AT&T Inc. is again backing the Vans Warped Tour with a host of mobile and interactive promotions.The tour, which kicks off a 42-city trek today in Pomona, Calif., features a sponsored area where music lovers can upload photos to their AT&T phones and send...
The Federal Communications Commission extended by a month the looming June 26 deadline for Sprint Nextel Corp. to vacate 800 MHz interleaved channels involved in a rebanding initiative to eliminate interference to public-safety communications.The new 800 MHz deadline governing interleaved channels is July 26."This...
A viral mobile marketing effort for the feature film "What Happens in Vegas" generated more than 50,000 peer-to-peer user engagements, according to the firm that delivered the campaign.Celtra Inc., a Massachusetts-based startup that specializes in widget-based mobile marketing, said it delivered 15,000 widget embeds...
Municipal Wi-Fi vendor MetroFi Inc. appears to be pulling out of the game. According to the company's Web site, it is shutting down all but two of the ad-supported wireless networks it operates in a handful of cities in Oregon, California and Illinois.Launched in...
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.--Funambol: Nexit Ventures led a $12.5 million round of funding into open source messaging software provider Funambol Inc. Castle...
Research In Motion Ltd. reports fiscal first-quarter earnings on June 25 and, driven by sales of its Curve at Verizon Wireless, two analysts said the company's results likely would be at the high end of current guidance."Our view is based on very strong retail...
The Federal Communications Commission agreed not to hold Sprint Nextel Corp. and public-safety agencies to the June 26 deadline regarding portions of spectrum involved in an 800 MHz rebanding effort designed to remedy public-safety interference caused by the No. 3 mobile phone carrier's push-to-talk...
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Analyst Tero Kuittinen at Global Crown Capital L.L.C. said in a note to investors that top-tier carriers in the United States were pulling back on support for Motorola Inc., and characterized the vendor's pending product launches as "a half-baked mess.""The summer surge of fresh...
This week Leap Wireless International Inc. brought on a new chief financial officer and, in turn, the company gave itself some financial breathing room. Walter Berger is Leap's new CFO, set to come on board next week. Berger, previously at CBS Corp., takes over...
Sprint Nextel Corp. is hoping to bridge the gap between enterprise users and multimedia devices with a new mobile e-mail service.The offering, awkwardly dubbed Sprint Mobile Email Work, allows customers with the new Samsung Instinct and other handsets to access Microsoft Exchange Server and...
Denny Marie Post has joined T-Mobile USA Inc. as chief marketing officer. She was previously senior VP of global food and beverage at Starbucks."Denny has deep and varied experience as a marketing leader in some of the most competitive retail environments in America," Robert...
The companies listed below represent the ten largest national and regional licensed wireless carriers based on subscriber numbers at the end of the first quarter of this year.
There were no changes in rankings among the top 10 carriers, and AT&T Mobility continued to top...
Security appliance developer eSoft has updated its email gateway with the ability for users to spam-file or whitelist emails from any device, including a BlackBerry or smartphone. Previously, only Outlook users could train the gateway's Bayesian spam-filter.
Analysis Contractors and sector-straddling quangocrats sought yesterday to convince politicians of the need to spend defence or security funds on radio-based backups for GPS satnav, according to reports.
CANNES, France — They're hip, hot and everywhere on the planet. But despite a drumbeat about mobile phones being the new frontier in the ad world, marketers have been slow to dial it up, particularly in the USA.
The nation's leading consumer groups urged the Federal Communications Commission to act on a request to investigate exclusivity pacts between top mobile-phone carriers and handset suppliers that rural wireless operators claim are anticompetitive.Last month, the Rural Cellular Association petitioned the FCC to open a...
Apple Inc.'s iconic iPhone could become more prevalent in official Washington - especially among subway commuters - owing to House passage of an Amtrak funding bill with a provision designed to give rail customers a greater choice of mobile-phone service providers.Verizon Wireless has a...
LAS VEGAS - On day two of the NXTcomm08 event here, wireless seemed to jump out of the backseat and into the limelight. Executives Denny Strigl, current president and COO of Verizon Communications Inc. and former CEO of Verizon Wireless, and Dan Hesse, CEO...
Delta Air Lines is the latest air carrier to get on board with mobile, allowing travelers at New York's LaGuardia to use their phones as a boarding pass.Domestic flyers departing from LaGuardia's main Delta terminal can download their boarding pass to a mobile...
A group of private equity investors has rescued the municipal Wi-Fi network in Philadelphia, the city announced yesterday.The situation has been closely watched due to the failure of a number of other, high-profile, municipal Wi-Fi programs launched by EarthLink Inc., including ones in San...
