The most important weapon in the war against the dumb-pipe scenario may just be the cloud.Cloud-based services - hosted applications "in the sky" and accessible through the Internet, as opposed to native apps - are suddenly all the rage in mobile. The concept is...
If this keeps up, "Can you hear me now?" may just become, "Have you gotten this text yet?" And network operators are scrambling to make sure the answer is yes.The average U.S. mobile user now sends and receives more test messages than they do...
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.I have a good vantage point of the mobile social networking opportunity: The largest social networking providers,...
Think Google Inc. has the mobile search space all sewn up? Think again.ChaCha - heard of 'em? - claims to have delivered search results to 1 million users since its launch earlier this year, answering more than 27 million queries via text message. And...
Google Inc. has taken its Street View service to mobile.The Mountain View, Calif.-based company launched a new version of Google Maps for mobile that includes the same street-level photo images it offers on desktop computers. Google also added a beta version of walking directions...
The mobile Internet has officially gone to the dogs.Nestle Purina PetCare Company with the help of go2 Media has launched two mobile Web sites for pet owners. With the launch of Purina.mobi and go2pets, the home computer no longer has pet owners on a...
In this latest election news cycle, one dominated by piggish lipstick politics and meant to feed the gluttonous appetites of the herded masses, it seems the wireless plight of some Alaskan schools has been largely overlooked. Well then, here's the story. Seems Alaska Gov....
SAN FRANCISCO -- So, many mobile subscribers remain wary of the cost of monthly data plans and their failure to "get it" is making the industry's voice-to-data transition agonizingly slow for everyone banking on it."Adoption" is the name, "driving" it is the game. But...
AirCell Inc. has added its first major airline outside of the United States in its quest to outfit as many aircraft with its mobile broadband service that provides Internet access to travelers.AirCell announced an agreement with Air Canada, which will roll out AirCell's Gogo...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Yay or Nay. Every week we'll review a new wireless application or service from the user's point of view, with the goal of highlighting what works and what doesn't. If you wish to submit your application or...
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.Two seemingly unrelated facts are converging to define our future. The first is the unprecedented growth in...
Cablevision Systems Corp. said it completed the first phase of its Optimum Wi-Fi deployment. The company's Optimum online high-speed Internet customers in areas of Nassau and Suffolk counties in New York and on commuter rail platforms and station parking lots across all of Long...
National Geographic launched a division dedicated to boosting its mobile content business.The iconic brand said it hopes to boost revenues by increasingly licensing its library of content to handset manufacturers, aggregators, developers and carriers. National Geographic also unveiled plans to launch a wireless Web...
Sprint Nextel Corp. added Photobucket to its photo-messaging service, allowing users to send pictures to the popular online site with just two clicks.The option was added to "Post to Service," a feature that allows Sprint Nextel users to send photos to print-processing retail outlets...
Passengers on coast-to-coast American Airlines flights can now sit back and surf the Web.The world's largest airline said it has teamed up with Aircell to provide Internet access to passengers on flights between New York and San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles and...
Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo are all offering ways to follow the Democratic and Republican conventions online. They are facilitating the conventions in a number of other ways as well.
Greece's OTE has announced that its pilot WiMAX network in Mount Athos is now operational. In total, six WiMAX base stations have already been installed. The network range reaches 50 km, covering the majority of the Monasteries and Scetea of Mount Athos.
Sprint Nextel Corp. is quietly pulling the plug on its PCS Mail service.A longtime service that never seemed to find an audience, PCS Mail offers a carrier-branded e-mail address (@sprintpcs.com) for users looking to exchange messages from computers or Sprint phones. The carrier informed...
Google Inc.'s Internet dominance has grown in recent years as the competition - well, what passes for competition - continues to plod along. But for the long list of Web-based players moving to the new platform, wireless is the wild, wild West.The Mountain View,...
Mobile Internet service users will increase from 577 million today to more than 1.7 billion by 2013, according to a new report from Juniper Research.The growth will be driven by demand for collaborative applications known as Web 2.0 and greater 2.5 and 3G penetration....
Mobile music has been a one-hit wonder. But the big follow-up to the lucrative ringtone market may not be ringback tones, full-track downloads or any other single application. It may be advertising.Ringtone revenues in the United States will shrink in 2008, falling to $510...
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.WiMAX--India: Redline Communications Group said it signed a deal with...
Once again, the Olympics will be seen as a kind of barometer for mobile data. But for wireless to perform alchemy at this year's games by turning consumers into gold, carriers and their business partners will need to put some marketing muscle behind the...
