Monthly Archives: December, 2006

Sprint Nextel continues to raise ire of iPCS

SCHAUMBERG, Ill.-Sprint Nextel Corp. CDMA affiliate iPCS Inc. is protesting new rates that the larger carrier is charging for back-office services, and has filed...

Napster goes Euro with O2 deal

LOS ANGELES-Napster's mobile offering will make its European debut later this month.The digital music service said O2 Ireland will offer Napster's catalog of 3...

NeoMedia CEO bids farewell

FORT MYERS, Fla.-Shares of NeoMedia Technologies Inc. continued to slide after the company's President and Chief Executive Officer Charles Jensen stepped down.Jensen, 63, joined...

Qualcomm says ITC ruling won’t have ‘disruptive effect’

WASHINGTON-The United States International Trade Commission has ruled that Qualcomm Inc. has infringed on one of three patents held by rival Broadcom Corp., upholding...

DigitalBridge closes on new financing, new acquisitions

ASHBURN, Va.-WiMAX provider DigitalBridge Communications Corp. announced new financing, news that coincided with the company's acquisition of two regional providers of wireless cable and...

Trimble to acquire @Road for $500M

SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Shares of @Road Inc. jumped after Trimble Navigation Ltd. said it will acquire its fellow California-based mobile resource management developer for nearly $500...

Telephia teams with Roundbox for video monitoring

SAN FRANCISCO-Telephia is teaming with place-shifting software developer Roundbox Inc. to deploy on-device measurement technology for wireless video and other mobile broadcast applications.The companies...

Study: High content pricing stifling adoption

FRAMINGHAM, Mass.-Steep prices are keeping U.S. mobile consumers from buying wireless entertainment offerings, according to a study from IDC.The market research group found that...

Congress passes pre-texting ban

WASHINGTON-Congress before adjourning for the year passed legislation criminalizing the use of fraudulent means-such as impersonating wireless and wireline telecom subscribers-to obtain their phone...

Disney, Apple working in wireless?

BURBANK, Calif.-The Walt Disney Co. appears ready and willing to work with Apple Computer Inc. across a number of media devices, if a recently...

Qualcomm intros BREW Locate Signature Solution

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. is joining the white-hot location-based services (LBS) bandwagon with a new assisted-GPS offering.The chipmaker is targeting carriers with its new BREW...

Metalink launches second-generation .11n chipset into expanding market

YAKUM, Israel-Silicon developer Metalink Ltd. unveiled its updated draft-compliant 802.11n dual-band chipset for wireless home entertainment networks.The company said its WLANPlus chip features Multiple-Input,...

Analyst Angle: What I want from my wireless Santa

Editor's Note: Welcome our Monday feature, Analyst Angle. We've collected a group of the industry's leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot...

Monday, Dec. 11, 2006

Pay-per-call hopes to lessen online marketing fraud

Mobile marketers are looking to avoid the "pay-per-click" problems that continue to plague online advertising. And many of them are hoping simple phone calls...

FCC extends construction deadline for 2.3 GHz spectrum holders

WASHINGTON-The wireless broadband industry embraced the Federal Communications Commission's extension of construction deadlines for 2.3 GHz licensees, but remains angry over the agency's response...

Clearwire uses FCC delay to improve position

WASHINGTON-While major stakeholders and lawmakers haggle over how the Federal Communications Commission should proceed on the stalled $79 billion AT&T Inc.-BellSouth deal, Clearwire Corp....

Bummed out Christmas

Unfortunately, it has become commonplace to read press reports about drivers on cell phones whose priorities are terribly-sometimes fatally-misplaced. Everybody knows it's a big,...

Handset moves

It's an increasingly awkward dance between U.S. wireless carriers and handset manufacturers as phone makers begin to assert their independence from operators. Handsets don't work...

Generating support for cell broadcast

WASHINGTON-The wireless industry is quietly reassessing long-held resistance to a cell-broadcast technology that's getting a serious look by the Department of Homeland Security and...

Finding magic, money with VC

Wireless entrepreneurs looking to scrape up venture capital would do well to recall a college radio hit from a few years ago: it's all...

Leap preparing for further expansion, pondering affiliates

Leap Wireless International Inc. is poised to make a large push into East Coast and Gulf Coast markets with the spectrum it acquired in...

Qualcomm pursues consumer electronics with Bluetooth acquisition

Qualcomm Inc. plans to profit from in-house Bluetooth intellectual property to drive down the cost, power consumption and footprint of chip-based functionality in mobile...

Qualcomm adds to IPR stable with Airgo buy

First OFDMA and now MIMO. Qualcomm Inc.'s acquisition of Airgo Networks and its Multiple-Input, Multiple-Out technology, as well as the company's previous purchase of...

Consumer Reports takes on tough assignment: smart phones

Under the banner, "Simpler and Slimmer," Consumer Reports' January 2007 issue weighed in on a handset category that has even the experts scratching their...
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