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The wireless industry likes to make announcements either on the days of trade shows or a few days before.  This week kicks off some major stories for the wireless world, preceding the CTIA-The Wireless Association's "International CTIA Wireless I.T. & Entertainmnet 2009 in San Diego." The Android Avalanche continues with many of the announcement supporting the Android operation system and/or apps. 

Here is our updated round-up of announcements as of this morning:

• Bitstream announced that their super-fast mobile BOLT browser is out of Beta and ready for downloading to millions of phones of all types including BlackBerry and J2ME.
  
• There will be an Adobe Flash Player coming for mobile devices.
• Motorola is embracing the Android OS with their CLIQ and supporting app development with app partners.
• Verizon and Google are partnering for Android devices and apps. They will support Google Voice and the phone used at the press conference sure looks like an HTC Hero.
• Microsoft will back 30 phones with their new Windows Mobile 6.5 and also offer free back-up sycro service My Phone.
• Best Buy Mobile will help customers back-up and sync their smartphones with miQ.
  
• Research shows services and apps are very important to mobile phone purchase decisions.
• There is a new SDK forc BlackBerry Widgeting.
  
• The Palm Pre webOS app store is open for business.
• AT&T announced two Windows Phones, the HTC Pure and the HTC Tilt 2. Texting phones on the way to costumers hand in time for the holidays: Pantech Reveal,  Pantech Impact, Samsung Mythic and Samsung Flight.
• AT&T will be suppling customers with an Opera-based browser.
  
• T-Mobile announced the Android Samsung Behold II with an AMOLED display.
  
• The CTIA Fund Fest Finalists were announced.

There will be more CTIA Wireless I.T. & Entertainmnet 2009 articles coming out from Wireless and Mobile News. We are headed down to San Diego, today and will give our readers an inside scoup on whats going on in wireless and mobile news.

Free tickets are available for MobiFest, SATURDAY, MAY 16 at Gangplank Headquarters in Chandler, Arizona.

MobiFest is a multi-platform mobile event at Gangplank Saturday, May 16. MobiFest is where platform allegiance is checked at the door. The goal is to bring together mobile enthusiasts, explorers, developers and professionals to share the current state and their visions for the future direction of mobility.

MobiFest hopes to support the many voices helping to unlock the potential of a truly digital life in a mobile world. The format will be part conference and part un-conference. There will be some scheduled speakers at set times and bar camp style presentations in between. Additionally, there will be time set a side for break out groups to actually do some mobile hacking. This conference is for mobile developers.

International CTIA WIRELESS 2009 closed on Friday after  keynote address by former Vice President Al Gore, who emphasized that the wireless industry is "one of the great success stories in the American economy." The continued development of wireless infrastructure is a key indicator fueling the communications revolution.

Gore noted that the U.S. has the most competitive wireless industry of any nation in the world, and "because of the competition, we are seeing a continued pulse of investment to expand the capacity of [broadband] networks."

"While the wireless industry comprises a small portion of the global economy, its impact is expanding rapidly," he said. "Now is the time for business to take the lead. We have government leadership committed to this transition now, and we have a country that is aware and ready to make the transition. There is no upper limit to the ways we can exploit wireless spectrum."

After a lot of press and questions wondering why the press was banned from Al Gore's keynote address at CTIA.  CTIA issued the following statement, "Due to a high degree of interest, Al Gore, Nobel Peace Prize winner and 45^th Vice President of the United States, has opened his CTIA keynote to the press.

Gore is scheduled to address attendees representing the global wireless industry on Friday, April 3 at 9:30 a.m. at the Las Vegas Convention Center. During the hour-long session, he will discuss the relationships between technology, the economy and the environment. The International CTIA WIRELESS 2009 tradeshow and conference takes place April 1-3 at the Las Vegas Convention Center.

CTIA has banned the press from covering Al Gore's speech at 9:30 a.m. on April 3 a CTIA Wireless in Las Vegas.

The ban is at Gore's request. It appears Gore usually bans press from his talks.

The press ban seems impossible to carry out because so many tech-savvy attendees could be Twittering and SMS messaging the whole talk.

Here's what the description on the CTIA website says:

 "Photography, recording, webcasting and any other reproduction of Vice President Al Gore's speaking appearance is strictly prohibited. VP Gore's keynote address is closed to the press."

Mozes, announced its Mozes Connect Live Edition audience engagement platform is being used to help some of the biggest brand names and agencies in the world make a mobile impression at SXSW 2009.

