2008

Google Inc. co-founder Larry Page said there are not technical impediments to making vacant television channels – white spaces – available for unlicensed wireless broadband access, but that powerful lobbying forces want to convince the Federal Communications Commission otherwise.“I think …

Mobile virtual network enabler Visage Mobile announced plans to sell its Subscriber Management business to billing giant Convergys Corp. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.Visage was one of a number of so-called MVNEs that rose in the wake of …

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Allie Winter has joined RCR Wireless News as a reporter covering the wireless carrier beat. Winter, a Minnesota native, graduated from the University of Minnesota with a Bachelor of Science degree in broadcast journalism. Previously, she worked as a reporter …

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Samsung Electronics said Thursday it was consolidating some of its key businesses a week after announcing a new executive lineup.

The UK’s Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has welcomed the release of the Advanced Trusted Environment recommendations document from the mobile industry’s device requirements body, OMTP.

Google is committed to many open-source tenets with its Android mobile phone software–but it’s willing to step on a few open-source toes, too.

You’ve already got a phonebook on your cellphone. What about turning that list into a social network?

PARIS – Advertising on mobile phones has enormous potential to become a significant platform for marketers, but any breakthrough is years away and major operators must work together to succeed, executives said.

The Global Positioning System that helps us navigate the highways was a brilliant idea. So brilliant that industry watchers at ABI Research Inc. in New York say there will be 900 million such devices in use worldwide in another five …

In Korea where broadband Internet speed is one of the world’s fastest, downloading a two-hour movie file may not take more than five minutes.

Exactly one week after EarthLink Inc. said it would be shutting down its nearly citywide municipal Wi-Fi network in Philadelphia, one of the city’s elected officials is making political hay out of what he sees as a major loss for …

Virgin Mobile USA has tapped AOL’s Platform-A to handle its WAP banner inventory.Platform-A will serve as the “exclusive display advertising and sales partner” for the mobile virtual network operator’s mobile Web inventory, delivering banner ads across Virgin’s deck. “Working with …

Qualcomm Inc. will buy a stake in ip.access Ltd., a U.K.-based femtocell vendor. The dollar amount of the investment and Qualcomm’s relative share in ip.access were not made public, but ip.access said the stake was not a controlling one.Other well-known …

AT&T Mobility is set to put the icing on its 3G network cake. The industry’s No. 1 carrier said that by the end of June it expects to have its entire 3G network upgraded to High Speed Uplink Packet Access …

Alltel Communications L.L.C. is the latest major mobile-phone carrier to be tagged with a patent infringement suit by NTP Inc., the Virginia-based patent holding firm that scored a $612.5 million settlement with Research in Motion Ltd. in 2006 before setting …

PARIS – The world’s top handset maker Nokia Oyj expects the role of the Linux operating system in its product portfolio to increase as the role of its internet-focused devices grows, company officials said.

Will Sprint follows its competitors lead and restrict mobile broadband subscribers to 5 gigabytes of monthly combined upstream and downstream data usage?

Wi-Fi security has greatly improved over the past few years, so it’s time to stop reviving the arguments of the past.

I was never much for the annoying and persistent rumor that Google was going to become a national broadband provider.

A Philippine mobile service provider plans to offer free service to subscribers who agree to receive advertisements on their cell phones, company officials said Tuesday.

NEW YORK – Hulu, the video website owned by News and NBC Universal, said its service will be distributed on seven new sites, making its archive of popular television shows more widely available.

The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.Carrier–Credit Suisse First Boston lowered its estimates on Leap Wireless to a loss of $1.03 from breakeven for 2008 due to …

The government is quietly negotiating to help cell phone customers avoid expensive fees when they cancel contracts with wireless companies, The Associated Press has learned.