The emergence of the Internet of Things and communication using wireless machine-to-machine (M2M) equipment (M2ME) promises to drastically increase the number of devices operating on any given wireless network. Because of fundamental deployment characteristics – such as highly distributed unmanned devices on decentralized networks...
Background:Industrial Buckets is a heavy equipment dealer, specializing in restoring used construction equipment. They serve the North and Central America regions with a product line that runs the gamut from heavy equipment such as backhoe, cranes and forklifts, to a variety of attachments such...
Compass Medical PC is a large physician and multi specialist RSO in Massachusetts. In an effort to expand exam rooms and increase provider access for their patients, Compass Medical moved its business office and call center to a new building 250 yards away on...
Verizon Wireless announced the creation of its 4G Venture Forum designed to bring together "financial investment, product incubation and market validation" for products and services targeting next-generations networks.Partners in the forum include Alcatel-Lucent Ventures, Charles River Partners, New Venture Partners, North Bridge Venture Partners,...
Motorola Inc. said it has successfully deployed a TD-LTE network in Geneva, Switzerland to support China Mobile Communications Corp.'s presenceat the ITU Telecom World 2009 event. The network uses the 2.6 GHz spectrum band, which is expected to be the band used for LTE...
Palestine: Palestinian telecommunications provider, PALTEL, has selected Alcatel-Lucent to update its current optical network. Alcatel-Lucent expects the project to be completed by the second quarter of 2010. Indonesia: Huawei has been chosen by PT Hutchison CP Telecommunications to broaden its network. The company intends...
Cisco Systems Offers $3 Billion to Acquire TandbergFrom: MarketwatchCisco Systems, the San Jose, Calif. networking-equipment giant, agreed to acquire Tandberg, the Oslo producer of video-communications technology, for $3 billion, the companies said on Thursday. Cisco has agreed to pay 153.5 Norwegian kroner ($26.61)...
SAN DIEGO--That slow, steady drumbeat you hear is the sound of mobile marketing initiatives across the globe. It’s a soft, steady sound that could explode into a wild, rich (and by that I mean lucrative) dance once the ecosystem is in place -- but...
In responses to a Federal Communications Commission Notice of Inquiry posted in late August seeking comment on the competitiveness of the wireless industry and wireless innovation and investment, industry trade association CTIA laid out arguments that while the domestic wireless market is one of...
Verizon Wireless and Google Inc. announced a strategic partnership this morning designed to pair the openness of the Internet and the innovation of Google with Verizon Wireless' broadband network, and plan to bring two devices to market in the next few weeks that will...
Fresh off its $6 million acquisition of Kyocera Wireless Corp.'s Indian facility, MindTree Ltd. said it will enter the Original Design Manufacturing (ODM) business with Kyocera as its first customer, at a time when the market is stabilizing following a disastrous first quarter.Called N!Mo...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.Mobile e-mail, advanced messaging and data services are no longer the sole province of smartphones and high-end...
Wireless carriers continued to bolster their smartphone lineups leading into the holiday shopping season as AT&T Mobility and T-Mobile USA Inc. both unveiled new offerings targeting the increasingly competitive segment.AT&T Mobility this week got the jump on Microsoft Corp.'s planned Windows Mobile 6.5 update...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.There are two embedded myths in your company that must be shattered to emerge from this recession...
Ringleader Digital - Jesse Hurwitz has been named the Director of Business Development for Ringleader Digital. Prior to this, Hurwitz spent three years in AOL's mobile advertising division.Cablevision Systems - David Ellen has been promoted to executive vice president and general counsel for Cablevision....
Adobe Systems Inc. inched closer to launching a Flash player for mobile devices unveiling its Flash Player 10.1 software designed for smartphones and other Internet-connected devices. The company said a public developer beta of the “browser-based runtime” is expected to available for Microsoft Corp.’s...
The latest state wireless industry association, The Colorado Wireless Association (COWA), has announced its formation and will hold its inaugural luncheon and launch event on October 22, 2009 at the Hilton Garden Inn – Denver Tech Center in South Denver, Colorado. There will also...
Door-to-door sales have been a mainstay of the cable industry for years, but managing the team has been a hit-or-miss effort. However, wireless technology is changing that for one company. Suddenlink, a top 10 cable broadband provider in the United States, said it has...
Using a cellphone to conduct a financial transaction is nothing new as carriers all over the world have implemented ways for their customers to pay for goods and services using their mobile device. However, customer adoption of such services is still a hit-or-miss affair....
FLO TV's Bill Stone talks to RCR Wireless News Editor Tracy Ford about the company's plans to move beyond carrier agreements with Verizon Wireless and AT&T Mobility to try to drive awareness to the mobile TV space and increase consumer adoption of the nascent...
Tracy Ford sits down with Sue Spradley of Nokia Siemens Networks to talk about NSN's plans for North America, its management service contract with Embarq and plans to light up rural America via the Broadband Stimulus package.
Uncertain regulatory policies will stifle capital investments in broadband technology, panelists told the Federal Communications Commission today during a hearing on “Capital Formation in the Broadband Sector.” While members of the various stages of capital investors may have disagreed about specific policies concerning net...
ZyDoc announced the release of its new file transfer software at the Center of Excellence in Wireless & Information Technology (CEWIT) International Conference today on "Wireless and IT Driving Healthcare, Energy and Infrastructure Transformation." ZyDoc's file transfer software has been used for over ten...
