Monthly Archives: August, 2008
Linux group adds more members, embedded handsets hit markets
The LiMo Foundation announced nine new members today and said that more handsets with its operating system are launching in North America and Japan....
What you need to know about imaging solutions for camera phones
Today's camera phones will give way to 'intelligent' phones that use their image camera subsystems in ways beyond simple still image or video capture.
Rumor Mill: iPhone nano in time for Christmas
About this time a year ago rumors began circulating about a smaller nano-sized iPhone. The UK’s Daily Mail has resurrected the rumor again, just...
Update: Apple resurrects iPhone tethering app, then kills it yet again
Apple yanks connection-sharing software from App Store a second time. The on-again, off-again saga of NetShare, an iPhone tethering application, continued over the weekend...
AT&T All But Confirms iPhone Exclusivity Extended Until 2010 [IPhone]
In an overlooked USA Today article from Friday, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson and "insider sources" quietly all but confirmed that the company has retained...
TerreStar signs roaming agreement with AT&T
Satellite communications company TerreStar Networks Inc. said it signed a nationwide reciprocal roaming agreement with AT&T Inc.TerreStar is developing an all-IP integrated satellite-terrestrial communications...
Verizon Wireless upgrades to visual voicemail: LG Voyager first to offer service
Verizon Wireless quietly launched visual voicemail, allowing customers to view caller and voicemail information and listen to voicemail messages in any order on their...
Sagem, world’s No. 8 handset maker, to go to venture capital firm: Owner Safran to take $343M hit as part of deal
Safran said it will swallow $343 million to spin off its troubled Sagem Mobiles division to venture capital firm Sofinnova.Sofinnova plans to rebrand the...
Nortel stock plunges on outlook
Nortel Networks Corp.'s stock plunged nearly 15% after the infrastructure provider released relatively flat second quarter results, but warned of future instability in the...
Toshiba shuts down Japanese mobile TV effort
Toshiba Corp. said it will shut down its four-year-old, satellite-based digital multimedia broadcasting service, which it offers via its Mobile Broadcasting Corp. business unit.The...
Nokia, D&G see 10% clickthrough on viral effort
Luxury brand Dolce&Gabbana said it ran a successful mobile advertising campaign on the Nokia Media Network.The company's youth-oriented brand, D&G, used a viral campaign...
Fall gal
I guess if you lose a few billion dollars, someone has to take the blame. Or at least that was the case last week...
Moto CEO: iPhone knockoff in the works
Motorola Inc. says its troubled handset business is improving and will be stronger by the end of the year, but CEO Gregory Brown isn't...
Verizon Wireless pulls controversal pit-bull ad
Verizon Wireless is the latest marketer to yank an ad deemed offensive, in what has become a minor trend of marketers caving to pressure...
Femtocell market set for 2010 ramp up
Despite the buzz surrounding the femtocell market, 2008 will probably be a low-key year for femtocell vendors with only about 100,000 units expected to...
FCC rules Comcast violated Internet access policy
WASHINGTON — A divided Federal Communications Commission has ruled that Comcast Corp.
Venture capital financing wrap-up: Celeno and deCarta
The following list includes venture capital and other investments into wireless companies announced during the past week. The value of the investment is included...
Nokia to beef up venture fund, expand in China
Nokia Corp. is more than doubling the size of its direct venture investment fund with an injection of $150 million, with a view to...
Apple Puts The Kibosh On Tethering Application For The iPhone
Yesterday, a $10 application from Nullriver appeared in the iPhone Apps Store that allowed you to use the iPhone to access the Internet via...
France to boost competition in mobile telephony through MVNOs
The French competition authority Conseil de la concurrence (equivalent of the FTC in the US) wants the government to ease regulations governing mobile virtual...
GSM growth to spur GPS-enabled handset proliferation
More than 550 million GPS-enabled mobile phones are expected to ship by 2012, according to a new report from ABI Research."While most CDMA handsets...