Yearly Archives: 2007

Weather Channel uses WAP to speed innovations to users

The Weather Channel Mobile continued to expand its offerings, adding traffic information and hourly forecasts to its wireless services.The Weather.com mobile Web site now...

Nextcode scans first carrier deal

Bar-code scanning company Nextcode Corp. announced a deal with Philippine wireless provider Smart Communications Inc. The deal is Nextcode's first with a carrier. The...

Sony BMG and Warner Music invest in Chinese mobile download market

Sony BMG Music Entertainment and Warner Music Group are backing an effort to provide full-track mobile music downloads to Chinese subscribers.The companies announced a...

Verizon Wireless outpaces Sprint Nextel in data ARPU

Verizon Wireless subscribers spend more on mobile data than customers of any other U.S. carrier, according to new data from IDC.The market research firm...

LG’s handset volume up, revenue and profit down

LG Electronics Co. Ltd, whose handset division last year slipped from No. 4 to No. 5 in global rankings, posted drops in revenue and...

Wall Street grumbles over Alcatel-Lucent profit warning

Alcatel-Lucent, one of the world's leading network suppliers, warned that its fourth-quarter revenues will come in below expectations, news that sent investors scurrying away...

TI warns on slower growth in 2007

Texas Instruments Inc. reported modest gains in the fourth quarter-revenue up 4 percent, profit up 2 percent over the year-ago quarter-but it will cut...

Monday, Jan. 22, 2007

Brits to research health effects of extended cellphone use

WASHINGTON-A British mobile phone radiation expert and the country's health agency reportedly plan to study the long-term health effects of mobile phone use.Dr. Lawrie...

Shareholder rejects Openwave settlement

Openwave Systems Inc.'s proxy battle continued after the company failed to reach a settlement with its second-largest shareholder.The wireless software developer said Harbinger Capital...

SilverBirch acquires Jambo Mobile Solutions

SilverBirch Inc. is jumping into the mobile marketing arena with the acquisition of mobile marketing firm Jambo Mobile Solutions Inc. for an undisclosed sum....

EMI sues InfoSpace over ringtone royalties, licensing

Music publisher EMI Entertainment World Inc. has slapped InfoSpace Inc. with a $100 million lawsuit, claiming the buffeted mobile content company has been underpaying...

Mobidia nets $3.2M in VC funding

Mobidia Inc., a Canadian mobile service management company, has received a fresh infusion of $3.2 million from DBC Venture Capital, bringing the company's total...

Alltel launches ringback tones

Alltel Corp. wireless customers who just can't get enough of personalizing their wireless phones now have a new option: ringback tones. The carrier introduced...

Low-cost handsets present potential, risk

Big opportunities come with big risks, particularly in chasing the future of the mobile handset business.One opportunity, pursued by the market's two giants and...

Analyst: W-CDMA royalty rates drag on 3G uptake

High average royalty rates for W-CDMA technology are one among several elements dragging on the uptake of 3G handsets and service, according to a...

Telecom officials have full plate of issues

WASHINGTON-The Bush administration's top two telecom officials said wireless issues will have high priority this year, with policymakers anxious to see wireless networks evolve...

Industry suit against Kentucky back on

WASHINGTON-Mobile-phone carriers' tax lawsuit against Kentucky is back on track, giving center stage to a federal pre-emption argument that's also at the heart of...

Verizon Wireless raises texting fee to 15 cents

BASKING RIDGE, N.J.-Verizon Wireless plans to join its compatriots in raising the price of per-message texting, bumping the rate for sending and receiving messages...

U.S. Navy dives into nascent mobile video ad space

Mobile video is still very much in its infancy, but Third Screen Media claims it is reaching consumers by delivering a click-to-play wireless TV...

Kababyboom!

An odd thing is going on in Washington policymaking circles. Folks are beginning to talk again about the budget, specifically about erasing the deficit...

Dirty cheap WiMAX

I have bought into the WiMAX hype. I'm a true believer.When Nortel, Motorola, Alvarion and other WiMAX vendors gush over all the great things...

Hedgehogging

Hedge*hog*ing v. Interrupting conversations in an office environment by poking your head over the top of the cube.Awesome factoid of the week: A consumer...

RFID remains wildcard

SAN JOSE, Calif.-The business opportunities enabled by WiMAX and other broadband wireless technologies are as abundant as those being touted for the mobile-minded consumer....

Skeptics be damned. WiMAX supporters shoot for the stars

SAN JOSE, Calif.-The potential for mobile WiMAX is as big as the Internet itself, if you trust the true believers gathered last week in...
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