A joint report by industry body Assocham and research firm Frost & Sullivan has projected total Indian broadband subscription to touch 275 million by Y-2015, great news for players who recently won a chunk of BWA spectrum.
Phone.com added two wireless features to its virtual PBX offering, one for Android users that enables small business owners to use their cellphone as a virtual business line, and another for iPhone users that connects calls using the iPhone's Wi-Fi capabilities. Both applications...
Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile USA Inc. continue to lead in customer satisfaction, this time among small businesses, according to a recent J.D. Power and Associates survey released last month. While Verizon Wireless was the favored carrier among small- and medium-sized business, T-Mobile took...
Motorola Inc.'s Enterprise Mobility Solutions business is predicting a compounded annual growth rate between 5% and 8% over the next few years, with opportunities to sell equipment and services into public-safety and vertical market enterprises. Speaking at Cowen and Co.'s 38th Annual Technology, Media...
HONOLULU – A Costa Rican wireless operator is targeting the financial industry with WiMAX technology as a DSL alternative to carry the nation's bank's digital traffic as a safeguard to back up the information in case of a natural disaster.IBW, which also has operations...
AT&T – Michael Antieri has been named president of the newly formed Advanced Enterprise Solutions group within the company’s Business Solutions unit. Antieri has worked at AT&T for 31 years.Hands-On Mobile – Judy Wade has been appointed president and CEO. Previously, Wade served as...
AT&T – Michael Antieri has been named president of the newly formed Advanced Enterprise Solutions group within the company’s Business Solutions unit. Antieri has worked at AT&T for 31 years.Hands-On Mobile – Judy Wade has been appointed president and CEO. Previously, Wade served as...
SAN DIEGO – What equipment a company decides to outfit its workforce with will be one of its most important and lasting decisions. It can also be particularly challenging if the company is aiming to put a virtual office in the pocket of its...
SAN DIEGO – In the closing keynote at Gartner's Wireless, Networking and Communications Summit, the research firm's VP and distinguished analyst, Nick Jones, offered his take on where mobility should fit into the general roadmap of enterprise. Looking out, five years down the horizon,...
SAN DIEGO – When a trend or shift requires a new phrase or way of thinking, you can bet it carries tremendous impact – the implication being that it goes beyond words. If there’s one factor that’s impacting the mobile enterprise more than anything...
SAN DIEGO – You don't even need access to mass media to know that app stores are all the rage in mobile these days. But how app storefronts and their ecosystems play in the enterprise sandbox is an entirely different animal.
Michael King, a research...
Diversinet Corp. is expanding its mobile security solutions to address the mobile healthcare business, as the fledgling space evolves and mobile technology becomes more integrated into the healthcare system.The broad-reaching solution is designed to connect people with their healthcare information, as well as physicians...
T-Mobile USA Inc. is attacking the machine-to-machine space with four SIM form factors to enable companies that want m2M solutions to use the one that best fits their needs, said John Horn, national director of M2M at the carrier. “Our strategy for many years...
Exalt Communications said the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection deployed microwave backhaul systems from Exalt to support video surveillance in its unsupervised lookout towers in El Dorado County.The system of tower-mounted cameras and backhaul allows CAL FIRE dispatchers to gather information...
The Port of Los Angeles is using Reality Mobile's real-time mobile video technology to enable its police department to monitor more than 350 fixed cameras on site. The contract win for the 30-plus person Reality Mobile is indicative of its plans to change how...
Editor's Note: This story originally appeared in RCR Wireless News' January Special Edition, Wireless Infrastructure: The Engine for Economic Recovery. Look for our March Special Edition coming soon.The Department of Energy's $620 million in awards for smart grids and other energy-related projects should provide...
Motorola Inc.’s Enterprise Mobility Solutions unit announced two deals with health-care organizations. The company said Agilysys, a Motorola Premiere Solution Partner, has been chosen to deploy Motorola’s end-to-end wireless LAN and AirDefense solutions at Miami Jewish Health Systems. The deployment will support both current...
The realization that IT departments are going to have to support a wide range of devices as mobility spreads across the enterprise has led a couple of companies to try to find innovative ways to manage those devices, especially as business users bring their...
The Challenge Konica Minolta Business Solutions (UK) Ltd markets business machines manufactured by Konica Minolta Business Technologies Inc, in the United Kingdom, through a direct sales force and a network of independent dealerships. The company maintains over 56,000 multi-functional printing devices, in situ at...
Numerex Corp. said it will offer machine to machine communications services on Vodafone Group's network in the United Kingdom. Today's announcement is the latest in a series of tie-ups between wireless operators and M2M technology companies as operators prepare for an expected onslaught of...
According to online publication Hitechnews.biz, Oulu is the core of mobile technology in the world enhancing new business. The expertise in R&D in wireless communications has been verified on several global forums, which has encouraged Nokia, the mobile phone manufacturer, to increase its workforce...
As the West Wireless Health Institute prepares to open for business next month in San Diego, Qualcomm Inc.'s initiatives to develop a mobile healthcare ecosystem are becoming more tangible, starting with a physical building where scientists, doctors and engineers can work to prove the...
President Barack Obama on Tuesday will announce $3.4 billion in government grants to help build a "smart" electric grid that will save consumers money on their utility bills, reduce blackouts and carry power supplies generated by solar and wind energy, the White House said.It...
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.There are two embedded myths in your company that must be shattered to emerge from this recession...
