From Gizmodo, via Engadget, to the VoIP Authority blog... This entry highlights the intersection of two of the more exciting areas in technology today (in my view) - mobility and robotics. Apparently a pair of University of South Florida students have teamed up to create a novel iPhone app designed [...]

P&F believes the market for “Business VoIP Lines” will reach a total of 7.8 million lines deployed by 2012. According to the firm, “We predict that AT&T, Verizon and Qwest will capture the biggest share of large enterprises as VoIP customers, but will face competition in the SMB space [...]

TMCnet’s Michael Dinan has been following the developments as they relate to today’s big announcement from Apple chief executive Steve Jobs as he unveiled an upgraded iPhone at a San Francisco developers’ conference. Check out the latest news regarding the iPhone 2.0 here, and check back with TMCnet throughout [...]

Last month a group of vendors agreed to commit to a licensing framework, whereby they would license their patents relating to the next-generation wireless technology LTE, or Long-Term Evolution, according to “fair and reasonable” terms. Long-Term Evolution is a 3GPP (third-generation partnership project) effort to enhance the next generation [...]

A report in The Wall St. Journal has Sprint Nextel Corp. as a takeover candidate, with Germany’s T-Mobile a prime candidate to pull off the deal. If the deal were to go through, it would make T-Mobile the largest U.S. cellular carrier, vaulting it past AT&T and Verizon Wireless [...]

XO Communications announced today that they have significantly expanded their nationwide Ethernet services footprint. In a briefing at Interop today, I spoke with XO’s Brad Boddicker, regional vice president for the company’s Western region, and he told me that XO is now capable of empowering over half a million [...]

As the smartphone market dissolves into a race between Apple’s iPhone and RIM’s Blackberry device, it is becoming abundantly clear that the two manufacturers will have to differentiate themselves by offering a wealth of innovative applications on their respective platforms. Current U.S. market analysis shows RIM’s Blackberry to be [...]

The FCC was called on the carpet today to answer a Congressional committee’s questions about the recently completed wireless spectrum auction. A central issue was the Commission’s inability to attract any bidders for the so-called D block portion of the spectrum. Lawmakers did save a little praise for FCC [...]

Mobile operators are striving to improve operational efficiency of their networks and pursue cost control by raising the average revenue per user (ARPU) by offering new data services. This is no secret. Tremendous growth in data traffic is being driven by increased use of video, music, photo sharing, and [...]

LTE is that much closer to becoming a reality, as a number of industry players have agreed to commit to a licensing framework, whereby they would license their patents according to “fair and reasonable” terms. The group is a veritable who’s who of industry leaders, and includes Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, [...]

If you own any of these smartphones — the Verizon Wireless SMT5800; the Verizon Wireless XV6800 and the MOTO Q9m — then for just $29.99 per month (with a qualifying voice plan) you can surf and send e-mail to your heart’s content using the Verizon Wireless E-mail and Web for [...]

I had the occasion to visit with Dimension Data’s Mark Slaga this morning at that company’s Perspectives event at the Batterymarch Conference Center in Boston. Slaga, the company’s chief technology officer as well as their chief information officer is certainly someone to chat with if you want to know [...]

Samsung Mobile announced the Samsung Instinct at CTIA last week. Hailed by many as the “iPhone killer” (or at least a worthy alternative) the device offers full touch screen functionality and promises to accelerate the user experience by enabling access to commonly used applications and contacts with a single finger [...]

I just confirmed that Communications Developer Conference will be making a triumphant return to Los Angeles this September 16–18. The event will be co-located with Internet Telephony Conference & EXPO at the Los Angeles Convention Center. The final details are being ironed out as I write this and [...]

In the wake of bad economic news — yesterday’s 400+ point Dow Jones rally notwithstanding — many CEOs are faced with tough decisions as they map out the future of their companies, asking themselves, does it make sense to forestall growth until the downturn passes? Frost & Sullivan’s chairman [...]

The Beatles are coming to iTunes. After years spent working out the kinks, an agreement has been reached between iTunes and erstwhile cute Beatle Paul McCartney. Word in the UK’s Daily Telegraph is that iTunes will pony up as much as ₤300 million for the catalog. That’s a bit over [...]

Rebtel has written an open letter to two U.S. Representatives — Edward J. Markey (D – Massachusetts) and Cliff Stearns (R – Florida). The letter is reproduced on the RebTel blog here. The company is asking the Congressmen to help draw the line between unreasonable discrimination and reasonable, fair business [...]

Those folks at Gizmodo have all the fun. Right now they’re in Barcelona going ga-ga over the working demos of a variety of Android prototypes. They had this to say about ARM’s offering: ARM had theirs running on one of their lower-end processors. No fancy graphics [...]

Greg Spector is head of corporate communications at Rebtel. And he feels like he’s been had. Writing on the Rebtel blog a few days ago, Spector is angry with himself for believing Goliath's (Verizon's) promises. Stupid Rebtel. We should have known better. I’m reposting the rest [...]

Rich — who is technically on vacation this week — has caught wind of the fact that Motorola is exploring the possibility of spinning off its mobile handset business. In a press release, Motorola announced: …it is exploring the structural and strategic realignment of its businesses to better [...]

Goodbye Moto? There are early reports that Motorola might be getting out of the handset business to concentrate on serving their enterprise and government customers. Speculation is based on a single analyst’s report to clients. Richard Windsor, an analyst with Nomura International, professed that while the possibility exists of Chinese [...]