Monthly Archives: December, 2008

Research indicates that 2010 will be the year that femtocell technology will boom, and the major carriers are positioning themselves to take advantage by...

A pair of wireless infrastructure vendors are set to face a tough 2009, as one company struggles to stay afloat and another changes strategy.Nortel...

The smartphone industry is approaching a security crossroad and fast: whether to open up and by how much.

"Service traffic" was running normally again tonight after a power failure at an AT&T facility in Michigan resulted in intermittent mobile service outages for...

Opportunities for collaboration present themselves with cloud computing. Since files are stored remotely, and because with the right software they could be accessible by...

Network limitations somewhat stymie what the iPhone and iPod touch can do with video, but that hasn’t prevented developers from trying to harness the...

Vermont has been one state that has been left out of the iPhone craze, given AT&T didn't operate there. But given the recent asset...

MacRumors has uncovered a nifty new patent application that discusses swipe gestures for touch-based, onscreen keyboards. The idea is that, instead of being limited...

When mobile-phone carriers advertise to consumers or lobby policymakers, they speak unabashedly in the most glowing terms about their services and products. Sometimes they...

Research In Motion Ltd. and Motorola Inc. continue to squabble in court regarding the future of employees that Motorola has already terminated or...

Google Inc. is helping giddy kids keep on eye on Santa with its mobile mapping application.The Internet giant has integrated Google Maps for mobile...

Mozilla is targeting developers with an upgraded alpha version of its mobile browser.Fennec - which takes its name from a small desert fox -...

THERE SEEM TO BE DOZENS OF STARTUPS aiming to build a business with voice and messaging services that leave carriers out of the revenue...

Forty percent of new network digital display platform installations will make use of SMS technology for interactivity by 2012, up from just 5% last...

The handset market is one big sale this season, if you conveniently ignore the service contract gambit that recoups a carrier's investment in the...

There's a chill in the air, the malls are packed and my daughters are taking Christmas ornaments off the tree and breaking them like...

Paying bribes for business didn't pay off for Siemens AG, as the company has agreed to pay $1.6 billion in fines to U.S. and...

During the next decade, the Internet will migrate from personal computers to mobile devices, according to new research from Berg Insight."There is only one...

Social networking applications that take advantage of location information could become a key driver for growing the location-based services market, according to a new...

The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.Handset and infrastructure vendors--Oppenheimer increased...

The Federal Communications Commission and the Department of Justice have approved wireless asset swaps between AT&T Mobility and Verizon Wireless.AT&T Inc. announced today that...

It's no secret that numerous companies have joined the Open Handset Alliance, which promotes Google's Android handset platform.Specifics are harder to come by. But...

As President-Elect Obama's administration continues to work on a financial plan to stimulate the country's sagging economy, the Public Safety Spectrum Trust Corp. is...

USA Today launched a free downloadable offering for the iPhone that delivers headlines and news stories, sports information, weather and images.The offering, which is...

Handango Inc. expanded its portfolio with two deals with mobile game makers Digital Chocolate and I-play.The distributor of smartphone applications added Digital Chocolate titles...