Cingular launches mobile blogging
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Cingular today launched blogging services over its MEdia Net portal, allowing customers to instantly upload text and photos to mobile social networking sites. ...
Net2Phone eyeing wireless play for cable
By: By Vince Vittore
Hoping to mimic what Sprint is doing for its constellation of big cable operators but on a smaller scale, Net2Phone is now targeting multiple systems operators with a wireless offering. ...
Verizon Wireless TiVos DVR scheduling
By: By Dan O'Shea
Verizon Wireless and TiVo have signed an exclusive agreement for the nationwide carrier to debut TiVo Mobile....
Cingular kicks off 3G services with TV
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Cingular today revealed its first consumer 3G service, a mobile television platform featuring channels from ESPN to HBO. ...
Orange taps Sony Ericsson to spearhead music strategy
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Pan-European operator Orange today selected Sony Ericsson as its lead partner in the carrier's mobile music strategy, agreeing to market and sell Sony Ericsson's growing line of Walkman music phones across its European footprint...
Google offers mobile news
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Web portal Google further extended its Internet services into the mobile world this week, announcing a wireless version of its popular news portal and extending its wireless handset partnership roster to vendor Sony Ericsson....
Island hopping
By: By Dan O'Shea
Centennial Corp. isn't the only wireless player that sees potential in the Caribbean, but its focus on adjusting for each market sets it apart...
Alvarion releases OFDM kit for public safety
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Alvarion today commercially released a version of its BreezeAccess line of broadband wireless infrastructure targeting the 4.9 GHz frequencies used by public-safety agencies in the U.S....
Sprint launches MTV channels
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Sprint today announced it has partnered with MTV Networks to add premium mobile TV content channels to its Sprint TV lineup...
mBlox raises $25 million
By: By Kevin Fitchard
mBlox today said it has secured another $25 million in funding—money it plans to use in part for selective acquisitions in Europe and Asia to grow its mobile transactions business globally....
EarthLink to telecom world: Watch us now
By: By Carol Wilson
Having survived the brutal ISP wars, EarthLink is now taking dead aim at virtually every corner of the telecom market, with the possible exception of large enterprises....
As RIM's "push" is threatened, Phonified offers "pull"
By: By Kevin Fitchard
With RIM's BlackBerry service under threat of a blackout as soon as tomorrow, it's no news that the vendor's competitors are jumping in to scavenge its lucrative customer base. ...
BlueBeat to power Motorola's iRadio
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Motorola's new music strategy has begun to take a more definite form as it today announced its first music provider for the upcoming iRadio service. ...
EarthLink, Google team on SF Wi-Fi
By: By Carol Wilson
EarthLink and Google have submitted a joint proposal to the city of San Francisco for its planned citywide WiFi network, combining a free service to be operated by Google with a paid service tier offered by EarthLink....
Verizon Airfone develops new flight plan
By: By Vince Vittore
Sometime in the spring, U.S. consumers should be a significant step closer to losing one of the last places of refuge from wireless connectivity...
WiMAX positioned for vertical success
By: By Dan O'Shea
WiMAX is more often mentioned as a potential residential broadband or mobile broadband alternative than it is as an enterprise solution, but there is plenty of reason to believe we'll see a lot of WiMAX in vertical enterprise markets...
3GSM: Lucent releases one-box radio network
By: By Kevin Fitchard
BARCELONA, SPAIN--Lucent Technologies has managed to cram a base station, a radio network controller and core network router into a single box, effectively creating a single-element network. (Photographers/Source: JEFF ZELEVANSKY/Bloomberg News/Landov)...
3GSM: Nokia, Sanyo to create CDMA JV
By: By Kevin Fitchard
BARCELONA, SPAIN--Nokia said today that it was shuttling its reblooming CDMA handset business into a new cross European/Asian partnership. Nokia is forming a joint venture with Japan’s Sanyo to create a global CDMA business that company officials said could compete among the top tier of CDMA vendors...
3GSM: Notes from the show
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Here's a look at news from the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona....
Parsing the BlackBerry workaround
By: By Kevin Fitchard
RIM's shutdown antidote could be painful, but switching providers could be, too...
SEM means the customer's always right
By: By Dan O'Shea
Subscriber experience management, or SEM, may be a mouthful, but it is also rooted in a fairly ancient idea about quality of service: The customer is always right...
Managed network trend catching on
By: By Dan O'Shea
Although Ericsson has been first vendor to take advantage of growing sector, Nokia and others following close behind...
Big wired names dominate the tiny screen
By: Kevin Fitchard
The giants of the wired Internet are turning out to be the giants of the wireless Internet, too...
Mobile ESPN to launch this weekend
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The service has been available for months from Best Buy in four markets and from its Web portal everywhere else, but this Sunday Mobile ESPN will “officially” launch, timing its first major TV advertising blitz with--what else?--the Superbowl...
3GSM: Glenayre exploring active messaging
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Glenayre has developed an active messaging solution that allows users to interact with voice and video messages. Glenayre plans to roll out the new platform, called Versera Active Messaging, at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, later this month...
