2008

The National Association of Broadcasters warned Congress that allowing unlicensed wireless operations in vacant television spectrum could jeopardize the transition to digital TV, continuing the highly charged debate with tech companies over a proposal to expand Wi-Fi into white spaces.“For …

SAN DIEGO–Verizon Wireless affirmed its commitment to Qualcomm’s BREW platform, announcing at the BREW developers event it would enhance its Get It Now content deck with new features such as short-code third-party transactions and customized merchandizing for customers.

Retailers and restaurants can run coupons in local newspapers to try and pull more consumers in. With mobile technology, they can do the same not just when consumers are at home or the office but when they are standing near …

While not yet ready for everyone, organizations should consider buying notebooks with embedded wireless broadband capability for moderate to extensive travelers in 2009.

There was a time when only the IT shop had the smarts to hook a smartphone into the enterprise network and grant it access to services such as mobile email. Today, that’s just not the case. Just about any average …

Google I/O Google will offer an iPhone-like app store ( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/07/iphone_sdk_debuts/ ) for Android, giving developers a central means of distributing applications on its soon-to-be-open-source mobile platform. At least, it looks that way.

If there’s anything the iPhone has lacked compared with other phones in its class, it has been high-speed connectivity and the ability to determine its location accurately. Apple (AAPL) will address the first shortcoming in a matter of days, when …

It turns out that the Samsung L870 handset that was reported to be the first phone other than the iPhone to use Apple’s Safari browser, well, isn’t.

The optical networking market has topped $3 billion for the seventh consecutive quarter.

LOS ANGELES — Amazon.com said Friday that publisher Simon & Schuster Inc. will make 5,000 more books available for the Amazon Kindle wireless reader, bumping to 125,000 the number of titles users can download and read.

The following list includes venture capital and other investments into wireless companies announced during the past week. The value of the investment is included when available. —Altierre: D.E. Shaw Group and Labrador Ventures invested $8 million in a second closing …

Ever looked at your cellphone menu and wondered what the heck the wrench is for? Or the clipboard? Or any other random icon put there to help, but which sometimes makes using a cellphone even more confusing? Well, imagine your …

The success of smartphones among U.S. shoppers has served to boost the average purchase price for cellphones, according to new research from J.D. Power and Associates. According to the firm’s survey of almost 20,000 cellphone owners, the average price paid …

The Federal Trade Commission said it snuffed out an alleged pretexting scheme in which at least two parties were accused of obtaining cellphone records from wireless carriers by impersonating subscribers and later selling the confidential data to third parties.The FTC …

As its BREW developer conference kicks into high gear today, Qualcomm Inc. announced a handful of efforts designed to entice a broader array of players into the mobile content field.–Qualcomm took the wraps off its new “Plaza” effort, which the …

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 this column is a chance for us at RCRWirelessNews.com to rant and rave about whatever rubs …

Less than a year after The Nielsen Co. acquired mobile research and measurement firm Telephia, digital measurement company comScore Inc. made its own move into mobile. The firm announced it purchased M:Metrics Inc. – Telephia’s former rival – in a …

In case book buyers felt limited by stores, direct mail and online options, Barnes & Noble is adding one more: mobile phones. The Manhattan-based book retailer announced the launch of B&N mobile (wwww.bn.com/mobile), an e-commerce site accessible via any mobile …

India’s Tata Teleservices has announced that it will commercially deploy a new location-based service that is the first to use Qualcomm’s Assisted GPS (A-GPS) technology in the Indian market.

If you expect a growth in sales for your mobile operating system over the coming years, it follows that you make sure your sites render well on mobile browsers.

When they use their mobile phones to go online, Americans flock to different sites than when they surf from their computers. Meet the mobile Web

STOCKHOLM -(Dow Jones)- Nokia said Thursday its plan to use one chip for radio technology in its mobile handsets is still on track, despite news from supplier Infineon Technologies of delays.

New research claims that IT security vendors are developing products to support a next-generation of “deperimeterised” business networks that have been opened up to support collaboration between customers, partners and staff..

Network equipment maker Cisco has unveiled a new mobility appliance, which it claims will ease businesses’ path to unified collaboration. The Cisco 3350 Mobility Services Engine helps users unify fixed line, mobile, and Wi-Fi networks to improve collaboration using mobile …

The Amazon Kindle e-book reader is back in the news again with a headline $40 device price cut to US$359, with Jeff Bezos giving an interview at the annual All Things Digital soiree, and various financial analysts speculating about sales …