Yearly Archives: 2008

Cricket launches AWS-equipped Razr V3s

Leap Communications International Inc. subsidiary Cricket Communications Inc. added another version of Motorola Inc.'s venerable Razr handset to its lineup with the V3s that...

MediaFLO makes room for X Games

ESPN and MediaFLO USA Inc. launched a dedicated channel to bring X Games coverage to mobile users.EXPN, as the offering is dubbed, will deliver...

Private equity chases Huawei’s chance to grow: Domestic Chinese vendor offers smart money a foot in the door

Private equity's avid interest in Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd.'s handset business is based on Huawei's opportunities for significant growth and as a means to...

Start-up pushes for mobile banking among poor in Latin America

Wireless banking also poised for growth in U.S.. Mobile banking isn't as popular in the U.S. as banks had hoped, although new smart phones...

Thrrum’s MMS Visual Search Spreads to T-Mobile and Verizon

Today, Thrrum announced that its MMS search product is now available to subscribers of T-Mobile's and Verizon Wireless's networks. If you see something that...

Virgin Mobile USA treads a quirky path to success

Virgin Mobile USA (VM) definitely walks to its own, very hip drumbeat.

Financial ratings wrap-up: AT&T, Verizon, Syniverse 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--Standard & Poor's withdrew its...

AT&T Mobility, Nokia accused of selling used phone in class action

The top U.S. wireless provider and the world's leading handset maker have been named defendants in a class action lawsuit alleging a used cellphone...

Forecast: partly cloudy

The iPhone App Store stole headlines last week, but it's the ever-growing cloud above that ultimately will be more important to developers of mobile...

Palm sprints to stay in race, Treo 800w arrives at Sprint Nextel

Sprint Nextel Corp. and Palm Inc. are pushing hard for enterprise customers with their new Treo 800w, the first Palm device to offer Wi-Fi...

EU to look at SMS roaming charges

Following a plea to mobile service providers that fell on deaf ears, the European Commission is hoping to mandate lower prices for SMS roaming.The...

New cellphone tax break proposed

A tax holiday may be in the future for wireless providers and the nation's 262 million cellphone users after all. Sens. Ron...

REVIEW: Makayama’s Media Studio brings ‘Simpsons’ to the smallest screen

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...

FCC to look at in-market roaming issues

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin signaled the agency is prepared to fix a roaming snag faced by wireless providers delayed in constructing networks...

Mobispine looks to jumpstart RSS space with NewsAlloy acquisition

Mobile news aggregator Mobispine AB said it has acquired NewsAlloy, a Web-based feed reader, for an undisclosed sum.A Sweden-based startup, Mobispine offers a free,...

Mobile commerce company Mpayy lands second round of funding

Mobile payments services provider Mpayy Inc. has received a second round of financing from its current investors. Financing was led by US Bancorp.

Wholesale prices jump, retail sales are weak in June

WASHINGTON (AP) — Soaring costs for gasoline and food pushed inflation at the wholesale level up 1.8% in June, pushing inflation the past year...

CNBC: Korean carrier in talks to buy Sprint

South Korea's SK Telecom Corp. is in talks to buy struggling U.S. wireless carrier Sprint Nextel Corp., business news channel CNBC reported Tuesday An...

For teens, the future is mobile

Marketing firm Fuse talks to Sony, MTV Networks, Yahoo, and Nokia to find out what the future of technology will look like for the...

Why TV Just Won’t Die

Those who predict the imminent death of TV might have to wait awhile. There's still a vast swath of land -- commonly known as...

YouTube, Viacom agree to anonymize viewer data

NEW YORK — The video-sharing site YouTube will be allowed to mask the identities of individual users when it provides viewership records to Viacom...

Infrastructure awards wrap-up: Nokia Siemens Networks, Ceragon and DragonWave

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...

The race is on, but we already know the winners

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...

Apple: Thanks a million!: Big numbers on 21-country iPhone 3G launch

The iPhone 3G’s “opening weekend” — get used to the movie lingo in this context — saw “one million devices sold” in 21 countries,...

Auctions unlikely until 2009: New president, Congress in place by time AWS, D-Block bids begin

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION CHAIRMAN KEVIN MARTIN said it will be hard to hold either the D-Block re-auction or advanced wireless services-3 bidding this year...
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