Monthly Archives: June, 2008

Worst of the Week: Quit fiddling!

Hello! And welcome to our Thursday column, Worst of the Week. There's a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so...

Analyst on Motorola: ‘Half-baked mess’: CEO candidate withdraws, according to Journal

Analyst Tero Kuittinen at Global Crown Capital L.L.C. said in a note to investors that top-tier carriers in the United States were pulling back...

Leap rings up new CFO

This week Leap Wireless International Inc. brought on a new chief financial officer and, in turn, the company gave itself some financial breathing room....

Corporate e-mail expands to lower-end Sprint Nextel phones

Sprint Nextel Corp. is hoping to bridge the gap between enterprise users and multimedia devices with a new mobile e-mail service.The offering, awkwardly dubbed...

T-Mobile USA hires new CMO

Denny Marie Post has joined T-Mobile USA Inc. as chief marketing officer. She was previously senior VP of global food and beverage at Starbucks."Denny...

USA lags on cellphones’ marketing potential

CANNES, France — They're hip, hot and everywhere on the planet. But despite a drumbeat about mobile phones being the new frontier in the...

Could pen-sized GPS jammers paralyse UK shipping?

Analysis Contractors and sector-straddling quangocrats sought yesterday to convince politicians of the need to spend defence or security funds on radio-based backups for GPS...

Text-message ruling could change corporate policies

Most employees know their bosses are usually within their rights snooping on workers' e-mail, but text messaging has been in murkier territory.

eSoft spam filter goes mobile

Security appliance developer eSoft has updated its email gateway with the ability for users to spam-file or whitelist emails from any device, including a...

Ad support to drive $4.8B mobile search market by 2013

Local mobile search services are growing in popularity, and nearly 1.3 billion mobile-phone users are expected to use local mobile search services by 2013,...

Report: APAC lucrative market for mobile WiMAX

The Asia-Pacific region represents a significant opportunity for mobile WiMAX technology, according to a recent report from ABI Research."Because mobile WiMAX is aimed at...

By the Numbers: Top Ten U.S. Wireless Service Providers

The companies listed below represent the ten largest national and regional licensed wireless carriers based on subscriber numbers at the end of the first...

Consumer groups rail against exclusive handsets

The nation's leading consumer groups urged the Federal Communications Commission to act on a request to investigate exclusivity pacts between top mobile-phone carriers and...

Bill aims for wireless parity on Washington subways

Apple Inc.'s iconic iPhone could become more prevalent in official Washington - especially among subway commuters - owing to House passage of an Amtrak...

Sprint Nextel, Verizon execs duel on NXTcomm08 stage

LAS VEGAS - On day two of the NXTcomm08 event here, wireless seemed to jump out of the backseat and into the limelight. Executives...

Cellphones morph into boarding passes at New York’s LaGuardia

Delta Air Lines is the latest air carrier to get on board with mobile, allowing travelers at New York's LaGuardia to use their...

Last minute save keeps Philly Wi-Fi alive

A group of private equity investors has rescued the municipal Wi-Fi network in Philadelphia, the city announced yesterday.The situation has been closely watched due...

Google top result in mobile search field

Google Inc. is still the player to beat in mobile search, according to new figures from Nielsen Mobile.The Internet giant accounted for a dominating...

Immunity likely for phone companies in spy bill

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. phone companies would be shielded from potentially billions of dollars in lawsuits under an anti-terror spy measure that appears headed...

Mobile Banking Set to Boom

Global mobile transactions are forecast to mushroom—from 2.7 billion in 2007 to 37 billion by 2011—with growth mainly in developing countries

White space group: amnesty for illegal wireless mic use

The White Spaces Coalition has some strong words for one ofits harshest critics, the wireless microphone industry.

Nokia 4G research team transfers to German startup

MimoOn GmbH (Duisberg, Germany), a developer of software-defined radio technology, has recruited research team from Nokia Research in Bochum, Germany and Helsinki, Finland.

Financial ratings wrap-up: AT&T, Nokia, Qualcomm and more

The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.Carrier--RBC Capital Markets lowered its...

OSS/BSS outsourcing makes gains: Large carriers remain reticent, while smaller players open arms

Carriers are changing their minds about outsourcing pieces of their operations. The decision for carriers to put units of their business in others' hands...

Stephenson boasts of 1 billion devices connected to AT&T’s networks: IPhone hangs over keynote

LAS VEGAS - The growing importance of wireless in the general telecom space was evident during this morning's keynote session at the NXTcomm08 trade...
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