Yearly Archives: 2010

Reality Check: Creating applications ‘home field advantage'

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...

Election Day 2010 – another failed opportunity for mobile

Today is the Super Bowl of politics — in a way. Election Day 2010.Every major event like this presents brilliant minds with an opportunity...

Contracts: Alvarion equips Linkem; Bell Aliant chooses Genband; and more

Following are infrastructure contracts announced during the past week:AlvarionItaly: With Linkem Spa to supply an end-to-end 4G network including radio access, core network, end...

Reality Check: Wholesale … more exciting than you think

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...

Carlyle Group to pay $2.6B for Syniverse

Fresh off its announced purchase of CommScope Inc., the Carlyle Group announced plans to buy Syniverse Technologies in a $2.6 billion deal, and take...

Betting on Facebook’s mystery mobile event

Will the social network be announcing the much-hyped-but-even-more-debunked Facebook phone? Will the big news be all about an iPad app, or other types of new mobile apps? Will developers be salivating at news of a new Facebook mobile SDK? Or will Foursquare be put into check by Facebook Places announcing special retail deals?

Intel teams up with Chunghwa Telecom on smart TVs

Intel has been banging on about “smart TVs” for donkey’s years, but it seems it may actually be ready to put its rather huge sums of money where its mouth is, in a new joint venture with Taiwanese giant Chunghwa Telecom Co.

Boost Mobile promotes bill shrinkage with a giant

Boost Mobile customers have a new reason to pay their bills on time. In a new ad campaign that features a 20-foot tall giant,...

Sequans looking to raise up to $80M in IPO?

Sequans Communications reportedly has its eyes on an initial public offering in the United States to raise up to $80 million.The Paris-based chipset maker,...

Android vs. iOS: the latest in numbers

There are two wars — each filled with countless battles — taking place in the world of smart phones: market shares for operating systems...

Online job report: Mobile programmers in demand

There is no slowdown in the demand for mobile application programmers, according to the most recent online jobs report from Elance, an online jobsite...

Clearwire launches WiMAX in New York, expands coverage to 82M

Clearwire Corp. (CLWR) made good on its previous announcement to launch its WiMAX network in New York City today, as well as markets in...

T-Mobile USA set to roll out tiered data plans

T-Mobile USA Inc. is set to jump on the increasingly popular tiered data plan bandwagon saying it will launch an entry-level bucket of data...

Assurance touts high unemployment in Mississippi as it rolls out service: Introduces two new pricing options for low-income users

Assurance Wireless cited the dismal employment statistics in Mississippi as it launched its subsidized wireless service in the state, the 12th state where the...

Maps and Wave creator leaves Google for Facebook

Lars Rasmussen, the engineer behind Google Maps and later Google Wave, has left Google for pastures new. Like a great number of ex-Googlers these days, those new pastures are Facebook.

Reader Forum: LTE: Mobile data traffic savior or accelerator?

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this forum...

Reader Forum: The ABCs of the M2M switch: Machine-to-Machine (M2M) turns the wireless business model upside down

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this forum...

Movers and Shakers: MMA elects board members; WCA honors Shakouri

The Mobile Marketing Association announced its 2011 North American board of directors. The newly elected board members include, John Styers, vice president of...

ZTE lands latest certificate for U.S. security standards

ZTE Corp. announced that it has received U.S. government security approval for its network infrastructure, making it the first Chinese vendor to receive the...

Security threats mount with smart phone adoption

Editor's Note: This article originally appeared in our September Special Edition, Behind the Scenes, a focus on integrated subscriber and network management systems. To...

Verizon Wireless to make $25M payment for billing error

Verizon Wireless (VZ) said it has agreed to a “voluntary payment” of $25 million to the U.S. Treasury to settle an investigation into inaccurate...

Worst of the Week: What’s in a name?

Hello! And welcome to our Friday column, Worst of the Week. There's a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so...

Worst of the Week: What's in a name?

Hello! And welcome to our Friday column, Worst of the Week. There's a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so...

Bits and Bytes: Linux groups merge; TAM Airlines offers in-flight mobile; and more

The Linux Foundation and the CE Linux Forum announced they will merge, resulting in the CE Linux Forum becoming a technical workgroup at The...

RCR Wireless News brings global mobile broadband perspective to Dallas: RCR TV to broadcast live discussion on mobile broadband with global and local leaders

How are mobile broadband deployments impacting North Texas consumers and businesses? Join RCR Wireless News, the wireless industry news leader since 1981, online and...
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