Leap Wireless International Inc. has a new, flashier Web site for its Cricket unlimited wireless service. "We are always looking for ways to make our services easier for our customers, and to improve their experience with Cricket," said Linda Wokoun, senior vice president of...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our Monday feature, Analyst Angle. We've collected a group of the industry's leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry. In the coming weeks look for columns from M:Metrics' Seamus McAteer, Ovum's Roger Entner...
Vignette is partnering with a couple of well-known mobile partners on a framework designed to manage and deliver content to both PCs and mobile phones.The Austin, Texas-based developer this week plans to unveil its Digital Services Hub, a multichannel offering that optimizes content across...
WASHINGTON-Privacy groups oppose Bush administration efforts to require wireless carriers and others to delay notifying customers when phone records and other personal data are stolen through subscriber impersonation and other fraudulent means. The Department of Justice wants a pretexting safeguard rule under consideration by...
Cyren Call Communications Corp. and the nation's first responders found a big-time lawmaker to champion legislation that would redirect 30 megahertz of auction-bound spectrum in the 700 MHz band for a nationwide public-safety broadband network. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said he will introduce the...
Senate lawmakers blasted Bush administration policy-makers over the implementation of a $43.5 million matching grant program to upgrade emergency dispatch centers so they can receive and process enhanced 911 location data from mobile phones.The Enhanced 911 Act, signed into law in December 2004, directed...
Through the years, Warner Bros. has become synonymous with long-standing, popular sitcoms. Soon after marketers brainstorm their latest and greatest advertising blitzes, you can be sure they'll be knocking on the studio's front gates. The advertising agencies and marketers sprinkled throughout Hollywood and beyond...
The world of mobile gaming encompasses roughly a half-dozen genres, from first-person shooters to pick-up-and-play casual titles. And now, finally, the wise money management quiz game.Visa USA is targeting teens with "Financial Football," a free wireless game released last week that puts mobile gamers...
Hedge*hog*ing v. Interrupting conversations in an office environment by poking your head over the top of the cube.--If you are one of the 12 people who haven't yet viewed Stephen Colbert's history of the new AT&T Inc., please go to Youtube.com to watch it....
For the young social networking addicts of the world, one of the last vestiges of computer-deficient spaces-the moving vehicle-may soon be MySpace-enabled through Wi-Fi. Backseat elbowing could be replaced with the tip-tapping of fingers on a keyboard. Mobile hot spots essentially use a Wi-Fi...
Motorola Inc.'s recent, sobering earnings report came with a number of explanations of how the American vendor would turn things around. Motorola executives mentioned, among several factors, their portfolio mix-and the role of 3G in a higher-average selling price, higher-margin mix of handsets. Ed...
As a testament to the fickleness of the wireless industry, Motorola Inc., once the bell of the handset ball, has fallen on hard times.Was it not so long ago that the Schaumburg, Ill.-based company was basking in the glow of its Razr dollars?...
Senate Commerce Committee members last week lamented-one after the other-the many policy ills confronted by the Federal Communications Commission. The universal service regime is broken. The United States is stumbling and bumbling on the global broadband stage. Rural areas are being left behind in...
Aided by elements such as its reputation, anticipation-fueled rumors and tight secrecy, Apple Inc.'s iPhone announcement in early January acted much like a Rorschach test, illuminating points of view and exposing insecurities.Above all, the as-yet unfinished device drew such a wide range and number...
Compete Inc.: "While Apple says it will soon reinvent the (music phone) category with the iPhone, shoppers say price, if not the need to switch carriers, may limit their purchase of the device. . The sweet spot for the iPhone appears to be closer...
Mobile-phone users who received unwanted text messages may get up to $150 following what appears to be an unprecedented settlement.Chicago law firm Blim & Edelson declared victory after a federal court approved the settlement between Distributive Networks L.L.C. and members of the class-action lawsuit....
Wireless UAs if the costs of tuition and books weren't enough, some students are finding wireless technology is causing their student fees to increase. Students at the University of Maryland may have to pay an additional $292 in room and board costs next year,...
While Qualcomm Inc.'s MediaFLO and Crown Castle International Corp.'s Modeo L.L.C. service have been taking up most of the ink on mobile broadcast TV, Hiwire L.L.C. has been working behind the scenes to build out its network based on the DVB-H standard.The company says...
Glowing praise for Modeo L.L.C.'s recently launched mobile broadcast television beta trial service in New York City is already rolling in."WOW!" is how Ric Prentiss of Raymond James and Associates Inc. summed up his two-day experience with the service and HTC device that Modeo...
Regional wireless retailer Wireless Zone has announced an ambitious plan to expand its 275 locations to a total of 400, in 400 business days. Wireless Zone CEO Kevin Sinclai, said that if the company isn't growing, it's losing its value to its partners and...
Texas Comptroller Susan Combs warned Sprint Nextel Corp. it could be audited and sued if it continues to collect fees from subscribers to cover the cost of the state's revised franchise tax, but the carrier said the law is on its side."It's not unusual...
Verizon Wireless SAID it captured 2.3 million net new customers in the fourth quarter, numbers that show it continues to dominate other national carriers with its retail performance.Cingular Wireless L.L.C., which reported last month, brought in more net customers-2.4 million customer additions-during the fourth...
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin is pushing a plan to treat wireless broadband service as an information service, a classification that would enable wireless Internet access providers to escape cumbersome common carrier rules imposed on wireless operators that are increasingly turning to Web-based...
