Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin said he wants action before month's end to relax roaming rules and freeze further licensing of wireless microphones in the 700 MHz band as regulators explore policy options to address potential inference from allegedly illegal operation of wireless...
Mobile video revenue will exceed $3.5 billion this year, driven by consumer demand for personalization and entertainment content on their mobile phones, according to new research from MultiMedia Intelligence.By 2012, the mobile video and mobile TV market will exceed $15 billion, including direct pay...
The fast-growing femtocell market will generate $360 million in revenues for companies that provide device and service management for femtocell networks, according to a research brief from ABI Research.These companies provide functions such as performance management, remote configuration, security provisioning, timing, traffic routing and...
The maturing U.S. handset market continued to chug along in the first half of the year - though slowing relative to years past - and analysts offered an array of views on what forces will shape the market in the second half of the...
The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.Handset and infrastructure vendors --R.W. Baird lowered its estimates on Alcatel-Lucent after the company reported in-line results and maintained guidance. The lowered EPS estimates reflect expected...
iPhone developer Armin Heinrich has released an application for the iPhone with two noteworthy characteristics: 1) Its primary function is to display a handsome glowing red jewel on your iPhone's screen. 2) It sells on Apple's App Store for $999.99, thereby explaining its name:...
If there's one lesson to be gleaned from all the mobile TV trials in the last year or so, it's that users aren't very interested in paying for the stuff. In just the last couple of weeks: . Toshiba said it will shutter its Mobile...
The following list details this week's infrastructure awards for the cellular, Wi-Fi, and WiMAX industries. The contracts are broken down by transmission technology, country and vendor. The value of the contract is included when available.WiMAX--India: Redline Communications Group said it signed a deal with...
Delta Air Lines announced today that it will begin offering wireless broadband Internet service on domestic flights as early as next month. Delta appears to be the first U.S. airline to commit its entire fleet to technology that allows passengers to surf the Internet...
Technology buffs have been quick to predict the death of personal navigation devices--those clunky little boxes in cars that call out driving directions in an austere, yet soothing, tone.
My colleague Olga Kharif quite succinctly walks you through in this blog all the reasons why its unlikely Apple in the next month or so won’t release a stripped-down version of the iPhone.
In San Antonio test market, customers can get voice, wireless, broadband and television services. AT&T is testing out its new U-Verse voice services by making them available to all current U-Verse customers in the San Antonio area.
The LiMo Foundation announced nine new members today and said that more handsets with its operating system are launching in North America and Japan. The organization is a leading proponent of an open-source, Linux OS for handsets, and said that its latest members represented...
For years, mobile advertising has been touted as the next frontier. Its day may finally have arrived. Recent reports suggest that almost 60 million consumers were exposed to mobile advertising in just one month, and there are predictions that the market will reach almost...
Battery life, security issues could affect custom business apps. After three weeks of testing and reviewing Apple Inc. 's new iPhone 2 .0 firmware and an iPhone 3G for use in large businesses, analyst firm Gartner Inc.
In an overlooked USA Today article from Friday, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson and "insider sources" quietly all but confirmed that the company has retained exclusive rights to the iPhone until 2010.
Apple yanks connection-sharing software from App Store a second time. The on-again, off-again saga of NetShare, an iPhone tethering application, continued over the weekend as Apple Inc. briefly returned the program to the App Store on Friday, but then yanked it from the mart...
About this time a year ago rumors began circulating about a smaller nano-sized iPhone. The UK’s Daily Mail has resurrected the rumor again, just in time for the holiday shopping season:
