Sprint adding bloatware removal ability to its Android devices
Dan Seifert, MobileBurn, 6/24/2011 News that the HTC EVO 3D had the ability to remove pre-installed apps hit the wires yesterday to much fanfare and appreciation from users and press alike. We reached out to Sprint to get more clarification on the topic and found out that it was in fact intentional, and that we [...]
In: Android, Mobile Technology · Tagged with: AT&T, HTC, Sprint, Verizon
Citrix Backs Mobile Cloud Technology Startup
Robin Wauters, TechCrunch, 6/21/2011 Citrix this morning announced an investment in mobile technology company Core Mobile Networks, marking the third funding commitment for the company’s Startup Accelerator, its Silicon Valley-based seed investment initiative which debuted in December 2010. Core Mobile Networks correlates information from enterprise IT systems with content in the cloud, and delivers it [...]
In: Android, iPhone, Mobile Technology · Tagged with: AT&T, Cloud, Sprint, Verizon
Mobile hotspots: AT&T, Sprint and Verizon compete on price, features, speed
Brian Nadel, Computer World, 6/17/2011 Which carrier’s mobile hotspot packs the most punch? You’re sitting in your hotel room and you need to connect your laptop to the Internet to get some work done. But while many hotels offer free Internet access, you’re staying in one that thinks of it as comparable to the room’s [...]
In: Blackberry, Mobile Technology · Tagged with: 3G, 4G, AT&T, Bluetooth, Hotspot, MiFi, Samsung, Sprint, Tether, Verizon, WiFi
Verizon Gets Hit With FCC Complaint Over 4G LTE Tethering
Jordan Crook, Mobile Crunch, 6/7/2011 Verizon Wireless got hit with an FCC complaint this morning by an organization called Free Press, over the restrictions placed on Verizon’s 4G LTE smartphones. The group claims that Verizon’s rules don’t necessarily jive with the regulatory policies of the Federal Communications Commission when it comes to tethering to Verizon’s [...]
In: Android, Mobile Technology · Tagged with: 4G, FCC, LTE, Tether, Verizon
Verizon to lean on Wi-Fi, sees 4G-only phones by 2013
ArsTechnica, 5/20/2011 Verizon Wi-Fi to offset 3G, 4G in public areas Verizon CTO Tony Melone in a speech at the TIA conference said Verizon would be using Wi-Fi to help offset heavy cellular demand. He was adamant that it wouldn’t “cover up flaws and capacity limitations,” a slam against AT&T’s public hotspots often going up [...]
In: Mobile Technology · Tagged with: 3G, 4G, AT&T, Hotspot, LTE, Verizon, WiFi
Visa To Launch ‘Wallet’ for Phones, Online Buying
Peter Svensson, MobileTechToday, 5/13/2011 Bay’s PayPal and Google’s Checkout better watch out — Visa wants in on the online mobile payment industry. Visa will issue “virtual wallets” that will work with new smartphones equipped with chips that can talk to some credit-card terminals already in stores. The wallets aim to make checkouts faster at online [...]
In: Mobile Technology · Tagged with: AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon
FCC to launch disaster alert system for cell phones
Lance Whitney, CNET News, 5/10/2011 The Federal Communications Commission is expanding its familiar emergency alert system notifications sent over TV and radio to now include mobile phones. Dubbing the new service PLAN (Personal Localized Alerting Network), the government would target the alerts in the form of text messages sent to cell phones of people who [...]
In: iPhone, Mobile Technology · Tagged with: AT&T, FCC, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon
Wireless carriers scale down scope of mobile payment system
Reuters, 5/4/2011 The biggest U.S. wireless carriers, AT&T Inc, Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile USA, are not setting up a separate network for payments on transactions done by phones, the Wall Street Journal said. Setting up a separate network would have been too difficult and time consuming, two people told the WSJ. The joint venture, known [...]
In: Mobile Technology · Tagged with: AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon
Free Android tethering apps blocked by most carriers
Matt Hamblen, Computerworld, 5/3/2011 Free Android phone tethering apps found in Android Market are reportedly being blocked by AT&T, Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile. Sprint continues to support the tethering apps, possibly because it continues to offer offers unlimited, voice text and data plans. The other carriers charge $15 to $20 per month to use a [...]
In: Android, Mobile Technology · Tagged with: AT&T, T-Mobile, Tether, Verizon
Verizon’s 4G Mobile Hotspots
Mark Sullivan, ComputerWorld, 4/28/2011 Mobile hotspots like Novatel’s popular MiFi 2200 have been greeted warmly by tech users and have sold well. They simplify things by providing our various devices with Internet connectivity under one data service bill. And they’re small and superportable. But mobile hotspots have often connected devices to the Internet at relatively [...]