Exactly one week after EarthLink Inc. said it would be shutting down its nearly citywide municipal Wi-Fi network in Philadelphia, one of the city's elected officials is making political hay out of what he sees as a major loss for the city and its...
Virgin Mobile USA has tapped AOL's Platform-A to handle its WAP banner inventory.Platform-A will serve as the "exclusive display advertising and sales partner" for the mobile virtual network operator's mobile Web inventory, delivering banner ads across Virgin's deck. "Working with Virgin Mobile USA, we...
Qualcomm Inc. will buy a stake in ip.access Ltd., a U.K.-based femtocell vendor. The dollar amount of the investment and Qualcomm's relative share in ip.access were not made public, but ip.access said the stake was not a controlling one.Other well-known ip.access investors include the...
AT&T Mobility is set to put the icing on its 3G network cake. The industry's No. 1 carrier said that by the end of June it expects to have its entire 3G network upgraded to High Speed Uplink Packet Access (HSUPA) technology to complement...
Alltel Communications L.L.C. is the latest major mobile-phone carrier to be tagged with a patent infringement suit by NTP Inc., the Virginia-based patent holding firm that scored a $612.5 million settlement with Research in Motion Ltd. in 2006 before setting its sights on top...
The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.Carrier--Credit Suisse First Boston lowered its estimates on Leap Wireless to a loss of $1.03 from breakeven for 2008 due to a reduction in EBITDA...
NEW YORK - Hulu, the video website owned by News and NBC Universal, said its service will be distributed on seven new sites, making its archive of popular television shows more widely available.
A Philippine mobile service provider plans to offer free service to subscribers who agree to receive advertisements on their cell phones, company officials said Tuesday.
Will Sprint follows its competitors lead and restrict mobile broadband subscribers to 5 gigabytes of monthly combined upstream and downstream data usage?
PARIS - The world's top handset maker Nokia Oyj expects the role of the Linux operating system in its product portfolio to increase as the role of its internet-focused devices grows, company officials said.
Opera's latest release is an SDK that makes widgets specs widely available to third-party developers. The development kit supports major languages for creating advanced Web applications, and completes the package with an emulator and a debugging tool.
WASHINGTON -- President Bush announced Wednesday that Americans soon will be allowed to send cellphones to Cubans -- a move that he hopes will push the communist regime to increase freedom of expression for Cuban citizens.
The mobile Internet industry very much resembles the fixed Internet industry of the mid-1990s: lots of promise, but the business models have yet to evolve.
The government is quietly negotiating to help cell phone customers avoid expensive fees when they cancel contracts with wireless companies, The Associated Press has learned.
Peter Adderton, the man behind Boost Mobile and Amp'd Mobile Inc., has unveiled his next business venture. And like those before it, the plan doesn't lack one bit in the department of grandiose.This time, William Morris Agency's got his back. WMA represents authors, actors...
The simple banner ad: Those tiny little slivers of real estate on tiny little cellphone screens produce the same level of brand recall as a 30-second television commercial, a Verizon Wireless ad exec said last week. Speaking at a wireless ad conference in Los...
Rural mobile-phone operators have asked the Federal Communications Commission to investigate exclusivity deals between the industry's major carriers and handset vendors, taking aim at an entrenched business practice that they assert is anticompetitive and denies rural residents in many states access to popular wireless...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile content industry to give their insights into the marketplace. In the coming weeks look for columns from Laura Marriott of the Mobile Marketing Association...
AT&T Mobility is providing Web-hungry users with free Internet. The catch? They must already be an AT&T customer.Qualifying AT&T Mobility LaptopConnect customers who subscribe to the carrier's $60-per-month DataConnect plan can now access more than 17,000 Wi-Fi hot spots powered by parent company AT&T...
Application: ZumobiRunning on: Samsung ACE running Windows Mobile 6 on Sprint Nextel's EV-DO network.Yay: Zumobi usually runs in the background and updates content regularly, allowing us to call up the app and check headlines in just a couple of seconds. The widget-based...
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--Nigeria: Globacom has chosen Alcatel-Lucent to extend its fixed and...
Sierra Wireless introduced its PinPoint XT intelligent device targeted at vehicle tracking, fleet management and telematics applications.The product is part of the company's AirLink suite of in-vehicle modems. The PinPoint XT features ALEOS embedded technology and the company's AceWare suite of remote management tools....
