Wireless News Desk

EC Drops Qualcomm Antitrust Probe

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:45:00 EST

After four years of inquiries, the European Commission simply dropped its antitrust investigation of Qualcomm’s 3G and 4G patent licensing Tuesday after Ericsson and five other mobile network equipment makers withdrew their complaints. The company paid a record $208 million fine to the Korea Fair Trade Commission this summer, a decision that Qualcomm is appealing. Japan told Qualcomm to knock it off.

giffgaff launch with KonaKart

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:30:00 EST

On 25th November, giffgaff went live with a KonaKart powered web site allowing customers to buy and top up giffgaff SIM cards, which can be plugged into any unlocked handset. giffgaff offers very competitive pricing and actually allows members to earn cash for bringing new members to the network and answering questions from the community.

Navigating the Telecom Supply Chain with Matt Hiles at Mosaic Networx

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:45:00 EST

I first met Matt Hiles while he was director of business development with Looking Glass Networks in Los Angeles. As a customer looking for telecom services, navigating the providers, technologies, and deal structures can be confusing. Matt took the time to explain all aspects of the business, cost structures, and how he would get us a great deal – while still making money for his company. Matt stood out alone from a world of “wheeling and dealing” telecom sales people, unique in providing the customer a level of confidence they were getting the best product, for the best price, with the best service.

Retalika Turns Mobile Phones Into Smart Phones

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:45:00 EST

Retalika, the first provider of an end-to-end solution enabling retailers to sell mobile content and services, in store, online, and on the mobile phone is expanding in the UK and Europe. Today the mobile content and services market is driven by tech-savvy early adopters who have bought expensive smart phones, fuelling double-digit growth expected to be worth $344(i) billion by 2013. However, althoughretailers account for over 50% of mobile handset sales they have very little presence in this new market. Retalika is now bringing mobile content and services to the mass-market through retailers using its patent pendingplatform technology. This allows retailers to easily and quickly select, sell and deploy a range of compelling mobile applications and services to their customers.

Virtualization Expo Call for Papers Deadline December 15

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:45:00 EST

Delegates will leave Virtualization Expo with a full understanding of the interaction between virtual servers and the rest of the data center infrastructure. Indeed our overall aim is to ensure that all attendees leave the Jacob Javits Convention Center with abundant resources, ideas and examples they can apply immediately to leveraging Virtualization in their own corporate datacenter, on the desktop, and elsewhere. If you wish to submit a speaking proposal for the 8th Virtualization Expo, April 19–21, 2010, then you can do so right here

Netbiscuits and Ogilvy Develop Mobile Site for IBM

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:38:00 EST

Netbiscuits, a leading B2B software service for the creation and operation of mobile websites, announced today that Ogilvy, one of the world's largest marketing and communications networks, uses their award winning mobile publishing platform to set up the IBM Smarter Cities mobile site.

iPhone vs. SatNav: Another Device Bites the Dust for iPhone Users?

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:15:00 EST

What is a SatNav? I would define it as a small pocket sized computer, with a built-in GPS receiver, running navigational software on a lightweight but efficient Operating System. Indispensable in today's age, but adding to the number of small technological marvels that need to be carried on your person. Unless you have a utility belt or do not worry about carrying a rucksack, then it won't be an issue.

Option 3G Solution in Google Android 2.0 Development Platform

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:30:00 EST

Option, the wireless technology company, today announced that its GTM501 will be used in MOTO Development Group's Android 2.0 Media Platform (AMP) offering reduced time-to-market for next-generation multi-touch consumer and enterprise electronics device developers. This project further demonstrates the Option's strategy to support innovative Original Equipment Manufacturers and Original Design Manufacturers integrating 3G connectivity.

Obtain Peace of Mind With Mobile Phone Insurance

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:00:00 EST

In this fast pace life, it is quite impossible to survive without mobile phones. In short, mobile phones have become a very precious gadget for human being and any loss to one's phone can cost of hundred of pounds to replace. So, to avoid any risk of losing one's phone, mobile Phone Insurance is there.