Mozes will be powering campaigns that include mobile ticketing, text-to-win, mobile list building and Mozes' newest feature, pics-to-screen.

Mobile World Congress appears to be a success and there were so many announcements, they begged to be summarized in one of our easy-to-read Cliff-Notes-Style round-ups.

Smartphones Get Smarter and Cheaper at Mobile World Congress.

• Acer showed four smartphones and then revealed that they may be free with contract with such carriers as AT&T and T-Mobile.
• Nokia showed off E-Series messaging phones and the super-megapixel  N86 8MP.
• Not to be outdone in the camera department, Sony showed the concept-phone, the Idou with a 12.1 megapixel camera phone while showing the W995 8 megapixel Walkman phone.
  
• Pre-MWC Garmin-Asus announced the super GPS enabled, Nuvifone M20.
• Samsung showed the first solar-powerd Blue Earth phone, a mobile phone with a Texas Instruments' Projector and Samsung OMINA HD.
  
• The Palm Pre will multitask data and voice in Europe as well as an eBook on Mojo is published.
• i-Mate launched the waterproof impervious i-mate 8-10 smartphone with GPS.
  

The GSMA and 17 mobile operators and manufacturers announced that they are committed to a cross-industry standard for a universal charger for new mobile phones. What this means is that one charger would work will all the phones.

The move should result in approximately per cent reduction in standby energy consumption, the possible elimination of up to 51,000 tons of duplicate chargers and reduction of customer frustration..

The target date to create the universal charging solution (UCS) is  2012.  It will use Micro-USB as the common universal charging interface. The group agreed that by the 1^st January 2012, the majority of all new mobile phone models available will support a universal charging connector and the majority of chargers shipped will meet the high efficiency targets set out by the OMTP (Open Mobile Terminal Platform), the industry body who developed the technical requirements behind UCS.

The initial group of companies who have joined the GSMA's UCS initiative include 3 Group, AT&T, KTF, LG, mobilkom austria, Motorola, Nokia, Orange, Qualcomm, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Telecom Italia, Telefónica, Telenor, Telstra, T-Mobile and Vodafone - some of the world's largest mobile operators and manufacturers who together are committed to making a universal charging solution a reality up to 2012 and beyond.

On the mobile and wireless front, form the Consumers Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the top stories on Wireless and Mobile News were:

1. The CES on-site announcement of the the Palm Pre smartphone with a Mojo SDK, developers love definitely won the most important news story at CES.  Reviewers went wild with praise calling the Palm Pre the first iPhone Contender. The Palm Pre won CNET awards and is a real-woman's smartphone.
2. Stevie Wonder and the National Federation of the Blind requested more accessible technology.
3. The Sony Walkman W508 shakes, rattles and rolls with gesture control.
4. The new Sony Cyber-Shot C510 camera photo notices when you smile and takes a photo automatically.
5. Motorola launched the MOTOSURF A3100, a Windows Mobile 6.1 Quad-band GSM "touch tablet" smartphone and the MOTO W233 renewable phone made from recycled water bottles
6. The Mobinnova ICE Windows smartphone was notices but it was so 20th-century.
7. The Nokia E63 is unlocked smartphone at a reasonable price.
8. T-Mobile announce their new Shadow.
9. Logic Bolt revealed their projector phone prototype.
10. Tri-Specs showed their bluetooth sunglasses.
11. HTC released the HTC S743 smartphone an unlocked not touchscreen two keypad Windows Mobile smartphone.
12. Unify4Life has developed a way to open your garage door with a BlackBerry.
13. Audiovox is working with the FLO TV service to deliver live TV in autos
14. Slacker Radio now has BlackBerry version.

The 2009 International CES will reveal the latest wireless technologies and trends. Produced by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), the 2009 International CES, returns to Las Vegas, January 8-11, 2009.

They have programs and exhibitors that will show advancements in location-based services, next-generation Wi-Fi, mobile phones, smartphones and mobile TV formats.

The 2009 International CES explores every segment of the wireless market, including mobile content creators, wireless device manufacturers and wireless accessories. Major wireless players exhibiting at the 2009 International CES include Blackberry (Research in Motion), LG, Motorola, Nokia, Samsung, T-Mobile and Verizon Wireless.

Wireless World, a CE Spotlight located in South Hall 3 at the LVCC, will feature manufacturers and distributors of wireless products showcasing the latest in wireless handsets and accessories. The Wireless Mobility brought to You by Qualcomm TechZone will also be featured within Wireless World. Other TechZones focused on wireless technologies include Wireless Distribution, located in South Hall 4 at the LVCC and ZigBee, located in South Hall 1 at the LVCC.

