Yearly Archives: 2006

Cascada, Crisp mess around in mobile marketing

NEW YORK—The race to join the mobile marketing playground continued to heat up with separate announcements from Cascada Mobile and Crisp Wireless. Crisp Wireless...

Mobile ads: To WAP or not to WAP

The brave new world of wireless advertising is giving rise to a wide variety of business arrangements between network operators, content owners and mobile...

MyCircle rate plan boosts postpaid numbers at Alltel

Alltel Corp.'s MyCircle calling plan has given the carrier a boost in postpaid customers, and the company is on track to expand its CDMA2000...

Etc.

Ice, Ice Baby can finally get its due as a classic, at least in ringtone form. Acclaimed jazz composer David Baker said he wants...

Court questions handset activations in commission suit against T-Mobile

WASHINGTON-A federal appeals court last week did not clearly signal whether it believes the facts and law support charges by Robert Kaplan, a former...

ADC fires 225 in restructuring effort

MINNEAPOLIS—ADC Telecommunications Inc. said it will lay off about 225 people as part of a restructuring program. In a Securities and Exchange Commission filing,...

Call for 800 MHz rebanding extension raises public-safety’s ire

WASHINGTON--Don't blame the public-safety community if the 800 MHz reconfiguration process is not going smoothly, said Wanda McCarley, president of the Association of Public-Safety...

Revamp starts to pay off for Fitch, PCIA

NASHVILLE, Tenn.-For Mike Fitch, well into his second year as head of a trade group for which reinvention has become a survival mechanism, the...

Study: 4 million users to sign up for mobile TV in the U.S. next year

NEW YORK-Roughly 4 million U.S. consumers will subscribe to mobile broadcasts from dedicated, multimedia networks such as Qualcomm Inc.'s MediaFlo by the end of...

Sprint Nextel launches cross-carrier security app

Sprint Nextel Corp. introduced a new offering for business customers, promising them end-to-end mobile security that can support devices from multiple carriers running multiple...

Sony Ericsson hypes mobile music with M-BUZZ initiative

LONDON-Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications L.P. bolstered its mobile music strategy with the launch of a new promotional area for new and developing artists. The...

Carriers increasingly turning to fiber for backhaul needs

Exchanging data over wireless networks is expected to grow at a steady rate in North America, according to the latest data from ABI Research....

Pearl drawing strong demand

NEW YORK-Demand is strong at T-Mobile USA Inc. retail stores for the recently launched Research In Motion Ltd. BlackBerry Pearl, according to a national...

Amp’d lands in Circuit City

LOS ANGELES—Amp’d Mobile added another distribution partner, inking a deal to stock its handsets through more than 600 Circuit City Stores Inc. outlets beginning...

Motorola pays $4 billion to walk enterprise talk

Big deals attract attention. Watching mergers and acquisitions play out is a perennial spectator sport in the technology business, in part because the results...

.20 working group officers dismissed after in-fighting about standard

The IEEE standards association announced a leadership shake-up in its troubled 802.20 working group, which is supposed to get the work on a mobile...

Medical industry increasing reliance on mobile

The health-care industry increasingly is looking to wireless technologies to save money, reduce inefficiencies and cut down on human errors. And the wireless industry...

Verizon Wireless won’t jump 4G gun

Unlimited video streaming is unlikely to be in wireless carriers' interest, Verizon Wireless President and Chief Executive Officer Denny Strigl told a New York...

Old phones stifle new mobile games

Less than two years ago, carriers were blaming publishers for stifling mobile gaming by churning out a surfeit of high-profile, licensed games that made...

PCIA panelists tackle today, tomorrow

NASHVILLE, Tenn.-The Wireless Infrastructure Association's annual convention began with the launch of a new a new forum that says its mission is to promote...

Senate telecom-reform bill debate slips to November

WASHINGTON-The telecommunications-reform bill, which includes the all-important wireless pre-emption provision, will not be debated on the Senate floor this week so its only hope...

Qualcomm licenses Indian CDMA handset maker

SAN DIEGO—Qualcomm Inc. handed Indian device-maker Himachal Futuristic Communications Ltd. a royalty-bearing license agreement to make and sell CDMA2000 handsets and modem cards. Qualcomm...

Celebrity playlist: Once-sober Moto goes ga-ga for superstar endorsements and splashy promos

By Julie Johnsson CHICAGO—Moments after tennis superstar Maria Sharapova won her first U.S. Open title this month, Motorola Inc. scored a major victory of...

OMA consortium attacks game specs

DALLAS—The Open Mobile Alliance Ltd. (OMA) will lead a consortium of companies looking to create an open gaming specification for high-end wireless games. The...

Tower officials: Preparing for the next disaster

NASHVILLE, Tenn.-Tower industry officials last week said lessons learned from last year's horrific storms have made them better prepared for the next big one....
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