Yearly Archives: 2008

Verizon Wireless deepens enterprise efforts with Field Force Manager

Verizon Wireless is rolling out a new enterprise solution geared to increase worker productivity and decrease operational costs for its business customers.The country's second...

Nokia as Rorschach card: Investors reward results, then resume gloom: UBS notes Nokia’s one-time settlement to Qualcomm of $2.3B

Nokia Corp. posted a 5% drop in revenue and a 21% drop in operating profit over the year-ago quarter, but its profit margin remained...

Mobile search set for new growth spurt: Smartphones offer fertile ground for local business info

With the launch of Apple Inc.'s 3G-capable iPhone earlier this summer, along with a slew of other Web-ready smartphones topping consumers' wish lists, the...

Campaigning by phone: You ain’t seen nothing yet

Presidential candidates' use of mobile technologies to woo voters is just the beginning, panelists say..

Verizon and AT&T Provided Cell Towers for McCain Ranch

Senator's Wife Did Not Receive Favors, Campaign Says.

The Android fine print: kill switch and other tidbits

An uproar erupted when iPhone users discovered a so-called remote kill switch on their phones -- will it spur the same reaction in users...

Eclipse offers mobile development tools

Can import EclipseME and NetBeans projects. Seeking to establish Eclipse as the standard mobile development platform, the Eclipse Foundation on Wednesday offered the first...

3G buildouts tied to spectrum availability: T-Mobile USA, Leap moves ahead with AWS-1 launches

Wireless industry professionals always seem to be wearing hard hats. Whether building new phones, constructing monthly plans or remodeling ever-faulty customer service options, carriers...

AT&T Mobility looks beyond handsets: Carrier appoints president of new division focused on non-traditional devices

Thanks to a new executive position, AT&T Mobility is attempting to expand the range of gadgets its network interacts with - and counter similar...

Survey: Sprint Nextel scores customer service win: Pali Research finds carrier quickest in answering customer service calls

Sprint Nextel Corp.'s luck may be changing, at least in terms of customer service. According to recent survey results conducted by Pali Research, Sprint...

REVIEW: A bit raw, Beyond411 provides some useful results

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...

A silver lining for developers

Like gold bullion, Treasury bonds and the booze industry, the new mobile application stores that are beginning to surface may actually benefit from Wall...

Nov. 4 action: FCC to vote on VZW-Alltel, Sprint-Clearwire, TV white spaces and more: AWS-3 auction likely won’t be up for discussion

Election Day 2008 is shaping up as monumental for the wireless industry.The Federal Communications Commission is poised to vote Nov. 4 on the Sprint...

Coors sued for $12.5 million over iPhone app: Developer claims brewer and agency infringed on its iBeer feature

The Cannes Silver Lion-winning iPint application for beer brand Carling is the target of a $12.5 million lawsuit against parent Molson Coors Brewing Co....

Ecobee thermostat has a Wi-Fi connection

Here's a way to control the temperature in your house from far, far away. The Ecobee "Smart Thermostat" has all the stuff you'd expect...

Financial Crisis Slams Retail, Manufacturing

Weak retail sales reports and a drop in the Empire State index confirm the credit market crisis has spread at home

Location-based iPhone Apps top 300

A while back, I noted that where you compute was becoming as important as what you compute . Now that App Store has been...

Nokia Adds Fox News To Its Media Network

A&E Network, Bio Channel, History Channel, and Hollywood Reporter also are now onboard Nokia's ad network to target cell phone users.

Wi-Fi: 1 Billion Served by 2012

According to researcher In-Stat , shipments of consumer electronics devices embedded with Wi-Fi could reach nearly 1 billion by 2012. More than 294 million...

Researchers expect hackers to prey on cell phones

Some of the most vicious Internet predators are hackers who infect thousands of PCs with special viruses and lash the machines together into "botnets"...

Wireless carrier Q3 forecasts mixed, but stable: Sprint Nextel expected to remain buzzkill

The third quarter has been busy: AT&T Mobility Inc. released the 3G iPhone; Sprint Nextel Corp. said that its iDEN network may be...

Mobile TV uptake falling short

Spending on mobile broadcast TV services is expected to reach only $2.7 billion by 2013, less than previous forecasts indicated, according to Juniper Research....

Wi-Fi-equipped CE devices could hit 1B by 2012

Shipments of consumer electronics devices embedded with Wi-Fi technology could reach nearly 1 billion by 2012, according to new research from In-Stat.More than 294...

Financial ratings wrap-up: AT&T, Broadcom, Alvarion 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--Barclays Capital lowered its price...
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