The carrier-led Joint Innovation Lab project announced that four handset manufacturers have agreed to support its widget specification in devices beginning next year.The device manufacturers include LG Electronics Co. Ltd., Research In Motion Ltd., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and Sharp Corp. The JIL founding...
Verizon Wireless and Qualcomm Inc. announced their joint venture company focusing on machine-to-machine (M2M) communications would be named nPhase and headed by the original company's president, Steve Pazol.Qualcomm bought nPhase three years ago and renamed it Qualcomm Global Smart Services. The 50-50 joint venture...
The iPhone. The BlackBerry Storm. The Android. The Palm Pre. When we think about these phones, we think AT&T, Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile and Sprint, respectively. Phone exclusivity is a major headache for consumers who want the latest and...
Always-online Internet junkies might seem to be the most likely users to lead the charge in adopting the mobile Web, but a recent ComScore study has found that assumption is not necessarily the case.How often you are connected to the Web via a computer...
The world's top mobile phone maker Nokia is eyeing entering the laptop business, its Chief Executive Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo said in an interview to Finnish national broadcaster YLE on Wednesday.
Sometimes it seems that netbooks are everywhere . I've spotted them at airports, coffee shops and on commuter trains. No wonder that ABI Research forecasts sales of 35 million netbooks this year, more than double the 15 million systems sold in 2008.
The billions of dollars set aside in the government's stimulus bill to promote broadband access across the country may help create thousands of new jobs - and wireless firms are already evaluating the legislation for potential opportunities.The $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act...
Verizon Wireless launched a new Web site capability that allows its customers to access the Web from their mobile phones using its Mobile Web service and get the same sites they would get using their personal computers.The Optimized View for Mobile Web is enabled...
Google Inc. launched a version of its mobile search application for Windows Mobile devices.Google Mobile App allows users to search without separately opening a browser and offers a search history and suggestions in an effort to reduce keystrokes. The offering is available for Windows...
Dell'Oro Group Inc. analyst Ben Kwan forecast in December that various factors will drive growth in the wireless local are network (WLAN) market for enterprise this year."While a slowdown in the growth of new WLAN deployments and the lengthening of upgrade cycles is expected...
Since the settlement last year that ended the industry's highest-profile cross-licensing battle, Nokia Corp. and Qualcomm Inc. have been expected to cozy up. Now it's official. Nokia, the world's largest handset maker, and Qualcomm, the world's leading wireless chip maker, will work together on...
Cricket Communications Inc. continues its nationwide rollout with its Chicago launch today, bringing its total covered pops to 77.5 million. The carrier, parented by Leap Wireless International Inc., is scheduled to double its covered pops this year. Cricket recently launched service in pockets of...
Sprint Nextel Corp., which continues to wedge itself in as the cheaper wireless solution, has put two of its popular plans together and taken $10 off the total price.The carrier announced its new offering, Simply Everything + Mobile Broadband, which bundles the two services...
The GSM Association and five European carriers are hoping to spur mobile marketing with a common system for measuring activity on the wireless Web.Orange, T-Mobile International, Telefonica, Vodafone and 3 are behind an effort to share "anonymized" user data with the industry association in...
Yahoo Inc. unveiled an overhauled mobile portal that it hopes will become "your starting point to the Internet."The company launched a beta version of Yahoo Mobile, a wireless Web destination that combines existing Yahoo offerings oneSearch, oneConnect and onePlace as well as the popular...
Nokia Corp. begged for forgiveness from consumers after its new cloud-based service broke down.The Finnish manufacturer - which is striving to evolve into a mobile Internet services company - said its Contacts for Ovi offering shut down after a cooler failed, causing a server...
Some Southwest Airlines customers will now be free to move around the Web.The Dallas-based airline said on Tuesday it will offer in-flight Internet access to customers, but is using different technology than its competitors. Southwest said it will be the first airline to test...
Microsoft Corp. is the latest company to jump on the cloud-computing craze with a free new service for Windows Mobile users.The software giant unveiled My Phone, a Web-based service that synchs contacts, appointments, messages and multimedia content between the Internet and mobile phones. The...
Google Inc. launched a mobile version of its book search offering, enabling users with devices such as Apple Inc.'s iPhone and T-Mobile USA Inc.'s G1 to access more than 1.5 million works.The online giant said it formats the titles by extracting text from the...
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. eked out a slim lead in market share over Motorola Inc. in the United States last year, in part due to the latter's fading fortunes, according to new numbers from IDC.Where Samsung showed 15.5% year-on-year growth between 2007 and 2008,...
"The time for talk is over," Obama bellowed. "The time for action is now. Because we know if we do not act, a bad situation will become dramatically worse. Crisis could turn into catastrophe." Was that the new president channeling Jim Morrison and bringing...
VeriSign Inc. continued to streamline its business by jettisoning part of its European mobile messaging division.The Mountain View, Calif.-based company had established a mobile foothold in Europe with the 2006 acquisition of Austria's 3united Mobile Solutions AG for $65.5 million. But VeriSign said it...
Mobile application retailer Handmark announced a deal to acquire FreeRange Communications, a Portland, Ore.-based mobile technology firm, for an undisclosed amount.FreeRange offers a publishing platform designed to help media companies and content owners to create branded, downloadable smartphone applications. The company also offers mobile...
Motorola has begun testing 4G Long-Term Evolution (LTE) broadband in the UK. The firm said the trial kicked off at a testing lab in Swindon with a "live, over-the-air, standards-compliant LTE call", during which high-speed data services were streamed using a prototype LTE device...
