Archive for September, 2010
Mozilla concept phone is a glimpse of the future
Nancy Gohring, IDG News Service, 9/24/2010 The hottest concept mobile phone right now doesn’t come from Apple, Google, Motorola or HTC. It was developed by a designer in his spare time as part of a Mozilla Labs project. Seabird is designer Billy May’s vision for a phone that aims to address some of the frustrations [...]
In: Android, iPhone, Mobile Technology · Tagged with: Bluetooth, HTC, Motorola
FCC opens up ‘white spaces’ spectrum to mobile devices
Grant Gross, IDG News Service, 9/23/2010 The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has voted to open up unused spectrum in the television band to unlicensed wireless broadband devices, a move that will give U.S. residents access to “super Wi-Fi,” the agency’s chairman said. The FCC’s unanimous vote Thursday comes after an eight-year debate about opening up [...]
In: Mobile Technology · Tagged with: FCC, WiFi
Visual Basic Developers Can Now Build for Windows Phone 7
Sarah Perez, ReadWriteWeb, 9/23/2010 Today Microsoft announced that developers interested in building applications for Windows Phone 7 can now use Visual Basic to do so, in addition to the previously supported platforms of C#, Silverlight and XNA. This, says Microsoft’s Brandon Watson via an official blog post, was the biggest request from the company’s developer [...]
In: Mobile Technology, WinPhone
No tethering for Windows Phone 7
Nancy Gohring, IDG News Service, 9/23/2010 Forthcoming Windows Phone 7 devices are expected to have most of the required features of today’s smartphones — an application store, a 5-megapixel or better camera, a touchscreen, gaming — but there’s one it won’t have, and that’s tethering. This week, phone enthusiasts were abuzz with news that the [...]
In: Mobile Technology, WinPhone · Tagged with: Tether
Clearwire eyes debt as part of new funding
Sinead Carew, Reuters, 9/23/2010 Clearwire Corp expects its next funding round to be debt with an equity investment from a company such as T-Mobile USA or money from a wireless spectrum sale, its chief executive said on Thursday. Clearwire, a wireless venture that is majority owned by Sprint Nextel Corp, is in negotiations for additional [...]
In: Mobile Technology · Tagged with: Clearwire, Sprint, T-Mobile, WiMax
Another Wall Street firm moving away from the BlackBerry
pdaBlast! Staff, BlackberryBlast!, 9/22/2010 Recently we reported that JP Morgan Chase was looking into dumping the BlackBerry in favor of iPhones and Android devices. It looks like another Wall Street firm is giving their employees a choice. CNBC reports that Credit Suisse has a pilot program allowing employees to use iPhones. With companies continuing to [...]
In: Android, Blackberry, iPhone, Mobile Technology
AT&T launches satellite phone
Lance Whitney, CNETNews, 9/21/2010 AT&T has unveiled a new satellite phone that can provide phone reception in areas where there are no cell towers. Available today, the TerreStar Genus is a dual-mode smartphone that uses AT&T’s cellular service by default but kicks in with satellite reception as a backup in remote areas. The satellite service [...]
In: Mobile Technology · Tagged with: AT&T, Bluetooth, WiFi
Google Voice apps returning to iPhone app store
Thomas Ricker, Engadget, 9/18/2010 It’s been a long time coming — now native Google Voice apps have finally returned to the iTunes App Store. This, after a fourteen month hiatus in which we saw an FCC investigation into the matter that culminated in a loosening of App Store restrictions. So far, we’re only seeing the [...]
In: iPhone, Mobile Technology · Tagged with: FCC
AT&T 4G LTE network to debut by mid-2011
Todd Haselton, MobileBurn, 9/17/2010 AT&T’s Operations CEO, John Stankey, said that AT&T is planning to debut its fourth generation long-term evolution (LTE) network by the middle of next year. Stankey made his comments during the Bank of America, Merrill Lynch 2010 Media, Communications & Entertainment Conference Stankey noted that AT&T is currently testing its 4G [...]
In: Mobile Technology · Tagged with: 4G, AT&T, LTE, Verizon
Verizon Mobile Recovery Service Now Available
Ronen Halevy, BerryReview, 9/16/2010 It seems like Verizon beat RIM to launching a recovery service for BlackBerrys. RIM has hyped up BlackBerry Protect nicely yet we are still waiting for it to launch.Now Verizon has launched a new Mobile Recovery service of their own today. The catch is that it is a free addon for [...]
In: Blackberry, Mobile Technology · Tagged with: Verizon