Yearly Archives: 2008

Virgin Mobile USA tweaks calling plans

Virgin Mobile USA Inc. is to unroll a set of new pricing plans that streamlines some of its pay-as-you-go offerings and enhances features included...

Dell’s leaked Latitude E6000 and E5000-series of laptops pack GPS, DisplayPort, WWAN, UWB and much more

Our week o' Dell scoops continues with what Dell calls its "mainstream" and "essential" series of Latitude E-series laptops.

Research and Markets: World GPS Market Forecast to 2012 Is Now Available

Research and Markets has announced the addition of World GPS Market Forecast to 2012 to their offering.

Massa wins pole in Malaysia; McLaren drivers penalized

SEPANG, Malaysia (AP) -- McLaren's Lewis Hamilton and Heikki Kovalainen were penalized five grid places Saturday for impeding other drivers and rival Ferrari took...

Vantage Communications VIP Tapped as Finalist in 23rd Annual CODiE Awards

Vantage Communications, a company providing hosted unified communications, has announced that the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) has chosen its Vantage...

700 MHz auction ends: Wireless heavyweights biggest players, others surprise

Verizon Wireless and AT&T Mobility ran the table at the 700 MHz auction, accounting for most of the record $19.6 billion in bidding that...

Samsung sees slower growth in U.S. volume this year: Single-digit growth forecast as near-saturated market sees ‘ferocious’ competition

SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO. LTD. appears to be upping the ante in the U.S. cellphone market, where it is No. 2 - some distance behind...

THE ‘IN’ CROWD: Content providers find success through social networking

CARRIER DECKS AND AGGREGATOR STOREFRONTS are so last year. Because application developers are quickly discovering that the hottest places to showcase their wares are...

NTIA pushes technology, spectrum mngt. tools

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration released a comprehensive report on federal government frequency usage, setting in motion initiatives to help agencies better exploit...

Public safety needs a plan B

The government - not just the Federal Communications Commission - failed in its plan to deploy a mixed-use network that could be used by...

Morale hazard

So it was on a sunny, wickedly windy day last Thursday that identities of winning 700 MHz bidders roared out of the Federal Communications...

CTIA takes the big show back to Sin City: CTIA Wireless 2008 set for Las Vegas

CTIA is taking its big show back west this year as the CTIA Wireless 2008 event is set to take place April 1-3 in...

Heading into CTIA 2008: All quiet (O.K., fairly quiet) on the handset front

At the end of the day - the verbal pause du jour - a gathering of thousands of industry people bursting with innovative products,...

Sprint Nextel updates mobile Web browser: Move designed to allow access to all Web content

Sprint Nextel Corp. last week rolled out an updated Web browser designed to deliver "a PC-like experience" on mobile phones. But not everyone is...

Mobile radio hits right notes with cellphone users

Ringtone sales are flat and full-track mobile download services are falling on deaf ears. But streaming wireless music offerings may be hitting the right...

Digital Silos delay wireless entertainment adoption: Domain management could solve issue

BURLINGAME, Calif. - The idea of wireless handsets and home consumer electronics being interconnected, seamlessly sharing content is one that would be a boom...

Livewire gets its groove on: Ringback provider goes broader with Groove Mobile purchase

NMS Communications Corp. subsidiary LiveWire Mobile is hoping to gain traction in a very slippery space: full-track mobile downloads.LiveWire, which was rolled out as...

Hedgehogging: hedge*hog*ging v. Interrupting conversations in an office environment by poking your head over the top of the cube.

So we never expected that Google would actually become a wireless licensee, but the FCC certainly did not get its wish for a bunch...

FCC to start collecting more detailed broadband info: Wireless carriers resist giving tower details, cite national security reasons

The Federal Communications Commission took steps to improve outdated broadband data collection, an issue of concern to wireless carriers. An issue that's tied to...

D-Block challenges in play despite auction’s end

As for the D Block, which received a single $472 million bid from Qualcomm Inc. in the opening round and eventually fell far short...

Wireless demand strong from enterprise in Europe

A report from Strategy Analytics finds there is strong demand among small and large enterprises for wireless services in Europe."Spending on wireless solutions is...

FMC market to count 250M users by 2012

The fixed-mobile convergence market could grow to 250 million users by 2012, according to new research from ABI Research.Converged services on fixed and mobile...

Mobile phone sales top 146M in 2007

Sales of mobile phones to consumers in the United States reached 146 million units in 2007, according to a report from The NPD Group....

Appeals court gives no hints on Sprint Nextel rebanding ruling

A federal appeals court gave few signals how it will rule on Sprint Nextel Corp.'s challenge to the Federal Communications Commission's 800 MHz rebanding...
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