It’s got to be hard being the CEO of a company that has recently been getting bashed for its poor quality of service. For AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson, he’s putting a slightly different spin on the company’s network woes. At the Brainstorm: Tech conference in Pasadena, Stephenson recently attributed AT&T’s historically low churn rate (the…
Verizon hurrying 4G LTE network deployment for Q1 2010?
Verizon Wireless is already working on their next-generation 4G LTE (Long Term Evolution) wireless network, with plans to light up part of the network in 2010. That much we already knew. Today, we’re hearing new reports that have Big Red allegedly putting some serious resources into deploying their LTE network sooner than expected.. According to…
Google Latitude on iPhone and why Google is bypassing AppStore
Google Latitude for iPhone is finally here! The sorta-creepy, friend-tracking service from Google has finally hit the iPhone. Sure, BlackBerry and Android users have been playing with the Google Latitude service for eons already, but, like they say, better late than never. Google’s fashionably-late entrance to the iPhone party gives iPhone users the ability to…
One third of iPhone hopefuls shun iPhone due to AT&T network
AT&T really needs the iPhone, but the iPhone doesn’t need AT&T. That little fact alone is probably enough to give Apple’s Tim Cook reason to look for another iPhone carrier in the US. Add to that this recent survey from PriceGrabber.com and things are looking bad for AT&T. According to the poll, about 10% of…
Top 11 iPhone Summer Road Trip Apps – Road Tripping with iPhone
Summer is in full swing. The sun is out, the clouds are gone, and it’s generally warmer. That is, unless you live in San Francisco, in which case you’re still dealing with clouds and wind. The rest of us are probably gearing up for a Summer road trip to, well, to wherever it is that…
HTC BREW-ing up non-smartphone for later this year
We had already heard that HTC is looking to enter the feature-phone market with a lower-end touchscreen handset running some sort of proprietary mobile OS. Turns out, HTC os gearing up to launch a “high-profile 3G handset” that’s based on Qualcomm’s Brew Mobile Platform (BMP) – at least according to ‘industry sources.” The upcoming Brew-based…
TerreStar completes testing of satellite phone system
There used to be a time when satellite phones came attached to briefcases (much like the first cellphones, in fact). More recently, sat-phones have grown small enough to carry in a pocket, but still came with chunky waistlines and awkward antennas. TerreStar is looking to change all that with their TerreStar satellite phone service and…
Study: If you’re a business you’ll probably overspend on wireless service
Not that businesses aren’t already prone to overspending, but a new study from Gartner indicates that 80% of enterprise wireless customers will pay too much for wireless service through 2014. The research shows that costs for mobile enterprise services have grown, but many businesses aren’t managing their expenses. “Our research shows that the majority of…
Crowded iPhone AppStore prompting Apple for a refresh?
The AppStore is a lot of things, but it’s not an easy place to navigate. With over 65,000 iPhone apps available, discovery of new applications is becoming an increasingly serious problem. If you’ve even casually kept tabs on Apple’s top iPhone apps lists, you’ll probably have noticed that there’s a lot of turnover in the…
HTC Whitestone hitting Verizon as HTC XV6975
We love it when a leak comes together. Following on HTC’s leaked roadmap that showed a the WVGA touchscreen smartphone hitting market in the second half of 2009, we have new information that points to Verizon Wireless picking up the HTC Whitestone as the Verizon HTC XV6975. Tweakers.net has been able to confirm the Whitestone’s…