As wireless continues to change how companies do business, Alltel Communications L.L.C. is now offering an application allowing employers to track mobile workers in real time.The Alltel Workforce Locator service is a tracking and mobile resource management product designed by Autodesk Inc. The service...
A $7 million settlement has been reached in a class-action lawsuit accusing Timberland Co. and others of illegally sending unsolicited advertising text messages to cellular subscribers. The development represents but the tip of a litigious iceberg in which the number of texting antitrust class...
THE OPEN-ACCESS POLICY DEBATE, which raged last year and then curiously subsided after Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin said the agency should not force wireless networks to give unfettered access to third-party devices and applications, is once again alive. The issue appears to...
The back-to-school rush is over and, inevitably, the holidays will soon be upon us. Cue up the chorus of young voices in your household tentatively suggesting that you might want to take them shopping for new handsets.Hmm ... just how young is that chorus,...
The back-to-school rush is over and, inevitably, the holidays will soon be upon us. Cue up the chorus of young voices in your household tentatively suggesting that you might want to take them shopping for new handsets.Hmm ... just how young is that chorus,...
Mobile video-messaging startup Mogreet scored carrier deals on both sides of the Atlantic.The Venice Beach, Calif.-based firm is partnering with Fun Text, a U.K.-based content and messaging service, to offer mobile video greeting cards for mobile phones. The companies' combined offerings will be available...
At an event in New York today, T-Mobile USA Inc. and Google Inc. executives took the wraps off the G1, a device built by HTC Corp. that features Google Inc.'s Android operating system. The phone, which sports a QWERTY keyboard, touchscreen and Wi-Fi and...
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--United Kingdom: Ericsson said it has been chosen by...
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.I have a good vantage point of the mobile social networking opportunity: The largest social networking providers,...
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 highlighting what works and what doesn't. If you wish to submit your application or...
Service provider revenues from mobile money transfer services could exceed $5 billion worldwide by 2013, according to a new study from Juniper Research.The firm predicts the market will begin to accelerate as soon as 2010. The study focuses on mobile money transfer services in...
In an effort to bolster its home phone service, AT&T Inc. unveiled its HomeManager service that integrates many of the telcom provider's mobile features into a landline offering.The HomeManager service relies on a Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.-provided seven-inch color touchscreen frame that allows access...
Clearwire Corp. is prepping for its impending merger with Sprint Nextel Corp.'s Xohm WiMAX business by shuffling employees. In an 8-K filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Clearwire's CEO Ben Wolff included an e-mail dated Sept. 19 addressed to Clearwire and Xohm highlighting...
Steve Largent introduces a study, produced by CTIA and Harris Interactive, titled "Teenagers: A Generation Unplugged."; Harris Interactive; CTIA; Trip Hawkins, Digital Chocolate CEO, discusses his views on the media revolution.; CTIA; Digital Chocolate; Trip Hawkins; A group...
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.Another CTIA show has come and gone. There was plenty of talk of new applications...
SanDisk Corp. is the latest player hoping to elbow its way onto the music-distribution playground.The Milpitas, Calif.-based company announced plans to sell microSD memory cards with preloaded MP3 music files through brick-and-mortar and online retailers including Best Buy and Wal-Mart. SlotMusic, as the effort...
Microsoft Corp. announced its first ad-syndication deal in the United States, touting a pact to deliver display ads on CNBC's mobile Web site.The deal, which stems from last December's online-advertising collaboration between the two companies, will see Microsoft serve as the exclusive third-party provider...
Apple Inc. announced a recall of the power adaptor it shipped with its iPhone 3G throughout North America and elsewhere. The company said it will provide a free replacement."Users with ultracompact power adapters should immediately stop using them until they exchange them for a...
It's become quite clear which technology the top four carriers have sided with in the next-generation debate between WiMAX and Long Term Evolution. Sprint Nextel Corp. is the lone supporter for WiMAX; Verizon Wireless and AT&T Mobility Inc. made public their plans to deploy...
The wireless industry seems to have weathered Wall Street's troubles relatively well - at least, so far. In comments last week, executives from two of the nation's largest wireless carriers said the ongoing economic turmoil in the financial-services industry has so far left them...
Best Buy is surely hoping to give its digital-music business a boost with last week's acquisition of Napster Inc. But what it might mean for mobile music is far from clear.The big-box retailer agreed to pay $121 million for the once-iconic song distributor and...
CTIA announced the beginnings of an effort to implement 2D bar-code scanning via camera phones.; bar-code; cell phone; CTIA; Bullish on smartphone growth and confident of his company's surging market share, Research In Motion Ltd.'s co-CEO Jim Balsillie...
When Qualcomm Inc. talks, people listen. So when Qualcomm recently announced that its "Gobi" embedded connectivity module had been certified by AT&T Mobility for the latter's network and that Hewlett-Packard Co. and Panasonic had signed on to include Gobi in some of their new...
