Nortel Network Corp's decision to shut down its mobile WiMAX division not only hurt Alvarion Ltd.'s 2008 bottom line but its severed agreement will linger this year and may result in a legal dispute.Alvarion posted a loss in the fourth quarter as the company...
"The time for talk is over," Obama bellowed. "The time for action is now. Because we know if we do not act, a bad situation will become dramatically worse. Crisis could turn into catastrophe." Was that the new president channeling Jim Morrison and bringing...
Nickelodeon is launching a series of iPhone and iTouch applications based on its popular shows "SpongeBob SquarePants," "Dora the Explorer" and "iCarly."Users will be challenged to match shapes, count numbers and practice the alphabet through a "Dora the Explorer" application game launching in March."SpongeBob...
Sales of GPS-enabled mobile phone are expected to buck the global trend of handset shipment declines this year, according to a report from ABI Research.And even though the market is expected to feel a pinch this year, unit sales of GPS-enabled phones should grow...
A major communication provider to the oil and gas industry plans to resell wireless broadband and WiMAX services to oil companies in North America.Schlumberger, a leading oilfield services provider, has been providing the oil and gas industry communications services - including satellite, wireless, terrestrial,...
The following list includes venture capital and other investments into wireless companies announced during the past week. The value of the investment is included when available.AdMob: Draper Fisher Jurvetson's Growth Fund and Northgate Capital invested $12.5 million into mobile advertising company AdMob. The company...
A developer of wireless enterprise solutions claims it has combined the advantages of paging and mobile phones into one service that can be accessed with a smartphone.Onset Technology is targeting the healthcare field with the latest enhancement of its METAmessage Advanced Paging Solution. The...
Article Text represents the actual text of the published piece. Note that this may be subject to copyright issues and legal advice should be taken before republishing any content. Time Crisis for the iPhone looks shooty by Devin Coldewey on February 5, 2009In theory ,...
Lim, who is in fourth grade, writes applications for Apple's popular iPhone. His latest, a painting program called Doodle Kids, has been downloaded over 4,000 times from Apple's iTunes store in two weeks, the New Paper reported on Thursday.
Intel is to detail technologies it is developing for mobile devices at next week's International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), including system-on-a-chip (SoC) processors with integrated digital radios and better hardware acceleration for multimedia.
Google said earlier this week that it is joining several technology companies, including Comsearch, Dell, HP, Microsoft, Motorola and Neustar, to form a new coalition called the White Spaces Database Group , which will provide and compile into a database technical specifications for devices
Betting that a touchscreen interface and high-resolution camera phone will lead to more photo-sharing - and accompanying data revenue - T-Mobile USA Inc. said today it would soon launch Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.'s Memoir.The carrier has not provided pricing or a launch date for...
AT&T Mobility filed a lawsuit in Georgia federal court to crack down on autodial telemarketers offering wireless consumers extended automobile warranties, making it the second national wireless operator to pursue litigation to halt the practice. The carrier's lawsuit alleges the telemarketers used spoofing techniques...
Hello! And welcome to our Thursday column, Worst of the Week. There's a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so this column is a chance for us at RCRWireless.com to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong way....
With wireless providers looking to enhance their networks during an economic downturn, Nokia Siemens Networks unveiled a base station that it claims can handle the migration from 2G to 3G and onto LTE.The company said its Flexi Multiradio Base Stations meets the needs of...
VeriSign Inc. continued to streamline its business by jettisoning part of its European mobile messaging division.The Mountain View, Calif.-based company had established a mobile foothold in Europe with the 2006 acquisition of Austria's 3united Mobile Solutions AG for $65.5 million. But VeriSign said it...
Mobile application retailer Handmark announced a deal to acquire FreeRange Communications, a Portland, Ore.-based mobile technology firm, for an undisclosed amount.FreeRange offers a publishing platform designed to help media companies and content owners to create branded, downloadable smartphone applications. The company also offers mobile...
Following a lengthy legal process, the Circuit Court of Cook County Illinois has ordered Sprint Nextel Corp. to sell all Nextel operations in affiliate iPCS Inc.'s service areas. Sprint Nextel has 360 days to get rid of the iDEN network in the areas. The...
Now that retailers have honed in on wireless, realizing that it can serve as an integral part of its business, they've also begun to notice that customers need more help understanding the new devices. In a recent survey from Mformation Technologies Inc., the company...
Although the 15-seconds of Internet fame surrounding games and videos parodying the George W. Bush shoe throwing incident have probably passed, an interesting new nugget about the iPhone App Store's policies have come by way of an application that just got rejected.
Facebook has joined the board of the OpenID Foundation and will host an OpenID Design Summit later this month, according to a post on the social network's developer blog.
Motorola has begun testing 4G Long-Term Evolution (LTE) broadband in the UK. The firm said the trial kicked off at a testing lab in Swindon with a "live, over-the-air, standards-compliant LTE call", during which high-speed data services were streamed using a prototype LTE device...
