Visto sues Good over e-mail patents
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Visto is continuing to flex its intellectual property muscle, saying today it has filed its second patent-infringement lawsuit against a wireless e-mail provider. ...
InFocus: VoWLAN vs. Cellular
By: By John Spindler
As wireless LANs begin taking hold across the corporate landscape, enterprises have started exploring voice over WLAN (VoWLAN) as an alternative to cellular telephone coverage. But before jumping on the VoWLAN bandwagon, enterprise IT managers should ask themselves what they really want from voice mobility. Which is really the best alternative?...
Verizon Wireless launches LBS
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Verizon Wireless today unveiled GPS location-based services available over a single handset. Called VZ Navigator the service initially offers detailed mapping and directions applications similar to the vehicle navigation systems sold in automobiles....
Aperto puts PacketWAVE in Pakistan
By: By Dan O'Shea
SUPERNET Limited, an ISP in Pakistan, said it has deployed its Aperto Network's PacketWave broadband wireless systems in Karachi, Pakistan, and is in the process of deploying more systems in the cities of Lahore and Islamabad. ...
Motorola brings UMTS in-building
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Motorola today released an indoor UMTS access point, designed to be wall-mounted on-site in an enterprise and connected to a base station through IP backhaul...
India awaits a broadband breakthrough
By: By Dan O'Shea
When it comes to telecom market potential, India, the second-most populated country in the world, is often overlooked in the shadow of its larger, more populated neighbor to the northeast...
Nokia wins network management deal in India
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Nokia today announced a five-year contract with Hutchison Essar to take over the operations of its GSM network in eight states in India. ...
InFocus: All about location
By: By Joe Dyoub and Brent Collins
Imagine you are driving in an unfamiliar town, looking for a specific business. You need directions, but your mobile device only provides the street address. Would you be satisfied? Wouldn't it be better if your mobile device displays turn-by-turn instructions? This is the relevance and promise of location-based services...
Managed services have net effect
By: By Dan O'Shea
It sounds, on the surface, a little suicidal for an mobile network operator to outsource operation of its network to another firm. What does a network operator have left to do if it's not operating its network?...
Mobile TV alliance takes on Qualcomm
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Mobile TV technology companies are joining forces in North America to promote the digital video broadcast-hand-held standard and prepare for a face-off with a common rival: Qualcomm...
MMX by the year MMX
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Qualcomm has a lot on its plate these days, providing the core silicon technology for 3G. But the CDMA innovator already has its eye on the next phase of wireless data...
IPWireless unveils Mobile TV infrastructure
By: By Kevin Fitchard
IPWireless is revamping its Time Division-CDMA to allow for one-way multicast transmissions, effectively turning its high-power 3G data infrastructure into a mobile TV broadcast network. ...
Aruba releases branch office WLAN switch
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Keeping with its new "mobile edge" strategy targeting the enterprise periphery, Aruba Networks today unveiled a new scaled-down version of its WLAN switch for branch offices and retail locations....
Samsung staying neutral in mobile TV wars
By: By Kevin Fitchard
In the battle over mobile TV standards, Korean manufacturer Samsung has decided not to take sides and is fact building multimedia handsets based on both Qualcomm's and European vendors' standardized technology as well as the digital multimedia broadcasting technology developed in Korea....
FLO looks to TIA for standards backing
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The FLO Forum is submitting its specification for forward link only mobile TV to the TIA in an effort to standardize the technology developed in-house by Qualcomm....
Arbor earns managed security deals
By: By Dan O'Shea
Several major ISPs have begun using Arbor Network's Peakflow SP security technology to provide security services to their enterprise customers...
Nokia, Kyocera settle patent fight
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Nokia and Kyocera today revealed they have ended a two-year-old-patent dispute that had taken place largely outside of the public eye, agreeing to license each other's mobile handset technology....
SK Telecom, Wavesat partner on WiBro
By: By Dan O'Shea
South Korea's SK Telecom and broadband wireless chipmaker Wavesat have engaged in what the companies described as a "multi-million dollar agreement" to develop a system-on-a-chip based on WiBro...
WiderThan supports V Cast Music
By: By Dan O'Shea
Mobile entertainment developer WiderThan said this morning that the company had been chosen by Verizon Wireless as an application service provider for the new V Cast Music service announced by the carrier yesterday at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas...
CES: Cingular kicks HSDPA up a notch
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Cingular today at CES demonstrated a faster version of its new high-speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) network, performing a data call with a new PC card capable of 3.6 Mb/s downstream speeds...
CES: Verizon Wireless launches Windows Treo
By: By Kevin Fitchard
At the Consumer Electronics Show this week, Palm announced it has commercially released its much-anticipated Treo 700W, it’s first Windows-powered device, for Verizon Wireless’s 3G network...
CES: Mobile TV products take the limelight
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Mobile TV is likely to take center stage at the Consumer Electronics Show this year, as both service providers begin ramping up their networks for launch later this year and vendors release their first TV-capable handsets....
Cambridge helps picoChip with SDR 802.16e design
By: By Dan O'Shea
U.K.-based Cambridge Consultants, a technology engineering company, announced that it has been commissioned by 802.16e chip developer picoChip to help create software-defined radio (SDR) reference designs for the Mobile WiMAX market, using the picoArray digital signal processing device. ...
CES: Motorola announces fixed-mobile home gateway
By: By Dan O'Shea
Motorola, exhibiting at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, has announced its new Residential Seamless Mobility Gateway (RSG) family, while includes broadband-powered gateways that combine four-port router and 802.11b/g wireless access point functionality with a built-in voice over IP adapter....
Japan makes mobile TV plans
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Japanese CDMA carrier KDDI said today it would set up a small joint venture with Qualcomm to explore the possibility of creating a forward access link multicast TV network in Japan to parallel the network Qualcomm is launching in the U.S. this year....
