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CBS Corp. said Monday it would offer a wireless subscription service allowing users to have video-enhanced breaking news and entertainment alerts sent to their mobile phones.

The announcement is an indication of how television networks and studios are trying to adapt to changing viewing habits in an era of handheld video devices, digital video recorders, and other new tools for watching news and entertainment.

Subscribers will get as many as five alerts each day. They can either read text or watch matching pictures and video if their phone is so enabled.

The Singaporean government has established a park with wireless Internet connection, the first in the island state.

The Park will comprise of 16 hectares, which was tasked with developing key industrial facilities in the city-state.

Singapore had invested billions of dollars into developing new growth engines for the economy with a strong focus on higher-value, research-intensive industries such as biomedical science to remain competitive.

A security Relevant Products/Services from expert has uncovered a potentially dangerous flaw in Windows that could enable unauthorized access to a PC via wireless connections. The specialist detailed his findings at the Shmoocon hackers gathering in Washington, D.C.

The vulnerability, affecting millions of Windows 2000 and XP users, is related to the way in which the operating systems on notebook machines with built-in wireless capabilities automatically seek out a wireless network Relevant Products/Services from LightPointe connection when they are booted up, said Mark “Simple Nomad” Loveless of Vernier Threat Labs.

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Nokia and Motorola the world’s biggest branded handset makers, both unveiled phones this week that switch between cellular coverage outdoors and cheap wireless Internet calls inside — all on a single phone number.

The new hardware is a response to growing demand. Mobile networks, aware that they can’t beat Internet call operators like Skype for cheap indoor coverage, are itching to join them.

The new Nokia 6136 and Motorola A910 handsets, like a handful of others announced by smaller manufacturers in recent months, can connect to the Internet via Wi-Fi, rather than Bluetooth, to make cut-price calls from the home, office or public hotspot.

Other mobile operators have waited for the Wi-Fi phones before adopting the technology behind the mid-call switching between broadband and cellular networks, called Unlicensed Mobile Access.

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Social networking on mobile devices is about to take off with the latest venture by Earthlink founder, Sky Dayton. Helio is leveraging the experience to take social networking, and MySpace on to mobile devices.

With the launch of the Helio service, users will be able to post and read the site for free. The service will launch in a few months with two different phones.

“We’re able to leverage a lot of that experience about how to take social networking and put it on a device,” said Sky Dayton, founder of Earthlink and chief executive of Helio.

Helio’s two phones, dubbed “Hero” and “Kickflip” will be based on Korean designs. Made by Pantech and VK Mobile, the phones will feature large color screens and cameras, but no QWERTY keyboards.

Helio is run on a mobile virtual network operator, meaning it won’t have its own cellular network, and instead, it will buy access to Sprint Nextel Corp.’s and Verizon Wireless’ high-speed networks.

ThinPrint are unveiling the next generation mobile solution, Content Beamer for Blackberry 2.5. Not only can BlackBerry users print their email attachments to bluetooth or network printers; they can also send them via bluetooth or a USB cable to the notebook screen.

The print to screen function lets documents be displayed and saved in original format on the notebook. To do so, Content Beamer for BlackBerry uses a adaptive compression to ensure that no more than 10 KB is sent per page – regardless of the original size of the document.