Monthly Archives: June, 2008

Auto dealers embrace text messaging

Who's sending that text message to your cellphone? It could be your neighborhood auto dealer.Dealers are joining other auto advertisers in marketing on mobile...

VIDEO: RCR Wireless Newscast for Monday, June 9

Verizon said it will buy Alltel for $28 billion. If the deal goes through, it would create the...

816M mobile banking customers by 2011

Consumers are increasingly using their mobile phones to access banking services and products, and about 816 million consumers are expected to do so by...

MIM to cut into SMS, e-mail usage

Mobile instant messaging will eventually cannibalize SMS and computer-based e-mail, according to a survey from TNS Technology.The survey of 17,000 respondents in 30 countries...

ABI: 289M devices shipped in Q1

The mobile device market is expected to show shipments of 289 million units during the first quarter of 2008, according to a new study...

LiveTV to buy Verizon’s Airfone business

LiveTV L.L.C. said it will buy Verizon Communications Inc.'s Airfone business, a move the JetBlue Airways subsidiary said will anchor its in-flight e-mail and...

Leap launches in St. Louis

Leap Wireless International Inc. is set to turn on its Cricket service tomorrow in St. Louis, Mo. Leap said the service will be available...

Executive Interview: Sheldon Safir

The woes besetting Motorola Inc.'s consumer handset division have been the stuff of headlines for the past year. The company has said it remains...

Third time’s a charm: VZW to acquire Alltel

Verizon Wireless's purchase of Alltel Communication L.L.C. is leaving many gasping for breath. The $28.1 billion purchase of the nation's fifth-largest U.S. mobile operator...

Analyst Angle: Just when you thought PANs were DUN

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...

Will the iPhone 2.0 be enough for the US?

Boston's business community is filled with bloggers who offer opinions, speculate and - sometimes - even make news. Globe columnist Scott Kirsner compiles excerpts...

WiMAX Patent Pool Is Planned

Six big technology companies are spearheading a plan to jointly license patents that cover the wireless technology called WiMAX hoping to limit royalty rates...

Monitise Adds UK Bank to Mobile Banking Platform

Monitise has announced that MONILINK, its UK joint venture with VocaLink, has signed a contract with an unnamed UK retail bank to offer mobile...

Bonnaroo Mobile: Buzzd Brings Mobile Social Networking to Music Festival

Back in February we reported that Buzzd , a Mobile Web social networking service used at bars, clubs and restaurants, had won a bunch...

AP to offer upgrade to mobile news service on iPhone

The Associated Press on Monday unveiled an iPhone program for accessing its newly launched service that delivers news, photos and video to mobile phones.

Samsung launches iPhone lookalike Omnia

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Korean technology group Samsung launched a new touchscreen smartphone on Monday, hours before Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs was...

Apple CEO Steve Jobs to unveil new and improved iPhone

Will the next iPhone be thinner, cheaper, perhaps cooler? Will it come with new features such as video chat and a global positioning system?...

Faster-web iPhone expected to be introduced today

Apple CEO Steve Jobs is widely expected to introduce iPhone 2.0 at the start of the tech firm's Worldwide Developers Conference today.

Vendor punts coin-operated Wi-Fi base-station

People rarely need coins to make a call these days, but don’t ditch your coppers just yet because manufacturer Handlink has designed a coin-operated...

Putting mobile search trends in context

We all love the concept of mobile search. For today's busy mobile professional, it is reassuring and convenient to have all the information the...

Gemalto Wins Mobile Transactions Contract with Italian MVNO

Gemalto says that it has provided Italian MVNO, PosteMobile with a software solution that allows BancoPosta customers to securely carry out payment transactions with...

Ad Track: ‘Sex’ and ‘porno’ rule mobile search engines

You'd think a cellphone's screen is too tiny for any, uh, "intimate" viewing. Apparently not.

VZW+Alltel: Content challenges ahead

The sparse, rural areas that AlltelCommunications L.L.C.'s network covers and the demographics it serves lead some to assume Alltel would have relatively little data...
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