Mobile Stuff

Basking Ridge, NJ — Verizon Wireless announced today that VZ Navigator(SM) (Version 4) is now available on select consumer phones. First announced during CTIA WIRELESS 2008, the newest version of VZ Navigator allows customers in 75 cities from coast to coast to access information about traffic incidents on major roadways, obtain [...]

Kirkland, WA and Overland Park, Kan. — Clearwire Corporation and Sprint Nextel Corporation announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement to combine their next-generation wireless broadband businesses to form a new wireless communications company.
The new company, which will be named Clearwire, will be focused on expediting the deployment of the first nationwide mobile [...]

London, UK — Myvu Corporation will showcase its Crystal premium range of video eyewear at the Nokia Trends Lab — a series of cutting-edge live events taking place across Europe this spring that combine mobile phone technology with creative and experimental art.
Myvu will host a Myvu Film Lab at the Nokia Trends Lab event in [...]

Hampshire, UK — A new analysis of the global opportunity for WiMAX 802.16e forecasts that up to 12% of the global DSL installed base will be substituted by WiMAX by 2013. The Far East will lead with over one fifth of the 47m subscribers in 2013.
A region by region analysis by Juniper Research found that [...]

Oslo, Norway — Much to the dismay of bugs lurking within pages of the World Wide Web, Opera Software today unmercifully unleashed the anticipated Opera Dragonfly. True to Opera’s embodiment of One Web, the developer tools with Opera Dragonfly will debug Web pages, Widgets and Web applications on any device. Opera [...]

London — HTC Corp. today unveiled its new flagship phone, the HTC Touch Diamond. Delivering unmistakable style and meticulous craftsmanship, the HTC Touch Diamond is defined by its compact size, game-changing Internet and its new captivating 3D touch interface called TouchFLO 3D. The result is an uncompromising mobile phone that sets a new benchmark for [...]

Espoo, Finland — Nokia Siemens Networks and Pirelli Broadband Solutions, a leading supplier of customer premise equipment (CPE), set-top boxes and remote management systems for the connected home and office, have signed an agreement for cooperation on 3G Femto Home Access solution.Pirelli’s femto-enabled CPEs coupled with the 3G Femto Home Access [...]

Stockholm, Sweden — Sony Ericsson Mobile Communication today announced plans to release a new technology that, for the first time, bridges the Abobe Flash Lite and Java ME development platforms. The new technology and tools, referred to as Project Capuchin, make it possible to combine the richness of Flash Lite and Java ME technologies allowing [...]

Gothenburg, Sweden — According to new a research report from the analyst firm Berg Insight, the number of cellular network connections used for machine-to-machine communication will grow from 37.5 million connections in 2007 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 37.9 percent to 186 million connections in 2012. GSM and legacy technologies currently dominate [...]

Overland Park, Kan. — Sprint is disappointed with the court’s decision. Sprint has been and continues to be committed to working with public safety to eliminate the risk of interference for public-safety communications. However, more than 500 public-safety agencies have requested more time — in many cases, years — to complete their retuning activities. Sprint [...]

New York — The Associated Press today debuted its Mobile News Network, a multimedia news portal targeted at wireless users who want access anytime and anywhere to international, national and local news content from the cooperative and its members. The web application has been optimized for use on iPhones and can be accessed directly at [...]

New York & Bellevue – T-Mobile USA, Inc. today announced that the company has taken the first commercial step in the rollout of its third-generation (3G) wireless network by launching its UMTS/HSDPA network in New York City. T-Mobile plans to continue the rollout of its 3G network across major metropolitan markets through the year. By [...]

With only a week left to the HTC new mobile phones announcement we are already witnessing the first bits of information about the highly expected devices. The campaign bearing the ambitious title “Something beautiful is coming” will reach its culmination at the official event at May 6th. As for now here are the expected specs [...]

Bonn, Germany and Espoo, Finland — T-Mobile and Nokia today announced that they are collaborating to accelerate the availability of new Internet services and personal social communities on mobile devices.
By signing this collaboration agreement, T-Mobile and Nokia will be able to offer their European customers faster and easier access to all of T-Mobile’s web’n’walk Internet [...]

London — UbiquiSys has been ranked at the top of the latest Vendor Matrix released by ABI Research.
Alcatel-Lucent and ip.access claimed the second and third spots in the company’s latest evaluation of worldwide femtocell box vendors.
The Vendor Matrix is an analytical tool developed by ABI Research to provide a clear understanding of vendors’ positions in [...]