Bandspeed brings back the intelligent Wi-Fi AP
By Kevin Fitchard
While the WLAN switch is the hot item in enterprise Wi-Fi these days, a newcomer is challenging the notion of a centralized wireless network architecture and making a case for the “fat” access point...
ADC, Andrew to merge
By Dan O'Shea
Vendors ADC and Andrew Corp. are planning to merge in a stock-for-stock deal, the companies said today...
Chicago plans private citywide Wi-Fi net
By Carol Wilson
Chicago is jumping onto the Wi-Fi bandwagon, announcing a plan to court private companies to build a citywide network and offer free or low-cost service...
Virgin launches ad-paid airtime promotion
By Kevin Fitchard
Virgin Mobile is adding a new twist to its prepaid service: it’s launching a program that allows customers to earn airtime minutes by viewing tailored mobile ads...
Qualcomm releases universal TV chip
By Kevin Fitchard
Qualcomm said today it has produced a multi-mode mobile TV chip that supports two competing standards along with its own Forward Link Only (FLO) technology...
U.S. Cellular buys into BREW client
By Kevin Fitchard
U.S. Cellular today confirmed that it is using Qualcomm’s new user interface uiOne, making it one of the first carriers to adopt Qualcomm’s new modular BREW strategy end-to-end...
Capcom buys mobile game publisher
By Kevin Fitchard
Capcom Entertainment is the latest major game maker to buy into the mobile gaming space, announcing today plans to acquire Cosmic Infinity for an undisclosed sum...
Qualcomm sues Nokia in U.K.
By Kevin Fitchard
Qualcomm is again taking its intellectual property to the courtroom, announcing today it is filing another lawsuit against Nokia regarding its GSM technology, this time in a U.K. court...
Nokia releases open-source browser
By Kevin Fitchard
Nokia today said it is releasing the underlying engine powering its Series 60 mobile browser to the open source community in an effort to kick-start innovation around one of the most maligned applications in mobile...
AT&T launches satellite broadband service
By Dan O'Shea
AT&T followed up on the recent announcement of its partnership with satellite-based wireless ISP WildBlue by officially launching its satellite broadband service today...
Intrado providing V-911 solution to Broadwing for AOL
By Tim McElligott
When AOL picked Broadwing as the network provider for its AIM Phoneline service, Intrado also became a winner. The Longmont, Colo-based company will provide voice-over-IP E-911 service for AOL through its relationship with Broadwing....
WiMAX World: New chips, new execs, new deployments
By Kevin Fitchard
WiMAX technologist Wavesat is putting mobility in Fixed WiMAX--or at least portability. At WiMAX World Europe in Vienna this week, the chip vendor offered a sneak peek at a system on a chip WiMAX solution that supports nomadic capabilities...
Verizon to carry Motorola's new Q
By Kevin Fitchard
Verizon Wireless will be the first operator to sell Motorola's Q handset, its answer to Research in Motion's BlackBerry push e-mail device. ...
Modeo to use Penthera head-end software
By Kevin Fitchard
Modeo today revealed that is going with a relatively unknown vendor to power its multicast mobile TV network. The subsidiary of Crown Castle has selected Penthera Technologies to provide the interactive programming head-end for Modeo’s network operations center in Pittsburgh as well as the interactive client software powering Modeo’s first handset...
WiMAX meets reality
By Dan O'Shea
WiMAX and WiMAX-like solutions are finally getting beyond all the hype to address real-world applications, though carriers still have to consider what lies ahead on their road maps...
The unwired side of IPTV
By Dan O'Shea
Mobile TV and IPTV remain parallel market developments for now, but mobile devices may soon begin to bridge the gap...
Putting the mobile in mobile gaming
By Kevin Fitchard
Mobile games still may be isolated on the phone, but the industry is finally ready to get connected. (Photo by Fred Prouser/Reuters/Landov)...
Sprint eyeing BREW
By Kevin Fitchard
After years of striking its own mobile data course, Sprint is taking another look at Qualcomm’s BREW...
Silicon Valley VCs eye AWS spectrum
By Kevin Fitchard
A group of Silicon Valley venture capital firms reportedly are interested in undercutting carriers’ plans to bid on the Advanced Wireless Services spectrum this June, proposing instead to the FCC to allow them to set up a nationwide broadband wireless network...
Towerstream offers SLA
By Kevin Fitchard
Metro broadband wireless access provider Towerstream today said it has created a wireless T-1 with dual base station redundancy, allowing it to offer service level agreements equivalent to those offered by wireline carriers...
Sprint to carry new Treo
By Kevin Fitchard
Sprint today said it would be the first to offer Palm's new 3G-enabled Trio, the first Palm-OS device with built-in EV-DO capabilities. Palm unveiled the 700p Monday, making it Sprint's second 3G device along with the Windows-powered 700w, announced last year....
LGC unveils multi-band indoor wireless solution
By Kevin Fitchard
LGC Wireless said today it has produced an in-building cellular system capable of supporting multiple simultaneous frequency bands and multiple carriers...
Telcordia adds mobile tracking to portfolio
By Kevin Fitchard
Telcordia today said it has partnered with location-technology provider NorBelle to add a mobile-to-mobile tracking component to its Maestro line of applications and solutions....
Ericsson readies for Alcatel/Lucent fight
By Dan O'Shea
Sweden-based vendor giant Ericsson held its Capital Markets Day event this week in New York City, and executives from the company touted Ericsson's mobile broadband experience, integrated global approach and its new assets from the acquisition of Marconi that will strengthen the company as it competes against the pending merger of Alcatel and Lucent Technologies...
Clearwire registers for IPO
By Dan O'Shea
Clearwire, the broadband wireless service provider founded by mobile pioneer Craig McCaw, is about to find out if Wall Street can fall in love for a second time with broadband fixed wireless firms. ...
