Monthly Archives: November, 2008

REVIEW: Amazon MP3 for Android nearly flawless

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Yay or Nay. Every week we'll review a new wireless application or service from the user's point...

Infrastructure awards wrap-up: Ceragon and ZTE

The following list details this week's infrastructure awards for the cellular, Wi-Fi, and WiMAX industries. The contracts are broken down by transmission technology, country...

Reports: Verizon Wireless fires those associated with Obama breach

Verizon Wireless has taken action against employees who improperly accessed President-elect Barack Obama's personal cellphone account, according to published reports. Last week, CEO Lowell...

Switching gears, CDMA community embraces LTE: Vendors react in wake of Qualcomm’s dismissal of UMB

The decision by Qualcomm Inc. to stop development of its Ultra Mobile Broadband technology does not mean CDMA is off to the scrap heap.With...

Changes in House, Senate leadership to reverberate through wireless policy: USF, consumer protection issues may be addressed

President-elect Barack Obama's thematic "change" mantra has infiltrated Capitol Hill, with a shakeup in the leadership of key House and Senate committees likely to...

Former Moto chief Zander backs Chicago software firm

Former Motorola Inc. CEO Edward Zander is backing a small Chicago videoconferencing software company.Zander recently joined the board of Integrated Communications Inc., or Iocom,...

Sprint Nextel picture messages now headed to MySpace, other sites: Carrier’s deal with VeriSign to enable service

Sprint Nextel Corp. is teaming with VeriSign Inc. to enable subscribers to send photos and videos from their phones to popular social media sites.The...

Analyst Angle: More bytes for a buck: The fallacy of spectral efficiency improvements

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...

Alcatel-Lucent Targets Large Enterprise

Alcatel-Lucent Monday unleashed a host of enhancements to its product line aimed at the large enterprise— updates that include key voice, data, unified communications...

Apple releases iPhone update

Apple has posted an update for the iPhone and iPod touch. The 2.2 version update adds several features to both devices, as well as...

Cellphone market gloom spreads to Samsung

SEOUL/HELSINKI (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics on Monday warned on cellphone market growth this year and next, the latest sign that weaker consumer confidence is...

Program your DVR from the road with TiVo Mobile

The new TiVo Mobile site provides programming searches and TiVo settings access from any Web-enabled smartphone.

Lenovo service disables laptops with text message

If a laptop is lost, now there's a new way to remotely shut it down: just text it.

Video: BlackBerry Storm flying off Verizon Wireless shelves

Verizon Wireless released Research In Motion Ltd.'s BlackBerry Storm this morning. Customers showed up early to get their...

New MySpace app shatters record for RIM downloads

More than 400,000 BlackBerry users have downloaded the new MySpace application, according to Research In Motion Ltd., shattering the record for applications in their...

Wap is dead

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their...

Wireless policies under scrutiny under Obama advisers

While it will be months before President-elect Barack Obama gets his administration in place and begins to roll out policy priorities, the selection of...

VZW employees on leave for looking at Obama cellphone records

Verizon Wireless has placed several employees on leave for accessing President-Elect Barack Obama's personal cellphone account, according to CEO Lowell McAdam.In a statement, McAdam...

Palm orders layoffs as Apple and RIM take toll

The job cuts come as Palm works to get its next-generation operating system ready to compete with Apple, RIM, and the rest of the...

Review: BlackBerry Storm – better for business than the iPhone?

BlackBerry's Storm may be an iPhone wannabe, but it's a powerful smart phone that will be particularly attractive to business users.. Is Research In...

Google Mobile for iPhone breaks App Store rules

Google added voice searching technology to its iPhone application by using techniques that are supposed to be off limits to third-party developers, according to...

LG Taps US Smartphone Market

Will LG's newest Incite smart phone save it from falling market shares in its key North American market?

Flash Coming to Android

Adobe has made its Flash technology compatible with the Android smartphone operating system developed by the Google-backed Open Handset Alliance . Adobe CTO Kevin...
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