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 M:Metrics' Seamus McAteer, Ovum's Roger Entner...
What is it about the wireless industry that causes everyone outside the space to think that they can have their cake and eat it too?The most recent perpetrator is Skype, which has asked the Federal Communications Commission to declare that all devices should be...
Global VoIP over Wi-Fi equipment will drive $82 billion in revenue by 2012, according to Juniper Research, which projects that dual-mode handsets-cellular and Wi-Fi-will dominate that market. North America will account for nearly half the projected revenue, Juniper forecast. "The handset market is moving...
Both Apple Inc. and Cisco Systems Inc. will use the "iPhone" name worldwide, Cisco's lawsuit against Apple has been called off and the two companies will "explore opportunities for interoperability" between their products, according to a joint statement issued by the two companies.An extended...
Mino Wireless, a voice-over-IP mobile and wireless communications provider, announced that it has received $7 million in funding from the venture-capital firm Canaan Partners. Mino Wireless said its technology enables international calling from mobile phones via the device's existing Internet connection.Mino takes the budding...
Hewlett-Packard Co. a new smartphone, dubbed the HP iPAQ, at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. The iPAQ is designed for HP's business customers and features Windows Mobile 6, push e-mail, VoIP capabilities, multimedia and the ability to respond to e-mails by voice.The...
Editor's Note: Welcome 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 Strategy Analytics' Chris Ambrosio, Ovum's Roger Entner...
Polycom Inc. plans to acquire SpectraLink Corp., according to a definitive agreement between the companies.SpectraLink provides workplace wireless solutions, including wireless handsets that integrate with VoIP and business telephone platforms. Polycom specializes in video, voice, data and Web technologies such as conferencing and collaboration...
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 M:Metrics' Seamus McAteer, Ovum's Roger Entner...
Comcast Corp. aims to find out if customers will buy wireless service from a cable company: the nation's largest cable provider is launching a trial of wireless service in partnership with Sprint Nextel Corp. in two markets: Boston and Portland, Ore.The launches are the...
BOSTON-Comcast Corp. launched wireless service in partnership with Sprint Nextel Corp. in two markets: Boston and Portland, Ore. Comcast's Mobile Access service is "a new arrangement from Comcast and Sprint that will make it easier for you to access all your home and entertainment...
BOSTON-There is nothing like a few billion dollars up for grabs to get a trade show buzzing as was the case for this year's WiMAX World Conference & Exposition. Weeks after Sprint Nextel Corp. announced plans to deploy a nationwide WiMAX network using its...
The proud sage trees standing guard at the U.S. Capitol have yet come into full living color. However, the city is awash in high-definition crimson from political blood-letting and embarrassment over yet another scandal in which at least one House member elected to leave...
WASHINGTON—As Congress broke for midterm elections, the wireless industry won a few battles, but for the most part failed to get legislation it supported passed. It's not clear how industry felt about anti-pretexting legislation. But pretexting bills died, getting bogged down in turf battles....
LONDON—It looks like Florida-based xG Technology Inc. is ramping up for a $56.9 million IPO on the London stock exchange. Though the company wouldn’t confirm reports about its initial public offering plans, rumor has it that xG is roadshowing its wireless Voice over Internet...
WASHINGTON—As Congress broke for midterm elections, the wireless industry won a few battles, but for the most part failed to get legislation it supported passed. It’s not clear how industry felt about anti-pretexting legislation. The bills got bogged down in turf battles notwithstanding two...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—PeerMe Inc., a wireless Voice over Internet Protocol company, said it launched a free service for Sprint Nextel Corp. CDMA2000 1x EV-DO phone users that allows them to make unlimited global calls. The service uses VoIP technology to provide the free unlimited...
WASHINGTON—Voice over Internet Protocol providers and public-safety answering points will have liability protection when handling 911 calls if Congress is able to complete work on a port-security bill the Senate passed last week. The VoIP 911 bill had been stalled for almost a year...
Sprint Nextel Corp. settled a patent-infringement lawsuit against two Voice Over Internet Protocol providers that have now entered into licensing agreements with Sprint Nextel.Sprint Nextel had sued tglo.com Inc. (formerly VoiceGlo Holdings Inc.) and Theglobe.com Inc. in October 2005 for alleged violations of seven...
PLAINFIELD, Ind.-Brightpoint Inc. handled roughly 42 million mobile phones last year and may handle 60 million or more this year. But whatever you do, don't call the company a distributor. "If anything, we are a customized logistics company," Senior Vice President Anurag Gupta protested...
RESTON, Va.—Sprint Nextel Corp. settled a patent-infringement lawsuit against two Voice Over Internet Protocol providers that have now entered into licensing agreements with Sprint Nextel. Sprint Nextel had sued tglo.com Inc. (formerly VoiceGlo Holdings Inc.) and Theglobe.com Inc. in October 2005 for alleged violations...
WASHINGTON-The Association of Public-safety Communications Officials said it will examine challenges calling 911 using Voice over Internet Protocol and other advanced communications technologies as part of its Project Locate. Locate is an acronym for Locate Our Citizens At Times of Emergencies. APCO developed Project...
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands—Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. launched a handset equipped with Unlicensed Mobile Access technology in Italy. Samsung’s SGH-P200 phone runs on the Nexperia chip from Royal Philips’ Philips Semiconductor division. Philips’ Nexperia offering uses the company’s low-power wireless local area network system-in-package that integrates...
Welcome to Hedgehogging, the editorial staff's weekly column about wireless-related stories that got us talking this week. Is it just us, or are a lot of people who work in the wireless industry checking to see what the high bids are for their home...
