T-Mobile’s 3G network just got the green light and the “best 3G network” in the West is chugging along towards its rollout this summer. T-Mobile’s CEO Hamid Akhavan said that we should be looking for the T-Mobile 3G network to go live in summer 2008, but there’s a possibility that the newly expanded carrier will…
UK: O2 wins Network Rail deal
O2 has won a contract with Network Rail (these are the guys that own, and operate, the rail infrastructure in the UK) – the deal is to provide the corporate voice, data, and BlackBerry mobile email. This is apparently O2’s biggest corporate win, and to give you some idea of the scale of things, it…
O2 and Vodafone team up on 3G femtocell trial
With carriers and manufacturers rushing to get femtocells into the hands of the end-user, the those searches decent wireless signals are going to be a fading memory. Femtocells are basically end-user wireless signal boosters – they help customers get reliable signal strength and reduce infrastructure costs for carriers. No wonder Sprint’s already commercialized their femtocell…
US Cellular goes unlimited too
All the big-dogs in the US wireless market are doing it, so it makes sense for the smaller, regional puppies to jump in on the unlimited-action. US Cellular has done and announced their own flat-rate unlimited wireless calling plan for $99 a month. And, to keep itself within eye-shot of the competition, US Cellular is…
Jaakko Kaidesoja: NGage launching in a few weeks, 50-60 games out by end of 2008
PocketGamer interviewed Jaakko Kaidesoja, Head of New Experience, Nokia Play, and scored some juicy information. By the middle of this year he expects 20-30 NGage games to be launched, 50-60 by the end of the year. The actual NGage platform will be launched officially in a few weeks, currently it is only available for the…
Second Life coming to mobile phones
Vollee is bringing the Second Life experience to mobile phones. The company’s streaming mobile games service reformats and compresses the virtual world to fit on mobile phone screens while mapping the keys on handsets to commands in-world. Using Vollee’s solution, users with 3G-enabled handsets will be able to explore Second Life, interact and communicate with…
Gorillabox and WRN partner on Mobile TV services
Gorillabox has announced it is partnering with WRN to provide Streaming video Mobile TV services to media companies. Gorillabox is making the G-Box platform available to WRN’s client, inlcuding notable broadcasters such as Virgin Radio and Voice of America, amongst others. The content and platform will be Gorillabox’s responsiblity, whereas WRN will handle the marketing…
BlackBerry Enterprise Server 4.1 SP5 overview
Research In Motion is set to release their BlackBerry Enterprise Server 4.1 SP5 platform next Friday, February 29th and BoyGenius got his hands on the slides from RIM’s platform overview. The BlackBerry Enterprise Server 4.1 SP5 platform is an enterprise mobile messaging solution from Research In Motion and the new release will bring a host…
T-Mobile trials unlimited VoIP landline calling – HotSpot @Home Talk Forever
As part of T-Mobile’s push to rid our fair country of landlines in favor of wireless-based VoIP solutions, T-Mobile has just announced another @Home trial in Dallas and Seattle. The HotSpot @Home Talk Forever Home Phone plan allows T-Mobile wireless subscribers to ditch their traditional hardwired phones in favor of a Linksys WRTU54G router. The…
Vivendi pulling a MOSH? There is a trend here
Vivendi just launched something called Zaoza, which sounds as equally ridiculous as MOSH, and from the sound of the service looks to be as equally uninteresting: The French company held a press conference Feb. 19 to launch a multimedia service called Zaoza, Chinese for “word of mouth” or “buzz,” that will work on mobile phones…