Monthly Archives: April, 2008

Men’s Health to link ads and readers via cameraphones: SnapTell service to let cellphone users access digital promos

One of magazines' biggest strengths in the dawning digital age -- that engrossing environment often said to be so conducive to glossy branding campaigns...

Analyst Angle: Intel’s MIDs use Linux to go after GPS systems first and iPhone next

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

Push for mobile TV: Potential bringing more competitors to the table

LAS VEGAS - EVER SINCE television was invented in 1926, the industry has seen over-the-air broadcasts reach more screens as the medium exploded in...

Sprint Nextel enacts strict guidelines for content partners: Content vendors on short leash

Sprint Nextel Corp. hopes to clean up the direct-to-consumer content business by hitting wayward partners where it hurts.The carrier last month told off-deck content...

Interconnection tiff ensnares telecom giants: AT&T, Verizon and Sprint Nextel ask courts, FCC to intervene

Verizon Communications Inc. sued Sprint Nextel Corp. in Delaware federal court, accusing the No. 3 mobile-phone operator of failing to pay nearly $10 million...

Industry giants agree on LTE IPR: Qualcomm notably absent from list

The market for Long Term Evolution technology took another step forward last week as seven infrastructure heavyweights announced a framework for licensing the rights...

Climate change

For public safety, the political atmospherics have changed from what they were just a year ago when federal regulators understandably gave great weight to...

Both sides argue freedom in text messaging debate: Public Knowledge says carriers will discriminate, operators say they should get to choose marketing partners

Public-interest groups reiterated their call for federal regulators to protect text-messaging rights, framing the debate as far-reaching in terms of the potential implications for...

Hedgehogging: hedge*hog*ging v. Interrupting conversations in an office environment by poking your head over the top of the cube.

So what's up with Vodafone CEO Arun Sarin? He must have been pretty cranky when BusinessWeek interviewed him for a story published last week....

Sales of PC cards set to quadruple by 2011

Mobile data card sales will quadruple between 2007 and 2011 to reach $2.9 billion, according to predictions from Infonetics Research.The report suggest mobile data...

GSM growth expected to slow through 2009

Global GSM subscriber growth is expected to slow from 22% year-over-year in 2006 and 2007 to 14% in 2008 and 2009, according to a...

A simple conundrum

One of the hot topics leading into the CTIA Wireless 2008 event earlier this month was the recent move by carriers to offer unlimited,...

D Block: Looking back and moving forward

SO WHAT WILL IT BE for the sequestered 700 MHz D Block? A few tweaks here and there, an approach one lawmaker dismissively coined...

Etc.

What about the shoe phone?Echoflex Solutions Inc. introduced a self-powered wireless key switch, which the company said can reduce the cost of powering unoccupied...

Carriers work at enterprise mobility space: Everyone’s differentiator is ‘the network’ and ‘the partnerships’

Competitive pressures are leading American companies to adopt mobility for the obvious reasons: increasing productivity, decreasing costs and distinguishing themselves among their competitors.The top...

Mowser set to expire: Founder: 80% of site’s traffic was porn-related

Mowser is dead. But forensics has yet to indicate whether the business's demise is a sign of an epidemic or simply a predictable casualty...

Legislation eyes auction of family-friendly spectrum

Reps. Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.) and Christopher Cannon (R-Utah) introduced a bill to foster deployment of a national, family-friendly wireless broadband network with open access,...

Executive Interview: Sean Rosenberg

Five years after 50 Cent's "In Da Club" helped launch the multibillion-dollar ringtone phenomenon - and as CD sales continue to plummet - the...

Mobile TV must find business model that clicks with viewers

LAS VEGAS - "There is an expression - if there is something that people want to watch, you can broadcast it on a rock...

House bill would put unsolicited text ads under do-not-call rules: Measure aims to ban unwelcome text messaging advertisements

A group of House lawmakers introduced legislation to close a loophole in federal law that makes mobile-phone subscribers potential targets for unsolicited text message...

Radio Disney tunes in to mobile

Radio Disney is partnering with sister company mDisney on a mobile Web site and texting program to support the offering.The new wireless site allows...

AT&T sheds 4,600 employees : Job cuts follow integration of AT&T with SBC

AT&T Inc. announced it will be firing about 4,600 employees, or 1.5% of its workforce, as it continues to integrate staff between AT&T and...

Moto shuffles phone execs

Motorola Inc. is streamlining product oversight in its phone business as it searches for a CEO to run the operation, which it plans to...

Venture capital financing wrap-up: Rosum and TruPhone

The following list includes venture capital and other investments into wireless companies announced during the past week. The value of the investment is included...
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