What, me late? Lost and couldn't find the room? Never. Anyway, the upside is that I missed CTIA head honcho Steve Largent's standarized bitching about taxes and regulation. Downside: I wasn't so late as to miss Verizon Wireless boss Lowell McAdam bitching about taxes and regulation. To hear these guys [...]

US satellite TV provider DirecTV has launched a new feature that allows its DVR subscribers to remotely schedule recordings. Users can do it via the DirecTV.com web site, but the company is also prominently advertising the mobile version of the service, available at m.directv.com. Similar services have been available in [...]

TheStar.com | Business | Telus considers dumping its `Betamax' of wireless networks: With more wireless competition looming, executives at Telus Corp. are believed to be mulling a pricey swap of the firm's network technology in a bid to offer subscribers a bigger selection of mobile devices and grab a larger [...]

Open, open, open. It's the buzzword of the moment in mobile, thanks to the likes of Google and Verizon. Operators are talking about how they're open, how they want to foster innovation and new business models, and how they love openness and so on. But then pops up BusinessWeek with [...]

If you've been online today, you've probably noticed that Verizon Wireless has announced that it will "open" its network to "any app, any device" next year. It will maintain its current business model, but will also offer network-only access to users with compatible devices that meet some as-yet-unnamed technical standards, [...]