Monthly Archives: April, 2008

Doyle questions Martin on Skype

Federal Communication Commission Chairman Kevin Martin's well-received announcement here that he will push for dismissal of Skype Ltd.'s open-access petition has now prompted a...

AT&T dishes on retail strategy, 3G iPhone, Android and more: Touchscreen table to wow shoppers

AT&T Mobility hopes a new 30-inch touchscreen table will lead to more customers leaving its stores educated and satisfied with the entire shopping experience...

Tate wants protections in place

Federal Communications Commission member Deborah Taylor Tate urged the cellphone industry to tackle emerging challenges - such as protecting children from mobile adult content...

ICO to partner with Alcatel-Lucent on DVB-SH

ICO Global Communications announced it will be launching a $500 million satellite into space April 14th that will eventually provide broadcast mobile TV service...

Qualcomm focused on the here and now

CTIA Wireless 2008 is all about phones, but Qualcomm Inc. was busy Tuesday talking about laptops, portable multimedia players and just about anything else...

Analyst Angle: Unlimited calling plans cater to customers worth retaining

Editor's Note: Welcome to a special CTIA Show Daily edition of our weekly online feature, Analyst Angle. Every Monday at www.RCRWirelessNews.com you can find...

The Q&A: Richard Lowe

Richard Lowe is president of carrier networks at Nortel Networks Inc. The Carrier Networks group, which is Nortel's largest division, includes a large portfolio...

Video, chat to boost adult content revenues

The adult mobile content market will nearly triple over the next several years, reaching $4.6 billion by 2012, according to a recent forecast from...

Securing the mobile future: Cyber security expert outlines the challenges in protecting wireless

Is the struggle for mobile security a losing battle?"There is no such thing as absolute security," former White House Cyber Security Adviser Howard Schmidt...

VIDEO: Top stories from CTIA Wireless 2008, Day 3: LTE in the industry, new handsets, and more

During Wednesday's keynote address, industry titans from the infrastructure side of the market debated the status of 4G in wireless. Vodafone's CEO Arun Sarin said...

Public safety now part of most commercial wireless conversations

A profound -- but predictably understandable -- policy shift has been evolving since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and horrific hurricanes four years later....

The Q&A: Blake Krikorian

Blake Krikorian is CEO of Sling Media, purveyor of the SlingBox, which allows users to stream content from their home television to either a...

Mobile TV space looks for growth in 2008

Mobile television is all over the place, yet going nowhere fast all at the same time. Consumer choice for TV and video on their...

Remember voice? : Start-up tackles quality on most-used feature

Flashback to CTIA 2006: As former Nokia Corp. CEO Jorma Ollila gave his farewell address to the industry two years ago this spring, he...

700 MHz trial balloon

Telecom policymakers and special-interest groups are fond of talking about ubiquity, making sure communications -- wireless, wireline, Internet and video -- are within reach...

Mobile banking: Poised to cash in

She has been on your TV set for about a year now. If you grew up in the 1970s, the girl in the commercial...

Wells Fargo first into corporate m-banking

A recent compendium of bank technology case studies from financial research and advisory firm Celent, asked the question, "What would it look like for...

Wireless priority access turning point for intersect of commercial, public safety

It didn't take long after the 2001 terrorist attacks for the Federal Communications Commission to get energized on wireless priority access service, which during...

Disaster, not terrorism, top priorities for first responders

While 'interoperability' and '9/11' have become mainstays in debates on how to improve the highly fragmented public-safety communications regime in the United States, a...

Crying wolf, from a cellphone: Mobile security fears continue to plague I.T. departments

The mobile enterprise world for years has been rife with talk of Trojan horses, data-soiling worms and other Internet-age nasties. For the time being,...

Hesse touts mobile freedom

Sprint Nextel Corp. said nothing substantial about its WiMAX plans yesterday and instead fell back on a new touchscreen device as the biggest news...

Martin to oppose open-access regs

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin said he opposes Skype Ltd.'s petition to impose open access throughout the cellphone industry, prompting cheers from cellular...

Branson rocks!: He’s sending a Noah’s Ark into outer space

The "old hippie" is headin' to Mars. Or, perhaps more accurately, Richard Branson - fearless leader of the ubiquitous Virgin brand - is hatching...

Handsets rain on Sprint Nextel

Sprint Nextel released a slew of gadget-related news in conjunction with the CTIA Wireless show, an effort that included a Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd....

Towerstream brings fixed WiMAX to Texas

Towerstream announced today that it launched fixed WiMAX service for businesses in the Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, area. "The Dallas-Fort Worth metro market is a...
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