Voltage Security announced that cell phone maker Siemens is putting its encryption technology to the test. Ten corporate customers of Siemens’ communications group will take part in a beta of Voltage’s identity-based encryption, or IBE, toolkit. The technology takes identity information–such as an email address, phone number or IP address–and uses that for the public key for a cryptographic system. Siemens has integrated the IBE Toolkit into smart phones running Microsoft Windows Mobile operating system.

Motorola unveiled a range of new handsets on Monday that will be built around its popular RAZR model, and showed a long-awaited music phone with Apple’s iTunes music player software. The RAZR ultra-thin flip phone, which was launched last year, will be joined by three more high-tech models, dubbed the RAZR black, the SLVR and the PEBL.

Comverse and Research In Motion (RIM) announced plans to integrate Comverse’s Visual Voicemail with BlackBerry. Visual Voicemail for BlackBerry is designed to transform the voicemail experience by allowing users to browse and manipulate the contents of their voicemail box with email-like ease and functionality–just click-and-listen.

Xybernaut Corporation introduced the Atigo S–a new addition to the Atigo platform of products. Atigo is a line of mobile/wearable computers designed for dual use as a wireless flat panel display (FPD) or a stand-alone wireless-enabled computing or communications device.

Beiks and Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins (LWW), a top publisher in the healthcare industry, have teamed to provide anytime/anywhere access to medical reference information to users of the BlackBerry platform developed by Research In Motion (RIM). By providing access to medical dictionaries and other reference works via BlackBerry, Beiks and LWW have delivered on the promise of mobile access to medical reference information on one of the most popular wireless connectivity platforms in the healthcare industry.

Tanagra announced it is launching an iPod version of its flagship product, MEMEO. MEMEO now expands the capabilities of iPod beyond managing music files to include access to email, calendars and other personal files. iPod users can use MEMEO to catch up on their latest emails, review notes, check schedules, look up contacts and have their latest files and digital photos with them wherever they go.

Kinoma introduced an update to its Kinoma Player 3 EX, bringing immersive interactive images to the Palm OS. For the first time, owners of Palm Powered smartphones and mobile devices can interactively view 360 degree images with unprecedented quality, performance and simplicity using Kinoma Player 3 EX. Kinoma Player 3 EX introduced support for many industry standards including MPEG-4 and H.263 video, AAC audio, and JPEG photographs. Kinoma Player 3 EX version 3.1 extends support for industry standard formats by adding direct viewing of QuickTime VR files containing cubic panoramas, the defacto industry standard for immersive imaging.

Jataayu Software announced the launch of their jSync DM client, an open standards-based SyncML DM client for feature phones, Smartphones, and other popular PDA platforms. The SyncML Device Management specifications enable mobile users or operators/enterprises to remotely manage, provision, troubleshoot and update mobile and wireless devices. The Jataayu jSync DM client provides device manufacturers and reference design vendors with a solution that they can easily integrate into their device portfolio.

McAfee and Bitfone announced they are demonstrating a new active threat management system for mobile phones at the 3GSM World Congress in Cannes, France. The demonstration is a result of technology collaboration between Bitfone and McAfee, and will show how mobile operators can detect, recover from and prevent security threats to mobile phone software from viruses, worms, auto-dialers, spyware and other malicious threats.

SplashData announced the launch of its new SplashBlog solution for PalmOne Treo and other Palm-powered wireless devices. For the first time, users can not only capture pictures with their camera phones, but can instantly publish photos to a “photo blog” for friends and family members to see. SplashBlog streamlines the process of mobile photo blogging, allowing users to capture an image and publish it to an online photoblog in as little as two clicks. SplashBlog includes everything users need to publish their photos online, including software for the smartphone and a free online photoblog account.