Yearly Archives: 2008

Microsoft and Harrah’s unveil high-tech interactive bar table

LAS VEGAS — Microsoft and Harrah's Entertainment introduced a high-tech interactive bar table Wednesday that lets patrons order drinks, watch YouTube videos, play touch-screen...

Beijing prepares for ‘High-tech Olympics’

All over Beijing, Olympic countdown clocks tick off the seconds that China has awaited for seven years: the moments until Aug. 8, 2008, at...

Accessories will pump up the tunes on your cellphone

Music lovers, listen up. Buying a portable music player is so, well, 2003. If you carry a cellphone, and chances are you do, then...

Conservationists call for freeze on tower registrations

Conservationists called for a freeze on all tower registrations and re-registrations until the Federal Communications Commission complies with environmental statutes at issue in a...

Nortel to pursue LTE, passes WiMAX business to Alvarion: WiMAX patent holders team to spur market amid industry upheavals

The pace of action on the world's infrastructure stage has increased over the past several months, with a number of major carriers announcing...

Mobile marketing execs push for simplicity

NEW YORK - The key to moving the needle in mobile advertising? Make it easier for would-be advertisers to spend money on the stuff.That...

Verizon Wireless apes Alltel’s MyCircle with new small businesses calling plan

Verizon Wireless appears to have been inspired by the company it is currently working to acquire.Just days after the carrier proposed purchasing Alltel Communications...

Enterprise 2.0: Oracle Plans New Business Apps, With A Social Twist

The forthcoming apps from Oracle mirror the look and feel of Web 2.0 social networking services -- including MySpace and Facebook.

Nokia Siemens Sells its Fibre Optics Division to Private Equity Group

Belgian private equity group, GIMV has brought the entire Open Transport Network (OTN) division at Nokia Siemens Networks for a undisclosed amount.

Free Wi-Fi Service for Affordable Housing in San Francisco

Meraki, a municipal Wi-Fi provider has announced it will

WiFi in the Sky Means Big Bucks for Airlines

Airlines can't afford to spend money on much of anything beyond fuel these days, but that's not stopping them from pouring cash into the...

Mobile Broadcast TV, a Successful Business Model with the Right Approach

A first for European consumers, free mobile TV is landing on their fingertips as 3 Italia starts offering free mobile broadcast TV, based on...

Verizon announces trio of LG devices for summer

I guess you have no choice but to announce a few handsets that have been leaked all over the place or it was all...

Apple App Store A $1.2 Billion Business In 2009

The iPhone install base will balloon and users will download at least two applications next year, according to a Piper Jaffray assessment.

Financial ratings wrap-up: Verizon, AT&T, Apple 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--R.W. Baird raised its 2009...

Text messaging makes magazine ads interactive

The push to make magazine pages more interactive is building mass and, dare we say it, even real momentum as major publishers and advertisers...

Making live music mobile

Concerts are nothing new on mobile. Sprint Nextel Corp. aired the first concert on mobile in 2005 with a huge marketing push behind a...

Paths crisscrossing on mobile playground

Two big mobile players made headlines in the past few days, but they seem to be headed in very different directions.Apple once again displayed...

Hurdles remain for VZW’s planned acquisition of RCC : Vermont remains sticking point

The Justice Department's agreement to let Verizon Wireless purchase Rural Cellular Corp. so long as the No. 2 mobile-phone carrier sells off a handful...

Patent decision could have wide-ranging impact: Qualcomm downplaying significance of decision

Qualcomm Inc. is downplaying a Supreme Court decision that restricts the ability of a patent holder to continue to collect royalties after an invention...

AT&T Mobility, T-Mobile USA in dustup over Wi-Fi at Starbucks

AT&T Mobility and T-Mobile USA Inc. have exchanged lawsuits claiming the other has breached agreements related to the carriers' providing Wi-Fi access in Starbucks...

UTStarcom offloads infrastructure biz

UTStarcom Inc.'s infrastructure business has gone private. The company, which also makes a range of cellphones, has sold its mobile solutions business unit to...

REVIEW: ChaCha’s answers much better than anticipated

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...

Moto wireless partner sues tech giant over streaming video

A Wisconsin-based startup that once partnered with Motorola Inc. to help it patent wireless-camera technology is suing Moto for fraud, patent infringement and breach...

Sprint Nextel, Verizon Wireless gear up for summer PTT battle: Push to talk set for a renaissance

The once hotly contested push-to-talk market appears set for a competitive resurgence as the nation's two largest CDMA carriers are rolling out new PTT...
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