Monthly Archives: May, 2011

Bits & Bytes: Dept. of Homeland Security tests multi-band radio at Jazz Fest; FinnMob opens in NYC; and more

The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate will launch a 30-day pilot in the New Orleans area in partnership with...

Visa hints at 'significant' mobile commerce plans

Will Visa Inc. (V) have any surprises in store when it adopts a mobile commerce strategy? During an earnings call, the company's CEO told...

Worst of the Week: A white lie?

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...

NetQin stock tanks in public trading debut on NYSE

Beijing-based NetQin Mobile Inc.'s (NQ) stock is down almost 22% after its Thursday debut on the New York Stock Exchange.The mobile security provider's stock...

Wide data speed discrepancies discovered between European carriers

Wide discrepancies have been discovered between the quality and speed of data throughput performance across the mobile broadband networks of 94 carriers in 28...

U.S. Cellular to launch LTE by year end

Adding some bite to its LTE plans, regional operator U.S. Cellular Corp. (USM) said it now plans to launch LTE services covering more than...

Worst of the Week: A white lie?

I have always had a love-hate relationship with Apple and the products it produces. More to the point, I have less of a problem with the actual products and more of a problem with the price of those products and people that buy those products, religiously.

Alcatel-Lucent narrows Q1 loss

Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) narrowed its first-quarter loss driven by strong wireless sales in North America. However, the company's stock slid nearly 5% in trading...

Prepaid, connected devices provide glimmer of hope for T-Mobile USA

T-Mobile USA Inc. (DTEGY) continued to bleed customers during the first three months of the year as the proposed acquisition by AT&T Inc. lingers...

The LG Optimus 2X makes it official with Guinness

With all the crowing from PR agencies that their clients' products are "unique", "best in class" and "world's first" it's good to get an official stamp of verification, something LG has just received from the Guinness Book of Records for its (now officially) first dual core smartphone.

Amateur hour is over, declares RIM in new PlayBook campaign

With mixed reviews coming in for the BlackBerry PlayBook, one wouldn't think RIM would have much cause for overconfidence just yet, but according to adds splashed across the pages of the New York Times this morning, it appears the BlackBerry maker is brimming with bravado.

Spotlight on: Ortiva Wireless

The deployment of 3G services can be viewed as a turning point in the evolution of mobile networks as people began to realize that...

Samsung Galaxy 10.1v goes on sale in Australia

The original Tegra 2-packing, thicker Samsung Galaxy tab 10.1v announced at CES, complete with 8-MP camera is being launched as a limited edition by Vodafone, after Samsung scrapped the device in favor of a slimmer version sans camera.

Mexico stocks hurt as America Movil drops

MarketWatch | May 4, 2011 | Carla Mozee LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) — Mexican stocks dropped Wednesday, with shares of market heavyweight America Movil SAB extending...

China names chief officials for State Internet Information Office

BEIJING, May 4 (Xinhua) -- The State Council, or China's cabinet, has approved the appointment of four senior officials for the State Internet Information...

China sets up office for Internet information management

XinhuaNet | May 4, 2011 | Zhang Xiang BEIJING, May 4 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese government announced Wednesday the setting up of an office to...

Texas Venture Week kicks off at UT

The McCombs School of Business’s Texas Venture Labs launched its inaugural Venture Week on Wednesday with a conference at the University of...

Wibole pitches multi-hopping tech at Texas Venture Week

An upstart young Austin company hopes to solve a trillion-dollar problem for the wireless industry with its new multi-hopping technology. Vidur Bhargava,...

Should Austin strive to be Austin or Silicon Valley?

There was a lot of talk at the Texas Labs Venture Expo today about whether Austin should strive to be the next Silicon Valley,...

Apple addresses location data snafu with iOS update

Two weeks after it first came to light that Apple Inc.'s (AAPL) iPhones were potentially tracking users whereabouts in a hidden log file, Apple...

Nielsen numbers show iPad dominance slipping

A little while ago we discussed how analyst predictions about Apple's iPad dominating the tablet market for the next four to five years seemed broadly plausible, despite the historical inaccuracies of those same analyst's long-term forecasts. Today numbers released by research firm Nielsen indicate the iPad's inevitable slide may have already begun.

Almost half of latest smartphones boast a 1 GHz or faster processor

Almost half of the latest smartphones have a 1 GHz processor or faster according to a new report by Strategy Analytics.The report, which tracks...

SILICON VALLEY: Freescale challenges engineers to build walking robots and Tower Systems

Freescale Semiconductor used the Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose this week to announce its Make It Challenge design contest, which asks engineers to...

Mobile app store revenues set to jump 77.7% this year

The combined revenue of the four major mobile application stores is projected to jump nearly 80% this year, according to a new report from...
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