RIM targets small businesses
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Research in Motion is launching a scaled-down BlackBerry server architecture it hopes will spread RIM’s appeal from the big enterprise to the small office...
CDMA drives Nortel profit despite deferred sales
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Nortel Networks is back in the black, posting a third-quarter profit of $27 million after slipping back into a loss at the halfway point of the year...
Updated: Google pursues open OS to penetrate wireless market
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Google today finally revealed its long-awaited ‘Gphone’ plans, but instead of producing its own handset, the Internet giant is taking a completely different approach: proliferating its software and applications through standards...
Signals from Earth; signals from space
By: By Kevin Fitchard
TerreStar pursues a satellite/3G hybrid...
Apple comes full circle on iPhone applications
By: By Rich Karpinski
A month-long spat has led the company to cautiously open its handset...
AT&T'S multifaceted music plans
By: By Kevin Fitchard
In a few short months, AT&T has gone from having no wireless component for its digital music service to having the largest wireless download platform in the industry...
CTIA: Play it on the phone
By: By Kevin Fitchard
You'd expect to see Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer at a wireless industry trade event, but Quincy Jones or Master P?...
Nokia experiments in content development
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Nokia is adding a new kink to the concept of user-generated content for the mobile phone...
Visage grabs opportunity in mobility market
By: by Tim McElligott
The leading enabler of MVNOs acquires its way into the enterprise space...
The talking phone
By: By Kevin Fitchard
What if your phone could talk to you? Not just relay the voice communications of others, but really talk to you...
VoIP deja vu
By: By Joan Engebretson
A new crop of start-ups offers bypass calling using unlimited data plans. If the past is prelude, they could be the next Skype or Vonage...
Broadband at low frequencies
By: By Kevin Fitchard
CTC is using former TV spectrum for broadband and VoIP, and more could follow its lead next year...
Tellabs, Carrier Access joint backhaul effort stalls
By: By Ed Gubbins
The wireless backhaul product developed jointly by Carrier Access and Tellabs has been snubbed by the operator for which it was created, Carrier Access revealed this week...
MetroPCS withdraws Leap merger bid
By: By Kevin Fitchard
MetroPCS today said it is rescinding its offer to merge with Leap Wireless to after failing to bring Leap to the negotiating table...
Sprint still bleeding customers, reduces WiMAX spend
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Sprint’s attempts to reposition itself in the wireless market and improve customer care hadn’t yet born any fruit in the third quarter, as the company shed another 60,000 subscribers, mainly from its Nextel iDEN network...
VON: Motorola fellow describes WiMAX future
By: By Sarah Reedy
BOSTON--WiMAX is like having DSL in the palm of your hands, and it will soon be a widespread reality, Jaime Borras, corporate vice president and senior fellow for Motorola’s WiMAX, iDEN Advanced Development and Technology Specialty Platforms, Mobile Devices, told the crowd at the VON show today...
Analysis: Will Google and VZW strike a content deal?
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Google is reported to be in talks with the country’s largest wireless carriers for content deals to put Google’s bevy of search, messaging and content applications on their mobile phones...
VON: New world of unified communications on display
By: By Sarah Reedy
BOSTON--FirstHand, Allworx and D2 Technologies were among several companies at the VON show in Boston this week touting new technologies that allow users to move between calling networks and reduce their contact numbers to just one...
Alcatel-Lucent’s restructuring not a full remedy, say analysts
By: By Ed Gubbins
Analysts and investors seemed to approve of the new restructuring plans Alcatel-Lucent announced today, but the moves did little to assuage deeper doubts surrounding the company...
VON: Level 3 adds SipStorm, Jangl
By: By Carol Wilson
BOSTON--Highlighting what it calls innovative uses of a mature VoIP platform, Level 3 Communications announced two new service provider customers: SipStorm, a wholesale provider of converged applications and services, and Jangl, a fixed-mobile convergence provider...
CTIA Wrap-up: The IT
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Though the entertainment seemed to overwhelm the IT at this year’s CTIA IT & Entertainment show, there were still plenty of enterprise applications on display at the fall show...
Enter the Skype phone
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Skype today unveiled its long-awaited VoIP phone, a mobile handset that uses the data capabilities of the mobile network to bypass an operator’s circuit-switched network entirely to make free calls over the Internet...
Data still driving Verizon Wireless growth
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Verizon Wireless added 1.6 million subscribers in the third quarter but, more impressively, saw its average revenue per user (ARPU) climb, driven by greater data usage...
Ringing in the New Year with iPhone 2.0?
By: By Sarah Reedy
With disappointment over the iPhone’s limited EDGE capabilities still hovering, speculation about the release of the long-awaited, third-generation version of the handset is at an all-time high...
Moto returns to profitability, barely
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Motorola ended its two-quarter loss streak this week, posting a slight profit for the third quarter but off of much lower revenue and handset shipments than it had in previous boom years...
