News December 2008

On their website AT&T is currently selling refurbished iPhones for $50 under the price of a new retail unit. Now until the end of December AT&T is also offering an additional $50...

For the past three years the volume of text messages has multipled by ten, says CTIA. Industry watchers and politicians are again questioning whether the cost by carriers to transmit SMS text...

On the last Monday of December 2008 AT&T issued a statement to their customers reassuring that service has been restored. A power outage in a Bloomfield, Michigan facility due to bad weather...

Nokia has come out with yet another high end luxury phone in the form of the 8880 Gold Arte. This slider cell phone will turn heads with its striking design and gold...

To make room for a larger range of iPhone applications, Apple is going easier on their content limitations. Since releasing the App Store about five months ago, developers and users have taken...

[tab:Details] An upgrade of the Samsung Messenger, the Samsung Rant M540 adds EVDO data and video exchange and enhanced now 2 megapixel camera. The Rants other features are similar to the Messenger,...

A couple of months ago Nokia announced a new Mail Service that would come out at the end of the year. Well here it is late December and Nokia has emerged with...

Elevation Partners, a private equity firm and 25% owners of Palm Inc. invested an additional $100 million into the company. In return for this 100 million, Elevation Partners will receive the newly...

Cupcake for Google Android A number of new features were made available last week on Google's Android platform. Code named Cupcake, this new branch of the Android operating system is expected to...

Late last week the CTIA (The Wireless Association), on behalf of its Wireless Internet Caucus (WIC) Enhanced Messaging Action Team (EM Team) released specs for the development of the Enhanced Messaging Services....

Wi-Fi- is a trade name for the wireless technology used in many mediums including mobile phones and PDAs. Wi-Fi covers IEEE 802.11 technologies: 802.11n, 802.11b, 802.11g and 802.11a. Wi-Fi provides wireless access...

With Wi-Fi and traditional features well-known to BlackBerry users, the BlackBerry Curve builds on the roots RIM has laid with previous products in their line. The Curve 8320 is the smallest and...

Apple and France Telecom were in talks to offer Apple's iPhone on their network until the French competition watchdog suspended their agreement. This leaves French iPhone 3G users to the titan service...

AMPS is the analog mobile phone system by Bell Labs. This system was introduced in 1983 in the U.S. and Australia in 1987. Today carriers in the U.S. are no longer obligated...

Palm has opened an online marketplace for their software. Now Palm users are able to use their devices much like the Apple iPhone to purchase software through the Internet. With over 5,000...

Pandora Radio the popular internet-based radio service can now go with you on the road. Pandora will now bring it’s free personalized radio to Windows Mobile handset devices. The Mobile Pandora will...

Omega Pharma, a health product distributor, has removed the E-Waves Phone Chip that they claimed negated the supposed damaging radiation emissions created by cell phones. After the launch... a storm of protest...

Nokia began to petition mobile technology companies to accept the Network on Terminal Architecture (NOTA) model. The theory is that the group will reduce the amount of money it would cost to...

Nokia Siemens Networks is doing its part to usher in the Next Generation high speed LTE network. Nokia hopes to speed up the development of the long term evolution by building a...

Palm is to unveil its new Linux-based operating system and a line of new mobile handsets to utilize it at next month's Consumer Electronics Show. The operating system, code-named Nova, has been...

Most of us are heavily dependent on our computers and cell phones, some utilizing it for nearly every aspect of their lives. After a while things add up, and you have quite...

Sen. Jay Rockefeller of W. Virginia and Rep Henry Waxman of California requested that the U.S. Federal Communications Commission put its planned vote on the use of white space spectrum on hold....

Engineers from the University of Utah have developed a technique that will, hopefully, prevent teenagers (Or anyone?) from talking or texting on their cell phones while driving. Driving accidents are the number...

T-Mobile's G1 has come under fire lately due to the apparent inability for to turn the data roaming off during trips across seas resulting in unwanted charges. A man was recently charged...

AT&T is testing a femtocell in the hopes to have trail markets venerable by next year. Femtocells are scaled down versions of cell sites that boost signal strength in homes or small...

Chief technology officer for Verizon Communications, Dick Lynch has mentioned that they are planning to start deploying its LTE (Long Term Evolution) network starting as early as next year. Mr. Lynch has...

LG is paving the way for the next gen LTE handset development. LG has successfully tested the world’s first LTE chip for cell phones. The chip reached data speeds of 60 Mbps...

Earlier today Spring announced plans to develop a new open source software platform. Sprint is counting on this platform to try to entice more developers to create mobile applications for Sprints devices....

The EDGE network has been in need of a speed enhancement and Nokia Siemens Networks has come to the rescue. NSN has recently finalized tests of a technology that will increase data...

A joint project by the University of Houston and Texas A&M, produced a material capable of generating electricity from sound waves. The material is said to generate enough power to run a...

MySpace has revealed that MySpace Mobile users now have the ability to stream video content on their sites via their mobile device. Mobile users can view streaming from family, friends, musical artists,...

HTC has acquired the company that developed the HTC Touch Diamond. The Taiwanese handset maker has purchased One & Company Design with the hope that it can boost its design capabilities. HTC...

Nokia has completed its acquisition of Symbian Limited. Nokia announced its desire to purchase Symbian for $410 million in an attempt to directly compete with other mobile platforms such as Google’s Android...

Nokia has announced that it will introduce a range of phones with a Home Control Center that will power a unique approach to smart home solutions. The Nokia Home Control Center has...

Nokia has plans to scale back availability of their handsets in Japan. Japan is the 4th largest mobile phone market in the world. Nokia only has a small share of the large...