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 contract is included when available.Cellular--Madagascar: Zain Group has chosen Ericsson to expand its core...
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 insights into the marketplace.Like many of the most popular scriptural sayings, "and the lion shall lay down with the lamb"...
With just two markets launched, Clearwire Corp.'s mobile WiMAX service is already facing an identity crisis. Unveiled late last year in Baltimore by joint venture partner Sprint Nextel Corp. under the Xohm brand name, the service has since expanded to Portland, Ore., by Clearwire...
The engineering director who helped Google create its mobile operating system Android is leaving the company to join recession-friendly Coupons Inc. as CTO.
Pandora's free Internet streaming radio service just got a little less free. Well, it still doesn't cost you anything, but it is no longer commercial free. Pandora made the following announcements on its Twitter feed today:
A new report predicts that the U.S. search advertising market will contract by as much as 20% from the first quarter a year ago. The report , from Clickable , a search-advertising services company, shows the impact of the economic downturn on the small...
If you ask Andy Kruse, the CEO of wind turbine maker Southwest Windpower, about technology, he's more likely to talk about software and WiMax than turbine blades or inverters.
KT, the country's biggest telephone company, announced plans to merge with KTF, the No. 2 wireless carrier, creating a mighty industry giant whose sales will dwarf its competitors.
Goldman Sachs raised its rating on mobile-phone maker Motorola, Inc. ( MOT ) to conviction buy from neutral, saying it sees 50% upside to its new 12-month $7 price target.
A digital TV transition postponement appears increasingly inevitable, with the parent company of top mobile-phone carrier Verizon Wireless shifting course to support a limited extension of the mid-February deadline. Verizon Communication Inc.'s move comes shortly after congressional and Obama transition team officials late last...
Zeemote Inc., which offers a remote control for mobile gaming, tapped a new CEO and expanded its front office with two additional hires.Former Virgin Media executive Ernie Cormier will take over the reigns from co-founder Beth Marcus, who will serve as CTO and focus...
Winston Guillory, president of the company behind AT&T Inc.'s CruiseCast, clued us in on what the service entails. CruiseCast streams television channels to the vehicle through an antenna on top of the car. In fact, Guillory noted that...
Bluetooth technology has largely replaced wired headsets and is now making inroads in new markets, according to a report from IMS Research.The emergence of the A2DP profile, which allows stereo sound to be transmitted over Bluetooth connections, has created several new opportunities for Bluetooth...
Skydeck is targeting road warriors and other high-powered smartphone users with new premium services that build on its free call-tracking offering.The San Mateo, Calif.-based startup introduced features that track missed calls, transcribe received voicemails and deliver text-message information via a Web interface. The new...
The business climate for wireless retailers has hit a crossroad. What were once invaluable outlets for wireless carriers looking to get their products in front of as many potential customers as possible for the lowest possible cost, has turned into a battle ground between...
A handful of forces appear to be shaping a year to come that is likely to include numerous device launches featuring the fledgling Android operating system. Whether that will spell success for the license-free, Linux-based, open source OS is far from assured, though at...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We've collected a group of the industry's leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry.A critical question for wireless operators in the US is whether prospective customers of wide-area...
Mobile financial services are poised to become the next "it" application, according to research firm ABI Research."Mobile financial services have the potential to be bigger than mobile TV and premium mobile content in terms of numbers of subscribers," said senior analyst Mark Beccue. "They...
A new Juniper Research report has found that new revenue streams from event-based charging and advertising will help to push the value of the mobile dating and chatroom market to nearly $1.4 billion by 2013, part of a burgeoning user-generated content (UGC) market that...
Since the inception of the iPhone, Apple has used baseband and radio chips from Infineon. Because of this, keeping an eye on Infineon's product offerings can offer some insight into possible chips for future iPhones, which, in turn, may give us an idea of...
29% of U.S. consumers have used a mobile phone while shopping in a retail store, new research shows. And shoppers who use a mobile phone in a store are 6% more likely than those who have not to buy something in the store, according...
It's not just Barack Obama who's addicted to a BlackBerry. It was hard to find an executive at a music industry conference in Cannes last week without one of the devices in hand.
One of the most important accessories for your mobile gear is a good bag and case. I’ve been using a Waterfield Designs bag for over 2 years and even though I use it every single day it still looks almost the same as the...
