Mobile VoIP could radically change cellphone use (InfoWorld)

At last week's 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona, several big names in the communications sector, including Microsoft (Profile, Products, Articles), Nokia (Profile, Products, Articles), and Skype Technologies (Profile, Products, Articles), announced mobile phone-based VoIP (voice over Internet Protocol) products and services that could radically change how cellular customers use their handsets in the future.

Internet telephony set to go mobile (FT)

Internet telephony over mobile phones took centre stage at the 3GSM World Congress mobile phone conference in Barcelona last week, with two announcements signalling that the mobile phone industry is waking up to the potentially disruptive technology coming its way.

Mobile Matters: Extend SAP Applications to Your Handheld Mobile Device in 10 Minutes or Less (SAP Insider)

For many business people, being reachable by phone — no matter when or where — has become a basic business necessity. Now with the emergence of mobile devices like Pocket PCs and BlackBerrys, it’s about more than being able to take a call. It’s even gone beyond having access to emails and calendars. Full mobile enablement means having permanent, wireless access to business data and online services; it’s about integrating mobile devices into business processes. Only when business data, functions, and processes are available in real time through the browser of a mobile device can a company achieve complete, integrated use of mobile technology.

3GSM: Skype, Hutchison 3G partner on VOIP (InfoWorld)

If you're hooked on making Internet calls from your PC, you could really like this: Skype Technologies (Profile, Products, Articles) SA and the Hutchison 3 Group (Hutchison 3G) announced Tuesday a partnership to provide what could become the world's first commercial VOIP (voice over Internet Protocol) service for mobile phones.

Mobile television may be the answer (FT)

If every promise made at a 3GSM World Congress in the past decade had been fulfilled, then delegates at the show’s new venue in Barcelona would be able to wander down the Ramblas and locate several tapas bars using a mixture of GPS and location-based services.

Lenovo plans to offer 3G wireless laptops by Q2 (InfoWorld)

Lenovo Group has joined the race to release laptops with built-in wireless broadband technology. The computer maker, which completed its acquisition of IBM's (Profile, Products, Articles) PC business last year, on Tuesday announced plans to integrate technology to access Vodafone (Profile, Products, Articles) Group's wireless broadband network into upcoming models of ThinkPad notebooks, including the T60 and the X60, according to a press statement.