Sybase 365, a subsidiary of Sybase, Inc., the global leader in mobile messaging and mobile commerce services, today announced the launch of First Tennessee Bank’s business mobile banking product, powered by Sybase 365® Corporate Mobile Banking solution.  First Tennessee Bank can now provide its business customers with the convenience, flexibility, and security of mobile banking.

An existing Sybase 365 eBanking customer for both its retail and business customers, First Tennessee Bank – part of the First Horizon National Corp. (NYSE: FHN) family of companies – is extending its partnership with Sybase 365 to launch one of the most fully functional mobile business banking offerings. With Sybase 365 Corporate Mobile Banking solution, First Tennessee Bank enables its business customers to execute daily banking and treasury management tasks securely and conveniently from their mobile devices. In addition to the traditional mobile features of viewing account balances, paying bills and transferring funds, this business mobile banking product enables business-specific capabilities such as approving the release of ACH files and making positive pay decisions.

“Technology plays a key role in helping First Tennessee maintain our competitive edge,” said Taylor Vaughan, director of treasury management services for First Tennessee.  “Being one of the first banks in the country to offer our business customers a mobile banking product demonstrates our commitment to helping our customers evolve with the ways business is done today.”

The Sybase 365 Corporate Mobile Banking solution provides software, services and messaging; the most complete of all enterprise mobile banking solutions. Financial institutions such as First Tennessee Bank can easily integrate the mobile banking platform with existing internet banking platforms or with their core banking systems a as part of a suite of innovative mobile commerce applications and services.

“Sybase 365 continues to enable the mobile enterprise with innovative solutions for an increasingly mobile workforce,” said Matthew Talbot, Senior Vice President, mCommerce, Sybase 365. “By delivering one of the first end-to-end corporate mobile banking applications nationwide, we are able to provide a previously unimagined level of security, convenience, and access for corporate and small business customers.”

Apple has unveiled a new free service that allows users to share calendar entries, songs and other files among their devices more easily.

The company also announced new software to make Mac computers behave more like mobile devices and Apple’s mobile devices more like rival smartphones. It announced a service called iCloud.

An iCloud account will store user information from several devices, including iPhones and iPads, and make sure the same contacts, calendar events and files are available on all of them. It also backs up the data on Apple’s servers. It mimics Google’s Docs system for online files, and products from smaller online-storage companies like Dropbox.

iCloud will also allow customers to store their music online. Buy a song on iTunes once, and it will be available on up to 10 devices. The basic service will be free for now and replaces a $99-a-year Apple service called MobileMe.

For $25 a year, iTunes will be able to scan a computer’s hard drive for music files that have been converted from CDs. If the same songs are available in the iTunes store, they’ll be added to the iCloud locker. iCloud could give users a wide array of music for their iPhones, iPads and Wi-Fi-capable iPods, without having to connect them to their home PCs to transfer songs. Google Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. have launched similar services.

Earlier, Apple unveiled an operating system update for Mac computers called Lion. With it, Apple is expanding the ways finger-touches can be used to control the software. For instance, with the swipe of the fingers over the Mac trackpad, the user can switch from one program to another.

Apple is adapting more of its programs to run in a special full-screen mode, in addition to the traditional “window” mode. Lion will be available to consumers next month for $30. A preview version was made available Monday to software developers.

Apple also unveiled updates to its software for iPhones and iPads. It will present notifications of new emails, missed calls and other events in a more intelligent fashion, reminiscent of the way Google Inc.’s Android smartphone software already does. The software will present all pending notifications in a list, accessible with the swipe of a finger.

The new mobile software, iOS 5, will have a newsstand for newspapers and magazines that you subscribe to on iPad. New issues are automatically downloaded and placed there.

Apple also announced greater integration with Twitter, so that you can tweet photos, for instance, directly from a photo app.

iMessage in iOS 5 brings the functionality of iPhone messaging to all of iOS devices – iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. iMessage allows users to send encrypted text messages, photos, videos or contact information to other iOS 5 devices over Wi-Fi or 3G. The software would be available to consumers in the fall.

Renesas Electronics America Inc., a premier provider of advanced semiconductor solutions, today announced the availability of its eight new 32-bit V850 microcontrollers (MCUs) in the existing V850 J Series. These new V850ES/Jx3-L MCUs are an extension of the successful low-power V850ES/Jx3-L 32-bit MCUs that were introduced in early 2010 and are designed for low-power, portable applications with high-density memory from 768 kilobytes (KB) flash/80KB RAM to 1 megabyte (MB) flash/80KB RAM to support increasing memory demand. The new MCUs achieve industry-leading, low power consumption with built-in large capacity memory, and four of these high memory-density MCUs are equipped with a USB 2.0 function interface to support communications. To demonstrate the low-power capability, Renesas Electronics America is offering a give-away promotion of a V850ES/Jx3-L Low Power Demonstrator Kit, which enables users to measure current consumption of different MCU operation modes and illustrates many features supporting low-power system design.

