• China Mobile and Vodafone have extended their cooperation on roaming, research and development, LTE devices and green technology. Wang Jianzhou, chairman of China Mobile, and Vittorio Colao, CEO of Vodafone Group, signed the agreement yesterday.
• Sprint is working with enterprise mobility company Good Technology on business-grade security and device management for Sprint's Android lineup. Good Technology will equip Sprint Android phones headed to businesses and government agencies with over-the-air and on-device encryption of enterprise data, remote application password policies, and remote wipe of enterprise data, as well as enterprise-class mobile e-mail and personal information management, including calendar and contracts software. The technology will be available through Sprint's business division.
• Glu Mobile says it has developed games for the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play, including Gun Bros and Super KO Boxing 2. Glu says it will continue to work with Sony Ericsson on mobile games for the Xperia Play, and expects to release more games for the device later this year. Glu currently offers more than 25 games for Android smartphones like the Xperia Play.
• SPB Software has updated its mobile television technology. SPB TV 3.0 is a publishing platform for television channels that looks like an app store. Wireless operators can use the platform to sell premium channels and video-on-demand to their subscribers in the same way subscribers buy content from app stores. The cross-platform technology works on smartphones, tablets and computers; supports streaming television; and allows operators to target users by region.
• Ixia says NTT DoCoMo used its IxCatapult technology to test out its LTE network before it launched commercial services in December of last year. Ixia says its technology tests all LTE eNodeB variants, from femtocells to macro base stations, by emulating all surrounding nodes, including subscribers, adjacent eNodeBs and the evolved packet core.