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Brazilian airline TAM is preparing to offer Wi-Fi service to its customers, and allowing them to use their mobile devices to make phone calls during international flights. The initiative may …

Bloomberg | July 13, 2011 | Douglas Macmillan EBay Inc. (EBAY)’s PayPal unit unveiled a service that will let users make payments by tapping their mobile devices together, joining rivals …

eWEEK | June 29, 2011 | Brian Horowitz Consumers who are neither fitness freaks nor chronically ill are willing to pay for health-monitoring gadgets, according to a new IBM study. …

Computerworld | July 6, 2011 | Matt Hamblen Cisco has announced a new Wi-Fi access point and stadium antenna that covers a smaller area for use in arenas and large …

Texas companies Interphase Corp. (INPH) and Diodes Inc. (DIOD) both made recent announcements concerning expansion. The Plano-based companies are both involved in the wireless market in networking and components, respectively. …

Ericsson | June 2011 | Press Release Ericsson to provide and manage LTE network for fixed-wireless broadband in rural and regional Australia for the National Broadband Network (NBN) Rural and …

China Unicom | May 24, 2011 | Edmond Lococo, Mark Lee China Unicom (Hong Kong) Ltd., China’s second-biggest mobile-phone operator, offered a cheaper iPhone package amid rising competition with larger rival China …

ZTE | May 10, 2011 | Press Release ZTE secures 60 new wireless contracts in 2010 10 May 2011, Shenzhen – ZTE Corporation (“ZTE”) (H share stock code: 0763.HK / A …

Dallas-based AT&T Inc. (T) announced that the mobile carrier is launching a Wi-Fi “hotzone” in Austin on the popular downtown nightlife area of Sixth Street. The offering is the company’s …

The FCC created rules last fall to make unused television channels operate a new long-range version of Wi-Fi that spreads through walls. This led to collaboration between wireless communications researchers …

ChinaTel | April 4, 2011 | Press Release Frost & Sullivan’s Next Generation Mobile and Wireless Team uncovers key success drivers that further demonstrate ChinaTel’s ability to deliver in emerging …

RCR Unplugged | April 2, 2011 | Sylvie Barak *Editors Sylvie Barak and Marc Speir were in Haiti last week, filming a documentary about the rebuilding of the impoverished country’s …

Bloomberg | April 3, 2011 | Pavel Alpeyev Softbank Corp. (9984) President Masayoshi Son, Japan’s richest man, pledged to donate 10 billion yen ($120 million) and his remaining salary until retirement …

Financial Times | April 1, 2011 | Naomi Mapstone It costs about 30 cents to check your email in Peru if you duck into one of thousands of grimy internet …

Business Week | March 25, 2011 Funtalk China Holdings Ltd., which sells and distributes wireless communication devices, said Friday that a group of investors, which includes some of its executives, …

Austin360 | March 25, 2011 | Omar L. Gallaga We all like our mobile streaming video the way we like our smoothies, right? SMOOTH! Consistent! Perhaps with cherries. Researchers at the …