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New research indicates that the number of mobile phone subscribers will increase by upwards of 50 percent in the next four years. According to the latest research from the wireless network strategies service of Boston-based Strategy Analytics, the mobile industry is on course for 2.5 billion subscri...
Looking for a new cellular service? If so, there are more choices available now than just those from traditional carriers, such as Cingular and T-Mobile USA. Increasingly companies like ESPN and its parent, the Walt Disney Co., are entering the cellular services market, too. "Many firms view offerin...
News programming channel Times Now will put video news content on Reliance India Mobile cell phones in India, a potentially huge marketplace that has shown early demand for mobile video. The companies announced Tuesday that English-language Indian news programming for mobile phones will soon be offe...
Opera Software is going smaller in order to get bigger. The Norwegian browser maker on Tuesday announced the worldwide release of Opera Mini, a full Web browser that runs on a wide variety of mobile phones, including low- and mid-end handsets. "With Opera Mini most people can start surfing the Web w...
The day when TV fans watch their favorite prime-time shows on handheld portable devices may be coming sooner than expected. A group of wireless and entertainment companies banded together on Monday to promote the growth and evolution of a digital-video broadcasting standard already in use in Europe....
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers on Thursday confirmed the draft specification for the next-generation 802.11n WiFi standard. The decision could help push 600-Mbps products into the home as early as the first quarter of this year. The confirmation ends months of debate over the ...
Wireless carriers and the United States government are looking to block individuals from obtaining, exposing and selling mobile phone calling records. On Wednesday, Senator Charles Schumer (D-New York) introduced legislation aimed at curbing the practice. The Consumer Telephone Records Protection Ac...
Increasingly, users are working with cell phones and PDAs to access data. Because finding desired information can be a challenge, companies such as America Online, Google and Yahoo developed search services specifically geared to mobile users. "Mobile search is an area of keen interest to both users...
Buzz continues to grow around the prospect of watching television, movies and other valuable video programming on mobile phones and personal handheld devices, but it is still too soon to tell whether a solid marketplace will emerge for these services, considering the small screen size, bandwidth nee...
Wireless carriers including Sprint and Verizon and a slew of enthusiastic advertisers are poised to boost their efforts to market to mobile phone users later this quarter, prompting many to contemplate the annoyance factor of what could result in more ringing, banner ads on handsets and targeted tex...
If corporate managers have Sarbanes-Oxley compliance to blame for late nights and lost sleep, those in the livestock and poultry industries have plenty of compliance worries of their own, triggered by NAIS, which stands for the National Animal Identification System. NAIS is a multi-year, phased-in p...
The Federal Communications Commission is planning to auction wireless spectrum to allow in-flight voice and data high-speed Internet connectivity services on U.S. airlines for the first time. While Verizon has already been providing in-flight phone services via its FCC-allocated wireless spectrum, t...
While the number of worldwide handsets shipped is expected to grow in 2006, revenue from handsets will decrease for the first time in years, research firm iSuppli is predicting. ISuppli blamed lower handset costs, based on cheaper processors and more efficient designs, for the anticipated decline, i...
Hardware, software, networking, electronics and other tech companies announced this week a collaborative effort to support and promote IEEE 802 Ethernet technology. The Ethernet Alliance -- whose members include Sun Microsystems, 3Com, Agere, Pioneer and Samsung -- said its purpose will be to suppo...
There are increasing signs of weakness in the U.S. wireless voice market, with the average revenue per user (ARPU) for voice services dropping 8 percent during the last year -- and data services failing to make up the gap, according to a new report. The study by Boston-based Strategy Analytics, "Wir...
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