Wireless Business Forecast articles from March 2008

Wireless Business Forecast archives from March 2008

Proposed Wireless Bill Homogenizes Service Plans, Could Chill Competition.
March 6, 2008... Late last month, Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), chairman of the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet, held a legislative hearing to discuss his draft legislation addressing wireless consumer issues and community...

Financial Joint Venture May Finally Kickstart M-Commerce.
March 6, 2008... SK Telecom and Citi have partnered in Mobile Money Ventures LLC., a joint venture they say brings together two industry leaders to develop mobile financial services and technologies delivering "greater functionality, speed, and convenience...

The Mobile Media Review: Two Flavors Of LinkedIn; Taking It To TheStreet; Zoho Hum; Times ShifDing; And You Like Me, You Really Like Me.
March 6, 2008... Welcome to "The Mobile Media Review," our relevant and, many times, irreverent view of what's going on in the mobile-content arena. This week, it's all business, except for one more pass at the Academy Awards, which may have made a better...

Motricity Details Post-InfoSpace Plans.
March 6, 2008... Now that it's wrapped its acquisition of InfoSpace Mobile, Motricity, a provider of mobile content infrastructure services, is talking about what happens next. The company says its offerings "span the content-delivery chain." Motricity's...

Investors Buy Into Israeli Wireless USB House.
March 6, 2008... Wireless USB startup Wisair has garnered another $24 million in venture funding, bringing to $70 million the total so far plowed into the young Israeli company, which is partially funded by Intel and Broadcom. The new cash is earmarked,...

Dongle Modem Comes To Road Warriors' Aid.
March 6, 2008... Just when we thought that dial-up was dying, Conexant Systems released what it calls "a complete design platform" for V.92 dongle modems that's fully compatible with worldwide standards (V.92, for those who have forgotten, is 56 Kb/s...

Survey Sez: Age, Income Influence Handset Purchases.
March 6, 2008... Have you noticed the Verizon Wireless TV ad showing a middle-aged man expressing dissatisfaction with the style and functionality of his new cellphone -- a gaudy model selected for him by his teenage daughter? "E-mail? Who said anything...

Canadian Enterprises Now Can See What They Say.
March 6, 2008... Canadian road warriors and telecommuters now have a powerful new tool at their fingertips. Carrier Telus now is offering "Telus Visual Voice Mail," a service that enables Telus wireless customers to read their voice mail as text messages or...

TracFone Locks Up Another "Unlocked" Court Case.
March 20, 2008... A federal district court issued a $1 million judgment in favor of TracFone Wireless Inc. against a defendant who participated in an unlawful wireless phone hacking scheme by purchasing bulk quantities of phones to be resold and unlocked. And...

The Mobile Media Review: The 'iPhone Revisited' Edition.
March 20, 2008... With last week's release of the Apple iPhone SDK, announcements surrounding enterprise deployments and the prospect of a new mobile content model launching on the iPhone store in June, this seems a good time to revisit the loudest handset...

Coming Soon: A New 'Guardian' Of The Airwaves.
March 20, 2008... Alcatel-Lucent is claiming rights as the first to recognize the true nature of wireless-data traffic and, as a result, to come up with a product to fix a problem most of the industry hasn't understood: that not every packet is the same. ...

Wyoming Judges Cut The Cord.
March 20, 2008... The Wyoming Supreme Court and three other district courts have deployed wireless LAN (WLAN) systems from Meru Networks as the first steps in a plan to blanket Wyoming's judicial branch with wireless coverage for judges, staff, attorneys and...

OnRelay Takes The 'Fixed' Out Of FMC.
March 20, 2008... British fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) software house OnRelay has an offering it says eliminates both the "fixed" side of FMC and the on-site corporate PBX by using employees' cellphones as the extensions for a hosted PBX service. ...

Gentlemen (And Ladies), Man Your Brackets.
March 20, 2008... OK, this is a little out of TelecomWeb wireless' enterprise focus but, because of the season and all those office pools out there, we have to report it. AT&T Mobility is partnering with Crisp Wireless to offer subscribers a dedicated mobile...