Monthly Archives: August, 2008

Venture capital financing wrap-up: BitWave, MoFuse and Trilliant

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

Consolidation fallout: Dwindling number of providers leave fewer options

With the U.S. economy in a lull, many businesses suffer. Wireless, however, still thrives. And as the top four carriers continue to get stronger...

Verizon, Google Close To Mobile Search Deal

Verizon Communications Inc. is nearing an agreement with Google Inc. on a wide-ranging partnership, according to people familiar with the situation, in what could...

How Disney Mobile Is Succeeding In Japan (After Failing In the U.S.)

Disney embarked on a cellular phone business in the US as early as June 2006 but pulled the plug at the end of last...

Mobile mapping use on the rise

American and European users are using mobile map applications more frequently, with 8 % of U.S. mobile users and 3% of European subscribers accessing...

Femtocell market could hit $1.8B by 2013

A study from ABI Research predicts the market for femtocell semiconductors could top $1.8 billion 2013, from $72 million this year, growing at an...

Worst of the Week: The cable industry’s plan to take over wireless

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...

ESPN expands distribution agreement with MLB: New deal includes streaming of games to mobile

ESPN Inc. unveiled an expansion of its current agreement with Major League Baseball Advanced Media that "covers all new platforms" including online, interactive television...

Sony Ericsson brings 3G handset to T-Mobile

Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications took a baby step toward improving its position in the United States today by announcing its first handset for T-Mobile...

Sprint Nextel cuts phone-as-modem pricing from $50 to $15 per month

Sprint Nextel Corp. is providing another possible incentive for customers to stick around, knocking $35 off one of its monthly plan offerings - but...

Mobile Banking Takes Off … Or Does It?

Bankers report adoption exceeds industry expectations, but not everyone is convinced.

Study: base station market set for revival

A new report from Informa Telecoms & Media predicts the struggling mobile base station market could be revived by mobile data traffic demands by...

Ringtones: Becoming part of the artists’ rollout process : Despite slowdown, tones to pull in $510M in revenue

In an industry that constantly looks for the next big thing, ringtones are yesterday's news. But the little snippets of music still generate billions...

iPhone App Store and Web apps a hit with users

iPhone 2.0 make waves with thousands of downloadable applications. Despite complaints from some users about iPhone 3G wireless connections, Apple Inc.

Apple faces lawsuit over wobbly 3G claims

An Alabama woman is suing Apple for claiming its latest iPhone offers 3G connectivity when she can't get connected most of the time, despite...

Alltel to plug SkyMail for businesses

Alltel Communications L.L.C. is teaming up with Pacific DataVision to offer a voice messaging system targeted at the business sector.SkyMail will be available across...

Nortel paying up to $10 million for DiamondWare

Nortel Networks ( NT ) said it's paying up to $10 million for DiamondWare, a provider of positional voice technology. It's paying $7 million...

Shaddock: another departure at Motorola

Rob Shaddock, leader of Motorola Inc.'s mobile devices consumer products group, since April, is leaving the company, Motorola confirmed today. In April, Shaddock had...

American Airlines launches Aircell service

Passengers on coast-to-coast American Airlines flights can now sit back and surf the Web.The world's largest airline said it has teamed up with Aircell...

Cox rattles wireless sword (again) but is short on details (again)

ASPEN, Colo. - The cable industry remains infatuated with wireless, yet details on how it plans to tackle the market remain murky.The latest to...

Complementary customers, technologies fuse STMicro-Ericsson tie-up

The pressures of the mobile chip business, plus a fit in products and customers, has driven Ericsson Mobile Platforms and ST Microelectronics-NXP Wireless to...

Palm, LG take different paths with new handsets

Divergent strategies for handset vendors are reflected in two launches announced today. Palm Inc. will sell its Treo Pro device unlocked and unsubsidized through...

iPhone in enterprise: Not quite ready for prime time

Believe it or not, CEOs still tell their I.T. managers to let them use whatever device they fancy, regardless of company standards for security...

Nuance still hungry, snaps up SNAPin Software in $180M deal

Nuance Communications Inc. isn't letting a tiff with Zi Corp. stand in the way of a good spending spree.The Burlington, Mass.-based speech recognition firm...
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