Yearly Archives: 2008

Alltel to plug SkyMail for businesses

Alltel Communications L.L.C. is teaming up with Pacific DataVision to offer a voice messaging system targeted at the business sector.SkyMail will be available across...

Ringtones: Becoming part of the artists’ rollout process : Despite slowdown, tones to pull in $510M in revenue

In an industry that constantly looks for the next big thing, ringtones are yesterday's news. But the little snippets of music still generate billions...

Study: base station market set for revival

A new report from Informa Telecoms & Media predicts the struggling mobile base station market could be revived by mobile data traffic demands by...

Shaddock: another departure at Motorola

Rob Shaddock, leader of Motorola Inc.'s mobile devices consumer products group, since April, is leaving the company, Motorola confirmed today. In April, Shaddock had...

American Airlines launches Aircell service

Passengers on coast-to-coast American Airlines flights can now sit back and surf the Web.The world's largest airline said it has teamed up with Aircell...

Cox rattles wireless sword (again) but is short on details (again)

ASPEN, Colo. - The cable industry remains infatuated with wireless, yet details on how it plans to tackle the market remain murky.The latest to...

Complementary customers, technologies fuse STMicro-Ericsson tie-up

The pressures of the mobile chip business, plus a fit in products and customers, has driven Ericsson Mobile Platforms and ST Microelectronics-NXP Wireless to...

Palm, LG take different paths with new handsets

Divergent strategies for handset vendors are reflected in two launches announced today. Palm Inc. will sell its Treo Pro device unlocked and unsubsidized through...

iPhone in enterprise: Not quite ready for prime time

Believe it or not, CEOs still tell their I.T. managers to let them use whatever device they fancy, regardless of company standards for security...

Nuance still hungry, snaps up SNAPin Software in $180M deal

Nuance Communications Inc. isn't letting a tiff with Zi Corp. stand in the way of a good spending spree.The Burlington, Mass.-based speech recognition firm...

By the Numbers: Top Ten U.S. Wireless Service Providers

The companies listed below represent the ten largest national and regional licensed wireless carriers based on subscriber numbers at the end of the second...

Top 5 things to know about SMS advertising

If you want a marketing platform that offers reach, ease of entry, targeting and interactivity, then text marketing has it all.

WiMAX Brings the Internet to the Monasteries of Mount Athos

Greece's OTE has announced that its pilot WiMAX network in Mount Athos is now operational. In total, six WiMAX base stations have already been...

Net companies prepare for political conventions (and parties)

Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo are all offering ways to follow the Democratic and Republican conventions online. They are facilitating the conventions in a number...

Stations to Organize More Mobile-DTV Tests

Open Mobile Video Coalition to work with Advanced Television Systems Committee to speed standards process.

Mobile Ad Spending Set to Soar

How high it will climb depends on how the market is sized.

How to build a killer mobile database

Every year is the "year of mobile." There have been expectations from the outset for this advertising platform to revolutionize the industry, and if...

Financial ratings wrap-up: Leap, AT&T, Novatel 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--Lehman Brothers dropped its estimates...

Short-sighted royalty structure dings music biz again

It's no secret that the recording industry is increasingly looking to mobile to offset plummeting revenues from CDs and other physical goods. But sometimes...

Survey: Home is where the wireless data card is

Many people aren't leaving home when it comes to accessing the Internet using a wireless data card, according to a new report by Nielsen...

YouTube serves up ads to ‘millions’ of mobile users

Google Inc. is toying with display ads on its popular YouTube mobile site.The dominant online player said is has begun placing marketing messages on...

Investors punish Zi for reticence in Nuance transaction

Nuance Communications Inc. went on the offensive in its effort to acquire Zi Corp., calling Zi's unwillingness to enter negotiations "perplexing and inappropriate."Nuance, a...

Getting from here to there

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...

Itron to use AT&T network for meter monitoring

Itron Inc. will use AT&T Mobility Inc. to help utility companies improve business metrics. Itron plans to deliver its advanced meter infrastructure (AMI) solution...

REVIEW: USA Today Election seems insufficient for the hardcore

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...
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