CellCast Technologies said its wireless emergency alert solution will be deployed throughout Missouri, beginning with the sheriff's department in Camden County. "Knowing about the impending danger is one thing, but then also having the correct information about what to do in your specific area...
Microsoft Corp. kick-started its effort to grab a piece of the hot, youth-oriented messaging and social networking market by acquiring Danger Inc., the software driver behind the popular Sidekick devices at T-Mobile USA Inc. The purchase price was not disclosed. Microsoft's stock declined nearly...
Danger Inc., the "software-as-service" company that enables data and Internet services to T-Mobile USA Inc.'s Sidekick devices, will pursue an initial public offering to pay down $7.2 million in debt and raise working capital, the company said. Danger did not disclose how much money...
In this era of genius hackers and malware that can bring an entire corporation to its knees, the scariest threat to mobile security is. the users themselves.Software developers generally have done a good job keeping evil-doers at bay, according to a study of 789...
T-Mobile USA Inc. suspended sales of its Sidekick Slide on Friday after manufacturer Motorola Inc. informed the carrier that some of the devices power off when the sliding door on the device is opened or closed. The device went on sale earlier this month...
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. In the coming weeks look for columns from Current Analysis' Avi Greengart, Jupiter Research's...
Google Inc. ended weeks of speculation about its mobile plans, unveiling an alliance of industry heavyweights centered on a new, open-source software platform.The Internet behemoth joined Qualcomm Inc., Motorola Inc., HTC Corp. and T-Mobile parent Deutsche Telekom AG to take the wraps off the...
What a paradox that Apple Inc.'s iPhone has become at once the gold standard for wireless devices and, according to critics, plaintiffs' lawyers and others, all that is wrong with a mobile-phone industry that conscientiously controls what goes into the phones and onto networks.There's...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our Monday 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. In the coming weeks look for columns from Jupiter Research's Julie Ask, iGR's Iain...
By now you've probably read about the "teen whiz" who unlocked his Apple Inc. iPhone using software commands and a soldering iron. (George Hotz, unlocker from New Jersey, got a free car, three iPhones and a consulting contract from an admiring Terry Daidone, co-founder...
Was she a former Sprint Nextel customer?A four-year-old Illinois girl called 911 almost 300 times on a deactivated cellphone last month. Dispatchers were able to hear the child talking and track the calls to an apartment complex, but not to the specific address. Authorities...
Welcome to our Monday column, Analyst Angle. Every Monday, the industry's leading analysts give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry, from carriers to content to handsets to infrastructure.The July 4th holiday is just behind us, and I'm still reveling in...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our Monday 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. In the coming weeks look for columns from Jupiter Research's Julie Ask, Current Analysis'...
California announced plans to develop and launch a statewide emergency cellphone alert system within 12 to 14 months. The move is definitely apropos for "the Golden State," which has long prided itself on being a leap ahead of other states and the federal status...
Frontline Wireless L.L.C. rejected Cyren Call Communications Corp.'s view that first responders should join forces with a top cellphone carrier if federal regulators approve new 700 MHz rules for a national public-safety broadband network that the private sector would build and share with police,...
Frontline Wireless L.L.C. rejected Cyren Call Communications Corp.'s view that first responders should join forces with a top mobile phone carrier if federal regulators approve new 700 MHz rules for a national public-safety broadband network that the private sector would build and share with...
You've undoubtedly followed with interest-if not a bit of morbid curiosity-the fortunes of Motorola Inc., which has slipped in less than a year from chest-thumping world-beater to chastened challenger. Add a whiff of danger: Carl Icahn, dissident, billionaire investor, has pursued a seat on...
T-Mobile USA Inc. announced a new addition to its lineup of Sidekick phones, the Sidekick iD, which is a slimmed-down version of the innovative device that will sell for $100 with a contract."The T-Mobile Sidekick has always been about freedom of expression and communicating...
T-Mobile USA Inc. announced it will begin offering its myFaves service to its Sidekick 3 users through an over-the-air software update. Once loaded, the update will allow Sidekick 3 customers to add the carrier's myFaves offering to their service plan.T-Mobile USA's myFaves service allows...
In the spirit of freewheeling online wireless forums such as HowardForums and SprintUsers.com, Sprint Nextel Corp. has started its own virtual community for wireless fans, foes and aficionados.Users do not have to be Sprint Nextel customers to participate, nor are the topics limited to...
Florida Gov. Charlie Crist (R) wants to examine alternative emergency warning systems-including those based on wireless technology-in the aftermath of the Feb. 2 tornado that killed 20 people. The Florida Division of Emergency Management will study the issue and report back...
While nothing new for the inside-the-Beltway crowd, it may be noteworthy to the great consuming masses just how incestuously intertwined telecom policy-making and lobbying have become in the nation's capital. The little agency that could-the Federal Communications Comm-ission-ranks only behind the White House and...
It was a fairly quiet week in the wireless world, but we still managed to share a few observations and kvetches-or as we like to say, here's what got us hedgehogging last week. Most carriers are still dancing around the potential problems that Slingmedia's...
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 RCR to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong way....
