LAS VEGAS – During last week’s Consumer Electronics Show, we planted ourselves at the Showstoppers Media Event. Kamyar Moinzadeh, CEO of Airbiquity Inc., filled us in on his company’s announcements …
With the machine-to-machine market projected to boom in the coming years, Numerex Corp. is finding a simple way to sell its services to potential customers: The “Numerex DNA” stands for …
Upon its filing for bankruptcy, the future for Nortel Networks Corp. looks cloudy, as analysts now speculate whether the company can stay in business, sell assets or even be bought …
This week AT&T Wireless sent a text message to a “significant number” of its 75 million customers, promoting the Tuesday premier of American Idol , a popular show where Americans …
iBeer in popularity any time soon, but this is big news for the App Store: Apple has quietly started allowing Web browser applications in.
The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.Carriers–Morgan Stanley downgraded Qwest Communications to equal weight from overweight after …
Attention mobile video entrepreneurs: One of the top executives at leading venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers is eager to find a mobile video company that offers “truly …
Airport newsstands sell porn. That’s what I think of whenever I hear skeptics talk about an over-hyped market for adult mobile content. It’s tough to imagine more difficult or awkward …
Privacy groups have stepped up their efforts in calling for federal regulation to rein in mobile marketing practices the organizations deem “unfair” and “deceptive” to handset users.The Center for Digital …
In about two weeks, when the world’s leading handset vendors deliver their earnings statements for fourth-quarter 2008, analysts will be expecting not just numbers but some critical commentary to understand …
President-elect Barack Obama plans this week to nominate former telecom policymaker and tech entrepreneur Julius Genachowski as the next chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, according to knowledgeable sources.Genachowski, a …
While there’s much talk in official Washington about including stimulus funding and incentives for broadband deployment (and more recently about setting aside a portion of the package’s $775 billion total …
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 of view, with the goal of …
The following list details this week’s infrastructure awards for the cellular, Wi-Fi, and WiMAX industries. The contracts are broken down by transmission technology, country and vendor. The value of the …
Public-safety organizations asked President-elect Barack Obama to exclude spectrum designated for first responders in any plan to delay the transition to digital television next month.The Obama-Biden transition team last week …
With its enterprise division looking increasingly solid – in contrast to its consumer handset division – Motorola Inc. said today it is launching a number of enterprise mobility products aimed …
Rural provider Open Range Communications can now fund its launch of WiMAX-based wireless broadband and voice, thanks to a new $100 million investment from One Equity Partners.In March of 2008, …
Few if any CEOs in the high-tech industry are as closely identified with their corporate brand as Steve Jobs is at Apple Inc.Thus the widespread interest in Jobs’ health and …
The Mobile Marketing Association has tapped former Nuance Communicatons Inc. executive Mike Wehrs to replace outgoing President Laura Marriott.Wehrs most recently served as VP of industry affairs and evangelism for …
The National Safety Council has called for a wholesale ban on motorist use of wireless devices, creating a public-relations dilemma for a cellphone industry that advocates safe driving and no …
The incoming administration may move faster than expected to put a tech team in place, given the unsettled state of the Federal Communications Commission and President-elect Obama’s desire to leverage …
In early 2005, catalog technology and services vendor Ecometry acquired Blue Martini, a provider of e-commerce platforms, contact center and marketing technology and services. In late 2006, order management and …
More than eighteen operators globally have announced LTE deployment plans with most set to launch in the 2011 or 2012 timeframe, according to ABI Research. The analyst firm said that …
AT&T CruiseCast announced pricing for its satellite video service for the car due in March, and said its service will also be offered to Avis/Budget rental cars customers in April.
