Yearly Archives: 2008

Venture capital financing wrap-up: Send Word Now, Transaction Wireless, Zvents and more

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

Two wireless broadband players, two different plans: TowerStream targets enterprises in big cities, DigitalBridge seeks consumers in rural markets

CHICAGO - Two companies have succeeded in utilizing pre-WiMAX technology to build successful businesses that target different customers in the United States. TowerStream and...

Insurance provider uses M2M to lower auto rates: Telit, Xirgo team with Progressive to track driver habits

Progressive Group of Insurance Companies is using a cellular device to help responsible drivers reduce their insurance premiums.Progressive's innovative MyRate program may not be...

iPlayer goes mobile

Nokia launches its new flagship mobile handset, the N96, today, and as well as impressive photo, gaming and video functionality, users can also run...

Obama Campaign Launches iPhone App

Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign has launched an iPhone application that enables supporters to communicate with each other and consume breaking news, reports The...

Nokia’s first touchscreen to face stiff Q4 competition: 5800 XpressMusic to feature Comes With Music, arriving in U.S. next year

After months of hinting at the device, the world's largest handset maker unveiled its answer to Apple Inc.'s iPhone with the inspiringly named 5800...

Xohm exec details WiMAX pricing strategy, discusses usage rules

CHICAGO - Day two of WiMAX World 2008 brought Atish Gude, senior VP of mobile broadband operations for Sprint Nextel Corp.'s Xohm effort, to...

Courts differ on billing litigation against AT&T Mobility, VZW: Texting class actions now total 16

Federal courts on opposite sides of the country came to different conclusions in billing litigation against Verizon Wireless and AT&T Mobility, while the number...

Congress opens up Washington’s subways to GSM carriers

Wireless competition may soon be coming to the throngs of subway riders who comprise official Washington. A bill passed by Congress and en route...

Leap ditches Jump prepaid service, intros daily PayGo offering

Leap Wireless International Inc. juggled its offerings with the launch of its new PayGo prepaid service, which will replace its previously offered Jump prepaid...

Switch to wireless-only continues: J.D. Power survey find more than one-fourth of wireless customers have cut the cord

More Americans are continuing to pull the plug on their landline telephone service in favor of using cellular phones, according to a recent report...

Worst of the Week: Simpler times for simple minds

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...

Clearwire CEO pushes WiMAX’s promise: In exclusive interview, Wolff promises lower prices for WiMAX kit

CHICAGO - Clearwire Corp. CEO Ben Wolff stepped onto the WiMAX World stage in front of a packed house Wednesday morning. As audience members...

WiMAX World: Seeing the light

CHICAGO - "We live in a visual world." The comment, from Dan Moloney at Motorola, quickly summarizes how WiMAX services can change the world....

ReVerb introduces VirtualRAN

ReVerb Networks, a smart antenna and network optimization company, introduced its VirtualRAN family of products at WiMAX World this week.The products address the demand...

Moto unveils interop testing program

Motorola Inc. launched its WiMAX interoperability testing (IOT) program, which is available at its facilities in Arlington Heights, Ill., and at its new lab...

Moto lawsuit claims trade secrets smuggled to China

Motorola Inc. filed a lawsuit accusing five ex-employees and a small IP-based wireless software firm of conspiring to steal trade secrets and smuggle them...

Nitronex transistors operate at 5 GHz

Nitronex, which makes gallium nitride on silicon RF power transistors for the wireless industry, said it expanded the performance data of its 28V, 5W...

Divona chooses Juniper for backhaul

Juniper Networks announced a contract win with Divona Telecom, a satellite and WiMAX operator in Africa. The carrier will use Juniper Networks' MXseries Ethernet...

100 WiMAX deployments and counting, despite downturn in economy

CHICAGO - WiMAX vendors, chipmakers and operators are all ready to take on the wireless market at a time when economic hardship has shocked...

Vecima equipment operates at higher frequencies

Vecima announced its VistaMAX series has been expanded to include the 3.65 and 5.8 GHz frequency bands. The VistaMAX family includes WiMAX-compliant outdoor subscriber...

Neotel to use 4Motion solution

Alvarion Ltd. said it won a contract in Macedona with wireless Internet service provider Neotel that calls for it to supply its 4Motion solution...

Connor-Winfield receiver targets WiMAX

Connor-Winfield announced a new compact GPS timing receiver designed specifically for WiMAX applications.The TiMax Wi125 is part of the company's TiMax Global Timing product...

PMC-Sierra devices target WiMAX

PMC-Sierra Inc. added four new multiband devices to its WiZIRD family ofWiMAX RF IC solutions targeted at broadband wireless subscriber equipment.The new devices allow...

DesignArt shows SoC platform

DesignArt Networks, a fabless semiconductor company, announced its DAN2400 WiMAX System on a Chip platform.The company said a family of single-chip base and relay...
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