Ubiquity

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We’ve collected a group of the industry’s leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry. In the coming weeks look for columns from Current Analysis’ …

HOLLYWOOD, Calif. – Like all things wireless these days, most of this week’s more poignant exchanges at Digital Hollywood have been anchored around the idea of open– opening up carrier networks, devices, content and the Internet gateway where all these …

Five years after 50 Cent’s “In Da Club” helped launch the multibillion-dollar ringtone phenomenon – and as CD sales continue to plummet – the music industry continues to look for its second hit in mobile. We talked to Sean Rosenberg, …

Alcatel-Lucent has tapped Sierra Wireless to supply embedded modules for the infrastructure vendor’s wireless laptop security, management and tracking system called the OmniAccess 3500 Nonstop Laptop Guardian (NLG). Sierra Wireless components embedded in the NLG will provide high-speed access to …

Telecom policymakers and special-interest groups are fond of talking about ubiquity, making sure communications — wireless, wireline, Internet and video — are within reach of all Americans. Indeed, there are government subsidy programs that address this very issue. Take the …

Add Austria and Ireland to the list of countries in which the iPhone is legitimately available.The iPhone retail price at T-Mobile Austria, and in Ireland, at O2, will be ?399 ($623) for the 8 GB version and ?499 ($779) for …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to Reality Check, a feature for RCR Wireless News’ new weekly e-mail service, Mobile Content and Culture. We’ve gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile content industry to give their insights into the marketplace. …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our Monday feature, Analyst Angle. We’ve collected a group of the industry’s leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry. In the coming weeks look for columns from Jupiter Research’s …

SAN FRANCISCO-Sprint Nextel Corp. understands that its technology choice for a mobile broadband world will require heavy lifting, measured in the billions of dollars, and that attracting others to its vision is crucial.“It’s not something that one company can build,” …

Upper echelons of the wireless industry have been having the same dream for years: an unassuming wireless subscriber is walking past a coffee shop and up pops a mobile coupon on their device for that specific location. “If I hear …

In a online presentation this morning, Microsoft Corp. introduced its “Unified Communications” software offering that the company said would tie together all current means of business communication based on the concepts of “identity” and “presence”-a promise that has echoed for …

LAGUNA BEACH, Calif.-Posh met hype and circumstance all at once at the inaugural WebbyConnect Summit here last week.While most of the buzz in the wireless and broadband industries tends to come from start-up companies shooting for the sky or pushing …

Sprint Nextel Corp. is determined to push WiMAX into existence and then ubiquity, and the company may explore a range of financial and strategic options in order to make that happen, CEO Gary Forsee told an industry conference last week. …

Sprint Nextel Corp. is determined to push WiMAX into existence and then ubiquity, and the company may explore a range of financial and strategic options in order to make that happen, CEO Gary Forsee told an industry conference earlier this …

AT&T Mobility ended a roaming agreement with regional wireless operator Cellular One of East Texas that allowed the national carrier’s customers to use 26 Cellular One cell sites in eastern Texas near the Louisiana border. “This is one of those …

“Alleyways are good except you run into homeless people, and people think you’re crazy because you’re walking around with a phone,” photographer Patrice Elmi said recently at an art gallery showcasing her work. So goes the photographer’s newly inspired art …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our Monday feature, Analyst Angle. We’ve collected a group of the industry’s leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry. In the coming weeks look for columns from Jupiter Research’s …

Both companies’ stock has been bid up, though for opposite reasons, and both companies seek to expand their traditional markets by intruding on the others’ turf. They both make smartphones for a dedicated cadre of end users in North America, …

WASHINGTON-Two proponents of cell-broadcast technology said a Senate-passed bill to update the nation’s emergency alert system could further delay widespread deployment of wireless warnings to the nation’s 219 million cell-phone subscribers. The Warning, Alert and Response Network Act, sponsored by …

WASHINGTON—Two proponents of cell broadcast technology said a Senate-passed bill to modernize the nation’s emergency alert system could further delay widespread deployment of wireless warnings to the nation’s 219 million mobile phone subscribers. The Warnings, Alerts and Response Network Act, …

LOS ANGELES–The CTIA Wireless I.T. & Entertainment show’s final keynote of the week featured “old guy socks,” “rollover minute” double-entendres and a visit by Paris Hilton, as three industry panelists debated how mobile social networking will change the world and …

The flurry of legal wrangling in the wireless e-mail space continued as Visto Corp. filed a patent-infringement lawsuit against competitor Good Technology Inc. Meanwhile, Research In Motion Ltd. scored several patent wins. In its lawsuit, Visto accused Good of violating …

WATERLOO, Ontario-Research In Motion Ltd. received good news on both sides of the Atlantic this week, scoring patent victories in both the United States and the United Kingdom. The BlackBerry maker said the English High Court invalidated all of the …

The Chinese government has given its homegrown TD-SCDMA technology a thumbs up, calling it an officially backed standard, the Xinhua news agency reported. China’s Ministry of Information Industry said the technology is “already mature and ready for manufacturers to move …

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. and Ubiquity Software Corp. signed a partnership agreement to develop end-to-end Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem solutions, pairing Ubiquity’s Session Initiation Protocol application server as an embedded part of Huawei’s IMS-based portfolio of products. Ubiquity …