Monthly Archives: May, 2007
Airadigm launches commercial cell broadcast service in Wisconsin
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Airadigm Communications' Einstein Wireless, a GSM cellphone carrier in Wisconsin, said it fired up the nation's first cellular broadcast emergency alert system covering the...
Edwards backs Frontline, tech industry’s 700 MHz plans
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Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards urged the Federal Communications Commission to fashion 700 MHz rules to further the reach of the Internet using an...
Prince, Verizon Wireless match-up
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Verizon Wireless, meet Prince, the prolific artist who aggressively protects his fusion of just about every musical genre imaginable. The man whose bitter battle...
Difficult access to games could cost carriers $110M
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U.S. carriers are missing out on millions of dollars by making it difficult for users to discover and download mobile games, according to new...
Second times a charm: Sprint Nextel snares piece of government contract
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Sprint Nextel Corp. made the cut this time, snagging one of the prized contracts in a multibillion-dollar program to modernize the federal government's telecommunications...
Oberon saunters into mobile gaming space with I-play acquisition
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Online casual gaming giant Oberon Media bought its way onto the mobile playground, picking up London-based publisher I-play for an undisclosed sum.Oberon powers storefronts...
Clearwire completes 2.5 GHz spectrum acquisition
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Clearwire Corp. completed its acquisition of 2.5 GHz spectrum from AT&T Inc.; the larger company had to divest itself of the spectrum as part...
The billion-dollar diet: Moto says 4,000 more must go
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Motorola Inc. said yesterday that it would cut 4,000 more jobs in the coming year, on top of 3,500 job cuts to be completed...
The transition rolls on: Cingular site now AT&T
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As AT&T Inc. continues its acceleration of transitioning away from the Cingular brand, the company has revamped Cingular.com into an AT&T-branded site. Instead of...
Worst of the Week: Walking dead
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Hello! And welcome to our Thursday column, Worst of the Week. There's a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so...
Federal health lawsuits remanded back to states
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WASHINGTON-A federal judicial panel has conditionally remanded a brain cancer lawsuit and class action headset lawsuit against mobile phone companies to courts in Florida...
Third Screen, iLoop join forces to automate mobile ad tracking
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Third Screen Media Inc. and iLoop Mobile plan to work together to help companies looking to generate advertising revenue from their wireless Web sites.The...
U.S. hot for enterprise apps; U.K. warming to mobile content
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Enterprise applications are poised for impressive growth in the United States while the U.K. mobile content market is approaching a "tipping point," according to...
Alltel, MetroPCS hint at 700 MHz plans
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Alltel Corp. made clear its interest in the upcoming 700 MHz spectrum auction in filings with the Federal Communications Commission, and requested that the...
Consumers hanging onto handsets longer
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Longer contracts are pushing American consumers to keep their handsets longer, according to a new study by J.D. Power and Associates. The average length...
LCC snares WFI’s engineering biz for $46M
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Following a major financial reporting setback due to an internal review of stock-options granting practices in mid-March, Wireless Facilities Inc. announced it has agreed...
Jury awards Broadcom $19.6M
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Broadcom Corp. is "pleased" and "gratified" that a federal jury in Santa Ana, Calif., found Qualcomm Inc. willfully infringed on three of its patents...
Enterprise CMD shipments to top 82M units by 2011
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Business users in Western Europe and other regions will help drive surging sales of smartphones and other converged devices over the next few years,...
RIM’s Curve launches at AT&T Mobility
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It's official: the BlackBerry Curve from Research In Motion Ltd., is available at AT&T Mobility beginning tomorrow. Price is $200, with two-year contract and...
Growth in accessories to surpass smartphones
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You've heard that smartphones are the growth area in mobile handsets, with actual numbers to support this development-long-sought by vendors seeking higher average selling...
Wheeler joins LimeLife’s board as part of investment deal
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Women's mobile content startup LimeLife Inc. pocketed $3.9 million in funding-and a potentially important new board member-thanks to Core Capital Partners.LimeLife targets on-the-go women...
Analyst: 3G is a Qualcomm game
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The global trend toward 3G technologies will lift Qualcomm Inc.'s earnings and stock value over the coming years-despite the company's ongoing dispute with Nokia...
Nortel linked to Avaya in merger speculation: Merged company would focus on enterprise, professional services
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The enterprise telephony space is ripe for consolidation, a Prudential analyst said in a new report, and there is plenty of appetite in the...
TCS wins $12.1M verdict against Sybase
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A Virginian jury ruled in favor of TeleCommunication Systems Inc. in the company's patent-infringement battle with Sybase Inc., awarding TCS a one-time payment of...
PopCap strides into wireless with Chuzzle
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Online gaming giant PopCap Games launched its first internally developed wireless title with a mobile version of its popular game Chuzzle.PopCap claims to have...