Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Yay or Nay. Every week we'll review a new wireless application or service from the user's point of view, with the goal of highlighting what works and what doesn't. If you wish to submit your application or...
Vodafone Group Plc will say goodbye to its fearless leader. After five years as CEO, Arun Sarin is retiring at the end of July. Vittorio Colao will take his place; Colao has been with Vodafone for almost two years, coming on as head of...
Mobile TV, hyped by the wireless industry as one of the next big things for years, is still a tiny market in the US (Yes, we know -- it's big in Asia. But so was this .) Will it ever take off? Do most...
If you're looking for a post-Memorial-Day summer project, listen up: Avot Media has started testing a service at Home Depot that allows mobile users to access instructional videos, MediaPost reports.
The battery life of portable gadgets has always been a source of frustration. But Apple may have found an eco-friendly way around the problem - by integrating a solar panel behind, say, the iPhone's LCD display.
A Dutch company and its British partner have re-launched a long-range Wi-Fi technology that's claimed to do most of what WiMax promises, yet is here today and is a fraction of the cost.
Japanese youngsters are getting so addicted to Internet-linking cell phones that the government is starting a program warning parents and schools to limit their use among children.
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O: Quote , Profile , Research ) expects global unit sales of its Windows Mobile software for cellphones to grow at least 50 percent per year in fiscal years 2008 and 2009 as demand for smartphones rises rapidly.
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.Cellular--Brazil: TIM Brasil selected Nokia Siemens Networks to deploy and...
Mobile experts have argued that application developers are vital to the future success of the mobile web, but some warned that content must be presented simply in order to avoid alienating users.
CHAMPAIGN, ILL. -- When Martin Barbre got his first look three years ago at a system that would drive his tractor for him, he didn't buy the device -- or the premise that it would cut costs on his farm.
The US mobile phone operators spent some US$4.1 billion on advertising in 2007 reports a new study from Nielsen Monitor-Plus. This represented a twelve percent rise over the spend in 2006.
FRANKFURT : Germany was engulfed in a debate over privacy standards Monday following an admission by Deutsche Telekom that it had surreptitiously tracked thousands of phone calls to identify the source of leaks to the news media about the company's internal affairs.
PASADENA, CALIF.-- NASA's Phoenix Lander settled softly onto the frozen plains surrounding the unexplored Martian north pole late Sunday and sent back a crystal clear portrait that revealed a healthy machine in one piece.
IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystems) has been around for some time, and many infrastructure vendors have invested heavily in developing IMS capabilities, solutions and products. But market acceptance has been slower than expected.
Federal regulators - in Congress and at the Federal Communications Commission - increasingly seem fed up with wireless service providers. Ironically, it is the very success of the largest wireless carriers that seems to be getting under government's collective skin. Over the past few...
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin scheduled a vote on rules for another major spectrum auction, one that would encompass 25 megahertz in the 2155-2180 MHz advanced wireless services band and require the winning bidder to offer free broadband service under an aggressive build-out...
