Motorola funds Mobile Complete

Mobile Complete, a provider of mobile application testing services, says it has raised a Series B investment led by Motorola Ventures. While the round size is officially undisclosed, it is rumoured to be about $10 million. Previous investor Innovacom VC also participated in the round.

The company says it's using the new funds to expand its service internationally and add more mobile handsets to its testing roster of a 300+ list of handsets.

The biggest problem mobile developers face when creating mobile content is making that content work on hundreds of devices - obviously Motorola thinks this will help solve that problem.

With more than 100 000 hours invested in testing and validating Microsoft's Windows Vista, Dell specialists believe they are ready for the business launch of the new operating system.

"We're ready to work with individual consumers or large enterprises," said Russ Ray, a senior manager in Dell's client operating system product marketing unit as he described the hardware manufacturer's game plan for the launch of Vista. "The smaller they are, the easier it is. We're finding that everybody is interested in getting his hands on it."

Dell, which says it accounts for more than 10% of Microsoft's business, said customers with volume licensing agreements with Microsoft can use Dell to factory-install Vista after they have provided their Windows Vista image.

Nasa is still having trouble with software that tripped a circuit breaker at the International Space Station this week, but the problem won't delay the upcoming launch of shuttle Discovery.

A second attempt to raise the altitude of the station in advance of the shuttle launch, meanwhile, is now scheduled for Monday.

Specialists at Nasa's Mission Control Centre in Houston reset the breaker after an analysis showed that automatic control software tripped it during a test earlier this week.