SEATTLE-Mobile application company Mobliss announced two new marketing campaigns around its mobile services. Fox Broadcasting Co. will offer premium SMS and downloadable services called “Joe 2 Go” that promote its …
DENVER-Mobile phones are used for talking, texting, gaming, photographing and documenting. They link to the public Internet and private, corporate Intranets. They store important names, numbers and calendars. In the …
LAS VEGAS-Ascendent Telecommunications announced that its AscendentCS mobility and continuity application has been installed inside media specialist OMD’s New York office. Ascendent’s solution allows mobile phones to be linked to …
WASHINGTON-While the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association was laboring to find a new leader whose conservative politics would align with the GOP-led Congress and as top members steered hundreds of …
BELLEVUE, Wash.-T-Mobile USA Inc. launched an extended “free weekend” minute offering rate plan that included 600 anytime calling minutes and unlimited weekend calling minutes that now include Friday, Saturday and …
WASHINGTON-A plan is beginning to gel at the Federal Communications Commission to solve the public-safety interference problem in the 800 MHz band and give Nextel Communications Inc. some of the …
In an announcement with possible implications for laid-off employees, plant closings and investors, Nortel Networks Ltd. said it is undertaking a comprehensive review of its financial profile for the past …
BOSTON-The Yankee Group estimates 10 million to 12 million wireless customers will switch providers in the year following the Nov. 24 implementation of wireless local number portability. The group expects …
LAS VEGAS-Gaming highlighted a rash of announcements made at the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association’s Wireless I.T and Entertainment show in Las Vegas, providing a peak at what might be …
LAS VEGAS-InPhonic Inc. released the latest version of its eMail InMotion application for Qualcomm’s BREW platform at last week’s CTIA Wireless I.T. show in Las Vegas. The application allows wireless …
LAS VEGAS-The Fox TV network is planning a major new wireless effort centered on one of television’s most well-known families-the Simpsons. Homer, Marge and the rest of the cast of …
ALBERTA, Canada-Some scientists have reported that wireless handhelds can use water batteries rather than the technology currently available. According to research by the Institute of Physics Journal, Journal of Micromechanics …
OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-Following on the heels of other operators, Sprint PCS has unveiled guidelines for its customers who may want to take advantage of wireless local number portability, which is …
LAS VEGAS-Tatara Systems released a new software developer’s kit as part of the Tatara Wi-Fi Service Delivery Platform at last week’s CTIA Wireless I.T. show in Las Vegas. The new …
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.-While government and carriers continue to hammer out the technical and political details of wireless local number portability, wireless retailer Wireless Retail Inc., which sells services from each of …
As the guinea pig of technologies, enterprise has enjoyed some play in the wireless industry of late. Whether in terms of alliances or new enabling solutions, carriers and enterprise players …
Wireless solutions provider TellShare launched mLogs, a free audio/video/photo blogging service that allows users to put images from their camera-enabled cell phones directly onto their Web-based mLogs at www.mlogs.com.
To the Editor: On Oct. 13, l983, the first commercial cellular phone call was made. On Oct. 13, 2003, Tom Wheeler’s Retirement Roast was held at the Willard Hotel in …
Asia-Pacific is expected to account for more than half of the more than 45,000 commercial hot-spot locations in the world by the end of the year, according to a report …
Wireless data service speeds-which for years have been cast aside as less important than the applications running over the networks-were again the topic of discussion for many carriers at this …
