Although Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was a keynote speaker and
announced a new server smartphone software from Microsoft there were
lots of other news stories at CTIA.
- Tom Kraznit at CNET posted a blog entry about how a panel talked about how instrumental the iPhone has been in influencing the mobile market.
- PC World IDG News Service noted that Microsoft will be backing the mobile enterprise services company, Enterprise Mobile Inc.
- The competition is heating up because AZ Central made sure its
readers knew that Microsoft plans on decreasing the price of Windows
Mobile Phones below $100. - PC World
has reported on some neat new PC/phone related products to keep PC
files on your phone or vice a versa, Web access, GPS sharing,
microblogging, and ad supported free International calls from Talkster. - The Seattle Times mentioned the presence at CTIA of it’s local biz Whrrl, a social discovery service with mobile and Web access.