NTT Uses OpSource to Compete with AT&T’s Cloud

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:00:00 EST

When Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT), the world’s biggest telco, took a piece of the $10 million E series funding going into OpSource earlier this year, the pair reportedly didn’t know they would be going into the cloud business together – or that it would be on the same day that AT&T told people to stand by because it was about to launch an Infrastructure-as-a-Service that looks a lot like Amazon.

Pantech Makes an Impact at AT&T

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:15:00 EST

Beginning Sunday, Pantech Wireless, Inc., – the U.S.-based subsidiary of Pantech Group, one of Korea’s largest mobile phone manufacturers – will bring “Impact” to AT&T customers. The second Pantech handset to hit shelves this holiday season debuts in two cool colors – bright blue and soft pink – and delivers a brand new form factor to AT&T’s line of quick messaging phones. Impact features a high-gloss faceplate with a haptic response touchpad, two screens and a full hidden keyboard, along with a host of the latest social and multimedia options, to make managing your mobile life startlingly fun.

Blackberry is For Sophisticated People

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:47:00 EST

The era is for mobile phones it has become the essential need for almost every people. They have designed it so nicely that it has made a widespread popularity among the people in the arena of electronic devices. These multitasking device is very user friendly than other mobile. BlackBerry, has launched many handsets with some interesting features and beautiful look. When you visit to the mobile store so many latest mobile phones you may find of BlackBerry handsets. There are lots of models available in the market particularly on this brand likely BlackBerry Storm 9500, Curve 8900, Bold 9000, Pearl Flip 34 and Pearl 8110 etc. Most of the handset supports QWERTY keyboard that helps us for easy messaging.

Why Social Media Marketing is an ETF Start-Up’s Best Friend

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:45:00 EST

Four years later, Erik co-authored with Financial Research Corporation, the landmark study “The Future of Exchange Traded Funds,” a prescient analysis of the challenges and opportunities confronted by ETFs. That document uncannily projected almost to the penny the asset growth that ETFs would experience from 2000 to the present. Erik’s passion for the ETF concept took a giant leap in 2008 when he and a small group of investment colleagues began building the groundwork for another, unique foray into ETF world. This time around Erik and company are setting out to build a first-of-a-kind, patented, principal-protected ETF target date series called FocusShares.

Breakthrough in Text to Speech Technology

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:20:00 EST

The IVO Software company, in cooperation with Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB), the largest British charity organization, is introducing two English speaking voices, based on revolutionary IVONA Text-to-Speech technology. They will be set up in products and services provided by RNIB to more than two million visually impaired persons.

Wiring California with Bob Evans and the Fiber Internet Center

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:00:00 EST

Bob Evans always has ideas. Ideas to make his work, and the work of others, more useful and efficient, as well as easier. We met Bob this week as he was giving a data center tour and professional advice to a delegation from Ramallah, which came to Bob for mentoring based on his extensive background in all things network and Internet.

Social Media Made Simple With Social Beat

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:45:00 EST

Verizon Wireless and iSkoot announced the availability of Social Beat, the free social media application that allows Verizon Wireless customers nationwide to simplify their mobile social networking with a single app. Running on the nation's largest and most reliable wireless voice and 3G network, Social Beat makes it easy for Verizon Wireless customers to stay fully connected to popular social media sites, including Facebook, MySpace and Twitter. Social Beat also displays more than 50 customer-selected feeds from the hottest names in news, sports and entertainment sources, which can be viewed in one central location. Customers can easily view and manage their social networks through live feeds and real-time notifications.

Share Advertising Revenue With Your Mobile Phone

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:30:00 EST

MoadCast brings the consumer and the advertiser closer together in a more meaningful, cost-effective and targeted manner with a revolutionary permission based mobile phone community. MoadCast offers its members a guaranteed revenue share of the advertising revenue generated through MoadCast's mobile phone advertising platform. Members join for free and have the ability to earn up to GBP45 per month.

Doesn’t Anybody Look Things Up Anymore?

