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Posted By Amanda Natividad - Thu 21 Aug 2008 11:54 AM PST
-- mBlox: Ken Elmer has been selected to lead mBlox’s global finance and human resources as CFO. Previously, he was SVP-finance and administration for Tiburon. -- Quattro: Quattro Wireless has…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 21 Aug 2008 09:28 AM PST
-- 3G lawsuit: A lawsuit has been filed against Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), alleging that the iPhone 3G is defective. The plaintiff hopes the suit will become a class-action complaint, reports…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Wed 20 Aug 2008 02:45 PM PST
At Intel’s (NSDQ: INTC) Developer Forum in San Francisco, Move Networks announced today that it was going to adapt its high-definition media player that streams content over the Internet for…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Tue 19 Aug 2008 01:21 PM PST
Cox Communications today said it will launch its own wireless service based on the spectrum it purchased for $304 million in March, but was cautious in giving away too much…
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Tue 19 Aug 2008 02:33 AM PST
For all of the cutting edge mobile technology that Japanese consumers have routine access to, surprisingly little of it has made its way outside of the country. Its government, however,…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Mon 18 Aug 2008 12:11 PM PST
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) continues to push for more wireless broadband options in the U.S., and today took another step forward by launching ”Free The Airwaves,” a Web site advocating for…
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Fri 15 Aug 2008 04:15 AM PST
When my colleague Matt Kapko said he was returning the iPhone after two weeks of use, he took a bit of a slating from fans of the phone. But now…
Posted By Matt Kapko - Tue 12 Aug 2008 09:48 PM PST
Debt financing and two rounds of funding – $4.9 million as recently as of January – weren’t enough to keep Teleflip’s Flipmail service afloat. Flipmail enabled email to be sent…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 07 Aug 2008 02:09 PM PST
During Clearwire’s (NSDQ: CLWR) Q2 call, CEO Ben Wolff focused on four topics: the company’s pending merger with Sprint’s (NYSE: S) WiMax division; its deployment of mobile WiMax; its decision…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 07 Aug 2008 01:11 PM PST
Clearwire (NSDQ: CLWR), which is waiting for regulatory approval of its merger with Sprint’s (NYSE: S) WiMax division, announced second-quarter results today, saying that its initial markets are performing well,…
Posted By Matt Kapko - Wed 06 Aug 2008 04:35 PM PST
Online communications firm CallWave has acquired WebMessenger, a mobile messaging software provider focused on enterprise customers, for $9 million in cash today. WebMessenger says it provides secure messaging solutions for…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Wed 06 Aug 2008 12:45 PM PST
During Sprint’s (NYSE: S) second-quarter conference call today, CEO Dan Hesse said that its WiMax merger with Clearwire (NSDQ: CLWR) was on schedule to close by the end of the…
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Mon 04 Aug 2008 04:20 AM PST
You know the mobile web is getting serious, when the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) steps in with standards. The group has announced new standards that are supposed to make…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Fri 01 Aug 2008 09:14 AM PST
China Mobile has won approval from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) to start the second phase of construction of its TD-SCDMA network in 28 cities after the…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Fri 01 Aug 2008 07:10 AM PST
Updated Here India is planning the launch of 3G networks, a little late but at least the country is going with established standards. The government is auctioning 5 licenses over…
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Fri 01 Aug 2008 01:21 AM PST
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) sold 18 million Windows Mobile licenses in 2008, two million short of its own goal of 20 million, the company said Thursday. The company blamed delayed launches…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 31 Jul 2008 03:09 PM PST
That price cut in the run-up to the iPhone 3G’s release seemed to do the trick for O2 - between January and June it added 137,596 pay-monthly customers; that’s 80.8…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Thu 31 Jul 2008 09:19 AM PST
Micropayments company Paymo has secured $5 million in seed financing, “provided by prominent angel investors in the United States and Europe”. Paymo connects online merchants with mobile phones, letting payments…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 30 Jul 2008 09:20 AM PST
Personal navigation device company Garmin has delayed the launch of its smartphone for the second time, pushing the launch date into the first half of 2009 because “meeting some of…
Posted By Matt Kapko - Tue 29 Jul 2008 04:55 PM PST
Did you feel that? A little before noon today an earthquake measuring 5.4 on the Richter scale rolled through Southern California and sent much of the region’s wireless infrastructure on…
Posted By Matt Kapko - Mon 28 Jul 2008 03:33 PM PST
Skyfire threw another hat in the mobile browser ring recently with the launch of its second private beta program. So far the new beta has been pretty limited in reach,…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Mon 28 Jul 2008 10:13 AM PST
The FCC’s plan for a nation-wide free wireless network has received a number of criticisms, including that previous free WiFi plans haven’t fared too well. There’s another issue being raised…
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Mon 28 Jul 2008 06:03 AM PST
deCarta, the San Jose-based provider of technology for location-based services, says its third round totaled $20 million. An initial $6 million of this round, coming from Deutsche Telekom’s (NYSE: DT)…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Fri 25 Jul 2008 03:23 PM PST
AT&T (NYSE: T) has asked the FCC to deny a merger request from Sprint (NYSE: S) Nextel and Clearwire (NSDQ: CLWR), which the two companies announced back in May, stating:…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Fri 25 Jul 2008 11:57 AM PST
Analyst J Gold and Associates has come out with a prediction that Symbian and Android will begin merging into one open source OS within 3-6 months, and it’s gotten a…
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