I find the ad campaign by AT&T Wireless regarding more bars in more places to be one of the more interesting ad campaigns because as far as wireless data is concerned, the network's 3G coverage is not nearly as good as Verizon's EVDO.I've also experienced fast and very slow download [...]
Wireless Week |
August 28th, 2008 |
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The carrier and handset maker are involved in a program to send 40 lucky fans on vacation with the musical phenom.[...]
FierceTelecom |
August 28th, 2008 |
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On Aug. 21 Verizon Communications committed to conduct safety checks of all FiOS installations in New York state that had occurred before Aug. 1, in order to satisfy concerns about possible incorrect electrical grounding. But now, Light Reading is reporting that the telco could ending up forking over millions of [...]
VOIP & Telephony BroadSoft Boosts VOIP with App Server from GenbandeWeek, NY - 6 hours agoWhile Skype focuses primarily on bringing VOIP to more than 300 million consumers, BroadSoft sells its apps to telcos such as Verizon and Sprint.My take : (on the edge of extremely boring) >> there are [...]
Inventor sues Google, Verizon, others on voice mailReuters - USA... which popularized "visual voice mail" through its hit iPhone device, together with AT&T and eBay Inc, the owner of Web-based calling service Skype, "Emboldened by settlements with Apple Inc and AT&T Inc, inventor Judah Klausner filed a voicemail patent lawsuit [...]
mocoNews.net |
August 27th, 2008 |
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Last week, I caught up with Jeff Holden, the CEO of Pelago, which is developing Whrrl, an application for mobile phones that lets people share opinions about events and restaurants and organize meet-ups with friends. Pelago has the distinction of being the first investment of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byer's [...]
BizJournals |
August 27th, 2008 |
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Verizon Wireless has installed a new 3G wireless antenna in the Phoenix Convention Center area to improve coverage downtown.[...]
FierceTelecom |
August 27th, 2008 |
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Verizon Communications is not the only North American telco that wants to bring its fiber broadband network to the multi-dwelling unit market. Bell Canada has started targeted its ongoing fiber build-out to MDU buildings in its Quebec-Windsor corridor. The apartment dwellers in many of those MDUs may help the Canadian telco [...]
VoIP News |
August 27th, 2008 |
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Judah Klausner, an inventer, is on the war path. He's filed a lawsuit against Google, Verizon and more for an allleged voicemail patent violation. Klausner, who recently settled with iPhone maker Apple on a similar lawsuit, holds a patent for video voicemail, which he filed in May. According to eWeek: [...]
The hawkish inclinations of a couple of Federal Reserve members aside, the prevailing view of the nation's banks remains consistent - that the financial system is still troubled, and the markets won't see a dramatic turn until there is evidence that most of the problems have been rooted out. While [...]
mocoNews.net |
August 27th, 2008 |
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More often than not, video on mobile phones is a lackluster experience. MediaFLO has been the most obvious exception to that rule in the United States since its service launched in March 2007. Although its nationwide rollout has been slow and customers aren't paying $15 a month for the broadcast-like [...]
Skype Journal |
August 26th, 2008 |
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Several years ago, while skiing at Whistler, a member of our party broke her leg in the most remote (but still in-bounds) glacier (Blackcomb Glacier) with only one route in and out. Having cell phone access resulted in having the ski patrol on the scene within about five minutes and [...]
FierceTelecom |
August 26th, 2008 |
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Consumer watchdog Common Cause and three other advocacy groups want New York's Public Service Commission to temporarily freeze Verizon's much ballyhooed fiber optic rollout in New York City until safety concerns about the network's installation are resolved. A week ago Verizon agreed to conduct safety inspections of other FiOS installations in the state [...]
FierceTelecom |
August 26th, 2008 |
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Cablevision has gotten a lot of press lately, not all good, not all bad. The company even did a dog and pony show for Wall Street investors earlier this month, trying to patch up some rough spots with major shareholders. One of the newest -- and largest -- shareholders, hedge [...]
MediaPost |
August 26th, 2008 |
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News of Google's potential mobile search deal with Verizon Wireless comes as no surprise to analysts who monitor the mobile search and advertising space. In fact, according to Mike Boland, senior analyst at The Kelsey Group, the deal is indicative of a huge shift in the way that mobile service [...]
Mark Evans |
August 26th, 2008 |
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For all the talk about the iPhone, ringtones, the wireless Web and mobile e-mail, here's the reality few people want to admit: the vast majority of wireless revenue comes from voice services because the vast majority of wireless subscribers mostly use their devices to talk. Talking on your cell phone [...]
Nerd Vittles |
August 26th, 2008 |
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What do Asterisk calls to Sprint, Verizon, and T-Mobile cellphones plus 40 million Asterisk systems around the world have in common? They're all free calls! And today we'll show you how[...]
So much good news and now so much bad news. The Apple rumor mill is churning, but this week it's about software fixes instead of new products. News reports are raising expectations of yet another iPhone software fix next month. Apparently software update 2.0.2 didn't fix connection problems -- in [...]
mocoNews.net |
August 25th, 2008 |
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Now that the 2008 Summer Olympics have come to a close, the mobile industry is looking for the next big news event that could drive traffic and create long-term users for the new medium in the U.S. And based on just a handful of events and announcements that have occurred [...]
I've been playing around with fring for awhile now. I like fring which I like to call "the Swiss army knife of mobile VoIP and IM", since it works with Skype, SIP, MSN Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, Google Talk, ICQ, and AIM. Because it supports SIP, I'm able to configure fring [...]
Gizmodo |
August 25th, 2008 |
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AT&T; was calling me to set up an interview with their CTO, but all I could hear was garbled noise on my AT&T; iPhone. "I can't really hear you!" I shouted, as if volume would clear the channel. It's always been like this, in my home in San Francisco. While [...]
