Two separate developments on the counterfeiting front together point to a festering problem for the wireless industry. First, federal authorities in New York sued to condemn almost 20,000 allegedly counterfeit mobile phones bearing names of leading handset manufacturers, and separately Underwriters Laboratories issued a...
Global sales of handsets in the first quarter jumped 13.6% from the year-ago quarter, reaching 294 million units, according to a recent report from Gartner. Nokia Corp., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and LG Electronics Co. accounted for most of that surge, with LG propelling...
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--Ireland: Ericsson said it won a contract with Meteor Mobile...
TD-SCDMA WORKS. That's the view of one analyst who participated in trials in Baoding, China, as long ago as December 2006.A very modest supply of subsidized handsets and data cards by domestic and foreign vendors should hit the market this summer for early adopters,...
The National Association of Broadcasters warned Congress that allowing unlicensed wireless operations in vacant television spectrum could jeopardize the transition to digital TV, continuing the highly charged debate with tech companies over a proposal to expand Wi-Fi into white spaces."For more than a year,...
The success of smartphones among U.S. shoppers has served to boost the average purchase price for cellphones, according to new research from J.D. Power and Associates. According to the firm's survey of almost 20,000 cellphone owners, the average price paid for a phone has...
The Razr cut both ways. In the past two years, as its Razr-driven joyride skidded into a ditch, Motorola Inc.'s massive advantage in its home market has dwindled to a narrow gap. The relentless hunger and proliferating portfolios of Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and...
Femtocells - sounds like a science fiction term for robotic feminine cells - but it's just another buzzword for a new technology and product that promises so much in the future, yet has delivered mostly in practical terms thus far.For the moment, the technology...
CORPORATIONS' IT "SPEND" THIS YEAR is markedly less than last year, yet mid-year changes have yet to surface, according to several sources. An annual survey of CIOs conducted by Gartner each fall projected flat to less than 3% growth in corporate IT spending for...
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--Brazil: TIM Brasil selected Nokia Siemens Networks to deploy and...
A handful of mobile players are trying to cram the silver screen onto the third screen. But whether there's a business case to be made for mobile movies is far from clear. The first wireless films came online for U.S. consumers in December 2005...
As Motorola Inc.'s growth sharply contracted between 2006 and 2007, four Chinese handset vendors were among the fastest growing in the business, although at markedly lower volumes.The finding is one of many disparate conclusions drawn in a new study from Forward Concepts that examined...
Despite being less of a target in recent years, the cellphone industry remains entangled in health-related litigation that could turn on how the District of Columbia Court of Appeals rules on a challenge to a lower court's dismissal of six brain-cancer lawsuits last year....
Google Inc. co-founder Larry Page said there are not technical impediments to making vacant television channels - white spaces - available for unlicensed wireless broadband access, but that powerful lobbying forces want to convince the Federal Communications Commission otherwise."I think the debate has been...
Qualcomm Inc. will buy a stake in ip.access Ltd., a U.K.-based femtocell vendor. The dollar amount of the investment and Qualcomm's relative share in ip.access were not made public, but ip.access said the stake was not a controlling one.Other well-known ip.access investors include the...
Peter Adderton, the man behind Boost Mobile and Amp'd Mobile Inc., has unveiled his next business venture. And like those before it, the plan doesn't lack one bit in the department of grandiose.This time, William Morris Agency's got his back. WMA represents authors, actors...
Application: ZumobiRunning on: Samsung ACE running Windows Mobile 6 on Sprint Nextel's EV-DO network.Yay: Zumobi usually runs in the background and updates content regularly, allowing us to call up the app and check headlines in just a couple of seconds. The widget-based...
The first criminal conviction of an international prepaid mobile-phone trafficker was announced by U.S. officials in Houston, news that again highlights a growing problem of global proportions for wireless. Indeed, the issue has already triggered numerous lawsuits by a number of U.S. wireless service...
GOOGLE INC.'S OPEN HANDSET ALLIANCE has attracted plenty of attention in the hot mobile Linux space, but the LiMo Foundation is assembling an impressive coalition of its own.Verizon Wireless last week threw its weight behind the open-source community, filling the final seat on LiMo's...
Apple Inc. appeared poised to enter the second phase of its foray into the mobile industry, judging by events last week. Apple's Web site reflected that its two models of iPhones (8 GB and 16 GB) are "currently unavailable," though AT&T Mobility's online site...
Google Inc.'s Open Handset Alliance has attracted plenty of attention in the mobile Linux space, but the LiMo Foundation is assembling an impressive coalition of its own.Verizon Wireless has thrown its weight behind the open-source community, filling the final seat on LiMo's board of...
Apple Inc.'s foray into the global handset industry is a work-in-progress, judging by last week's events, just as its initial, domestic rollout was marked by adroit tactical shifts.A sudden avalanche of international market rollouts for the iPhone announced last week appeared to reflect that...
When people think of domestic iDEN carriers, the most common name mentioned is Sprint Nextel Corp., which serves more than 13 million customers on its Motorola Inc.-designed network. But that shouldn’t be where the conversion ends; Atlanta-based SouthernLINC Wireless operates its own iDEN network...
Armed only with more promises to revive the badly flagging company, Motorola Inc.'s CEO Greg Brown and fellow board members took a verbal beating from their shareholders at last week's annual shareholder meeting in Rosemont, Ill., according to news reports.Yet the company's board received...
