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In the highly competitive cellular marketplace, carriers are always on the lookout for an edge, a way to differentiate their services from their competitors' offerings. Somewhat surprisingly, for more than a decade, Nextel Inc. has been able to use one enhanced service, Push-to-Talk (PTT), not only ...
Mike Klein, CEO of network security firm Interlink Networks, knows a good marketing tactic when he sees one. When Zone Labs started giving away no-nonsense firewall protection as a free download, he was paying attention. "They did it well!" Klein told TechNewsWorld. "We based our free WiFi protectio...
PC giant Dell signaled this week it will stretch the reach of wireless connectivity for its computers by using cellular phone networks and reportedly offering mobile phone subscriptions. Although a spokesman for the U.S. PC maker dismissed reports that the company would offer mobile phone service, t...
The adolescent crowd is especially enamored with two items: music and cell phones. Naturally, therefore, handset manufacturers and carriers have begun to find ways to integrate the two. A few devices that integrate static music selections or FM radio signals into cell phones have already started to...
In the comic book series X-Men, Magneto is a supervillain bent on world domination. Microsoft is associating its Magneto with world domination, too -- domination of the global mobile operating system market. Magneto, the code name for version five of the Redmond, Wash., software maker's mobile opera...
Philadelphia might be known as the city of brotherly love but what it's generating with its experiment with government-sponsored wireless broadband access is far from that emotion. Last fall, the city aired its intentions to make itself a gigantic WiFi hotspot, a project with a projected price tag o...
Qualcomm plans to support Linux in its next-generation mobile phone chips in a move that will allow handset manufacturers to design new high-end 3G devices using the open-source platform and the CDMA digital wireless technology it created. A Gartner report issued this week said a demand for devices ...
Although it may agree with the hands-off approach to Internet services that telecom giant SBC was petitioning for in its request, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rejected the firm's proposal to limit regulation of new Internet services this week, indicating it is too soon to forbear on r...
Buoyed by a significant increase in the number of RIM Blackberry's, the PDA market is showing surprising growth, according to sales figures from research firm Gartner. Gartner, which breaks the market into data-centric or voice-centric devices, said that worldwide data-centric PDA shipments increase...
Continuing its efforts to head off a heavier regulatory hand and increasing litigation, voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) player Vonage announced it would offer emergency 911 calling services with its VoIP products and services in some states with help from local phone giant Verizon. The new and o...
Linking a wireless technology of today with the higher data rates and reach of tomorrow's wireless, the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) and Ultra-wideband (UWB) group announced plans to collaborate and combine their technologies for the betterment of both. The wireless groups said details hav...
The move to wireless technology is evident just about everywhere today. Users now carry laptops from meeting to meeting, executives pull out their cell phones to make quick calls while on the road, and one can even access the Internet at a local coffee shop. While there has been a lot of progress in...
Mobile handset giant Nokia this week officially joined the music phone race whereby technology companies are hoping to produce hits by combining mobile phones with iPod-type music players. Nokia, which enters the fray with its N91 handset featuring a 4 GB hard drive and room for 3,000 songs, said it...
Nokia has launched its N90 multimedia phone, one in a line of new N series phones introduced by the company this week. The phones target the top-end business user market with features ranting from music playing to Web browsing to camera and video capabilities. Juha Putkiranta, Senior Vice President,...
Despite recent announcements from major telecom companies such as Verizon and SBC to ensure emergency 911 calling capability on Internet-enabled voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) phones, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Kevin Martin indicated this week the regulatory body will deve...
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