February 1 is the deadline for all new iOS apps to be optimized for iOS 7, Apple’s most current operating system. Apple says new apps and updates to existing ones …
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PayPal is diving deeper into mobile with the purchase of StackMob, a San Francisco startup that makes a cloud-based backend for mobile applications. StackMob customers include Verizon Wireless, Citibank, McKinsey …
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Sprint and Dish Network will experiment with fixed wireless broadband in Texas starting in the middle of next year. Today the two companies said that they will develop and deploy …
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As carriers undertake increasingly complex network deployments, software and automation are becoming more and more important. “Operators are looking at situations where they’re talking about tens of thousands of small …
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“5G” is a term that means different things to different people, but wireless veteran Yossi Cohen hopes it will be defined by a new wave modulation technique that may exponentially …
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Intel is buying the wireless assets of small cell expert Mindspeed, which agreed last month to be acquired by MACOM. Mindspeed said at that time that it would find a …
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Avago Technologies is buying LSI Corporation for $6.6 billion in a deal that will move the chipmaker into more parts of the wireless ecosystem, and expand its markets outside wireless …
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BlackBerry (BBRY) said today that an investor group led by Fairfax Financial will have another month to purchase an additional $250 million of convertible debentures. If the option is exercised, …
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Qualcomm (QCOM) said today that Steve Mollenkopf, its president and chief operating officer, will become CEO on March 4. Current CEO Paul Jacobs, son of Qualcomm founder Irwin Jacobs, will …
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With projections of a 35% compound annual growth rate in tablet PCs through 2016 and consumer demand for bandwidth at an all-time high, one would think that manufacturers would be …
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Walmart may be kicking off an iPhone price war. The retailer is getting ready to offer deep discounts on the 5s and the 5c. Starting on Friday the 13th, the …
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Instagram wants to become an instant messaging service, and it hopes that videos and photos will become a key part of mobile messaging. Today the Facebook subsidiary introduced Instagram Direct, …
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BlackBerry (previously called Research In Motion), created the smartphone market segment. Early BlackBerry devices had no phones, cameras, multimedia capabilities, or real apps, they just did email and later contacts …
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New York state attorney general Eric Schneidermann is reportedly asking carriers for information about the anti-theft software that Samsung wants to pre-load on mobile phones. Schneidermann wants to know why …
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Sprint CEO Dan Hesse told investors yesterday that the carrier’s decision to “rip and replace” its entire network had led to “dust issues” which have elevated churn in some markets. …
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Becoming part of Microsoft apparently will not stop Nokia from creating an Android smartphone. Codenamed Normandy, perhaps to symbolize a turning point, Nokia’s Android smartphone is reportedly slated for release …
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AT&T is thanking its Aio customers for their patience this morning after a service outage kept many users from sending and receiving calls and messages last night. AT&T says service …
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This week the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) reached first stage approval of a new broadband standard called G.fast. G.fast is a standard that improves the speed at which data can …
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With more than half of all smartphone sales now occurring in Asia, chipmakers are keenly focused on the priorities of Asian users. Location and mapping technologies are key requirements for …
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AT&T subscribers traveling in Canada can now take their LTE service with them. The carrier says it has a roaming agreement with Canada’s Rogers Communications. AT&T says the Rogers LTE …
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Verizon is deepening its commitment to mobile and online content delivery with the purchase of EdgeCast Networks, a content delivery network provider that specializes in e-commerce, media and entertainment. EdgeCast …
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The U.S. House of Representatives has passed bill called the Innovation Act by an overwhelming majority. The bill, which now heads to the Senate, would force patent holders to detail …
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AT&T launches mHealth device Carriers often think of the M2M market in terms of network traffic, but AT&T is taking a different approach with its EverThere mobile device for seniors …
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Apple and China Mobile may finally have a deal to offer the iPhone to the carrier’s 700 million-plus subscribers, but most of those people are unlikely to be able to …
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With Sprint and T-Mobile US accelerating their LTE rollouts while AT&T and Verizon complete theirs, demand for cell tower climbers and technicians has never been greater. “Smaller markets with 100,000 …