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  • Android Overtakes Apple with 44% Worldwide Share of Mobile App Downloads, Says ABI Research

    Posted on October 24, 2011 | No Comments
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  • Increasing Mobile Core Network Spending to Offset RAN Equipment Decline, Says ABI Research

    Posted on March 3, 2011 | No Comments
    SINGAPORE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Mobile operators are steadily getting a handle on the mobile data traffic boom that is rippling through their networks, as smartphones and apps downloads redefine the end-user mobile experience. “Operators...

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  • Hell freezes over: Verizon CTO Dick Lynch joins GSMA’s board

    Hell freezes over: Verizon CTO Dick Lynch joins GSMA’s board

    Posted on June 21, 2010 | No Comments
    Of course, seeing how Verizon was one of the earliest and most staunch supporters of LTE in the mobile operator world, it comes as no huge shocker that Big Red has earned itself a seat on the GSM Association's 26 member- and 13 carrier-strong board of directors -- especially now that it's a full, card-carrying member of the GSMA as a whole -- but still, feels a bit weird, doesn't it? From a PR perspective, we're figuring Verizon wanted to have this wrapped up before it stages its first commercial 4G launches later this year, but at any rate, it's official: you're now welcome to call Verizon "a GSM carrier. What about you, Sprint? Follow the break for the full press release.

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    Hell freezes over: Verizon CTO Dick Lynch joins GSMA's board originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Mon, 21 Jun 2010 16:38:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Mobilicity gets the green light from CRTC, looks to launch in Toronto soon

    Mobilicity gets the green light from CRTC, looks to launch in Toronto soon

    Posted on May 9, 2010 | No Comments
    Right on cue, the artist formerly known as DAVE Wireless has been given approval to begin operations in Canada. Just as we heard earlier in the year, Mobilicity is looking to add some much-needed competition in the mobile operator space up north, and as predicted, the CRTC has given the initial stamp of approval needed for it to move forward with business operations. The company has to make a few minor changes up the ladder in order to appease the Canadian overlords that regulate this stuff, but the outfit's top brass have stated that they have "no issues" whatsoever in complying. If all goes well, the carrier plans to start up service in Toronto before the summer swings in, with Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton and Ottawa to get covered later in the year. Here's hoping those blasted three-year contracts vanish for good, eh?

    [Thanks, Adam]

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  • Numo SMS Preview app hits record

    Posted on December 3, 2009 | No Comments
    Numo Solutions (former Mobile Nordic) SMS Preview mobile application hits 600 000 registered users in just two months. Oslo, Norway - December 3, 2009. Numo Solutions mobile application Numo SMS Preview has received more than 600 000 new registered users in just two months. The mobile application gives an instant preview of incoming SMS messages without a single click. The Numo SMS Preview currently supports Symbian mobile phones and popular Android mobiles. Numo SMS Preview.

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  • NTT Docomo Buys 35 Percent Of PacketVideo For $45.5 Million

    NTT Docomo Buys 35 Percent Of PacketVideo For $45.5 Million

    Posted on July 5, 2009 | No Comments
    Mobile video is taking off in Japan, where mobile operator NTT DoCoMo just invested $45.5 million in PacketVideo, which s a long-time supplier of mobile video software. The all-cash investment gives NTT Docomo a 35 percent stake in PacketVideo, which is s subsidiary of NextWave Wireless (a holding company that owns rights to wireless spectrum in the U.S. which it plans to use for a Wimax network). NextWave acquired PacketVideo in 2005 and the company is now its main source of cash. The investment indicates how important PacketVideo's technology is to NTT Docomo, and raises the possibility of an outright purchase down the line. Other customers of PacketVideo include Verizon Wireless, Orange (in France), and T-Mobile. They might not feel so warm and fuzzy about PacketVideo now being so closely aligned with another carrier, even if it is in Japan.

