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School’s in session: two wireless veterans look back
SAN FRANCISCO -- The first day's keynote ended with a trip back in time with two wireless veterans reminiscing about an industry they helped mold 25 years ago. Craig McCaw, current chairman of Clearwire Corp., and John Stanton, founder of Trilogy Partnership, have more...
More companies join Symbian Foundation: New members: Acrodea, Brycen, HI Corp., Ixonos, KTF, Opera Software, Sharp, TapRoot Systems and UIQ Technology
SAN FRANCISCO -- Nine more companies have joined the Symbian Foundation as its group members work toward developing an open and complete mobile software platform that will be free for its members.Acrodea, Brycen, HI Corp., Ixonos, KTF, Opera Software, Sharp, TapRoot Systems and UIQ...
RIM still rules enterprise, but Apple makes inroads: 2 reports examine mobile devices in business
Even as Apple Inc.'s 3G iPhone ventures into the enterprise market, Research In Motion Ltd. is expected to continue its dominance in the business sector with the upcoming release of the 3G BlackBerry Bold, according to a report by Pacific Crest Securities.The new BlackBerry...
Nokia adds synch to Ovi: Hopes to lure users with basic tools
SAN FRANCISCO -- Nokia Corp.'s Ovi conjures images of cutting-edge mobile services that run the gamut from entertainment to navigation to social communities. But the success of the ambitious concept may hinge on much simpler -- and stickier -- features.The mobile behemoth this week...
Visto looks beyond mobile e-mail
Mobile e-mail company Visto Corp. announced a major new push into the social-networking space, an effort to expand the company's offerings beyond e-mail and into various real-time information services.Specifically, Visto's new Mobile 6 product allows users to maintain connections to e-mail, social networking sites...
Openness creeps across wireless networks
Following a lot of bad publicity in the wake of AT&T Mobility's exclusive contract for Apple Inc.'s iPhone and 700 MHz auction rules that demanded an open network, wireless carriers are prying open their networks.Earlier this year, Verizon Wireless began offering its network to...
The (new) American handset market: Fall brings debut launches, large displays, hot competition
American consumers may well be treated to "a moveable feast" this fall. Unlike the sketches of 1920s Paris by Ernest Hemingway by the same name, however, this one is more akin to a mobile smorgasbord for buyers: more choice, cutting-edge models, attractive prices and...
Carriers, retailers woo developers as they court customers
The carrier deck is still the most valuable real estate in mobile content, but the future of downloadable wireless goodies may just lie in third-party storefronts. And for now, at least, developers are the key to success.Apple Inc. stole headlines two months ago with...
AT&T Mobility’s network suffers data glitch, back on track by mid-day
AT&T Mobility has dodged another network bullet. The carrier's East Coast customers woke up today to find themselves without access to Internet services. AT&T Mobility spokesman Mark Siegel said the issue was addressed and fixed by mid-day. "It was a routing issue between the...
Platform-A targets iPhone
AOL L.L.C.'s Platform-A debuted a mobile platform and network specifically for serving ads to Apple Inc.'s iPhone.The new offering, which is available through AOL's Third Screen Media subsidiary, delivers targeted, iPhone-optimized ads through sites within Third Screen's mobile network, Advertising.com's online network or any...
Clock ticking on Comes with Music
Nokia Corp.'s ambitious new mobile music service is just weeks away from making its debut. But the Finnish phone maker has plenty of work left to do before Comes With Music comes to market.The offering - which essentially packages one year of unlimited downloads...
Two Russian carriers to offer iPhone
Vimpelcom and MegaFon - two of Russia's three largest wireless carriers - will offer Apple Inc.'s iPhone "later this year," according to company statements in recent days. Together, the two carriers serve about 80 million Russians, according to news reports. Russia has about 140...
A kid in the candy App Store
My teen daughter complains that I treat her like my own private marketing lab. Over the years, when a new cellphone comes in with apps to review, I learned to toss the black slab at her and say, "here, play with this and tell...
Google outlines Android answer to Apple App Store: Search engine giant boasts of ‘open and unobstructed environment’
Google Inc. unveiled its answer to Apple Inc.'s App Store, outlining a distribution system for applications built on its Android platform.Android Market will serve as an unrestricted storefront where registered developers can offer their wares simply by uploading their applications and posting descriptions. Google...
Comic publisher pushes Apple for ratings system
An Irish comic publisher is lobbying Apple Inc. to embrace content ratings after its graphic novel was dropped from the company's App Store.Infurious Comics is pushing for a ratings system after Apple rejected "Murderdrome," which the publisher describes as a "darkly humorous strop"...
Orange denies planting fake Apple customers outside Polish stores
Newswires have been buzzing with reports that Apple's 3G iPhones might not be selling as briskly in Poland as they are in the U.S., noting that the company's telecom partner in the country, Orange, has hired people to stand outside stores and create phony...
Traveling iPhoners get more data options
AT&T Mobility is set to expand international data plans for 3G iPhone owners - but they'll pay a pretty penny for it.Beginning tomorrow the carrier will release two new, international data plans for Apple Inc.'s uber-device: 100 megabytes of data transmission for an additional...
Themes from the ‘OS wars’
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. It feels like every day we are seeing articles about the "operating system wars" and who...
Study: base station market set for revival
A new report from Informa Telecoms & Media predicts the struggling mobile base station market could be revived by mobile data traffic demands by 2011.The report predicts mobile data traffic will grow nearly 1,100% to 1,925 petabytes by 2012 from 162 PB last year,...
iPhone in enterprise: Not quite ready for prime time
Believe it or not, CEOs still tell their I.T. managers to let them use whatever device they fancy, regardless of company standards for security and device management. Works for Apple Inc., which may well have chosen that path to get its foot in the...
CARRIERS: Operators push online, less packaging: A couple of carriers tie trees to paperless billing promotions
Lately in the land of red, white and blue, people are talking a lot about green, including wireless service providers. In an industry that boasts 263 million subscribers who get a heap of stuff with their service, carriers can have a large carbon footprint....
Debate continues over iPhone 3G connectivity issues
A slice of iPhone 3G owners have said they are experiencing 3G connectivity issues such as weak signals, dropped calls and devices that revert from a carrier's 3G network to its EDGE network, eclipsing the device's much-ballyhooed 3G advantage. That's true in the United...
iPhone lands at Best Buy
Apple Inc. and AT&T Mobility just added nearly another 1,000 retail outlets for the iPhone 3G by hooking up with big-box retailer Best Buy. That's likely to gin up iPhone sales, boost AT&T Mobility's fortunes and probably anger some of AT&T Mobility's other independent...
$1,000 iPhone app actually not a good thing
Mobile operators are smiling through clenched teeth as the mobile industry moves toward "openness." And "I Am Rich" is a good example of why some of their fears are well-placed.In case you missed it, Apple last week got a little egg on its face...