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:00:00 EST

This may feel like Christmas when all you get is ties but Samsung is launching its own smartphone operating system called bada, which it expects to compete with Android and LiMo. It’s not yet clear exactly what it is. Could be still another Linux variant. More likely it’s Samsung’s proprietary operating system with a new front-end. Samsung says it’ll be open so third-party developers can write to it and it’ll be backed by an app store. Carriers will be able to customize the thing. The first bada-based phones are scheduled to be out in 2H10. An SDK will be available in December 1. The word bada means ocean in Korean. Unfortunately it’s also a Shia Moslem concept of God.

Mobiata Launches TripDeck

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:00:00 EST

Mobiata announced the availability of TripDeck, a new premium app for the iPhone and iPod touch that organizes and tracks itineraries for travelers on the go. The app offers complete itinerary management for virtually every component of a business or personal trip, including flight information and live flight status, car rentals and driving directions, hotels, meeting times and locations, restaurants, trains and other related travel details.

First HD Radio Accessory and Application

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:30:00 EST

iBiquity Digital Corporation, the developer of digital HD Radio Technology for AM and FM audio and data broadcasting, announced that with the Gigaware Navigation Control HD Radio Receiver accessory and the Gigaware HD Radio application, iPhone and iPod touch users can receive HD Radio FM broadcasts. The accessory and HD Radio application combination takes advantage of the iPhone 3.0 operating system and its ability to support external accessories. iPhone 3.0 allows application developers to utilize external hardware support. Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch models updated with 3.0 software, the application is available on the App Store and requires the compatible Gigaware accessory.

Top 10 Telecom Predictions for 2010

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:00:00 EST

“The industry is at an inflection point that is perhaps more significant than at any juncture in North American telecom history,” says Rob Chimsky, inCode Telecom Vice President and CTO. “Incremental revenue is shifting from voice to data. However, threats from new competitors offering ‘over-the-top’ business models emphasizing value delivered by applications directly to consumers, rather than simple connectivity, will reshape the industry.”n Each year, telecom watchers await the inCode predictions, known for their insight and accuracy. inCode is one of North America's largest consulting organizations focused on the telecommunications and mobility applications market. The highly experienced consulting team advises top players in the industry including leading wireless, wireline, and cable operators; infrastructure and device suppliers; application and service developers; private equity and venture capital firms; and enterprises that are mobilizing their businesses. Over the previous six years, inCode annual predictions have proved correct about 80 percent of the time.

Movirtu Launches MXPay at Africacom

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:30:00 EST

MXPay enables mobile operators to deploy existing mobile money systems to those living on less than $2 a day

iPhone’s Got 100,000 Very Lonely Apps

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:00:00 EST

There are now 100,000 Apple iPhone/iPod apps – obviously some of the loneliest apps in the world – and two billion downloads. Apple’s App Store is now open in 77 countries. It started 16 months ago with 500 apps. By the way, Fortune has named Steve Jobs “CEO of the Decade.” The magazine’s piece on Jobs says he twice considered taking Apple private – once on Larry Ellison’s dime – or financing Larry arranged – and later in a leveraged buyout by Silver Lake Partners.

Wyse Extends Market Leadership in Workstation

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:30:00 EST

Wyse is launching support for VMware View 4 with integrated support for PCoIP across its line of existing thin clients, including immediate support for Wyse thin clients based on Microsoft Windows XP Embedded and Windows Embedded Standard. Wyse will also support PCoIP on its line of Linux and segment-leading Wyse ThinOS clients in the near future. Advanced protocols such as PCoIP have the potential to provide a new class of users the benefits of virtual clients, those using applications that have traditionally required powerful PCs or workstations. For this user segment, Wyse introduces the Wyse P20 zero client, its smallest, stateless access device designed specifically for the PCoIP protocol.

PCs Still Leading Operating System On-Campus

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:45:00 EST

Mobility is another key area of growth on-campus. Meraki specifically looked at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California as a test site. Findings show that 60% of all devices on the Westmont campus connect to the wireless network from 10 or more locations on the campus. Westmont's students have an average of 1.54 devices each, and connect to the wireless network a minimum of 20 days per month.

