Yearly Archives: 2008

Mobile video to score $15B in revenue by ’12

Mobile video revenue will exceed $3.5 billion this year, driven by consumer demand for personalization and entertainment content on their mobile phones, according to...

Femtocell management to generate $360M in revenues

The fast-growing femtocell market will generate $360 million in revenues for companies that provide device and service management for femtocell networks, according to a...

Will U.S. consumers keep spending? On smartphones?: The year’s second act

The maturing U.S. handset market continued to chug along in the first half of the year - though slowing relative to years past -...

The First $1000 iPhone Application

iPhone developer Armin Heinrich has released an application for the iPhone with two noteworthy characteristics: 1) Its primary function is to display a handsome...

Financial ratings wrap-up: Alcatel-Lucent, Motorola, American Tower 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...

I want my m-TV free

If there's one lesson to be gleaned from all the mobile TV trials in the last year or so, it's that users aren't very...

Leap bullish on mobile broadband, posts lower ARPU

Leap Wireless International Inc. is planning to aggressively expand its broadband offering even as that buildout weighs down its financials. The carrier said it...

New cellphone health litigation surfaces in California court

A new health lawsuit has surfaced in California against T-Mobile USA Inc., Motorola Inc. and Samsung Telecommunications America Inc., the complaint coming after a...

Sierra Wireless diversifies enterprise, government offerings

Sierra Wireless Inc. has purchased the assets of Junxion Inc., to build on its delivery of mobile data solutions for enterprise and government, the...

Sybase Unveils New Mobility Platform, Software

The company announced a host of products that aim to unwire the enterprise.

AT&T launches voice for U-Verse

In San Antonio test market, customers can get voice, wireless, broadband and television services. AT&T is testing out its new U-Verse voice services by...

China Showcases TD-SCDMA at Olympics

Don’t expect your 3G phone to work at the 2008 Olympics Games , running August 8-24, 2008 in Beijing .

Touch Screen Nanos on the Way?

My colleague Olga Kharif quite succinctly walks you through in this blog all the reasons why its unlikely Apple in the next month or...

Apple’s Jobs says oops on MobileMe launch

The CEO acknowledges problems with the debut of MobileMe, and says the company has much more to learn about delivering Internet services.

GPS Device Makers Still Own The Road–For Now

Technology buffs have been quick to predict the death of personal navigation devices--those clunky little boxes in cars that call out driving directions in...

Delta to Offer Wireless Internet on Domestic Flights

Delta Air Lines announced today that it will begin offering wireless broadband Internet service on domestic flights as early as next month. Delta appears...

Playboy Names Ex-Maxim Editor to Head Up Digital Ops

Jimmy Jellinek to direct magazine's online, mobile content.

The OEM service strategy

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...

Infrastructure awards wrap-up: Redline, Aruba, ERF 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...

REVIEW: Don’t blame Sprint Nextel for slow mobile music adoption

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...

Unlimited calling dribbles into no-contract crowd

Just like Ronald Reagan claimed with his trickle-down economic plan, wireless customers are beginning to see unlimited offerings filter down to cheaper price points...

FCC OKs Verizon Wireless purchase of Rural Cellular

The Federal Communications Commissions gave the green light to Verizon Wireless' $2.67 billion purchase of Rural Cellular Corp., with the transaction and a separate...

Jha sets 90 days for review and action at Motorola: New handset CEO expects products on his watch to launch in a year

Sanjay Jha, the newly minted co-CEO of Motorola Inc. and designated turnaround artist for its handset division, told an audience of analysts and media...

MobiTV reaches 4 million mobile video subscribers

Mobile TV provider MobiTV said it now counts 4 million subscribers to its mobile video programming service. That's an increase from 3 million customers...

AT&T, VZW battle over international data offerings

Just in time for the 2008 Olympics set to kick off in China later this week the nation's two largest carriers expanded their international...
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