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Brazilian airline TAM is preparing to offer Wi-Fi service to its customers, and allowing them to use their mobile devices to make phone calls during international flights. The initiative may be launched within about one year in both Airbus and …

Bloomberg | July 13, 2011 | Douglas Macmillan EBay Inc. (EBAY)’s PayPal unit unveiled a service that will let users make payments by tapping their mobile devices together, joining rivals in the market for wireless transactions using near field communication …

eWEEK | June 29, 2011 | Brian Horowitz Consumers who are neither fitness freaks nor chronically ill are willing to pay for health-monitoring gadgets, according to a new IBM study. Read the full story here via eWEEK

Computerworld | July 6, 2011 | Matt Hamblen Cisco has announced a new Wi-Fi access point and stadium antenna that covers a smaller area for use in arenas and large venues to help improve user access and wireless speeds. Read …

Texas companies Interphase Corp. (INPH) and Diodes Inc. (DIOD) both made recent announcements concerning expansion. The Plano-based companies are both involved in the wireless market in networking and components, respectively. Interphase Corp., a developer of hardware networking products, announced that …

Ericsson | June 2011 | Press Release Ericsson to provide and manage LTE network for fixed-wireless broadband in rural and regional Australia for the National Broadband Network (NBN) Rural and regional households to start accessing broadband from mid 2012, with …

China Unicom | May 24, 2011 | Edmond Lococo, Mark Lee China Unicom (Hong Kong) Ltd., China’s second-biggest mobile-phone operator, offered a cheaper iPhone package amid rising competition with larger rival China Mobile Ltd. (941) in the world’s biggest wireless-phone market. ….. …

ZTE | May 10, 2011 | Press Release ZTE secures 60 new wireless contracts in 2010 10 May 2011, Shenzhen – ZTE Corporation (“ZTE”) (H share stock code: 0763.HK / A share stock code: 000063.SZ), a publicly-listed global provider of telecommunications …

Dallas-based AT&T Inc. (T) announced that the mobile carrier is launching a Wi-Fi “hotzone” in Austin on the popular downtown nightlife area of Sixth Street. The offering is the company’s fifth major hotzone, with other venues at Times Square in …

The FCC created rules last fall to make unused television channels operate a new long-range version of Wi-Fi that spreads through walls. This led to collaboration between wireless communications researchers at Rice University in Houston and nonprofit Technology for All …

ChinaTel | April 4, 2011 | Press Release Frost & Sullivan’s Next Generation Mobile and Wireless Team uncovers key success drivers that further demonstrate ChinaTel’s ability to deliver in emerging markets across the globe. SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Frost & Sullivan, a …

RCR Unplugged | April 2, 2011 | Sylvie Barak *Editors Sylvie Barak and Marc Speir were in Haiti last week, filming a documentary about the rebuilding of the impoverished country’s telecom infrastructure over a year after the quake. Barak and …

Bloomberg | April 3, 2011 | Pavel Alpeyev Softbank Corp. (9984) President Masayoshi Son, Japan’s richest man, pledged to donate 10 billion yen ($120 million) and his remaining salary until retirement to help support victims of the nation’s biggest postwar disaster. …

Financial Times | April 1, 2011 | Naomi Mapstone It costs about 30 cents to check your email in Peru if you duck into one of thousands of grimy internet cafés that also offer photocopying, scanning, printing and international phone …

Business Week | March 25, 2011 Funtalk China Holdings Ltd., which sells and distributes wireless communication devices, said Friday that a group of investors, which includes some of its executives, want to take it private in a deal worth about …

Austin360 | March 25, 2011 | Omar L. Gallaga We all like our mobile streaming video the way we like our smoothies, right? SMOOTH! Consistent! Perhaps with cherries. Researchers at the University of Texas are working on a project to make video, …