Adobe targets video with Flash Lite, new media player
By: By Rich Karpinski
Adobe put the focus on video at its developer conference this week with a new version of its Flash Light client for mobile devices and a new Internet video player...
iBasis claims No. 2 spot in global voice traffic
By: By Carol Wilson
The new iBasis has emerged this week, calling itself the second largest carrier of international voice traffic in the world, exceeding AT&T and second only to Verizon...
Advertising by SMS
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Europe is inundated, by the U.S. has been relatively spared -- until now...
What's Google's interest in wireless?
By: By Kevin Fitchard
First the Google phone, now its partnership with Sprint -- Google's mobile ambitions are extensive, but how far will the Internet giant go?...
Feeling left out
By: By Mark Donahue
When news surfaced in late August that a New Jersey teenager had rigged his iPhone to work with T-Mobile's network, a message may have been sent to big wireless carriers clinging to handset exclusivity...
iPhone turns Orange in France
By: By Sarah Reedy
Stop number three on Apple CEO Steve Job’s tour of Europe brought news that France Telecom’s wireless division, Orange, will be the exclusive carrier of the iPhone in France. Didier Lombard, CEO of France Telecom, announced the partnership during a conference in Hanoi, saying the phone would be available in November...
Wi-Fi phones gain traction, but at whose expense?
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The European press went into a tizzy this morning over Nokia’s newest handset the 6301 dual-mode with unlicensed mobile access technology. Media outlets like The Times of London portrayed Nokia’s slick new Wi-Fi cellular handset as a major step in the move of voice from the cellular networks controlled by the operators to the far cheaper public Internet...
MetroPCS goes live in L.A.
By: By Kevin Fitchard
MetroPCS turned up wireless service in Los Angeles today, marking its entrance in the country’s second-largest market and a key stepping stone in its plans to expand to the Northeast...
iPhone global expansion continues in Germany
By: By Sarah Reedy
Apple’s global wireless strategy plunged full speed ahead with today’s announcement that T-Mobile International will be the exclusive operator partner for the iPhone in Germany, set to launch on Nov. 9...
Clearwire goes nomadic
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Clearwire has begun selling laptop PC cards to its broadband access customers in Seattle, allowing them to take their once-fixed Internet connections out into the wider world...
Sprint, Microsoft deliver location-based mobile search
By: By Rich Karpinski
Sprint and Microsoft are rolling out new mobile search services including the ability to tie search to location using GPS as well as launch voice-commanded Web searches, the companies said today...
Google integrates mobile, Web text ads
By: By Rich Karpinski
Ad buyers who purchase Google text ads will soon start seeing their ads show up on mobile devices in addition to the Web...
New AT&T campaign one step forward
By: By Carol Wlison
AT&T’s new marketing initiatives are one step forward toward creating a more mobile identity for a brand once considered the stodgy bastion of the telecom establishment, said one of the advertising executives charged with creating that identity...
Nokia looks beyond hardware
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Nokia's launch of the Ovi mobile Internet services portal has prompted questions such as "Will Nokia kill the service provider?" from IMS Research, and statements such as "Nokia is placing a very large bet in a very high-profile way" from Ovum...
Analysis: Wi-Fi aside, iPod Touch not built for communications
By: By Rich Karpinski
Every new device launch these days brings with it at least some anticipation over whether it will be the device to route around traditional carrier networks using Wi-Fi, VoIP or other “bypass” technologies. The latest candidate: the new Touch version of the Apple iPod...
Apple cuts iPhone prices, unveils new iPods
By: By Sarah Reedy
Apple today announced it is cutting prices on the 8-gigabyte iPhone by $200 and discontinuing the 4-gigabyte model...
Palm cans Foleo tablet
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Palm is canceling the launch of the Foleo companion, a tablet computer designed to synch with Palm smartphones, right before its expected launch...
Nokia teams with Microsoft for Live apps
By: By Kevin Fitchard
In a pairing of the world’s two biggest smartphone rivals, Nokia and Microsoft today said they are cooperating to build a suite of specially designed Windows Live services for Nokia phones...
Virgin launches social networking
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Virgin Mobile is launching an array of social networking portals, targeting specific communities and interest, over its mobile Internet service using technology from Intercasting...
VZW to revamp VCast music with MTV, Real
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Verizon Wireless, Viacom’s MTV and RealNetworks are partnering to create a digital music service that will span three major media: television, the Internet and the mobile network...
AOL launches mobile search
By: By Rich Karpinski
America Online this week launched a test version of a revamped AOL Mobile Search (or wap.aol.com on your phone), tapping Google for core search results with a variety of AOL sites playing key content roles...
Nokia issues battery recall
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Nokia today recalled 46 million batteries powering some of its most popular phone models, saying the batteries in questions have experienced overheating problems...
Verizon updates mobile Web services
By: By Rich Karpinski
Verizon Wireless this week unveiled a redesign to its mobile Web services including new content and search functionality...
'Hacks' add Skype, videoconferencing to iPhone
By: By Rich Karpinski
Apple’s iPhone may be packed with features, but enterprising developers this week added two communications-related capabilities the phone was missing: voice-over-IP service and videoconferencing...
