News Briefs – Thur Oct 12, 2006

Motorola iRadio
Want to listen to NPR (National Public Radio) content on your mobile phone? Motorola’s iRadio offers 24/7 access to over 600 channels of music programming with no commercials. [via Wireless IQ] iRadio is only one of several efforts to offer streaming audio and video content over mobile devices. Other efforts involve mobile TV. It’s even possible that Microsoft’s recently announced plan to broadcast a series of live concerts online might also be made available on mobile devices.

What Asian Businesses Know About VoIP
SMBs in other parts of the world may not yet have embraced VoIP all that much, but in parts of Asia/ Asia Pacific/ Australia, they are expected to spend US$500M this year on Internet telephony. Not surprisingly, the use of IP telephony is more commonly used wherever there is broadband access. [via VNU Net]

IBM Offers Open Source VoIP Solution
In recent years, IBM has been exploring open source solutions, even offering up some of their own code – quite a contrast to their mergers & acquisitions machine of the 1980s. Their latest open source offering is a “one stop” VoIP offering based on the Essentra BAX application server. Essentra was developed by VocalTec, an IBM Business Partner. The software runs on either IBM eServer x336 or IBM BladeCenter running Redhat Linux. [via Globes]