When you’re No. 1, you’ve got to work that much harder to stay at the top of the game. AT&T, firmly the leading US wireless carrier (as far as subscriber base goes), has recently been on a spending spree. With the recently green-lighted Dobson acquisition deal, it looks like AT&T is now looking to acquire…
Sony and NXP team up on Moversa mobile payment system
As everything in our lives becomes more closely tied-in with mobile technology, we’ll see many of our daily activities start integrating with our mobile phones. Mobile payments, for example, are just starting to gain steam and will undoubtedly be the future of retail. Why carry around multiple credit cards and a wallet if you can…
AT&T launches nationwide mobile banking
It looks like AT&T is getting down with mobile banking. The No. 1 US wireless carrier has just launched their nationwide mobile banking service. Wachovia and SunTrust customers will be able to check balances, pay bills, and transfer funds using their AT&T cellphone – all for free. AT&T has partnered up with Wachovia and SunTrust…
Lebanon gets its WiMAX on
While the US’s WiMAX future is still being hashed out by the likes of Sprint and Clearwire, our friends in Lebanon have already nailed-down their plans for getting a WiMAX network deployed in 2008. Redline Communications has announced that its RedMAX WiMAX solution has been tapped by Lebanon’s Comium Data Lebanon to be used in…
Infineon and Intel join forces to develop high-density SIM cards
The SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) card is almost as ubiquitous is today’s mobilized society as the mobile phone itself. With GSM networks covering the world, it’s no wonder that the SIM card is as widely used as it is. Well, Infineon has announced that it will be working with chip-making giant Intel to develop high-density…
Synaptics jumps into Android party; To provide its touch interface driver
Synaptics, a developer of capacitive-based human interface solutions for mobile computing and the company behind the Onyx concept pictured above, announced that it is joining Google’s party with its software driver to enable touch interfaces for the Android SDK. Apparently, handset designers will be provided with a “powerful yet easy-to-use tool to develop advanced, multi-touch…
Sprint and Clearwire call it quits on partnership plans
We knew Sprint and Clearwire’s relationship was on the ropes, but we still had in the back of our minds that those two would work things out. We think a partnership between the two would make perfect business sense in the US’s nascent WiMAX environment. The Clearwire/Sprint team could have made a cohesive WiMAX network…
SK Telecom swings control their way, takes management control of Helio
It looks like that little wireless venture between Earthlink and SK Telecom has finally hit a crossroads. Helio has been thus far managed on two fronts – with investors Earthlink and SK Telecom getting equal say in Helio’s future. Well, it seems that Dusan’s mention of Earthlink taking a lesser role in Helio was pretty…
MetroPCS: Leap Wireless keeps rejecting us, we’re going to stop hitting on them
Business is a lot like dating. You keep hitting on other people in the hopes that you’ll be able to score that meaningful relationship that makes both parties happy. But, if the same hottie keep burning you with super-cold rejection, you just have to call it quits. MetroPCS apparently can’t stand the constant rejection by…
Alltel gets FCC approval for private acquisition deal worth $24.7 Billion
Alltel’s sure been doing well for itself recently. Following on Alltel’s recent announcement of increased growth and profits, the FCC has given Alltel the thumbs-up to proceed with a $24.7 billion buy-out deal. Private equity firms TPG Capital and GS Capital Partners are set to cough up the serious dough to take Alltel off the…