Quova Inc., the leading provider of Internet geolocation services, announced the Navizon Wireless Locator, a permission-based application that can identify the location, down to a city street level, of Web visitors accessing the Internet from Wi-Fi enabled cell phones and laptops. The second extension to Quova's Internet Location Intelligence platform, the Navizon Wireless Locator provides online businesses with accurate geographic data to locate and authenticate their Web visitors. Quova provides this alternative location tool for situations in which their Internet Protocol (IP) Intelligence data, which can identify a Web visitor's location down to a 50 mile radius, may not provide sufficient granularity in pinpointing a location.

Alltel, America’s largest wireless network, and Mobile Complete, the leading provider of testing, monitoring and support solutions, launched the Alltel Virtual Developer Lab - a new remote testing service. The Alltel VDL gives developers Mobile Complete’s remote handset and network access technology, offering real-time access to phones on the Alltel CDMA network. As a result, Alltel’s entire development community can interact with the most advanced mobile devices as if the phones were physically in their hands - maximizing the window of time to test new mobile products and applications.

Airbus is first to receive airworthiness certification for a cell-phone system on board an aircraft. On 18th June 2007, the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) approved Airbus’ GSM on-board system. The EASA airworthiness certification comes after successful tests were carried out by Airbus earlier this year and confirms the GSM on-board system’s compatibility in the aircraft environment.

Mobispine AB with its uniquely featured intelligent agent for mobile phones has released a powerful new version that is expected to increase the number of users who are ‘murfing’ (mobile surfing) into millions around the world. The vast number of news pages and blogs being created and updated everyday, increases all the time. Mobispine allows users to view web content on their mobile phone at 20x less cost than the pre-installed phone browser. To save data-time, this intelligent agent gets updated only when the news article or blog changes, and the unique search function ensures a quick, effortless experience when exploring the web’s sea of information.

MicroEmissive Displays will be demonstrating the advantages of its advanced polymer OLED microdisplay technology at SID 2007. Demonstration kits for its production eyescreen products will show how the devices can be readily incorporated into wearable head-sets for personal TV and video viewing and electronic viewfinders for digital cameras, camcorders and night vision systems. The demo kits feature a series of video clips to showcase the superior image quality of MED's P-OLED technology, its vivid colours and high contrast ratio, and motion video that is free from blur and flicker. Headsets using eyescreen devices benefit further from the products' digital interface and low power consumption leading to extended battery life.

Microvision, Inc., a global leader in innovative ultra-miniature projection display and image capture products for mobility applications, announced that it plans to unveil new advancements in its proprietary ultra-miniature display system, called PicoP, at the Society of Information Display (SID) annual conference in Long Beach, California, May 22 - 25, 2007. Microvision expects to showcase multiple projector model prototypes representing the recent PicoP advancements it has made in collaboration with several of the Company's high volume manufacturing and key component supply chain partners.

AuthenTec, the world’s leading provider of fingerprint authentication sensors and solutions, announced that its AES1510 fingerprint sensor will be a standard feature on Hitachi’s new flagship “win” series phone, the W51H. The introduction represents a number of “firsts” including the first time a fingerprint sensor will be used to control display navigation on a Japanese phone and the first time a biometric phone will be available to subscribers of Japan’s second largest mobile network provider KDDI.

Paris/France, Stockholm/Sweden, Espoo/Finland, Toronto/Canada, Bonn/Germany, Munich/Germany, Newbury/England: A group of world leading telecom technology manufacturers and network operators comprised of Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, France Telecom/Orange, Nokia, Nokia Siemens Networks, Nortel, T-Mobile, and Vodafone have announced a joint initiative aimed at driving forward the realisation of the next-generation of high performance mobile broadband networks based on 3GPP Release 8 "Long Term Evolution / System Architecture Evolution" (LTE/SAE) specifications.

The GSM Association (GSMA) has published the first in a series of ‘Technical Guidelines’ white papers on mobile NFC (Near Field Communication) services, providing the consolidated views of mobile operators as input to support the standardisation of NFC technology. More than twenty mobile operators, including many of the largest in the world, have been working together in the GSMA’s initiative to develop a common vision for Mobile NFC services. The initiative aims to support the development of a stable and efficient NFC ecosystem and promote interoperability, leading to standardisation on a global scale. The mobile operators involved in the NFC initiative serve more than 800 million users.

AMD announced that powerful AMD multimedia technology is concealed behind the sleek, elegant exterior of the new touch-screen Prada phone by LG Electronics Mobile Communications. Despite an ultra-thin profile of just 12 mm, the model KE850 Prada phone by LG features such multimedia functions as a camera, video player and MP3 music player, all of which are driven by the processing power of the AMD Imageon 2282 media processor. To further enhance the user experience, this GSM/ EDGE phone introduces a advanced touch interface that completely eliminates the conventional keypad.