Yearly Archives: 2007

Bplay, Hands on Mobile celebrate launch of poker for BlackBerry

Where the days of yesteryear may have seen executives working business deals and networking on the golf course, the poker table has become the...

Financiers smile on mobile social networking firms

Investment capital continued to flow into the mobile social networking space as two new startups closed their first rounds of funding.Project Goth, which operates...

American Tower releases solid financials

American Tower Corp., one of the big three in the wireless tower industry, showed positive growth in its financial results for the first quarter...

Apptix goes for mobile IM with $7M WebMessenger purchase

Apptix announced it acquired WebMessenger Inc. for $7 million in a combination of cash and company stock. The company aims to enhance its e-mail...

Analyst Angle: The Death of the Car Navigation System: Cellphones provide both portability and GPS-style services

Editor's Note: Welcome to our Monday feature, Analyst Angle. We've collected a group of the industry's leading analysts to give their outlook on the...

Etc.

Nursing home, lobster films drawtop honors at CellFlix Film FestivalFollowing a blind judging process masking school affiliation and biographical information, professional filmmakers and editors...

Alltel record growth boosted by prepaid

As it continues to be the target of rumors of an acquisition by one of its larger competitors, Alltel Corp. enthusiastically reported double-digit revenue...

Skype’s proposal plays to sky-high emotions, laser-like legal details

The Skype debate is playing out on two distinctly deliberate levels-one that plays to the nitty gritty of the law and another that plays...

Finnish city matches wireless with practical apps for business, gov’t

OULU, Finland-This small city in the cold north, with its combination of cobblestone streets and sleek technology buildings, is integrating wireless service into everyday...

Many know about iPhone, few expected to buy

While 77% of cellphone users are "slightly familiar" with Apple Inc.'s iPhone and 41% have a good impression of the yet-to-be-released device, only 6%...

Google tops on mobile Web

Google.com topped the list of the most popular mobile Web sites in the both United States and the United Kingdom for the second month...

WiMAX integrated circuit market moves to mobility

The WiMAX integrated circuit market has made a dramatic shift from fixed WiMAX to Mobile WiMAX during the past three quarters, according to In-Stat.The...

Alltel launches Wafer phone, Day Pass daily Web access

Alltel Corp. added "The Wafer"-a new, thin, bar-style handset from Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.-to its portfolio. The handset is $50 with a mail-in rebate...

People

AT&TEd Whitacre announced that he will retire as CEO and chairman of the board at AT&T Inc. effective June 3. The 65-year-old executive...

Exhibit features cameraphone photos

"Alleyways are good except you run into homeless people, and people think you're crazy because you're walking around with a phone," photographer Patrice Elmi...

WHO ARE YOU?: Finding mobile user game of 20 Questions

Like a kid futilely looking for a sugar fix, mobile advertising companies are struggling to cope with an empty cookie jar.Online advertisers and publishers...

Mission accomplished

You'd think leaders of this habitually war-beaten country would have neither the time nor luxury to ingratiate themselves in the kind of palace intrigue...

A crack in the door

Nokia Corp. CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo recently lamented that in the United States, he must meet the strict demands of four customers. And, according to...

Brands call up the third screen: Using wireless to market frought with risk, reward

As companies seek to extend their brands into the mobile space and take advantage of its one-on-one, personal connections, they face the challenges of...

USF cap incites wireless carriers, congressmen: Worries grow that ‘temporary’ measure will become permanent

The Republican-led Federal Communications Commission, already under siege from the Democratic-controlled Congress on a slew of telecom issues, could be hearing lots more from...

Traffic application aims to drive down stress

Traffic is as American as apple pie-millions of commuters face challenges and choices every day as they search for the least stressful, most direct...

Nokia’s N75 at AT&T: First step on American journey to establish brand value?

The word last week that Nokia Corp.'s new N75 device would debut soon at AT&T Mobility drew its share of attention, for good reason....

Bush admin questions broadband ranking methods : Wi-Fi, municipal Wi-Fi and college campus connections not properly counted, feds charge

When it comes to reporting global broadband rankings, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has become to Bush administration telecom officials what Al...

Movies watched on cellphones dangerous, not necessary

Dear Editor, Netflix recently made it possible for people to stream movies and television shows to their personal computers. According to Netflix CEO Reed...

Patent reform desired, but elusive

Congress and the courts are getting serious about intervening in the thriving American business known as patent litigation. While critics claim the U.S. patent...
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