Yearly Archives: 2008

Trapeze expands with Newbury acquisition: Deal expected to strengthen mobile enterprise offering

Looking to expand its enterprise-focused wireless network solution, Trapeze Networks said it has acquired Newbury Networks.Trapeze said the deal will allow it to combine...

REVIEW: Planning help for those on the go . today

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...

Marketers have opportunity with ‘short code’ mobile messages

A new white paper from Nielsen Mobile notes an emerging opportunity for marketers in "short code" marketing, whereby companies and their customers can interact...

Troubles mount for Nortel : Moody’s downgrades, while New York Stock Exchange warns of delisting

Nortel Networks Corp. has taken another hit as Moody's Investors Service has downgraded the beleaguered company's ratings.The investor service company said Monday that it...

In-flight Internet arrives on Delta Air Lines

Following American Airlines and Virgin America, Delta Air Lines will become the latest airline to offer in-flight Internet service to its customers.The airline, which...

Brrr: LTE standard is frozen, finally!

And finally, the moment you’ve all been waiting for: the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) has frozen the specifications for LTE, with final formal...

Accessorizing Is Hot Spot For Consumer Electronics

This holiday season, many consumers will buy something nice for the ones they love. Not for people, mind you, but their favorite electronic gadgets....

Study: Mobile phones to be primary Internet device by 2020

Voice-activation and touch technology will be common, Pew study finds. By 2020, mobile phones will be the primary Internet devices for most people in...

Mobile phone market to shrink in 2009

Mobile phones sales will shrink next year at their fastest pace ever as consumers cut spending, a Reuters poll showed, with analysts increasingly concerned...

Apple will unveil netbooks next month, says analyst

Tough economic times demand a lower-priced system, but Apple won't want to cannibalize MacBook sales. Apple Inc. will introduce two netbooks at the MacWorld...

Taiwan’s Mitac to buy Magellan’s consumer GPS group

Looking to beef up its GPS product line, Mitac International has agreed to buy the consumer products division of GPS maker Magellan Navigation for...

Mobile Firefox coming to Symbian

Code-named Fennec, the browser will use the same technology as the desktop version, including its HTML rendering engine called Gekko.

No need for a map with iPhone’s ski app

Pushing the touch screen can be a chilly task, however, since the iPhone touchscreen doesn't work with typical gloves.

Pandora hits Windows Mobile

It's been a long time coming, but Pandora Media just announced that Pandora is now available for Windows Mobile smartphones-at least in a limited...

Ad spend down 1.7% through Q3

Total measured ad expenditures in the first nine months of '08 declined 1.7% compared with the same period in 2007. And ad spend during...

Anti-radiation phone chip withdrawn from sale

Do you remember our E-Waves anti-radiation chip story from last week? Well, the retailer behind the device has since withdrawn it from sale because...

Will Zune do Windows Mobile? Looks likely

It might not be the legendary "Zune phone," but you can bet on the convergence in the near future.

Blackberry unveiled in SKorea for corporate use

Canada's Research in Motion and South Korea's SK Telecom announced Tuesday the launch of corporate service for the Blackberry Bold smartphone, which will be...

Infrastructure awards wrap-up: Airspan, AirWave, Ericsson and more

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...

Making mobile’s math work

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...

Steve Jobs won’t keynote Macworld

Apple dropped its bombshell announcement in a press release issued late this afternoon. The PR is about Macworld Expo 2009 being Apple's last.

Best Buy 3Q profit sinks, offers staff buyouts

MINNEAPOLIS - Best Buy says its third-quarter profit sank and says it will offer buyout packages to nearly all its corporate employees in an...

Study: Memory cards to dominate cellphone accessory sales

Memory cards are proving to be the largest revenue generator of all mobile handset accessories, despite shipping fewer units than other accessories like chargers...

Investment firm frowns at AT&T, Verizon: Goldman Sachs worries over revenue from enterprise

Goldman Sachs is no longer recommending investors "buy" into AT&T Inc. The research firm downgraded AT&T to "neutral" and cut the company's share price...
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