January 2008 Archives
Palm Closes Stores, Settles Suit with Rebates
Palm Inc., the company who first brought the smartphone to the public is closing its 35 retails stores including stand alone stores and stores in airports.Palm also announced what to meet the terms of a class-action lawsuit, it will give rebates to Treo 600 and 650 owners whose handsets were replace…
Winning NFC Apps Encourage Exercise, Track Vehicles & RX
Innovision Research & Technology, developer of the Near Field Communication (NFC) standard number one tag type, Topaz has announced the winners of its NFC Innovation Awards, the first UK-based competition to find the most innovative applications of NFC tags for the everyday mobile handset user. …
YouTube Mobile Enhanced & Handset Compatibility Expanded
YouTube announced that the latest enhancements to YouTube for Mobile will give users access to the largest repository of mobile video content available, expanding compatibility to over 100 million devices worldwide, and will give them more tools to personalize their experience. YouTube for Mobile r…
Nokia Takes 40% of Mobile Phone Market
Nokia had a very good year also reporting: 34% increase in revenue. 27% jump in handset shipments during the fourth quarter of 2007. 40% market share selling 135.5 million handsets. 44% increase in its fourth-quarter profit. Operating profit for the quarter was 2.49 billion euros, up 64% from 1.5…
AT&T Subscribers and Income Soar
AT&T had a very good year end: It added nearly 2.7 million wireless subscribers ending 2007 with 70.1 million subscribers. ARPU was up 2 percent to $50.28. 16.3 percent increase in total wireless revenues Data revenues increased 57.5 percent over the same period in 2006. There were 2 mil…
Alltel to Offer LG Scoop, BlackBerry Pearl and Samsung Muse
Alltel Wireless, nnounced that three new handsets - the LG Scoop, red BlackBerry Pearl 8130, and the Samsung Muse - plan to be available in Alltel retail stores and online at www.alltel.com/style during the first quarter of 2008. For people who stay connected through text messaging, the LG Scoop al…
IBM Lotus Connections Bloom on RIM BlackBerry
Research In Motion is previewing BlackBerry Client for IBM Lotus Connections — a new software application that runs natively on BlackBerry smartphones to provide mobile users with access to Lotus Connections social software for business. The BlackBerry client application leverages the push-bas…
Verizon Open Development Conference in NYC 3/19-3/20 2008
Verizon Wireless announced that their Open Development Conference will be held in New York City on March 19-20, 2008. News of the conference, which will focus largely on development for new devices to run on the Verizon Wireless network, comes just eight weeks after Verizon Wireless announced that…
Free Wi-Fi Access for AT&T DSL Customers
AT&T announced that AT&T broadband subscribers will soon have free unlimited access to the company’s nationwide Wi-Fi network. The offer delivers an annual saving of $60 for AT&T broadband customers, and an annual saving of nearly $240 compared with AT&T Wi-Fi costs for consum…
NextPhase WiMAX Gets Nationwide 3.65 Spectrum License from FCC
NextPhase Wireless , a nationwide developer of WiMAX-ready networks and provider of advanced wireless broadband solutions, announced that they have received confirmation from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that their application for a nationwide license to provide WiMAX wireless service…
Rollable Screen Readius Mobile Phone Book Ready Mid-2008
Soon, you can read your phone just like you read a book, with a roll-out display that opens up to a wide 5" diagonal screen. Polymer Vision, the inventor of rollable displays announced the Readius mobile phone and reader known as the "cell-book" will launch by mid 2008. Along with the display and …
Samsung SCH-i760 (Verizon) Review of Reviews
Samsung SCH-i760 Rated 4 out of 5 by Review of Reviews from Wireless and Mobile NewsThe Samsung SCH-i760 is a Windows slider phone with a touchscreen, dial keypad and full QWERTY keyboard. It supports many media formats, Microsoft Office, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and real-time email delivery.In benchmark te…
HTC Touch Coming to Verizon on Horizon
Verizon is expected to start selling the HTC Touch as the Verizon XV6900 Touch with sneak peaks appearing in the blogosphere. The Verizon version comes in white and has the same touch capabilities of previous versions such as Windows Mobile 6 Professiona1, 256MB of flash ROM, EV-DO mobile broadban…
Zumobi and Microsoft Partner for Zumobi Widgets on Windows Phones
Zumobi announced a partnership deal with Microsoft. Under terms of the business agreement, Microsoft will distribute the award-winning Zooming User Interface and mobile widget platform with Windows Mobile. This distribution agreement builds on the content partnerships Zumobi announced in December. …
Verizon Buys SureWest Assets in Sacramento
Verizon Wireless and SureWest Communications announced they have signed a definitive agreement for Verizon Wireless to purchase SureWest Communications’ wireless assets in northern California, operating as SureWest Wireless, for $69.0 million. The purchase includes SureWest Wireless’ sp…
AT&T Offers Biz Plan for iPhone
AT&T is now offering iPhone plans for business customers.The plans starting at $45 a month for unlimited data 200 text messages, $25 more a month than consumer plans.. It has been rumored that in the near future the iPhone will support IBM’s Louts Notes enterprise messaging platform.iPhone…
CSR & Samsung Cut Price for GPS Modules
CSR announced that it has halved the cost of embedded GPS solutions through a collaboration with Samsung Electro-Mechanics Company (Samsung). The resulting products, based on CSR’s GPS software and Samsung’s module hardware, bring best in class location-based services to mobile phones, m…
FON Wants Castro Residents to Share for Free Wi-Fi
FON, the world’s largest Wi-Fi community, is calling on all residents of San Francisco’s Castro neighborhood to join the FON community and bring comprehensive WiFi access to the Castro. Any qualifying resident or business owner of the Castro is eligible to receive a free La Fonera wirele…
Sanyo Sells Mobile Phone Biz to Kyocera
SANYO announced that it has reached a definitive agreement with Kyocera to transfer its mobile phone business to Kyocera for $467 Billion. The deal is expected to close April 1, 2008. …
AT&T Wireless Customers Get Free Access to New York Times Mobile
AT&T and The New York Times have partnered to allow wireless customers to access full-content of the newspaper’s site at no extra charge. AT&T wireless data customers will be able to read the latest news and entertainment articles at the New York Times’ mobile website. …
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