ComScore buys M:Metrics
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Digital media measurer ComScore has purchased M:Metrics for $44.3 million, adding the Seattle-based mobile trend tracking capabilities to its extensive online portfolio...
Google demos Android UI, features
By: by Rich Karpinski
For the first time, Google this week showed off what looked to be a close-to-production-ready version of its Android operating system, including touch-screen and accelerometer tools that mimic Apple’s iPhone...
BREW gets a little Flash
By: By Kevin Fitchard
SAN DIEGO--Qualcomm and Adobe have partnered up to embed Adobe’s Flash technology into the BREW platform, giving BREW’s small development community a set of powerful tools and simultaneously giving Flash’s enormous developer pool a mobile outlet for their Web content and applications...
Truphone intercepts global mobile calls
By: By Rich Karpinski
Alternative mobile service provider Truphone launched a service today that automatically “re-routes” international calls that begin on incumbent operator networks and delivers them via the Internet and the Truphone network...
Sprint Clearwire JV has broad implications
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Sprint and Clearwire’s renewed engagement didn’t just boost WiMAX’s profile in the U.S. According to global vendors, it enormously benefited WiMAX worldwide, giving operators who were on the fence about WiMAX the confidence to deploy their networks...
Femto Forum lays down femtocell law
By: By Kevin Fitchard
In attempt to apply order to an increasingly fractured technology, the femtocell community has agreed to lay down a single standard for the interfaces between elements in the femtocell architecture, a move intended to make any femtocell compatible with any network...
AT&T nears completion of HSUPA rollout
By: By Kevin Fitchard
AT&T is six markets away from completing a network upgrade that will give its 3G network broadband upload speeds to match its broadband download speeds...
Aricent takes Celltop global
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Aricent today said it has begun selling its Celltop widget-based user interface software worldwide, ending the exclusivity Alltel had on the platform. The mobile software developer said it has retooled the platform for Java as well as BREW and is conducting global trials with operators...
Rural operators petition FCC to end handset exclusives
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Rural operators are challenging the exclusivity agreements that Tier 1 carriers sign with handset vendors, saying such deals unfairly limit consumer choice, decrease competition and violate federal law...
NXTcomm 2008: Everything under the sun
By: By Telephony Staff
With a high-powered keynote schedule and slew of exhibitors representing the latest technology trends, telecom's mega-event is set to sizzle in Las Vegas...
On-the-go 'toons
By: By Sarah Reedy
Mobile content often comes in the form of wallpaper, ringtones, music, terrified corncobs, monster rabbits OK, the last two might not sound as common, but through independent animation network Aniboom's mobile content initiative, more than 6000 animated shorts, such as the corncobs, are making their way to mobile handsets...
AWS band finally spreading its wings
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Eighteen months after the close of Auction 66, operators have begun aggressive network rollouts in the first new mobile spectrum band since PCS...
Is a 4G race beginning?
By: By Kevin Fitchard
After months of worry about the future of their WiMAX networks, Clearwire and Sprint are now set thanks to a $3.2 billion investment from Google, Intel and a handful of cable operators...
Could global telcos launch Skype competitor?
By: By Rich Karpinski
With voice lines eroding rapidly, AT&T, BT, NTT and other incumbent carriers soon will launch their own IP telephony competitor to Skype, predicted investment banking firm ThinkPanmure in a research note...
Mobile TV runs into global roadblocks
By: By Sarah Reedy
The U.S. may have a head start in the global mobile TV race. Although the technology has been slow to take off, AT&T and Verizon have launched services, and more are in the works...
Dumbing up the network
By: By Kevin Fitchard
WiMAX networks have the potential to open up wireless data to a new realm of connected devices: millions of sensors, vehicles and smart content-distribution points. The keyword is "potential," though -- at least that's wireless software-maker Proximetry's stance...
Alltel looks to LTE, but over which spectrum?
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Long Term Evolution is in Alltel’s future, though that future is still a long way off. Alltel said today that it has chosen LTE over rival WiMAX, but it hasn’t formulated any specific deployment plans or looked at funding options...
Embarq move raises questions about quad-play model
By: By Ed Gubbins
Embarq’s severance of its partnership with Sprint Nextel for the wireless portion of its bundled offerings raises questions about to what extent the company will remain true to the strategy of fixed mobile convergence laid out by former CEO (now Sprint CEO) Dan Hesse...
Samsung, LG get green light on mobile TV standard
By: By Sarah Reedy
The Open Mobile Video Coalition (OVMC), an organization of 850 local broadcasters, today submitted its viability report findings giving Samsung and LG the stamp of approval to pursue mobile TV based on the best of both manufacturers’ competing standards...
Verizon field techs get BlackBerry benefits
By: By Carol Wilson
Verizon Partner Solutions, the wholesale arm of Verizon, is now equipping its 2200 field technicians with BlackBerry 8703e smartphones and reaping financial and customer satisfaction rewards in the process...
MultiService Forum readies global demo
By: By Rich Karpinski
Carriers including Verizon, BT, Vodafone and new member China Mobile will be among the host test sites for the MultiService Forum's global interoperability demonstration of next-generation networks...
Embarq next to exit MVNO biz
By: By Kevin Fitchard
New Sprint CEO Dan Hesse’s former company, Embarq, is the latest to abandon its reseller deal with Sprint...
VZW taps Android alternative for future phones
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Verizon Wireless today made a radical shift in its phone strategy, announcing that it would make a Linux-based operating system the foundation of its future mobile applications platform. And that OS isn’t Android...
Leap goes live in Vegas
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Leap Wireless officially launched its Cricket Communications service in Las Vegas today, pitting it against fellow new entrant and regional all-you-can-eat minute plan operator MetroPCS....
Sprint: CDMA Direct Connect ramps up
By: By Kevin Fitchard
As Sprint’s operating and customer losses continue to mount, the company today revealed it plans it plans in the coming months to move its QChat CDMA push-to-talk technology from commercial trials to large-scale launch, reducing its reliance on the Nextel iDEN network for its industry leading Direct Connect service...
