Hedge Fund Manager Falcone’s Big Bet On Wireless Broadband
Tricia Duryee, MocoNews.net, 8/27/2010 Investors in the Harbinger’s hedge fund are increasingly uncomfortable with Philip Facone’s obsession with building a high-speed wireless broadband network. Falcone, who got rich by out-smarting the subprime housing bubble, has committed roughly $3 billion or 40 percent of the fund’s assets to LightSquared, making the telecom company the hedge fund’s [...]
In: Mobile Technology · Tagged with: 4G, AT&T, Clearwire, Comcast, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon, Vodafone
LiMo rumoured set for recall to Linux mothership
Bill Ray, The Register, 8/4/2010 The operator-backed LiMo Foundation is on the verge of folding into the Linux Foundation, according to Taiwanese manufacturers working with the standard. Digitimes reports that Vodafone has given up on the platform following poor sales of its LiMo-based Vodafone 360 handsets, and that the remaining partners are having a hard [...]
In: Android, Mobile Technology · Tagged with: API, LiMo, Linux, Motorola, Samsung, Vodafone
Verizon Wireless Said to Start Offering IPhone in January
Amy Thomson, Bloomberg, 6/29/2010 Verizon Wireless, the largest U.S. mobile-phone company, will start selling Apple Inc.’s iPhone next year, ending AT&T Inc.’s exclusive hold on the smartphone in the U.S., two people familiar with the plans said. The device will be available to customers in January, according to the people, who declined to be named [...]
In: Android, Blackberry, Mobile Technology, iPhone · Tagged with: AT&T, CDMA, CTIA, Motorola, Verizon, Vodafone
Mobile group drops Java price against Apple and Android
Gavin Clarke, The Register, 6/22/2010 Mobile phone providers are fighting back against Apple and Google by cutting the cost of doing business using Java on mobile. The Unified Test Initiative, a body comprising handset and service providers, has slashed the price it charges Java Mobile Edition (Java ME) developers to test and verify their work [...]
In: Android, Mobile Technology, iPhone · Tagged with: AT&T, Ericsson, Motorola, Nokia, Samsung, Vodafone
Verizon Strives to Close iPhone Gap
Spencer E. Ante, The Wall Street Journal, 6/10/2010 When Steve Jobs wrapped up his announcement of the new iPhone 4, another big Apple Inc. event had come and gone with no mention of Verizon Wireless. That was a disappointment for some smartphone customers. Verizon Wireless executives, too, are eager to get their hands on the [...]
In: Android, Mobile Technology, iPhone · Tagged with: AT&T, HTC, Motorola, Verizon, Vodafone
LiMo to launch handsets on three more major carriers this year
Todd Haselton, MobileBurn, 5/19/2010 The Linux Mobile (LiMo) foundation’s executive director, Morgan Gillis, said that Vodafone was the first of four total carriers that will launch handsets this year during the Reuters Global Technology Summit. The carriers could be subsidiaries of France Telecom, Telefonica Verizon, or SK Telecom. The LiMo foundation was launched in 2007 [...]
In: Mobile Technology · Tagged with: LiMo, Linux, Verizon, Vodafone
WSJ Reports CDMA iPhone on its way
Yukari Iwatani Kane, Ting-I Tsai and Niraj Sheth, Mobile Tech Today, 3/30/2010 Apple Inc. plans to begin producing this year a new iPhone that could allow U.S. phone carriers other than AT&T Inc. to sell the iconic gadget, said people briefed by the company. The new iPhone would work on a type of wireless network [...]
In: Blackberry, Mobile Technology, iPhone · Tagged with: AT&T, CDMA, GSM, Verizon, Vodafone
Femtocell technology showing up in AT&T, Sprint, and Verizon plans
Stephen Lawson, IDG News Service, 3/23/2010 The tiny base stations may end up in Internet gateways, in businesses, and on the street, with adoptions by three major U.S. carriers This week’s CTIA Wireless conference may be something of a coming-out party for femtocells, the tiny cellular base stations that can send voice and data traffic [...]
In: Mobile Technology, iPhone · Tagged with: 3G, AT&T, CTIA, Femtocell, LTE, Sprint, Verizon, Vodafone, WiFi
Smartphones not enough for carriers at CTIA
Sinead Carew, Reuters, 3/20/2010 Smartphones may be one of the hottest areas in technology with big names like Apple and Google tussling for share, but investors are questioning the growth prospects for mobile carriers as subscriber gains slow. While it is true that clever devices like the iPhone or Android phones will boost demand for [...]
In: Android, Mobile Technology, iPhone · Tagged with: 4G, AT&T, Clearwire, CTIA, HTC, Samsung, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon, Vodafone, WiMax
Malware found on another HTC Magic smartphone
Mikael Ricknäs, ComputerWorld, 3/17/2010 Traces of the now defunct Mariposa botnet has been found on another HTC Magic from Vodafone in Spain, security company Panda wrote in a blog post on Wednesday. The malware was once again found on the SD card that shipped with the Android-based smartphone. At the time of the original report, [...]
In: Android, Mobile Technology · Tagged with: HTC, Malware, Vodafone