Many people are familiar with the coffee shop's Wi-Fi, while others even know how to set up a simple home network. Pretty much everyone, however, knows that Wi-Fi is what makes it all possible. That ubiquity is what many venture firms are counting on...
The first Bluetooth headsets were simple mono devices, designed to sit in one ear as you took a call on your mobile phone. However, as handsets has developed into sophisticated entertainment devices that can play music and video, so headsets have started to develop...
Picture whipping out your cell phone and catching up with "Lost" or "Jeopardy," or watching the local 11 o'clock news, all for free. You can do this with an imported Chinese phone, but you can't with any phone sold in the U.S. - at...
Australia's 'Big Four' are revitalising their core banking systems to enable real-time transactions for increasingly online and mobile customers, experts claim.
Today Visa and eight financial institution partners announced a new pilot program whereby Visa cardholders can receive SMS alerts directly on their phones whenever there is activity on their account.
The following list includes venture capital and other investments into wireless companies announced during the past week. The value of the investment is included when available.--AirDio: Ambient Sound Investments invested $295,000 into Taiwan-based AirDio, which makes system in package modules for device makers. The...
iPhone 3G reception issues were reported in 32 states across the U.S., and while Apple has yet to officially acknowledge the problem, technical support staffers are well aware.
T-Mobile will be the first carrier to offer a mobile phone powered by Google's Android software, according to people briefed on the company's plans. The phone will be made by HTC, one of the largest makers of mobile phones in the world, and is...
After 219 developers signed a petition asking for more information about Android 's progress, Google offered a two-sentence reply saying, in essence, "thanks."
The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.Carrier--RBC Capital Markets raised its price target on Leap Wireless to $49 from $45 after the carrier reported strong second-quarter subscriber growth. R.W. Baird lowered...
Someone was attacking women in Fairfax County and Alexandria, grabbing them from behind and sometimes punching and molesting them before running away. After logging 11 cases in six months, police finally identified a suspect.
A substantial number of mobile users worldwide will follow the Olympics on their cell phones this summer, including nearly 45 percent of United States and 31 percent of United Kingdom mobile video users, according to Nielsen Mobile, MarketingCharts writes .
CNN announced on Tuesday that it would assign journalists to 10 cities across the United States, a move that would double the number of domestic cities where the cable news network has outposts.
Despite billions invested in turning mobile phones into pocket TV sets, the public continues to find it all a giant yawn. A study by TMC Media published earlier this month suggests that peak-time viewing of direct broadcast TV on phones in Korea barely exceeds...
Hurdles remain for wider use of mobile banking. Mobile carriers must have broad enough coverage to connect urban and rural users, as many remittances come from urban migrants sending money back to their family villages.
The following list includes venture capital and other investments into wireless companies announced during the past week. The value of the investment is included when available.--Amobee: Motorola and Cisco Systems made strategic investments in mobile advertising company Amobee Media Systems. Existing investors Telefonica, Vodafone,...
Sprint Nextel Corp.'s comeback campaign showed limited progress but remains a work in progress, as the struggling No. 3 wireless provider slowed its hemorrhaging customer churn while recording a $344 million loss in the second quarter. The Q2 results, which had Sprint Nextel losing...
