Of all the industries that the soon-to-be-merged Nokia Siemens Networks will play in, the most important are radio access; services core and applications, which includes IMS; and transport and broadband access. Just which is of primary importance depends on which of the company's customers...
In case you've been hiding under a rock, music phones are hot. But simple usability, clear directions and "out of the box" pleasures have varied across the industry, according to analysts. Those two assertions explain, in part, the arrival of Nokia Corp.'s 5300...
Hedge*hog*ing v. Interrupting conversations in an office environment by poking your head over the top of the cube.Ontela lent us a demo of its PicDeck technology, which automatically uploads photos and videos from consumers' mobile camera phones and transfers them to their PCs...
AT&T Inc. and Qwest Communications International Inc. are embroiled in a legal tussle with several small local exchange carriers and Web companies over call termination fees, and have filed several lawsuits and blocked wireless callers from using certain services as a result.AT&T kicked off...
In the post 9/11 world, wireless carriers find themselves uncomfortable partners in what privacy advocates view as an unholy alliance between the federal government and telecom industry in the war on terror. Critics see it as a war on American civil liberties. It is...
Rep. Chip Pickering (R-Miss.) plans to offer a bill mandating a federal standard for interoperable public-safety communications if one cannot be achieved voluntarily. But emerging technological solutions appear to be altering the broader debate over first-responder spectrum and interoperability and disrupting the competitive landscape...
Music fans face a tough choice, Quincy Jones III said at the recent Digital Media Summit in Hollywood, Calif., either continue putting money into the "evil, corporate middle man" that are the record labels or get your music fix by some other means.Jones, who's...
FlipswapFlipswap, an outsourced cell phone trade-in solution for retailers, said it has signed integration partnerships with retail management system providers iQmetrix, Work Wireless, TeleTracker and CellSell.Flipswap's Web-based software allows retailers to formulate a guaranteed trade-in quote for old phones. The value can then be...
Helping the homelessVirgin Mobile USA said three recording artists have joined it's The RE*Generation initiative that focuses on issues surrounding at-risk youth and homeless teens. Deftones, Lil'Boosie and Zero 7 all have signed on to the effort. Existing artists include Gnarls Barkley, James Blunt,...
DanielsDavid Parker has been promoted to managing director at Daniels & Associates. Parker is a member of the firm's Telecommunications Group and is responsible for advising communications service providers and telecom infrastructure companies on mergers & acquisitions and corporate financing. He has been with...
As the April 9 deadline draws near for renewing an existing cross-licensing agreement between Nokia Corp. and Qualcomm Inc., the Finnish handset maker has filed complaints in two European courts asking that the courts find certain Qualcomm patents "exhausted." Such a finding would free...
Some of the world's biggest corporations want to turn your phone into a portable, multimedia entertainment system. But John Pollard just wants to make your phone a digital Post-It note.Pollard, along with fellow former Microsoft Corp. executive Shreedhar Madhavapeddi, last year co-founded Jott Networks...
Teens and young adults dominate the console gaming space, but mobile publishers are hoping their parents can help take wireless gaming into the mainstream.Gameloft this week plan to announce a deal with Research in Motion Ltd. to develop, market and distribute games for BlackBerry...
Based on new statistics that suggest soccer moms and teens are warming to smartphones, Handango Inc. is making seven predictions for the smartphone and mobile content market for 2007. The global content provider with a distribution network of more than 16,000 content partners is...
Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.), chairman of the House Commerce subcommittee on oversight and investigations, said he soon plans to re-introduce legislation making permanent the National Telecommunications and Information Administration's public-safety interoperability grant program. NTIA, a unit of the Commerce Department, recently contracted with the...
The battle of the titans continued last week as the industry's No. 1 and No. 2 carriers rolled out dueling promotional efforts centered on popular handsets. AT&T Inc.'s Cingular division, the No. 1 operator, cut the price of the LG Electronics Co. Ltd. CU400,...
IT'S BEEN IN THE MARKET for less than a month, but TV network executives are excited about advertising opportunities presented by MediaFLO USA Inc.'s mobile broadcast TV network.Each of the television networks running on the eight-channel lineup make use of theircommercial breaks in different...
ONCE UPON A TIME, in the deep past-about six months ago, say-the global handset business started looking fairly predictable. Nokia Corp. had steadily amassed dominant market share while maintaining relatively steady if sometimes unspectacular revenue and profits. Motorola Inc. made giddy strides in pursuit...
THE HEADY MIX of mobility, computing and the Internet now sweeping the mobile industry is akin to getting gassed with nitrous oxide at the dentist. Suddenly, preposterous notions seem plausible, even amusing. Yet, in this pervasive fog, it's difficult to discount the possibilities.Enter the...
The wireless industry cheered the Federal Communications Commission's decision to classify wireless broadband as an information service, while Commissioner Michael Copps said the agency needs to delve further into the policy implications of Internet-enabled wireless devices and in particular to examine whether the ...
Less than six months after CDMA2000 1x EV-DO Revision A service was first launched by Sprint Nextel Corp., both Sprint Nextel and its larger competitor Verizon Wireless have been speedily expanding their coverage areas-and appear to be neck-and-neck in terms of number of potential...
Openwave Systems Inc. has put up the 'for sale' sign. The question is, who wants it?The Redwood City, Calif.-based developer last week announced the resignation of CEO David Peterschmidt and said it has retained Merrill Lynch as a financial adviser to explore strategic alternatives...
InterDigital Communications Corp. is trumpeting a complaint against Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., alleging to the United States International Trade Commission that the Korean phone maker has engaged in unfair trade practices by importing handsets into the U.S. that infringe on three of InterDigital's 3G...
Modeo L.L.C. has officially canceled its press conference scheduled for Tuesday afternoon at the CTIA Wireless 2007 show in Orlando, Fla. The broadcast mobile TV provider was expected to announced results from its beta trial currently underway in New York City, and discuss more...
