Monthly Archives: February, 2009
Nokia phone still works after week inside a fish
When it comes to losing your cell phone in the sea, you expect it to be buried there. You certain don't expect it to...
iPhone apps are the real money-maker, analyst says
Call it the Apple App Store effect, says the ABI Research study on mobile storefronts. Despite having one of the smallest catalogs of all...
Mapping a new, mobile Internet
A nascent industry involving the likes of Google and Nokia is pinpointing the movements and behaviors of millions of cell-phone users
LG Versa’s detachable QWERTY: $200 feature phone seeks attention at Verizon
Verizon Wireless will begin selling the Versa by LG Electronics Co. for $200 with rebate and two-year contract on March 1.A multimedia handset with...
Nokia’s big miss: Company’s 5800 touchscreen smartphone launches in U.S. with no carrier support
Nokia Corp. said today it would offer its mid-tier, touchscreen smartphone - the 5800 XpressMusic - in the United States for $400, with no...
Ko takes the rudder of Yahoo’s mobile operations
Yahoo Inc. tapped David Ko to replace outgoing mobile chief Marco Boerries.A nine-year Yahoo executive, Ko most recently led Yahoo's business operations globally and...
AT&T Mobility, RadioShack hit with 3G netbook class-action lawsuit: $5,000 overage bill riles plantiff
A class-action lawsuit with potentially far-reaching legal, policy and business implications has been lodged against AT&T Mobility and RadioShack Corp. over a novel 3G...
Nuance to acquire Zi for $35M
Nuance Communications Inc. said it will spend $35 million to acquire Zi Corp., ending a long-lasting - and contentious - courtship.The developer of speech-recognition...
Q4 tough on T-Mobile USA, No. 4 carrier posts dip in growth, ARPU
Fourth-quarter numbers from T-Mobile USA Inc. showed that the industry's No. 3 and No. 4 players (Sprint Nextel Corp. and T-Mobile USA, respectively) were...
Is a closed deal a done deal? Reports of Alltel death greatly exaggerated
On one level, Alltel Communications L.L.C. ceased to exist after Verizon Wireless closed its $28 billion acquisition of the Little Rock, Ark., company in...
Leap’s expansion pays off in new subscribers, but buildout costs drag on profits: Wireless provider scores 385,000 new customers in Q4
Leap Wireless International Inc.'s growth is going according to plan, but the carrier is paying for it, literally. In its fourth-quarter results, Leap reported...
Asset, energy management to drive M2M revenues
Machine-to-machine technology represents one of a small number of bright spots in the global economic slowdown.According to a new study from market research and...
Your cellphone as a boarding pass? Some airlines are testing it: Delta Air Lines, American Airlines, others incorporate wireless into operations
From boarding passes to checking in luggage, airlines are testing wireless technology in efforts to speed travelers through to their destinations.Delta Air Lines, American...
Jaguar, Land Rover make $1.6M mobile advertising buy: Despite recession, past performance in medium leads to spending increases
Jaguar and Land Rover have committed to mobile buys worth a collective $1.6 million for 2009, according to AdMob, the ad network that has...
Myxer, Verizon Wireless back on track after ‘porno’ dustup : VZW allows access to mobile content provider after 8-month expulsion
Verizon Wireless customers can once again directly access services from mobile content retailer Myxer. The nation's No. 1 wireless provider pulled its support of...
Obama hopes to raise $4.8B by imposing spectrum license fees on wireless providers: Congress will have to pass legislation to enact the proposal
President Obama called for spectrum license fees in a record $3.9 trillion budget, released today, reviving a proposal that has failed to move in...
U.S. Cellular posts modest growth: Impairment charge hampers net income
The wireless industry's No. 5 carrier U.S. Cellular Corp. added 20,000 customers during the fourth quarter of 2008, which was less than half the...
Microsoft lands Vodafone biz for biz: Firms target mobile enterprise
Vodafone Group plc, Europe's largest network operator, and Microsoft Corp. have teamed up to offer the operator's enterprise customers a unified communications and collaboration...
MetroPCS posts record customer growth in Q4, tops 5M customer mark
MetroPCS Communications Inc. said it added a company record 520,000 net customers during the fourth quarter of 2008, and ended the year with 5.4...
AT&T, Verizon Wireless crux of FEMA’s telecom reform
It is a new era for the Federal Emergency Management Administration as it streamlines communications for emergencies and its day-to-day operations.The federal agency, which...
Canadian tweets won’t be cheap: Bell to charge 15 cents per
Canadians who use Twitter are fuming at Bell Canada for bringing the messaging service to mobile phones, but attaching a steep price tag to...
Worst of the Week: Sprint Nextel and price war mongering
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...
Search spending expected to rise, but what about the clicks?
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But just how effective is search? New research from Penn State University suggests that people click on both paid and organic search links much...
‘Light’ PC Web users are more likely to surf mobile: ComScore: Consumers are on the move so marketers should adjust buys
Always-online Internet junkies might seem to be the most likely users to lead the charge in adopting the mobile Web, but a recent ComScore...