Monthly Archives: July, 2011

Canadian telecommunications provider Rogers Communications Inc. (RCI) rolled out the country’s first LTE network late last week, getting a jump on its rivals.The launch...

CoPilot from ALK technologies has been a major player in Android (and other platforms) navigation for a while now. ALK was the first firm to...

Communications service providers are fighting internal battles between their financial, IT and marketing departments that prevent them from deploying innovative plans that would help...

Hi, everyone! I’ve just started as editor-in-chief for Latin America region and this is my first post on Unplugged. I’m Brazilian and I live...

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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...

Telecom Italia's Brazilian mobile unit TIM Participações SA has bought telecommunications infrastructure operator AES Atimus Group from Companhia Brasiliana de Energia for R$ 1.6...

The number of Cubans using mobile phones was close to 1 million at the end of 2010, up from 621,000 in 2009 and 330,000...

Apple Inc. (AAPL) said the company is working to fix security flaws highlighted by the German Federal Office for Information Security (GFOIS) this week....

Verizon Wireless (VZ) didn't get Apple Inc.'s (AAPL) iPhone 4 until eight months after AT&T Mobility (T), but it now has 32% of all...

When the space shuttle Atlantis blasted off earlier today for the final mission of its kind in space, it was also carrying a first...

BOULDER, Colo. – Recently installed Federal Communications Commission Wireless Bureau Chief Rick Kaplan ventured out west this week to participate in a question and...

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...

Apple Inc. (AAPL) said the company is working to fix security flaws highlighted by the German Federal Office for Information Security (GFOIS) this week....

A teardown of HTC Corp.'s (HTCFX) ThunderBolt highlights the expense behind LTE phones, according to the IHS iSuppli Teardown Analysis Service. IHS said...

As a child I was enthralled with buffet restaurants. Here was a place where I could get a wide variety of all the salt-drenched food and ice cream I could possibly manage to shove down my pie hole for a single price. Sure, I did not actually have to pay anything since all of my disposable income at that time went towards more important things like candy and bottle rockets, but you get the point. The best part was always sticking my head under the ice cream machine and just letting it run.

Few companies have seen as much technology change across the mobile space than InterDigital Inc., which for nearly 40 years has had a hand...

Applications for smartphones that facilitate access to social networks is an important driver for increasing mobile devices sales, which has projected to grow more...

Brazilian carrier Net is expanding its broadband services by installing Wi-Fi hotspots in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. The project is still a...

Austin is known as the home of the South-by-Southwest (SXSW) festival, which has become one the premier tech culture events in the world.  When...

Dallas-based Texas Instruments Inc. (TXN) announced it has won the Femto Forum Femtocell Industry Award for “Enabling Technology” for its latest small cell base...

Huawei and IDEA, GSM mobile service operator in India, announced the successful launch of the first commercial MNP (mobile number portability) solution in India....

With more than half of 2011 behind us, Chetan Sharma Consulting is projecting the mobile industry to drive $1.3 trillion in activity by year's...

eBay Inc. (EBAY) has reached a deal to acquire Zong for $240 million in cash. The Menlo Park, Calif.-based company provides mobile payments...

Deutsche Telekom (DTEGY) is taking its machine-to-machine communications strategy seriously. So much so, that the German-based operator just inked an agreement with TeliaSonera (TLSNF)...