With Sprint struggling to turnaround their business and working hard to bring their high-speed WiMAX-based XOHM wireless data network online, some big-dogs in the wireless industry are opposing the Sprint and Clearwire merger deal currently under consideration by the Feds. AT&T has voiced their opposition to the merger, claiming that both companies were misrepresenting their…
LiMo Foundation picks up 11 new members
When it comes to a Linux-based mobile platform, Google’s Android captures more than its fair share of the wireless industry’s attentions. The Android initiative is spearheaded by Google, after all. But, that doesn’t mean Android is the only game in the Linux mobile market. In fact, while Android struggles with bad press from unfair developer…
IKEA goes mobile with UK MVNO
IKEA is known in the US and Europe for their cheap, assembly-required furniture with a tendency to wear out after a year or so of use. Anybody that has logged time in a college dorm room will likely be all too familiar with the particleboard planks that make up a majority of IKEA’s living space…
AT&T secures iPhone exclusivity through 2010
There’s no doubt that AT&T has been milking its iPhone cash-cow for the past year or so. The iPhone has single-handedly broadened many consumers’ perspectives on what kind of user experience to expect from a smartphone, not to mention sparking a world-wide touchscreen revolution that no touchy-feely handset before it has managed to inspire. In…
Qwest now offering Verizon Wireless services to residential and business customers
Qwest Communications has announced that it is now offering Verizon Wireless services to all new residential and business customers in its residential service area. The two companies have signed a five-year long agent agreement earlier this year to allow Qwest customers to purchase Verizon’s phones and wireless broadband services. Verizon’s services may be purchased at…
SMobile Systems, Sybase iAnywhere team up on mobile enterprise security
SMobile Systems and Sybase iAnywhere partnered to “deliver advanced mobile security solutions for Information Anywhere Suite’s Afaria mobile device management and security platform.” The two companies will work to secure a broad range of smartphones from the latest intrusions and threats, leveraging SMobile’s antivirus, firewall and mobile spam protection. Commenting on the announcement, Sybase iAnywhere’s…
No more BlackBerry Connect for Nokia E-series – Nokia Email emphasized
That’s it. Nokia’s had enough of RIM’s encroachment on their business-phone segment. Rather than allowing Nokia E-series customers to eat from both sides of the pond, to butcher a few metaphors, Nokia has announced that they’ll no longer support BlackBerry Connect support on their business-oriented Eseries handsets. RIM is apparently doing well enough for themselves…
Nokia and Google rebuff claims of Symbian, Android merger
The two largest open-source mobile platform initiatives are swirling up rumors that they’ll be joining forces to combine the Symbian and Android platforms spearheaded by Nokia and Google, respectively. Allegedly informed analysts at J. Gold Associates are claiming that a merger between Nokia and Google could kick off in three to six months, citing both…
AT&T moves to block Sprint merger with Clearwire for WiMAX network
Sprint has been working hard to redefine themselves as a data-centric provider with the premier high-speed wireless broadband network in the US. And, with good reason. Sprint’s losing customers left and right and bleeding money even faster. They clearly can’t compete in the voice-call business that is dominated by AT&T and Verizon, so Sprint is…
Orange looking to pick up iPhone 3G in UK?
The iPhone 3G has already launched in the UK, simultaneously with dozens of other countries around the world, but that doesn’t mean the iPhone 3G rumors are going to stop anytime soon. The latest bit of hearsay to come out of the United Kingdom hints at O2’s iPhone exclusivity period being almost expired. That means…