi network. The application is fully compatible with Apple’s Bonjour technology and uses the innovative Multi-Touch interface for the easiest and fastest wireless iPhone or iPod touch print experience.

Giving the gift of a prepaid wireless plan is a sized-just-right option for holiday shoppers. Verizon Wireless prepaid service offers customers a host of options including an extensive lineup of wireless phones that start at $39.99 and a range of plans that fit any budget and lifestyle. All Verizon Wireless prepaid plans - Core, Plus and Power - include unlimited calling to other Verizon Wireless customers on the nation’s most reliable network. Daily access fees begin at $0.99 and apply only on the days customers use the service. Customers or gift givers can establish and maintain Verizon Wireless’ prepaid service for as low as $15 or with $100 set up on the account for a full year.

Yahoo! announced the preview availability of Yahoo! oneConnect, the revolutionary new social address book that brings together a user’s circle of friends, their lives, and all the ways they communicate into one seamless, easy-to-use application. Yahoo! oneConnect is now available in the Apple iPhone App Store and is also expected to support additional devices in the coming months. With Yahoo! oneConnect, users can integrate all their contacts, send instant or SMS messages, post their status, and view the latest activity from their favorite social networks - making it easy to stay connected and in the loop.

Polka, the first and only secure aggregation and collaboration service for managing health, announced its new iPhone Emergency Card application is available on the Apple Application Store. Polka’s iPhone Emergency Card provides essential life-saving information on the extremely popular Apple iPhone and iPod touch devices.

The New York Times announced the release of the NYTimes iPhone application, which gives NY Times readers offline reading capabilities, a photo browser with links to the related articles and personalization options for the Apple iPhone and iPod touch models. Available for free at the iPhone App Store, the NY Times iPhone application allows users to take advantage of the advanced capabilities of the iPhone and iPod touch user interface.

AirStrip Technologies, a pioneer in medical software applications for handheld devices, announced it is in the advanced stages of development for its innovative AirStrip OB medical application for the new Apple iPhone 3G. AirStrip, which is already available for use on PDAs and Smartphones, will allow obstetricians to use their iPhones to remotely access virtual real-time and historical waveform data for both the mother and baby directly from the hospital’s labor and delivery unit utilizing only a cell phone connection.