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AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph de la Vega had some kind words for rival Verizon’s joint proposal with Google regarding net neutrality. According to the Wall Street Journal: “It’s a positive sign that shows that those two companies can agree on something as different as net neutrality,” de la Vega, head of AT&T’s consumer and mobile…
Again we have a nice usage of mobile technology in health services… Jennifer Dyer, MD, MPH — which is an endocrinologist at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio — has developed an iPhone app for adolescent diabetes patients to remind them about their treatment activities. The new application comes on the heels of a pilot…
Again and again I get impressed with large figures coming out from China. The world’s most populous country had 805.35 million phone users at the end of June, growing 1.19% on month and 15.85% on year! All those users sent a total of 68.92 billion short messages, which is about 2.87 messages per phone number…
We just heard about who will be keynoting the upcoming CTIA Enterprise & Application show and it will be filled with bigwigs from Verizon Wireless, AT&T and Ford. Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam will kick things off on the first day (October 6) and he’ll be talking about the company’s 4G network based on Long-Term Evolution.…
A new survey from ChangeWave suggests Apple iPhone 4 owners really enjoy your handset. I don’t want to jinx it, but they may be in love (fingers crossed). The report said 72% of Apple iPhone 4 owners said they were “very satisfied” with the handset while 21% said they were “somewhat satisfied. That’s pretty good…
Qualcomm has sold a 26% stake in its Indian wireless broadband venture to Global Holdings and Tulip Telecom. The two Indian companies reportedly paid $58 million for the stake with the idea to get into the upcoming TD-LTE action in the fast-growing Indian market. Global Holdings, which BTW owns telecoms infrastructure firms GTL Ltd and…
Self proclaimed “SMS Expert” Sheri Wells has enough cash to issue a press release that hit the wires this morning wishing SMS a happy 25th birthday. According to her the technology was invented in a Vodafone laboratory, but there are quite a few Nokia engineers who would question that claim. She goes on to say…
Despite all the super cool video-streaming capabilities of things like Hulu Plus, a new survey from Nielsen indicates that e-mail is the most common mobile Internet activity. As you can see from the chart above, mobile e-mail is the most common activity, followed by portals, social networks and search. I expect a few of these…
In the “No sh*t, Sherlock” category, a new survey from Seventeen magazine and the American Automobile Association said the majority of teens have driven while being distracted in some form. The survey said 81% of teens admitted to driving while being distracted by things like talking on the phone, sending a text, fiddling with the…
Gorilla glass, the impossible to break, impossible to scratch, material that has shipped on devices such as the Motorola Droid and LG’s X300 notebook, started out as “Project Muscle” in a Corning laboratory in the late 1950s. The goal was to make a sheet of glass as strong as that of steel. The technique, if…