Ideal for applications such as portable healthcare equipment and healthcare systems, especially portable measurement and monitor devices such as blood glucose meters, can take advantage of the low power to extend battery life and utilize the large flash memory for data storage and increasing application needs. USB support enables healthcare systems to support patient-doctor information exchanges, like what the Continua Alliance standard provides. Moreover, the 32-bit processing power can support graphic computation for different displays from segmented LCD to dot-matrix and OLED.

Software complexity continues to increase in many applications. Product designers are faced with difficult design decisions such as extending a design cycle to reducing software size or paying for extra external memory to shorten design time. The high-density Flash memory eliminates this design dilemma as Renesas Electronics’ V850 MCUs with up to 1MB Flash memory can support many applications without resorting to external memory.

In conjunction with the product announcement, Renesas Electronics America is offering a give-away promotion for a V850ES/Jx3-L Low Power Demonstrator. This kit utilizes a V850ES/JG3-L MCU with 512KB of Flash memory to provide a platform that demonstrates the different standby modes. The kit supports current consumption measurements with the use of an ampere meter, and also demonstrates RAM retention and real-time clock operation in the lowest power mode. To register for a free kit (while supplies last) and to find more information about the give-away promotion, visitwww.am.renesas.com/V850JX3LLPD. (NOTE: This link is case sensitive.)

Key features of the V850ES/JG3-L MCUs

• (1) Large-capacity on-chip memory contributes to a reduction in system costs by eliminating external memory

  The new MCUs provide either 768 KB or 1 MB of on-chip flash memory and 80 KB of on-chip RAM. Compared to earlier products, these devices can help to reduce the effort required to optimize software to fit into a small Flash size and eliminate the need for costly external memory.

• (2) High-speed processing achieved with the industry’s top class of low power consumption

  These new devices achieve a power consumption of 0.9 milliwatts (mW) per 1 MIPS (Note 1) at 20 megahertz (MHz). Furthermore, while providing improved peripheral functionality, such as USB 2.0 and real-time counter functions, these devices achieve a low current consumption of 0.7 µA (microamps) (with only the real-time counter operating) in standby mode. These MCUs also support 2.0 volt (V) low-voltage operations when operating at 2.5 MHz, contributing to longer battery operating times in portable and battery-operated electronic equipment.

• (3) Easy reuse of existing software assets from other V850 J Series devices

  With the introduction of these new products, Renesas Electronics’ V850 J Series now includes a total of 125 products ranging from 16 KB to 1 MB of flash memory, from 8 KB to 80 KB of RAM, and from 40 to 144 pins. Since it is easy to reuse software assets within the same series, the V850 J Series devices are powerful and scalable MCUs, shortening development periods and reducing development costs.

More information about the Renesas V850 J Series products can be found at http://www.am.renesas.com/v850. Main specifications of the V850ES/JG3-L MCUs can be found at http://am.renesas.com/press/news/2011/news20110524_s.jsp.

Pricing and Availability

Samples of Renesas Electronics’ new V850ES/JG3-L MCUs are available now with pricing dependent on memory capacity and package type. For example, an MCU equipped in a 100-pin LQFP package with 1 MB of flash memory in 10K resell units is priced at US$6.38 per unit. Mass production is scheduled to begin in July 2011 and is expected to reach a combined volume of 3,000,000 units per month with all eight products by FY2012. (Pricing and availability are subject to change without notice.)

• (Note 1) MIPS: The ability to execute one million instructions per second. The Dhrystone benchmark is a program used to evaluate arithmetic performance in computers.

BankAtlantic , which is a US-based financial services provider, is planning to expandits m-banking service to Android platform phones.

Initially, BankAtlantic introduced its Mobile Banking Application for iPhone; iPad and iPod Touch in May. BankAtlantic’s free m-banking app enables users to check account balances, view recent transactions and transaction history, as well as transfer funds between accounts directly from their mobile phone.

Moreover, the Geo Tracking functionality will enable Android-powered mobile phone users to locate the nearest BankAtlantic branch or ATM location. BankAtlantic’s Mobile Banking Application for Android will be available this summer.