Ulitzer Live! New Media Power Panel at Santa Clara Convention Center

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:00:00 EST

The first "Ulitzer New Media Power Panel" took place today at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California. Streamed live to 60,000 viewers via SYS-CON.TV, the panel was moderated by Jeremy Geelan. Geelan's guests in the first power panel were Ian Thain and Tim Crawford. The first "Ulitzer Live! - New Media Conference & Expo " will take place on June 14, 2010 in New York City. Ulitzer Live! West will take place on December 6, 2010, in San Jose, California. Call for Papers for both events are now open.

Regarding Google’s $750 Million Acquisition of AdMob

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:00:00 EST

“The news that Google acquired mobile advertising player AdMob for $750 million confirms the legitimacy of the mobile advertising industry, and overcomes any skepticism of whether small screens can offer big opportunities to reach mobile consumers,” says Dave Gwozdz, CEO of Mojiva Inc., which operates a mobile ad serving platform and mobile ad network. “The fact that Google has placed a premium on owning a mobile ad network is very notable. The market has definitely matured to the point where it makes sense for online behemoths to try to combine networks, analytics and delivery technologies in the hopes of capturing a share of this growing market.”

Telx Director of IP Development and Engineering Speaking at LINX 67

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:22:00 EST

Michael Lucking, Telx’s Director of IP Development and Engineering, will present an educational session to the members of the London Internet Exchange on Tuesday, November 17, 2009 at the Exchange’s bi-annual member meeting, being held at Goodenough College in London. Lucking will present overview of the evolution of peering in the U.S., the Internet peering market in the United States, as well as an overview of the various Internet exchanges available. In addition, Lucking will demonstrate the various connection points between Internet exchanges and show the depth of interconnectivity offered by Telx within its Internet Exchange.

Cisco Transforms Unified Communications

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:00:00 EST

As part of today's portfolio announcement at Cisco's Collaboration Summit, the company introduced a ground-breaking version of its industry-leading unified communications platform, featuring innovations and enhancements designed to reduce costs and increase operating efficiencies between and within global enterprises. Cisco® Unified Communications System Release 8.0 enables organizations to collaborate in new ways that remove barriers to communications with partners, suppliers and customers through integrated voice, video, presence, instant messaging and Web sessions.

Get HD Videos to FLV with Fancy Player for Online Sharing

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:45:00 EST

Do you have digital camera? Do you record special events around you? Publish them on your website with the fast conversion without duration limit. Flash Video MX Std has been updated with better support to HD videos like AVCHD (MTS, M2TS), MOD, TOD formats.

The Real Time Infrastructure Ultimatum

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:30:00 EST

As virtualization entered the data center it became an accidental standard bearer for network automation. The power of virtualization helped to drive a cultural (including x as a service) shift in expectations, just as Nicholas Carr was declaring war on traditional “old world” IT with the help of Google, Amazon and a host of other cloud (and not so cloud) players.

iPhone Tips, Tricks & Apps for Business Executives

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:00:00 EST

In iPhone Tips, Tricks & Apps for Business Executives, the analyst shares quick and easy ways to truly capitalize on all that an iPhone has to offer for an executive. Take the 91 minutes to view this webinar (on your computer, mobile phone, iPod or printed out) to update your knowledge on how other executives are getting the most out of their iPhones, as many features, settings and new applications are not used by executives that can significantly improve it's value to you as a resource, as long as you know how to use them.

Combining Twitter With Site Monitoring

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:15:00 EST

When Google's Gmail is down, thousands complain on Twitter. If Amazon has problems with its cloud services, you hear about it on Twitter. If a web hosting company has issues, you hear about it on Twitter. Twitter has given consumers a voice, and companies are listening. In other words, Twitter has become a discovery engine for service issues. But only if people effectively let the world know about those issues in the first place. Pingdom, a service that monitors the reliability of websites and services on the Internet, has now made it possible to automate this process. Pingdom users can choose to automatically send Twitter status messages when their monitored sites have downtime, notifying not just themselves, but the world.