CTIA has partnered with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) to keep child pornography off of wireless networks.

CTIA and representatives from the wireless industry have created the Wireless Child Safety Task Force. Wireless companies will continue to prohibit websites believed to contain child pornography from being hosted on their servers.

Through the efforts of the Task Force, the wireless industry will expand its existing partnership with NCMEC. For more than three years, The Wireless Foundation has teamed with NCMEC and the U.S. Department of Justice to administer the Wireless AMBER Alerts program.

International CTIA WIRELESS 2009 announced that former Vice President and Noble Peace Prize Winner Al Gore will deliver a keynote address

International CTIA WIRELESS 2009 takes place April 1-3 at the Las Vegas Convention Center.
 

In 2007, Vice President Gore and the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won the Nobel Peace Prize, and his documentary on global warming, "An Inconvenient Truth," won a highly-coveted Academy Award.

Gore is chairman of Current TV, a network for young people based on viewer-created content and citizen journalism, and he serves as chairman of Generation Investment Management, a firm focused on a new approach to sustainable investing. In addition, he is a visiting professor at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and he chairs the Alliance for Climate Protection, a non-profit organization dedicated to examining and developing solutions to the climate crisis.

The NGN/IMS Forum, the only industry association dedicated to interoperability and certification of IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) and Next Generation Networks (NGN) applications and services, announced today that its sixth IMS/NGN PlugfestTM will be held January 12-16, 2009 at the InterOperability Lab (UNH IOL) in Durham, NH. The IMS Plugfests are the industry’s only interoperability events covering NGN services over wireless, wireline and cable broadband.

The Open Mobile Summit conference explores the move to open up the mobile value chain, and deliver the mobile Internet.

Taking place November 19-20, at Hotel 480 in San Francisco, The Open Mobile Summit features industry heavyweight speakers from both the wireless establishment - mobile operators, handset manufacturers and software giants - as well as Internet, WiMAX, VoIP and mobile web players.

Scheduled keynote speakers at the Open Mobile Summit include Marco Boerries EVP Yahoo!, Barry West President XOHM Sprint, Rich Minor GM Mobile Google, Len Lauer COO Qualcomm, Rich Green EVP Sun Microsystems and Mary McDowell EVP and CDO Nokia. The event also features top execs from T-Mobile, Verizon, Amazon, Research In Motion, LG, AOL, Symbian and more.  More information is available at http://www.openmobilesummit.com/

Last week there were new announcements and findings from CTIA Wireless IT and Entertainment.  Attendees took part in an expanded education series, browsed new products from more than 250 exhibitors and heard from industry luminaries who discussed the future of wireless technology as the industry approaches its 25th anniversary.

Research
CTIA and Harris Interactive discussed their teen study and Cell Phones.
The Neilsen tween study showed 46% of Tweens Use Cell Phones / 55% Text.

New Smartphone and Cell Phones
New cell phones included the Velocity 111, Velocity 103,  Elektrobit Sat Phone
without an antenna, 3G Virgin Mobile Shuttle, Asus and  552w Smartphone with Glide UI.

Sprint announced the  Motorola i576,  HTC Touch Diamond, HTC Touch Pro and One Click on the Lotus, Rant and Highnote.

Alltel offers ther 99 cent MMS Greeting Service.

RIM News
In RIM BlackBerry news - Sprint will offer the BlackBerry Curve 8350i, There is now Ticketmaster for BlackBerry,  Free Slacker Radio on BlackBerry,  Microsoft Live Search for the BlackBerry browser and maps, tere's going to be a new free BlackBerry MapQuest app, MySpace for BlackBerry will go live in October, TiVo has partnered with RIM and there's the new Flip BlackBerry Pearl.

Carrier News
AT&T certified the Qualcomm Gobi chip for mobile broadband and showed their social networing "My Communities."

Verizon launched the social networking SocialLife, V Cast Video mobile website,  Ringback Buddies on Facebook, City ID from Cequint and that the New York Times is now available from their deck.

There have been lots of announcements on or before the first day of CTIA Wirelss IT and Entertainment 2008

• Verizon launched social networking SocialLife, V Cast Video mobile website,  Ringback Buddies on Facebook, City ID from Cequint and that the New York Times is now available from their deck.
• In BlackBerry and RIM news - there's going to be a new free BlackBerry MapQuest app, MySpace for BlackBerry will go live in October, TiVo has partnered with RIM and there's the new Flip BlackBerry Pearl
  
• Sprint launched the  Motorola i576,  HTC Touch Diamond, HTC Touch Pro and One Click on the Lotus, Rant and Highnote.
• New phones launched include the 3G Virgin Mobile Shuttle, Asus and  552w Smartphone with Glide UI,.
  
