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CTIA Wireless 2008 News Roundup

This week (April 1-3) was the CTIA Wireless 2008 show in Las Vegas. All week TMCnet has been reporting on news from the show, which is put on (as the name suggests) by CTIA, an organization whose acronym formerly stood...

Posted on April 3, 2008 9:01 PM

Eye-Fi with My Little Eye... Wireless Photo Uploads

Uploading digital photos from a camera to a computer is a task that lots of people (myself included) tend to put off since it takes time and requires digging for the USB cable. (Which drawer did I put it in...

Posted on March 24, 2008 4:13 PM

InfoWorld: 700MHz Auction Could End 'Disastrously'

700Mhz auction. Does that get your heart racing? It isn’t garnering nearly the same level of excitement as, say, Apple releasing a new product. But the FCC’s auction, set to begin tomorrow, nonetheless is setting off some chatter in the...

Posted on January 23, 2008 4:05 PM

In-Sta: Revenue Growth for Mobile Business Apps to Slow Somewhat in 2008

Wireless service providers may need to engage in some reality-checking during 2008 when it comes to projected versus actual revenue growth associated with mobile business applications. That’s what In-Stat predicted this week in a new report, Wireless Data in the...

Posted on January 18, 2008 11:03 AM

FCC Releases Full List of 700 MHz Spectrum Auction Applicants

The envelope, please. RCR Wireless reports today that the U.S. Federal Communications Commission has released a full list of companies that applied to participate in the 700 MHz wireless spectrum auction due to begin January 24, 2008. The FCC reportedly...

Posted on December 19, 2007 4:01 PM

Verizon: Maybe Android Isn't So Bad After All

In a move that left consumers and wireless industry analysts gasping with surprise, Verizon Wireless let the world know Monday night that it has changed its mind about Google’s mobile Android platform. That’s right, the carrier that never stops working...

Posted on December 4, 2007 4:06 PM

Aruba Networks Welcomes 100th PartnerEdge Program Participant

One hundred is a nice, round number. It also happens to be the number of companies now participating in Aruba Networks’ PartnerEdge program. Not too shabby for a program that was only launched this past September.   Aruba, a provider...

Posted on December 3, 2007 12:56 PM

Intel’s WiMAX Ambitions: Fantastic or Foolhardy? You Be the Judge

At its Developer Forum Wednesday, Intel officials outlined the company’s plans to combine WiMAX with Centrino Duo processors to develop what it claims will be a new category of mobile, broadband-connected computing devices. The initiative, which is slated to bear...

Posted on September 20, 2007 12:07 PM

How Will EarthLinks’ Restructuring Affect Muni WiFi Projects?

Internet service provider EarthLink announced Tuesday a restructuring plan to cut costs. The plan includes cutting 900 jobs, and closing the company’s offices in Orlando, Florida; Knoxville, TN; Harrisburg, PA and San Francisco, CA. Further, the offices in Pasadena, CA...

Posted on August 29, 2007 11:42 AM

Wireless and Mobile Technology at ITEXPO West 2007

INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO West 2007 is less than a month away. (The event this year is being held at the Los Angeles Convention Center in California, Sept. 10-12, 2007.) If you haven’t registered yet, here’s a plug: this...

Posted on August 17, 2007 5:39 PM

WiFi Network Helped Minneapolis Deal with Bridge Collapse

Craig Settles (author of Fighting the Good Fight for Municipal Wireless and other books on similar topics), who keeps me updated regularly regarding U.S. municipal WiFi projects, wrote the other day to highlight how an only partially-complete WiFi network helped...

Posted on August 9, 2007 12:31 PM

Firetide Brings Wireless Network to the Carnival

Running away to the circus no longer means running way from modern technology. Wireless mesh networks developer Firetide said Tuesday that its portable network solution is now being used by Ray Cammack Shows (RCS), a North American carnival midway company....

Posted on August 7, 2007 4:29 PM

Happy Birthday to Synchronoss, the iPhone Activator

I spent Thursday in the Big Apple at Nasdaq Studios, observing the festivities as Synchronoss Technologies—the company whose software is used by AT&T to handle behind-the-scenes nitty-gritty associated with activating an iPhone—celebrated its first anniversary as a public company. Synchronoss officials...

Posted on July 20, 2007 10:14 AM

ABI: Mobile Phone Accessories More Profitable Than the Phone Itself

Sometimes, accessories for “the thing” generate more revenue than “the thing” itself. Perhaps not with revenue (I don’t have the numbers handy) but certainly with ubiquity, we’ve seen this trend in the explosion during the past few years of iPod...

Posted on May 29, 2007 12:48 PM

Motorola on 802.11n: 'We're Waiting Until It's Ratified'

Sometimes, being an early adopter of new technology is not the best business strategy. That’s the tact being taken by wireless products manufacturer Motorola. CNet News reporter David Meyer wrote in a Friday article that, speaking at a ZDNet event...

Posted on May 25, 2007 1:49 PM

VIYYA Takes Emergency Alerts Beyond Wireless

After the shootings at Virginia Tech earlier this spring, students, parents, faculty and staff at schools across the country have been paying renewed attention to the need for improved emergency alert systems. One company that’s taking an in-depth look at...

Posted on May 21, 2007 4:53 PM

Broadband Wireless in India

In a recent Slashot post (April 27), a contributor identified as Zonk shared info from another contributor, Codecracker007, indicating that the government in India is planning to roll out free, 2 Mbps broadband access for all resident of the subcontinent...

Posted on May 4, 2007 11:13 AM

ViVOtech and Gemalto: Kings of the Contactless Technology Hill

ABI Research recently published its latest report on the contactless technology industry, including vendor matrixes showing which companies lead the pack. For those not familiar, contactless technology (also sometimes referred to as “near field communications”) refers to systems that use...

Posted on April 10, 2007 9:08 AM

CTIA Wireless News Starts Now

The CTIA Wireless 2007 show kicks off tomorrow in Orlando, Florida. Already the newswires are starting to get flooded with announcements from wireless industry companies promoting their latest products, services and achievements. A quick search on Google News for “ctia”...

Posted on March 26, 2007 9:18 AM

Meraki Networks Aims to Bring WiFi to the Masses, Starting in San Francisco

Meraki Networks—a Mountain View, California-based provider of wireless networking devices—is on a mission: bring WiFi to the masses. Or, as the company put its, “to bring affordable Internet access to the next billion people.”   How’s the company intend to...

Posted on March 5, 2007 3:28 PM