Fans stay connected to their favorite team wherever they go with these four live game components of MLB.com Mobile Premium:

• MLB.com Mobile Gameday Audio - Listen to live audio broadcasts of every Major League Baseball game through the final out of the 2009 World Series. Each game will offer the choice of listening to the home or away broadcasts without any blackout restrictions.

• MLB.com Gameday - Follow every pitch of every game with a detailed graphic presentation and live statistics.

• In-Game Video Highlights - Get realtime, high quality video highlights delivered directly to the smartphone quickly after the play happens on the field.

• Expanded scoreboard - View live statistical data from every MLB game, including linescores, current runners on base and other game details.

MLB.com Mobile Premium on the Palm Pre is available to subscribers for a one-time fee of $14.99 for the remainder of the 2009 season, including the entire postseason, or a monthly charge of $2.99.

According to a Cloudmark-commissioned survey from Harris Interactive, nearly two thirds of mobile device owners are concerned about security. The survey showed security concerns are preventing many users from adopting new mobile services for financial transactions and shopping. Spam is reaching more mobile users and becoming a greater nuisance.

Survey results showed that users' perception of security is proving to be a significant barrier to their adoption, especially for mobile financial transactions:

• 65 percent of all mobile device owners expressed concerns about the security of their device.
• Nearly half (46 percent) of these concerned device owners said that their worries about security prevented them from conducting activities on their mobile device.
• Of the activities mobile device owners said they were prevented from doing because of their concerns, financial transactions such as paying bills (73 percent), conducting banking activities (71 percent) and shopping (56 percent) were named most often.
• 79 percent of mobile device owners said that they have never sent or received confidential information of any kind through their device, which may further illustrate their lack of confidence in security.

The mobile website was enhanced to display traffic content for easy navigation on mobile phones and devices. It features accurate, up-to-the-minute traffic information including travel times, vehicle speeds, delay times, accident reports and NAVTEQ's unique Jam Factor, a numerical traffic measurement scale that offers a look at a route's current traffic conditions with color coded indications of worsening or improving trends. Drivers across the U.S. can access city area traffic information or their own personalized updates about current conditions and congestion trends.

Drivers can access the site by entering http://mobi.traffic.com into their mobile web browser or via their carrier portals, within information categories that help deliver content to customers such as: "Maps/Traffic," and "Travel."

One good thing about the Ovi Map service is if you don't have an unlimited data plan you can download and save maps on your phone. Another nice feature of the mapping service is that you can get it in night mode to make viewing maps easier at night.To use the Ovi Maps app you don't have to pay any extra service fees.

Maps shows nearby ATMs, public transport, parking, hotels, restaurants, and many other places. Walk from one place to another using WALK, the pedestrian navigation with routing optimized for those on foot, providing better orientation in a city or outdoors. Or use DRIVE,the fully fledged car navigation with enhanced safety and real-time traffic information such as safety cameras and speed limits, lane assistance and localized road information like signposts, providing the largest service coverage in the world.

According to the study conducted by Frost & Sullivan of European and Russian consumers, Nokia is the number one choice for mobile navigation over other leading map services.

Palm Pre owners who want to accept credit cards can now accept credit cards with CHARGE Anywhere. Secure mobile payment provider Charge Anywhere now offers a mobile payment solution designed for use with the  Palm Pre

You will however only be able to charge your Palm Pre's battery with either a Touchstone completely wireless charger or via a USB cable.

The CHARGE Anywhere app, optimized for the  Palm Pre allows merchants to accept mobile credit card payments and email receipts directly to customers.

The CHARGE Anywhere Palm Pre Mobile Payment Web Solution is the latest addition to the suite of CHARGE Anywhere's Award Winning Mobile Payment Solutions that also include PA DSS certified applications for BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, J2ME, and Mobile Web Payment Solution for the Apple iPhone. These payment solutions allow mobile merchants to accept payments anywhere, at any time.

The week before his death, Jackson ranked 80^th in Sprint Music Store sales. Since he died, he's catapulted to No. 1. The most popular downloaded tracks are "Billie Jean" and "Thriller," both from the 1982 blockbuster album "Thriller." In addition, Jackson ringtones constituted 28 percent of total sales on Friday. Top three ringtones are "Thriller," "P.Y.T." and "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough."

If customers aren't sure which Jackson songs they want, then they can turn to Sprint Radio, which is offering a Michael Jackson bonus stream through the end of July. The "Who's Bad" radio stream is available for any customer with a basic data plan and access to Sprint TV. The stream includes not only Jackson's vast collection of songs, but also tracks from his early years with the Jackson 5. It also includes songs from performers inspired by his legacy, including sister Janet Jackson and Fall Out Boy featuring John Mayer doing a cover of "Beat It."

• LG is planning to launch a full features "Black label" series phone to with an enhanced LCD display, Internet access and "pretty" user interface.
  
• LG "Prada" handsets are doing well and they are developing  another Prada handset.
• LG will focus on Windows mobile and Android smartphones with more than ten models.
  
• LG will be venturing into the luxury phone market with an extreme premium brand, in the branding realm of Toyota's Lexus and Nokia's Vertu.

• Fierce Towers by Nickel Buddy - Control the field to stop the waves of attacking enemies in the first ever tower defense game for BlackBerry. Place upgradeable towers around the field as you try your best strategies to stop wave after wave of invading enemies.(Fierce Towers BlackBerry Storm Only)
  
• Astraware Solitare by Handmark - Astraware Solitaire features 12 of the most well-known and best-loved single player card games.
•  Expense Manager by Total Wireless Solutions - helps keep  records of daily expenses while  on the move. You can generate and send customized expense reports in CSV format by email for easy integration with Microsoft Excel and export records in HTML format for printing or as a CSV file for backup on your desktop.

• Vision for YouTube by Metova - Vision for YouTube provides users with easy access to online YouTube videos. Vision is a free application and there is no purchase or registration necessary. You can download Vision to your device by visiting http://vision.metova.com/download.

• Voice notes: Truly personalize your IM experience by adding voice to the equation via a smooth, direct transfer.
• More chat styles: Customize your chat style with various colors whilesetting custom backgrounds and wallpapers on the chat screen.

The global economic downturn has led Informa Telecoms & Media to revise device-sales forecasts for the next five years down 14%, but growth is expected to pick up in 2010, albeit at a lower rate than previously expected.

According to Informa, device-sales figures will once again hit 2008 levels in 2011, when year-on-year growth of 8% is expected. Sales of high-end devices are expected to grow faster than those of low-end devices after 2009, indicating a shift among users worldwide away from cheap devices to more feature-rich and expensive ones.

Users will buy 6.39 billion devices between now and 2013, according to revised figures from Informa Telecoms & Media that take into account the global economic downturn.

The last three years has seen a revolution in the OS market with market leader Symbian moving to open source and Apple leading the way in the distribution of applications through their innovative, but now widely copied, AppStore approach. The move to open-source OS has also encouraged developers to design new and attractive applications and with over 60% of the OS market is now based on open-source, and a sizeable pool of software design talent out there, there is a massive opportunity for innovation.

However, the real key is not whether the OS is open-source but whether it's easy for a developer to design an application and make money from that effort. The combined changes of Apple's open route to the market and LiMo, OHA and Symbian's open-source OS approach have generated a tidal wave-like effect which even the economic downturn has been unable to reverse.