Verizon Wireless made headlines at the Consumer Electronics Show when it unveiled a new full-track mobile music download service. But the carrier was busy last week defending the offering's lack of support for MP3s. Vcast Music offers tunes that can be downloaded to a...
FREMONT, Calif.-The first public airing of Qualcomm Inc.'s proprietary MediaFlo technology for mobile TV is taking place as the Flo Forum submitted its specification proposal for the Flo air interface between towers and devices to the Telecommunications Industry Association subcommittee TR-47. The Flo Forum,...
The IEEE's Joint Proposal team is set to submit its proposal for the 802.11n standard for high-speed Wi-Fi at the task group's meeting next week in Hawaii, where the standards specification for faster Wi-Fi is expected garner the required 75-percent approval from member voters....
BELLEVUE, Wash.-Kristin Rinne, chief technology officer for Cingular Wireless L.L.C., will serve a second term as chairperson of 3G Americas after being re-elected by the GSM technology organization's board of governors. Rinne has worked in the telecommunications industry for more than 25 years and...
As in past years, the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas was ground zero for a series of entertaining handset battles, with vendors firing off warning shots against each other and carriers blustering over new phone offerings for consumers. Perhaps the most interesting display...
TUCSON, Ariz.-Cell Wireless Corp. is set to acquire EzTel L.L.C., a Voice over Internet Protocol wireless broadband and long-distance provider, according to a contingent contract between the companies. Mississippi-based EzTel specializes in sales to large groups, charities, associations and chambers of commerce in the...
WASHINGTON-Lynch Interactive Corp. again vehemently denied any wrongdoing in its activities with mobile-phone auctions. The company performed bidding and auction administrative services for a variety of bidders in recent years. The activities and associations of Lynch's chairman, Mario Gabelli, were the subject of a...
WASHINGTON-Lynch Interactive Corp. again vehemently denied any wrongdoing in its activities with mobile-phone auctions. The company performed bidding and auction administrative services for a variety of bidders in recent years. The activities and associations of Lynch's chairman, Mario Gabelli, were the subject of a...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-The WiMAX Forum appointed Jeff Orr director of marketing and Matt Wangler director of operations. Orr will oversee global marketing strategy and day-to-day marketing operations. Prior to joining the forum, Orr was director of worldwide product marketing at Proxim Wireless. He also...
After 12 official drafts, the IEEE has approved the 684-page proposal from the 802.16 Task Group, designating the mobile WiMAX standard as 802.16e-2005. The WiMAX Forum is set to begin trials and certification testing in early 2006, with certified products hitting the market later...
WASHINGTON-The U.S. mobile phone industry, having watched a slew of headset and brain cancer suits returned to state courts the past year and a half, is scrambling to keep three other health suits with the Maryland federal judge who sided with wireless companies in...
SAN DIEGO, Calif.-Qualcomm Inc. said it has joined the Wi-Fi Alliance, saying it aims to be directly involved with ensuring wireless local area network technology is compatible with the company's Mobile Station Modem chipsets. "Qualcomm is pleased to take the important step of joining...
ESPOO, Finland-Nokia Corp. announced the winners of its annual Forum Nokia PRO Awards, which recognize accomplishments in the development of content and applications during 2005.Quickoffice Inc. won the Developer of the Year award for its Quickoffice Premier S60 mobile office suite, which supports Microsoft...
LOS ANGELES-Fox Mobile Entertainment, MobileLime and Juice Wireless Inc. were among the winners in the Mobile Marketing Association's first annual awards program.The industry association named winners in six categories including best use of mobile marketing and most innovative campaign. Aerodeon Turkey claimed best use...
PISCATAWAY, N.J.-The Mobile Industry Processor Interface Alliance released two new specifications to accelerate the development of camera phones.The specifications include a physical layer, D-PHY, which is designed to act as a re-usable platform for MIPI camera interfaces, display panel interfaces and general-purpose high-speed/low-power interfaces....
FREMONT, Calif.-A wireless industry group known as the FLO Forum said the "forward link-only" air-interface specification, which proscribes protocols used over the airwaves between the FLO network and a FLO device, has been ratified. The FLO Forum said technical requirements captured in the AIS...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission continues to face relocation problems with its third-generation mobile-phone spectrum plan, a situation that could affect the timing of June's auction and combine with other factors to lower revenues the United States needs to move Pentagon radio systems to new...
In these early days of wireless entertainment, it appears content providers have effectively deployed a variety of Digital Rights Management solutions to protect their wares. But many believe all those "solutions" are actually a problem.Behind-the-scenes haggling over royalties continue between MPEG LA, which holds...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-The Mobile Marketing Association continues to gain momentum, adding more than six dozen members worldwide in the last three months.The nonprofit organization, which seeks to push the growth of mobile marketing by clearing industry obstacles and establishing best-practices guidelines, announced new members including...
HONG KONG-The CDMA Development Group announced that the standard for CDMA2000 1x EV-DO Revision B is on schedule for publication in the first quarter of 2006 and should significantly increase the technology's data throughput by allocating multiple radio-frequency carriers across wider frequency blocks. "EV-DO...
A group of Linux proponents announced today they have formed a new standards group aimed at promoting Linux software for mobile phones. "One of the key goals of the Linux Phone Standards Forum is to reduce Linux fragmentation," said John Ostrem, lead scientist for...
WASHINGTON-Since customers must be at least 18 years old to have their own mobile-phone account, the wireless industry last week said it would begin classifying carrier-controlled content and restrict access to inappropriate content to non-primary account phone users. CTIA last week released the details...
CHICAGO-MobileIgnite declared its autonomy as an independent industry association, announcing that its top priority is to accelerate the adoption of fixed-mobile convergence interoperability. The new trade group said 16 industry players are set to join as members and that it has granted "affiliate" status...
Product announcements streamed out of Boston during WiMAX World 2005, a show where the attendance increased from the hundreds in 2004 to the thousands in 2005. As the industry moves closer to developing a standard, traditional and upstart wireless equipment providers detailed their plans...