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  • Call without a SIM card with Cherry

    Call without a SIM card with Cherry

    Posted on July 5, 2009 | No Comments
    The chances of me being genuinely amazed at something I see a Belgian tech company achieve are rather slim. But occasionally, it happens. Last week I went to local entrepreneur meetup BetaGroup and saw five startups pitch their stuff to the 200-person audience. The last one to get its five minutes of fame was Cherry, a new mobile operator that promised to "revolutionize the telecom world". Needless to say, I was as curious as I was skeptical. Then the company's CEO got up on stage, introduced himself, took out his Nokia smartphone, called some random guy in the audience and had him call him back on his phone afterwards. Projecting his mobile phone screen on a bigger screen for everyone to see, he demonstrated how he didn't need to launch an application and just browsed his contact list to call the other person. Standard functionality, sure, but the cool part of it was the fact that the phone was lacking the presence of a SIM card, which is supposed to identify you as a subscriber of a telephony service.

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  • Meet Cherry, the unified Wi-Fi / GSM network operator that introduces automatic handover

    Meet Cherry, the unified Wi-Fi / GSM network operator that introduces automatic handover

    Posted on July 5, 2009 | No Comments
    The chances of me being genuinely amazed at something I see a Belgian tech company achieve are rather slim. But occasionally, it happens. Last week I went to local entrepreneur meetup BetaGroup and saw five startups pitch their stuff to the 200-headed audience. The last one to get its five minutes of fame was Cherry, a new mobile operator that promised to "revolutionize the telecom world". Needless to say, I was as curious as I was skeptical. Then the company's CEO got up on stage, introduced himself, took out his Nokia smartphone, called some random guy in the audience and had him call him back on his phone afterwards. Projecting his mobile phone screen on a bigger screen for everyone to see, he demonstrated how he didn't need to launch an application and just browsed his contact list to call the other person. Standard functionality, sure, but the cool part of it was the fact that the phone was lacking the presence of a SIM card, which is supposed to identify you as a subscriber of a telephony service.

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  • Sprint affirms Palm Pre exclusivity “through 2009″

    Sprint affirms Palm Pre exclusivity “through 2009″

    Posted on May 29, 2009 | No Comments

    Ready for your daily dose of obvious? Good. After Verizon Wireless CEO Lowell McAdam proudly proclaimed that America's largest mobile operator would be painting the Palm Pre red "in about six months," Sprint has come forward to make sure we know that said statement is probably right on the money. According to Sprint spokesman James Fisher: "We have the Pre through 2009." Short, sweet and chock full of pent-up rage. 'Course, six months after the Pre's launch on Sprint lands us in December, giving VZW just enough time to cripple the phone's hottest features and push it out before Valentine's Day. Sounds pretty reasonable, no?

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    Sprint affirms Palm Pre exclusivity "through 2009" originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 29 May 2009 10:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Verizon Wireless to carry Palm Pre, Storm 2 “in about six months”

    Verizon Wireless to carry Palm Pre, Storm 2 “in about six months”

    Posted on May 28, 2009 | No Comments

    digg_url = 'http://digg.com/hardware/Verizon_to_get_Palm_Pre_Storm_2_in_about_six_months'; Think you'll have to wait until June 6th for all the Pre surprises to emerge? Think again. A breaking Reuters report has just dropped one of the biggest cellular bombshells of the year: Verizon Wireless, America's largest mobile operator, will soon be carrying Palm's Pre. Oh, that's not enough? No worries -- it'll also be selling a "new version of the touchscreen BlackBerry Storm," which is obviously the Storm 2 that we've been toying around with. The report makes clear that both phones would be cleared for shipment in around six months, which certainly jibes with whispers we've heard about Sprint's mighty short exclusivity period. The news came from the company's Lowell McAdam, the top executive for the venture of Verizon Communications and Vodafone. To quote: "Over the next six months or so you will see devices like Palm Pre and a second generation Storm." First Sprint, then AT&T, and now Verizon? T-Mobile, where you at?

    [Thanks, E]

    Update: Seems Mr. McAdam continued on by noting that VZW would get the Palm Pre "and a cousin." Hmm, Eos, anyone?

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    Verizon Wireless to carry Palm Pre, Storm 2 "in about six months" originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 28 May 2009 12:18:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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