Yearly Archives: 2008

Voice Is A Bump On Road To Wireless

May 24, 2008 12:01 AM (From the May 26, 2008 issue)

Rollout: AirWave’s WLAN Management Suite Put To The Test

May 24, 2008 12:01 AM (From the May 26, 2008 issue)

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Tracking FidoZoombak L.L.C. announced its GPS location application for dogs is now available at PetSmart stores nationwide. The Zoombak Advanced GPS Dog Locator uses...

Hedgehogging: hedge*hog*ging v. Interrupting conversations in an office environment by poking your head over the top of the cube

It seems there's more than one way to spread the love. Earlier this year on American Idol, host Ryan Seacrest devoted way too much...

Regulating the wireless beast

Federal regulators - in Congress and at the Federal Communications Commission - increasingly seem fed up with wireless service providers. Ironically, it is the...

Big movies on the small screen: Industry struggles with pushing movies to mobile

A handful of mobile players are trying to cram the silver screen onto the third screen. But whether there's a business case to be...

FCC may auction another 25 MHz of spectrum: ‘AWS III’ licensee could be required to provide free service

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin scheduled a vote on rules for another major spectrum auction, one that would encompass 25 megahertz in the...

Game developers look to tap community support: Cross-platform functionality may help mobile gaming grow beyond niche

While a tiny handful of entrenched mobile game makers cement their place at the top of the industry, a small army of startups are...

Moto’s global contraction matched by Chinese expansion: New study charts handset and chip markets for last two years

As Motorola Inc.'s growth sharply contracted between 2006 and 2007, four Chinese handset vendors were among the fastest growing in the business, although at...

The other transition date

Remember private land mobile radio services regulated by Part 90 rules of the Federal Communications Commission? I've probably lost most of you already, seeing...

Carriers look to a variety of channels to balance customer care: Alternative options

In the huge universe of wireless communications comes a world of confusion. It's common knowledge that customers have issues with their phones, service, new...

Iphone 2.0 To Incorporate Photo Geotagging

You can add one more geotagging method to our How to Geotag Your Photos post last week. Soon the iPhone will do it for...

Craigslist tops U.S. mobile browsing

Mobile Web surfers in the US spend more time on classified-ad site Craigslist than on any other Web site, and they spent nearly twice...

The World’s Most Expensive Cellphones

There is no cellphone more anticipated this year than the next generation of the Apple iPhone. But for some high rollers, the ultimate iPhone...

3 UK Bets on Mobile Gambling

Mobile operator 3 UK is giving the term mobile wallet a whole new meaning. The company has agreed to pre-install a link to Probability's...

Elgan: In search of the super easy super-phone

We like to complain about cell phone complexity, but secretly we want more features, not fewer. MIT Media Lab founder Nicholas Negroponte recently railed...

Venture capital financing wrap-up: Moblyng, Qosmos and SmartSynch

The following list includes venture capital and other investments into wireless companies announced during the past week. The value of the investment is included...

Nokia’s XpressMusic phone lands at T-Mobile USA

Nokia Corp. took another baby step to pry open the U.S. market with an announcement that its 5310 XpressMusic phone would sell at T-Mobile...

Sprint Nextel sets June 20 as release date for Instinct: Carrier’s flagship phone may run up against 3G iPhone hype

Sprint Nextel Corp. plans to begin selling its touchscreen Instinct phone through its retail outlets on June 20, a date that may put the...

M2M provider picks Blueslice to aid roaming efforts

Wireless Maingate, a machine-to-machine company in Europe, has chosen Blueslice Networks to provide its ngHLR 3000T to help Maingate with roaming and other applications.Blueslice...

Study: M2M market to see 80M module shipments by 2013

The market for cellular machine-to-machine communications modules is expected to grow to nearly 80 million shipments in 2013, according to a new study from...

FCC, Verizon Wireless proposal on ETFs may be DOA: Wireless industry hopes for federal preemption of state regulation

An initial effort spearheaded by Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin and Verizon Wireless to secure support from leading consumer groups to give subscribers...

Health lawsuit charging consumer fraud linked to brain-cancer litigation

Despite being less of a target in recent years, the cellphone industry remains entangled in health-related litigation that could turn on how the District...

Qualcomm backs mobile giving foundation

Qualcomm Inc. is backing an industry association that aims to create a "mobile giving channel" for nonprofits looking to raise money via text messaging.The...

Verizon Wireless ranks No. 1 with enterprises in J.D. Power survey

Verizon Wireless continues to please its business customers, both big and small. According to the J. D Power and Associates 2008 Business Wireless Satisfaction...
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