Time was when the bloody white- spaces spat was nice and neat, with mostly high-tech giants seeking more spectrum for Wi-Fi pitted against television broadcasters fearful of interference to digital signals from wireless devices that would operate in vacant TV channels. In short, a...
Nuance Communications Inc. is targeting carriers - and plenty of others - with a mobile application designed to cut the cost of customer-care calls.Mobile Care is a client-server application designed to automatically launch when a user dials a customer-care call center for assistance. The...
WITH A LARGELY CONFIDENTIAL SETTLEMENT signed, sealed and delivered by Nokia Corp. and Qualcomm Inc. last week, arguably the most significant stand-off in the wireless industry has been resolved. But when two of the most influential competitors in the business snuggle up for a...
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Motorola Inc (MOT.N: Quote , Profile , Research , Stock Buzz ) will create three businesses within its home and networks mobility business to focus on the sectors' growth potential, the cell phone maker said.
A majority of members of the Federal Communications Commission have cast votes in favor of punishing Comcast Corp. for blocking subscribers' Internet traffic, an agency official said Friday.
The satellite radio pioneers have the green light to unite, but pressure from rivals and declining car sales threatens to turn satellite radio into a niche market
SPRINT NEXTEL CORP. AND CLEARWIRE CORP.'S CAMPAIGN to win government approval of a their national WiMAX plan is drawing static from AT&T Inc. and rural cellular operators on key unsettled wireless policy issues, but the deal has picked up backing from many educational and...
Given the broad scope of an agreement between Nokia Corp. and Qualcomm Inc. announced last night, it's apparent that negotiators have been quietly hard at work for some time to resolve a vast swath of issues that were hamstringing the two industry powerhouses.Yet the...
The world's leading handset and chipset makers - Nokia Corp. and Qualcomm Inc. - head to court today to resolve disagreements over their contractual relationship in a case that may have wide repercussions for the wireless industry.Potentially at stake is the nature of obligations...
Geek sacrilege? Not if these are your IT priorities. The iPhone 3G may have a lock on the Sexiest Gadget Alive title for 2008, but in the frumpy and boring world of things that matter to enterprise IT managers, it's no pinup.
Plantronics (PLT) this afternoon reported better-than-expected results for its fiscal first quarter ended June, thanks in large part to strong demand for Bluetooth headsets.
House and Senate members are nudging the Federal Communications Commission to approve by month's end a rule to speed up local number portability processing, a move that wireless providers say is necessary because of delays encountered by landline customers who want to keep their...
An association of rural wireless providers petitioned the Federal Communications Commission to re-impose a spectrum cap in light of the growing market presence of AT&T Mobility and Verizon Wireless in the mobile phone industry."In the absence of a spectrum cap, Verizon and AT&T will...
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin signaled the agency is prepared to fix a roaming snag faced by wireless providers delayed in constructing networks because spectrum licenses won at major auctions remain occupied by commercial and government users. ...
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--China: China Mobile Communications entered a frame agreement with Nokia...
With an influx of new spectrum, new networks coming online and new services to run over those networks, one might say that venture capitalists are backing both the tortoise and the hare to win in wireless. The interest in the quick-changing, what's-hot-next consumer application...
While wireless providers - large and small - differ on such hot-button issues as universal service support, exclusive handset arrangements and special access, the controversy over roaming has the potential to become the major fault line in the cellphone industry.The consolidation trend is making...
T-Mobile USA Inc. asked the Federal Communications Commission to extend up to three months the public comment cycle for a controversial free wireless Internet plan, a request that would provide additional time for interference testing and likely delay a final decision until after the...
The American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Frontier Foundation sued the Bush administration in federal court to obtain records on allegedly unchecked cellphone tracking by the government."This is a critical opportunity to shed much-needed light on possibly unconstitutional government surveillance techniques," said Catherine...
Suddenly, it's all about consolidating handset platforms. Today, LiPS said it would jump on the LiMo. Earlier this week, Nokia Corp. said it would buy out its partners in Symbian Ltd. in order to drive innovation and consolidation of that handset platform. The drivers...
Speech-recognition startup vlingo Corp. launched a free downloadable application that allows BlackBerry users to navigate their phones using voice. Vlingo for BlackBerry users can speak commands into their handsets to initiate phone calls, send a text or e-mail message, find contacts or search the...
WASHINGTON - Federal regulators agree that distracted drivers are dangerous. But the government won't require phones built into cars and trucks to shut down automatically when the vehicles are moving.Longtime safety advocate Clarence Ditlow proposed such a rule last year. It would have required...
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--China: China Mobile and Alcatel-Lucent signed a $1 billion framework...