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Posted By Tricia Duryee - Mon 07 Apr 2008 06:08 PM PST
Two years ago at CTIA, only a few companies would even mumble the words “mobile advertising,” but now it’s a part of everyone’s vernacular. Truthfully, that makes it a lot…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Mon 07 Apr 2008 11:46 AM PST
Every year at CTIA, I cruise the show floor to see the coolest things—from applications to handsets. By no means can this be a comprehensive list, after all in Las…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Mon 07 Apr 2008 09:30 AM PST
One of the most controversial mobile content plays is pornography, and last week at CTIA, arguably the biggest name—Playboy (NYSE: PLA)—launched a series of mobile initiatives. Perhaps because of the…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Fri 04 Apr 2008 01:37 PM PST
This week, I caught up with Tony Lewis, Verizon (NYSE: VZ) Wireless’ newly-appointed VP of Open Development, at CTIA to talk to him about what the company’s plans are for…
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Fri 04 Apr 2008 01:36 PM PST
Our publisher and co-editor Rafat Ali along with our mocoNews.net principal correspondent Tricia Duryee have been in Las Vegas, covering the global tech event that is CTIA Wireless. Some highlights:…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 03 Apr 2008 04:29 PM PST
The high-profile spectrum auction ended two weeks ago, but the really interesting information is only starting to come out now that the quiet period has ended. The FCC, which garnered…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 03 Apr 2008 04:20 PM PST
After months of anticipation on when Nokia (NYSE: NOK) would launch its gaming platform called N-Gage, the world’s largest handset maker did it quietly this morning when it let the…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 03 Apr 2008 12:26 PM PST
At the big CTIA wireless show in Las Vegas this week, I did a short video interview with Vishal Gondal, the CEO of Indiagames, the big mobile and online gaming…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 03 Apr 2008 11:59 AM PST
With the end of CTIA Wireless 2008 coming to a close in a couple hours, you can start to see the trends emerging in the industry. One of the ones…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Wed 02 Apr 2008 06:54 PM PST
Today, AT&T (NYSE: T) hosted a press conference to catch all the reporters up to speed on the carrier’s recent initiatives, and once the faucet started to open, the news…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 02 Apr 2008 06:34 PM PST
At CTIA, I spoke to Jai Jaisimha, the AOL (NYSE: TWX) VP for mobile product and technology development, and the video is embedded below. He talked about AOL’s move into…
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Wed 02 Apr 2008 02:25 PM PST
-- 9 Squared and Zed Worldwide combine operations: 9 Squared unveiled plans to formally combine operations with mobile entertainment company Zed Worldwide, with Zed continuing to offer the products originally…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Wed 02 Apr 2008 10:30 AM PST
Following Vodafone’s (NYSE: VOD) Arun Sarin, Yahoo’s EVP of Connected Life Marco Boerries came on stage to tell the audience about its various mobile phone products. As part of his…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Wed 02 Apr 2008 09:02 AM PST
In this morning’s keynote, Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) CEO Arun Sarin said he has the ability to see trends worldwide in the mobile industry because Vodafone covers 30 countries and 250…
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Wed 02 Apr 2008 05:40 AM PST
It’s a trickle, but it’s a start. Since announcing at Mobile World Congress in February that it too would follow in Nokia’s footsteps by making the mobile web and content…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Tue 01 Apr 2008 09:36 PM PST
Announcements made today at CTIA showed that navigation services are an increasingly important offering on the mobile phone, and conversations with both Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ) and AT&T (NYSE: T),…
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 01 Apr 2008 03:53 PM PST
FCC Chairman Kevin Martin got some cheers at CTIA’s opening assembly today when he said the commission should reject a petition by Skype to open wireless networks to any device.…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Tue 01 Apr 2008 03:08 PM PST
Today, at CTIA Nokia (NYSE: NOK) rented a huge crane to lift reporters into the air to demonstrate that its first WiMax tablet—the Nokia N810 Wi Edition—can make the Internet…
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 01 Apr 2008 01:42 PM PST
I’m not in Vegas, but caught this via webcast… Qualcomm (NSDQ: QCOM) used its presentation at CTIA to tout a business bigger than just cellular, with things like NFC payments,…
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Tue 01 Apr 2008 12:29 PM PST
-- Guitar Hero III Mobile will rock your BlackBerrry: Hands-On Mobile, Inc. has partnered with Activision (NSDQ: ATVI), Inc. to bring Research in Motion’s (NSDQ: RIMM) (RIM) Guitar Hero III…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 01 Apr 2008 11:06 AM PST
At CTIA in Las Vegas, I briefly spoke to Rob Glaser, CEO of RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) on his company’s mobile content efforts and working, on working with carriers, the Apple…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Tue 01 Apr 2008 11:00 AM PST
The second-to-last keynote of the day was by Microsoft’s (NSDQ: MSFT) Robbie Bach, who addressed the hundreds in the audience with the message that you can’t just think about Microsoft…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Tue 01 Apr 2008 10:05 AM PST
CTIA kicked off this morning with the association’s Chairman Lowell McAdam of Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ) addressing the crowd. He talked about how much innovation has taken place over the…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Tue 01 Apr 2008 09:30 AM PST
You never know what will happen when Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) gets on the stage, but if everything stays according to plan, Robbie Bach will get up today at CTIA and…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 01 Apr 2008 09:13 AM PST
Yesterday at CTIA, I did a brief interview with Tom Wheeler, managing director of Core Capital Partners, on the fast evolving mobile content ecosystem, and investing in it. The big…
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