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CES: Wi-Fi Direct gains momentum, consumer acceptance
Support for Wi-Fi Direct, the Wi-Fi Alliance’s new initiative to connect consumer-electronic devices directly to one another without use of an access point, has been growing – both from device makers and consumers....
Google reinvents mobile pricing, purchasing
Google officially announced the Nexus One today, including a Google Web store for purchasing the phone, carrier service...
Mobile data set to explode – this Friday, AT&T hopes not literally
Two reports today outline how mobile Internet usage will explode, as well as what carriers should be doing about it ...
How fring aims to revive cell-phone video calling
Mobile voice-over IP (VoIP) provider fring beat Skype to the punch in introducing a wireless industry first this week. The company first enabled two-way video calls on several Nokia Symbian S60 devices...
Defining open mobile
Battles between developers wanting to take advantage of the new capabilities of increasingly powerful 3G networks and carriers needing to maintain control...
FMC Commentary
Applying 3G lessons to LTE
By Kevin FitchardJan 5, 2010 11:44 AM
The first long-term evolution networks have officially gone live overseas, and the first large-scale LTE deployments are set to launch this year in the U.S. and Japan...
It's time for new business models in 2010
By Greg Crosby, NextGen Marketing GroupJan 4, 2010 11:10 AM
I hope all of you are as glad to see 2009 go as I am and also as excited about the possibilities we all have in 2010...
Crystal Ball 2.0: Crazy ideas for 2010
By Alex Liu, A.T. KearneyDec 14, 2009 12:23 PM
It's that time of year again. A full economic cycle has unfolded since just last November, when I offered up "Eight Crazy Ideas" re: industry predictions. In hindsight, six of these eight ideas have played out pretty much as foreseen...
CTIA IT wrap-up: The wireless evolution
By Sarah ReedyOct 13, 2009 2:12 PM
CTIA IT was interesting and informative and actually the same size — 15,000 attendees — as last year’s conference. They may be small victories, but this year’s show was a good indication of where the industry is headed: to an industry focused on the end user, data, applications and perhaps more enterprise than entertainment. ...
Mobile TV and the elusive fourth screen
By Sarah ReedyOct 8, 2009 10:40 AM
Two mantras that I have heard repeated at telecom industry trade shows are that consumers won’t pay for the same content on more than one screen and a device that does only one function is rarely as valuable as a multi-purpose device. ...
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