According to Telephony Magazine, Qualcomm’s MediaFLO network is attracting the attention of almost every major carrier in the industry. Both Sprint and T-Mobile are testing the technology, though neither has given the commitment that Verizon Wireless has, of a commercial launch planned for the first quarter.
That launch, however, promises to be a [...]
Samsung Electronics, the world’s third-largest cell phone producer, has struck a deal with Beijing Airway Communications to launch WiBro services in China, reports The Korean Times.
A Samsung executive Thursday said that Airway, a Beijing-based Internet service provider, is expected to kick-start WiBro, known as mobile WiMax in the rest of the world _ next year.
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David Pogue in the NY Times has a good review of Cellphones That Track the Kids:
But this is one sci-fi gadget that’s no longer fi, thanks to advanced sci — satellite-based tracking based on GPS technology. At least five companies — Wherify Wireless, Guardian Angel Technology, Disney Mobile, Verizon Wireless and Sprint — have [...]
Samsung Electronics and Opera have signed an agreement to bundle Opera Mobile with some of its cell phones.
The Opera Mobile browser reformats Web pages as smaller replicas that require only vertical scrolling–as opposed to wider views that need scrolling both vertically and horizontally–in order to view an entire page.
The news follows Opera’s security update for [...]
The FCC voted 3-2 yesterday in favor of reforming cable franchising laws across the US notes Light Reading. The move will make it easier for telephone companies like Verizon and AT&T to offer video services over their networks and will restrict local attempts to regulate their behavior.
The FCC order imposes a 90-day limit on local [...]
Motorola and Tut Systems today announced that the two companies have signed a definitive merger agreement. The transaction has a total equity value of approximately $39 million.
Tut Systems provides carrier-class end-to-end digital video encoding, processing and distribution products. Their solutions support MPEG-2 and MPEG- 4 AVC video compression, local ad insertion, forward error correction, and [...]
Phew! We’re back online after a 50 hour outage. The DNS service for dailywireless.org is provided by zoneedit.com. The zoneedit service has been rock-solid for dailywireless since its start in 2003. The service provided primary and backup name service, which they claim is highly distributed and reliable and to date it has been. On Monday [...]
Aryeh Bourkoff, an analyst at UBS, a financial services company, asserts that AT&T could buy DirecTV, switching its focus to a satellite strategy and backing away from its Lightspeed IPTV project. As Bourkoff notes, the company’s HomeZone service resells satellite service from EchoStar and DIRECTV.
AT&T and DirecTV have extended their partnership another year in a [...]
Clearwire, the wireless broadband provider founded by Craig McCaw, filed plans to raise up to $400 million in an initial public offering, reports the Seattle Times.
In a preliminary filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Kirkland-based company said it has signed up more than 188,000 U.S. subscribers as of last month, and its [...]
Anchorage Alaska (pop: 275,043), recently issued an RFP for a city-wide wireless network that may result in a universal affordable wireless broadband network throughout the downtown area.
The goal is to make one square mile around the downtown area a giant wireless hotspot by sometime this summer, says the Anchorage Daily News. The city is home [...]
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