SAN FRANCISCO–Verizon Wireless provided more detail today about the launch of its long awaited 4G wireless rollout, but the company still didn’t reveal pricing or device information. At the CTIA fall 2010 trade show here, Verizon Communications Chief Operating Officer Lowell McAdam said the company plans to launch its 4G wireless network in 38 markets …
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SAN FRANCISCO – Motorola is taking on Research In Motion, the maker of the popular BlackBerry smartphone, with its new Droid Pro. Motorola announced the new Google Android smartphone at a press event here Tuesday on the eve of the 2010 CTIA Enterprise & Applications tradeshow. Motorola co-CEO Sanjay Jha called the phone, which sports a 3.1-inch touch screen display …
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Qualcomm is suspending direct sales of devices that use its MediaFlo mobile TV service as the company prepares to pull the plug on its mobile broadcast TV service sometime next year, the company said Tuesday. Qualcomm’s Flo TV service offered on an AT&T handset. Marguerite Reardon, CNET News The company said in a statement that it will maintain the mobile …
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High-quality, high-definition videoconferencing is coming to the living room, but consumers should expect to pay top dollar for it. Tomorrow not one but two major technology companies will be announcing new videoconferencing products for the home. Cisco Systems, which already has a well-established telepresence line of products for large companies, and Logitech, which makes Webcams and other PC peripherals, each …
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Verizon Wireless said Sunday that it plans to refund consumers it wrongly charged for data usage, but the company still faces scrutiny from the Federal Communications Commission, which has been investigating Verizon’s practices. On Sunday Verizon released a statement admitting that it had been charging 15 million of its wireless subscribers for data services they didn’t intend to use. Verizon …
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SAN FRANCISCO–New 4G networks and cool wireless gadgets like the iPad aren’t just for playing games and watching movies, companies large and small are looking for ways to leverage this technology to make it work for their businesses. While many technology trends have traditionally flowed from the corporate environment into the consumer market (think e-mail and voicemail as just two …
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When it comes to wireless services, sometimes unlimited doesn’t really mean unlimited. Wireless is a competitive business, and sometimes operators say almost anything to get consumers to sign up for their service. Over the last few years, outraged customers have forced wireless carriers to stop throwing around the “unlimited” term so freely. As a result, a lot of mobile broadband …
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Sprint Nextel executives have stepped down from their posts as Clearwire board members, Clearwire said Thursday. The move could clear the way for other investors in Clearwire, which is currently building a nationwide 4G wireless network. Clearwire said today that Sprint CEO Dan Hesse and two other top Sprint executives–Keith Cowan and Steven Elfman–have resigned from Clearwire’s board of directors. …
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The latest attempt to introduce Net neutrality legislation has stalled in a House of Representatives committee after a prominent Republican declined to support the proposal. Rep. Joe Barton of Texas, the senior Republican on the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee, said he would not support a Net neutrality proposal put forth earlier this week by Committee Chairman Henry Waxman …
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If you thought location-aware search and other mobile mapping technologies were cool, hold onto your hat. A new wave of innovation in the mobile market will bring augmented reality to smartphones, allowing users to interact virtually with their surroundings. Qualcomm has worked with toy maker Mattel to demonstrate the power of augmented-reality technology in gaming. Qualcomm Augmented reality, or AR, …
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