Yearly Archives: 2008

PLDT, Hutchison Whampoa Units Sign MVNO Deal in Italy

MANILA -(Dow Jones)- Philippine Long Distance Telephone Friday said a subsidiary has signed deals with two units of Hutchison Whampoa for a mobile virtual...

Will Americans ever call on mobile banking?

Carriers and financial institutions keep announcing mobile-banking and payment services, but so far, U.S. adoption is being dwarfed by that of developing nations, where...

Community features breathe new life into mobile games

Mobile games have never been a big money maker for wireless operators or the game developers themselves.

Mobile payments to hit $600B by 2013

The mobile payments market is expected to grow to more than $600 billion worldwide by 2013, according to predictions from Juniper Research's Mobile Payments...

UMDs set to outsell desktops, notebooks

Ultra-mobile computing devices could outsell desktop and notebook computers in the long term, and semiconductor companies are taking note of that trend, according to...

Asia-Pacific set to take over LBS revenue lead

North America currently dominates the location-based services market with 81% of LBS revenue in 2007. But the Asia-Pacific region is set to challenge that...

Venture capital financing wrap-up: Altair, Aricent and Transaction Wireless

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

MOBILE MIDDLEMEN: Firms step in to help enterprises deal with mobile management

A Texas-based company is using the Internet for businesses and consumers interested in finding out if they are paying too much for their wireless...

Broadcom notches another win against Qualcomm: Appeals court ruling favors Broadcom in patent infringement

Broadcom Corp. has won what may be the final round in its patent infringement case it filed three years ago against Qualcomm Inc.In a...

D-Block auction moves forward, but details still under discussion : Wall Street meltdown hangs over proceedings

The Federal Communications Commission voted to put in play a new 700 MHz auction plan to foster improved public-safety and commercial wireless broadband communications....

Legislation would force roaming in rural areas: Universal service debate reaches beyond FCC

Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), chairman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, introduced legislation to require telecom recipients of rural universal-service funds to provide...

Worst of the Week: Loyalty and smartphones

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...

Visa, Sprint Nextel move ahead on mobile commerce: Nokia phone to run Visa offerings for testing

Visa Inc. outlined a series of initiatives with three big-name partners in an effort to make mobile payment services "broadly available" to U.S. consumers...

T-Mobile USA removes 1 GB cap from G1’s data plan

T-Mobile USA Inc. has erased the worrisome fine print on the data-usage agreement related to its recently announced G1 phone, which the carrier unveiled...

Tower industry rulings ping pong in courts: Zoning, backup power, birds are only some of the issues facing tower owners

On the surface, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' decision to reverse a three-judge panel and hand San Diego County a surprise victory...

MySpace Rocks And Rolls With New Music Store

MySpace Rocks And Rolls With New Music Store

Bridging platforms in the mobile enterprise : Firm looks to close Apple-Microsoft gap

A new application created by a San Francisco-based company pledges to give enterprise workers with Apple Inc.'s 3G iPhones mobile access to Microsoft Corp.'s...

M2Z squares up against T-Mobile USA over AWS-3 interference tests

M2Z Networks Inc. said new test results demonstrate the Federal Communications Commission's wireless broadband plan will not lead to interference as mobile-phone carriers claim....

House members ask for extension on D-Block comments: Move could postpone 700 MHz re-auction past mid-2009

The government's goal of restructuring 700 MHz public-safety/commercial rules by year's end and conducting a re-auction in mid-2009 could be in jeopardy, with key...

Sony Ericsson set to launch music offering: Service seen as competitor to Nokia’s package

Sony Ericsson finally unveiled its response to Nokia Corp.'s Comes With Music service.The company outlined PlayNow plus, a hardware-and-content offering that will bundle as...

Motorola a tough competitor: Nokia CEO

Nokia Corp.'s CEO, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, isn't counting out rival Motorola Inc. Although Nokia has benefited as much as any company from Motorola's stumbles in...

M2M alliance seeks global harmony

Machine-to-machine companies around the world have banded together to form an alliance geared at providing a unified, seamless network across the globe for delivering...

For mobile users, texting tops talking

The typical U.S. mobile subscriber sends and receives more text messages than phone calls. In a finding that might benefit mobile marketing, Nielsen Mobile...

Cell phone can unlock car, start engine

TOKYO (AP) -- A new Japanese mobile phone will automatically unlock the doors of its owners' cars and let drivers start their engines without...

Financial ratings wrap-up: Nortel, Palm, 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.Handset and infrastructure vendors--R.W. Baird...
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