Virtual Computing, Archiving and IDM at Educause 2009

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:15:00 EST

Versatile's broad expertise in architecting and deploying large scale virtual systems in both the data center and at the desktop are on display at this event. Event attendees will be able to have hands on experience with these technologies including key Versatile technology and engage with Versatile's management. In addition, Versatile will participate in the presentation of Fedora Commons, a solution for storing, managing, and accessing digital content in the form of digital objects. Versatile will also be supporting Duquesne University's presentation of their MultiPass 2.0 application. Developed with the support of Versatile's solution architects, MultiPass 2.0 is built on Sun's IDM solution and provides a "seamless, safe, and secure" end user experience for the creation and/or de-provisioning of accounts across multiple systems and applications. More information is available at: http://www.educause.edu/E09+Hybrid/EDUCAUSE2009FacetoFaceConferen/Identi...

Our Social Network Just Got Bigger

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:15:00 EST

LG Electronics Canada and Rogers Wireless today announced a world first: the LG Eve, a new Android OS-based smartphone designed specifically for social networking, is now available exclusively at Rogers. The LG Eve provides customers with the freedom of mobile social networking, making it easier to stay connected anytime, anywhere.

Hot Event in Santa Clara Becomes Cool with the iPhone

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:00:00 EST

This week just saw the SYS-CON iPhone Developer Summit come to the West Coast on November 3rd. Along with the unseasonal warm weather... it was a HOT event! The sessions were well attended by a good number of professional developers etc who were eager to learn, discuss and take the iPhone to the next level...the Enterprise. I would like to take this moment, to thank the presenters. During the event Sybase made 3 announcements that will advance iPhone adoption in the enterprise... New Device Management, Relational Database with Synchronization, and mBanking Solutions, all for the iPhone. Let me investigate them further...

LTE - The Rise of the Mobile Prosumer

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:00:00 EST

Such consumer & technology transformation has distorted the way 'Prosumer' consume their products & services, and interact with their mobile devices. The industry awaits to see if Asia’s Top Telecom guns can decide on a unified approach to map revenue streams back to the operators. The average handset has evolved from the humble voice-box, to the total media centre. As a result thousands of start-up companies are profiting out of the Telecom sector's advances, supplying the various add-ons which inevitably accompany any new wave of technology.

Netbiscuits Awarded “Best Mobile Publishing Platform”

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:30:00 EST

Netbiscuits, a leading B2B web software platform for the creation, operation and monetization of mobile websites, was honored as the “Best Mobile Publishing Platform 2009”. Over 400 industry execs made their choice for the prestigious ME Awards and handpicked Netbiscuits from a short list of six finalists from all over the world. Netbiscuits won the prize for the first time and thereby demonstrates the ongoing exceptional success of its software platform globally.

Riding the Mobile Revolution

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:30:00 EST

Whether or not they know it, most hotels already have a presence on the mobile Web. Potential guests who pull up hotel Web sites on their cell phones often find poor displays and usability rather than a site specifically designed to meet their needs -- and convert them to bookings. Hotel Interactive asked Ran Farmer, MD Netbiscuits Inc., how Netbiscuits can help the travel industry optimize mobile sites for maximum revenue.

Nortel Provides Cloud-Based Real-Time Applications

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:00:00 EST

Nortel is giving enterprises the opportunity to trial and evaluate its communications applications portfolio over the Internet using the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud(2) (Amazon EC2). The platform also provides a sandbox-environment for the Nortel developer community to build innovative and complementary applications through new technologies such as Web services. "Nortel's decision to provide access to its communication enabled business solutions over Amazon EC2 is yet another indicator that cloud computing is the future," said Sheila McGee-Smith, president and principal analyst, McGee-Smith Analytics. "Today Nortel is giving their customers, application developers and business partners both a platform to create and test combining enterprise assets with Nortel and Amazon Web Services-enabled solutions and a place where these same groups can share their applications and successes."