Ever had to wait 10 minutes for a credit card transaction in a cab to go through? Those days might be over for New York City's iconic yellow cab fleet thanks to the Sprint-Nextel Corp. and VeriFone Holdings Inc. taxi business, VeriFone Transportation Systems...
In today's wireless world, your marketing messages have to be able to reach consumers no matter where they check their email. Here's how to mobilize your campaigns.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - As personal computers go, the new rash of ultra-mini laptops are full of geeky goodness. Light, portable and powerful, they are almost perfect. Almost.
TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Mobile phone operator Cellcom (CEL.TA: Quote , Profile , Research , Stock Buzz ) (CEL.N: Quote , Profile , Research , Stock Buzz ) on Sunday launched a new advertising model in Israel enabling subscribers to accumulate free air time...
Consumer interest in mobile banking and payments services offered by their financial institution has increased significantly in the past two years, according to new findings from a consumer research study released by financial services provider, Fiserv.
Sprint is lining up partners to help localize the WiMAX experience it plans to roll out this fall. Sprint users will get local news, weather, restaurant reviews, and other features on the XOHM 4G network through "geobrowsing."
Like millions of motorists, Eric Hanson used a Global Positioning System unit in his Chevrolet TrailBlazer to find his way around. He probably didn't expect that prosecutors would eventually use it too — to help convict him of killing four family members.
A new mobile plan offers customers a 65 percent monthly discount for customers who agree to receive mobile advertisements. Australian telco ComTel, who runs on the Vodafone network, launched the new service this week.
Apple has been forced to withdraw an advert for the original iPhone after its claims that the device could access "all parts of the internet" were deemed inaccurate.
LG Electronics will launch in October a netbook-class laptop PC based on Intel's Atom processor that also includes 3G wireless, it said Wednesday at the IFA show in Berlin.
This morning Nokia officially announced the N85 and N79 handsets, which are targeted at the North American market. Both run S60 3rd Edition with Feature Pack 2 and house tri-band HSDPA 3G and quad-band GSM/EDGE radios for world-wide roaming.
The design of HTC’s latest slider handset may hark back to early smartphone formats, but the S740 still packs in all the technology necessary to make it a leading contender in the modern mobile market, its maker claims.
I've been playing with a free iPhone application called Loopt (Web site, App Store ). It allows you to stay connected to your friends, colleagues and relatives who are also members of the service.
Google dropped Bluetooth and the GTalkService instant messaging APIs (application program interfaces) from the set of tools for the first version of the mobile phone OS, Android 1.0, according to the Android Developers Blog .
My company is considering purchasing new smartphones for all employees and I am concerned about the implications of what this means for tracking our sensitive data.
MENLO PARK, California -- Matt Murphy eats at expensive steakhouses, likes to watch his kids play soccer and is a loyal fan of Peet's Coffee & Tea. And if he has his way, mobile phone users will know as much about each other as...
Disney embarked on a cellular phone business in the US as early as June 2006 but pulled the plug at the end of last year, citing delays in the spread of 3G networks as the major reason.
Verizon Communications Inc. is nearing an agreement with Google Inc. on a wide-ranging partnership, according to people familiar with the situation, in what could be a much-needed jolt for the anemic mobile search business.
