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Posted By Tricia Duryee - Fri 10 Oct 2008 05:16 PM PST
Bell Canada said today that it will use LTE to build out its 4G network, an unexpected move for a company which has many close ties to the competing WiMax…
Posted By Matt Kapko - Fri 10 Oct 2008 04:54 PM PST
Devices are capable of accessing the “white spaces” between airwaves without affecting the adjacent licensed networks under certain power-level limits, the FCC concluded in a detailed report released Friday afternoon.…
Posted By Matt Kapko - Fri 10 Oct 2008 01:25 PM PST
Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ) is backtracking on the 3 cent per-SMS fee it told partners it would begin charging for every message delivered over its network. And yet it still…
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Fri 10 Oct 2008 11:59 AM PST
Top headlines of the week from our sister sites paidContent.org and paidContent:UK: paidContent.org: -- Yahoo’s Stock Below $13; Other Media Stock Down To New Lows -- Financial Crisis Sends Ad…
Posted By Matt Kapko - Fri 10 Oct 2008 11:26 AM PST
The Research In Motion takeover guessing game has returned. With the BlackBerry-maker’s shares having dropped from more than $148 to around $60 in four tumultuous months, cash-rich companies could be…
Posted By Matt Kapko - Fri 10 Oct 2008 10:26 AM PST
Even with the first Android device set to launch in a matter of days, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) still has the iPhone and the inherent opportunities it presents high on its…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Fri 10 Oct 2008 10:11 AM PST
Neomobile, an Italian mobile entertainment company, has raised $13.5 million (10 million euros) from the Private Equity arm of Monte Paschi Siena, which will recieve a 16 percent stake in…
Posted By Matt Kapko - Fri 10 Oct 2008 09:51 AM PST
The Consumer Electronics Association has thrust itself into the mobile TV standardization process by working with a group, which is defining the characteristics of a mobile/handheld features that will be…
Posted By Rachelle Crum - Thu 09 Oct 2008 09:52 PM PST
We’re excited to announce that Tina Brown, co-founder and editor in chief of The Daily Beast, will interview Hearst Magazines President Cathie Black in a Spotlight Q&A at our EconWomen…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 09 Oct 2008 04:18 PM PST
Geraldine Wilson has been appointed to the position of CEO at Truphone, a London-based company that enables phones with Wi-Fi to make regular phone calls and send text messages using…
Posted By Matt Kapko - Thu 09 Oct 2008 03:30 PM PST
For the better part of five years Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ) has allowed companies to send text messages to its subscribers without a fee, but the carrier is telling its…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 09 Oct 2008 11:42 AM PST
Now that we are weeks into a financial crisis, not only are the predictions starting to surface on how technology, and specifically wireless will be affected, but actions are starting…
Posted By Matt Kapko - Thu 09 Oct 2008 10:49 AM PST
Even though it has lost its sense of cool, Motorola’s RAZR is still the best-selling cellphone in the U.S. more than four years after it first hit the scene, Electronista…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 09 Oct 2008 09:47 AM PST
China’s Huawei Technologies is canceling the sale of a major stake in its mobile-devices unit after only two bidders submitted offers, the WSJ reported. The lack of interest is an…
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Thu 09 Oct 2008 06:01 AM PST
Sprint (NYSE: S) Nextel CEO Dan Hesse has confirmed that the beleaguered carrier has received “significant interest” for its Nextel iDen business, but questioned whether any deal in which the…
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Thu 09 Oct 2008 05:52 AM PST
Shazam announced today that it has struck a deal with Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) Germany in which the operator will include its mobile music discovery application on its Vodafone Live! portal.…
Posted By Rachelle Crum - Wed 08 Oct 2008 10:14 PM PST
We’re thrilled to announce that we will feature Robert Thomson, editor-in-chief of *Dow Jones* and managing editor of The Wall Street Journal, in the keynote Q&A at our Future of…
Posted By Matt Kapko - Wed 08 Oct 2008 04:46 PM PST
How badly does Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ) want to call itself No. 1 again? And no, we’re not just talking about the quality of the can-you-hear-me-now network. There is some…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Wed 08 Oct 2008 04:39 PM PST
On one side, you have wireless carriers concerned about controlling spam, and on the other, you have the first amendment and free speech. Now in the middle is the FCC,…
Posted By Matt Kapko - Wed 08 Oct 2008 03:59 PM PST
Voice-Enabled Search Comes to Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) oneSearch and Yahoo Go 3.0: Yahoo has integrated a voice-enabled search engine into its oneSearch application on Nokia (NYSE: NOK) Series 60 devices…
Posted By David Kaplan - Wed 08 Oct 2008 03:17 PM PST
Wireless carriers Sprint (NYSE: S) and AT&T (NYSE: T) are working with Sony (NYSE: SNE) Pictures Television on a wide-ranging marketing campaign that places the carmarker on all available ad…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Wed 08 Oct 2008 12:41 PM PST
Bruce Stewart, who left Yahoo’s (NSDQ: YHOO) Connected Life division last month, where he was responsible for the business development activities and product implementations in the Americas, including the AT&T…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Wed 08 Oct 2008 11:55 AM PST
Families are increasingly using text messaging to stay in touch, while the short snippets of text are also being to flirt and send love notes, according to two surveys released…
Posted By Matt Kapko - Wed 08 Oct 2008 08:56 AM PST
Santa Monica, Calif.-based Teleflip has been sold to an undisclosed buyer, according to creditor Hercules Technology Growth Capital, SocalTech reports. The firm received $650,000 in common stock for Teleflip’s intellectual…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Wed 08 Oct 2008 08:51 AM PST
San Mateo, Calif.-based Trilibis Mobile, which publishes interactive network applications for mobile phones, has raised $5.7 million in a second round of funding. Altos Ventures led the round, and ATA…
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