NewsFactor - Consumer advocates have long argued that the steep early termination fees (ETF) that the U.S. wireless operators typically charge for an early cellular contract exit have made it difficult for consumers to change service providers. But that's about to change. -- read full article
Thu, 22 May 2008 22:37:41 GMT - Yahoo! News: Wireless and Mobile Technology
AP - British telecommunications company Cable & Wireless PLC said it was considering splitting its business units after it posted a 5.7 percent drop in annual profit on Thursday. -- read full article
Thu, 22 May 2008 17:17:36 GMT - Yahoo! News: Wireless and Mobile Technology
Reuters - Google Inc co-founder Larry Page was
in Washington on Thursday to promote the company's proposal for
a new generation of wireless devices to operate on
soon-to-be-vacant television airwaves.
TechWeb - InformationWeek - President Bush will announce a policy change on Wednesday to allow Americans to send mobile phones to family members in Cuba, the White House said. -- read full article
Wed, 21 May 2008 15:39:42 GMT - Yahoo! News: Wireless and Mobile Technology
TechWeb - InformationWeek - IBM's survey predicts nearly 1 billion mobile users will access the wireless Internet by 2011, representing $80 billion in Web services revenue. -- read full article
Wed, 21 May 2008 15:53:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Wireless and Mobile Technology
TechWeb - InformationWeek - U.S. smartphone users spend almost a third of their mobile Web time shopping on Craigslist, while their U.K. counterparts are browsing Facebook. -- read full article
Wed, 21 May 2008 18:46:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Wireless and Mobile Technology
PC World - Will Sprint follows its competitors lead and restrict mobile broadband subscribers to 5 gigabytes of monthly combined upstream and downstream data usage? -- read full article
Wed, 21 May 2008 20:00:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Wireless and Mobile Technology
Reuters - Advertising on mobile phones has enormous
potential to become a significant platform for marketers, but
any breakthrough is years away and major operators must work
together to succeed, executives said.
Reuters - A U.S. appeals court sided with
Alcatel-Lucent and Nokia (NOK1V.HE) on Wednesday,
upholding a lower court's finding that a Golden Bridge
Technology cellphone patent was invalid. -- read full article
Wed, 21 May 2008 20:33:31 GMT - Yahoo! News: Wireless and Mobile Technology
AP - A proposal for the government to help cell phone customers avoid expensive fees when they cancel contracts with wireless companies may go down in flames after consumer advocates protested Wednesday it isn't generous enough.
Reuters - President George W. Bush announced
an easing of restrictions on Wednesday to allow Americans to
send cell phones to their families in Cuba, in what he
portrayed as a test of the Communist country's economic
reforms.
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The HSUPA deployment is expected to put AT&T on par with Sprint and Verizon Wireless, which offer EVDO-based mobile broadband. -- read full article
Wed, 21 May 2008 23:12:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Wireless and Mobile Technology
NewsFactor - A report pegs the much-awaited announcement of the 3G version of Apple's iPhone for June 9. According to technology blog Gizmodo, a source "very, very close" to the launch has confirmed that the second-generation iPhone will be announced during the keynote address of the Worldwide Developer Conference in San Francisco on that date. -- read full article
Wed, 21 May 2008 16:58:05 GMT - Yahoo! News: Wireless and Mobile Technology
AP - People who use their cell phones to surf the Web tend to steer to social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook ahead of news, maps or weather, mobile browser company Opera says. -- read full article
Wed, 21 May 2008 18:13:21 GMT - Yahoo! News: Wireless and Mobile Technology