• AT&T certified the Qualcomm Gobi chip for mobile broadband and anounced "My Communities."
• Neilsen revealed their tween study that showed 46% of Tweens Use Cell Phones / 55% Text.
• RealNetworks will offer th eMllion Dollar Password mobile game in the fall and its Cuting Tunes into Ringtones & Ringback Tones, on home computer service for carriers and added new  Video to Interactive Voice Reponse with IME.
• Yahoo added Java, WinMO and Symbian support for app building.
• Nokia now supports Microsoft Exchange.
• MTV has added ads to its Video on Demand mobile offerings.

At this fall's CTIA WIRELESS I.T. & Entertainment 2008 tradeshow and conference, starts tommorrow  , at Moscone West in San Francisco.

The keynote stage will host a variety of industry leaders and provide attendees with new perspectives on the future of the wireless industry.  On Wednesday, September 10, carrier CEOs Lowell McAdam from Verizon Wireless, Robert Dotson from T-Mobile USA and Dan Hesse from Sprint Nextel will participate in a panel discussing their plans for opening up their networks.  Additional keynote speakers include Marco Boerries, executive vice president of Connected Life at Yahoo! Inc.; Craig McCaw, chairman of Clearwire; John Stanton, founder of Trilogy Partnership; Jim Balsillie, Co-CEO of Research in Motion; and Shantanu Narayen, president and CEO of Adobe.

This year's event will also feature five conference tracks on policy, mobile enterprise, entertainment, Web 2.0, and mobile marketing. Submissions were received by more than 1,000 executives for 200 speaking slots.

There will be a lot of announcements and we will be writing CTIA Wireless IT & Entertianment RoudUps as usual

The Active RFID, RTLS & Sensor Networks 2008 conference hosted by IDTechEx will be held on November 5-6, 2008 in Dallas TX.

This conference is in its fourth year and the only event in the world dedicated to the technologies of Active RFID, RTLS and Ubiquitous Sensor Networks. The latest technology developments, the applications of these technologies, and their respective and overriding markets will be explored in detail.

While the RFID business is quintupling in value in the next ten years, the Active RFID business is growing about ten times; the Active RFID, RTLS & Sensor Networks 2008 conference will look at the key applications in which this growth will incur including manufacturing, healthcare, the military and security, postal and courier and logistics.

CTIA WIRELESS 2008 played host to a global contingent of more than 40,000 attendees from 125 countries at the Las Vegas Convention Center April 1 - 3, says the CTIA Wireless Association.

More than 1,200 exhibitors showcased the latest in handsets, accessories, applications, content and infrastructure technologies that are driving the worldwide evolution of mobile services. Established and emerging companies on hand at CTIA WIRELESS introduced new products:

• Microsoft announced Windows Mobile 6.1 and IE Mobile 6
  
• Yahoo! Mobile launched oneSearch 2.0, with text and voice queries
  
• Handsets and Smartphones: Samsung Instinct; Nokia N810 WiMAX Edition; Kyocera E4600; Sony Ericsson Z750a and XPERIA 1X with Windows Mobile; HTC Touch Dual, Motorola, LG Vu, RIM Curve 8330 with GPS;
• Clearwire, Intel and Motorola demonstrated WiMAX - Velocity Mobile debuted and announced its Velocity 103 handset
  
• Nokia introduced the N810 tablet, WiMAX version

The CTIA Wireless convention on Tuesday, April 1- showed the diversity and new directions of the business. They are moving forward and upward with new devices and services to bring the Internet to the masses at faster speeds with ease of use.

• Nokia went up and up and away in their beautiful boardroom 180 feet in the sky to demonstrate their Nokia N810 Internet Tablet with Wi-Fi and WiMAX.
• Sprint, trying harder with their number 3 position, touted their iPhonesque Instinct and partnerships for WiMAX.
• Windows Mobile has been upgraded to 6.1 bringing more Internet functionality.
• HTC announced that their Dual Touch handset is coming to the US.
• Motorola showed the Z9 and V950.
• Kyocera showed some nifty thrifty new handsets.
• T-Mobile brought the BlackBerry Pearl to their line up of smartphones.
• Samsung debuted not only the Instinct, but Soul, miCoach, Touch F480, Music F400 & Wi-Fi G810.