• iBasis, a wholesale VoIP provider in the midst of fighting off a hostile takeover by parent company Royal KPN, has reported its third-quarter results. The company's losses widened to $8.7 million on sales of $251.8 million. Expenses associated with the KPN unsolicited tender offer during the third quarter were $7.4 million. Excluding these expenses, preliminary net loss for the third quarter would have been $1.3 million or $0.02 per share.
• Boingo Wireless' Wi-Fi network app is now available for three BlackBerry devices, the BlackBerry Curve 8900, BlackBerry Curve 8320 and BlackBerry Bold. Boingo will announce support for additional BlackBerry smartphone models as they become available. Boingo's Wi-Fi network has more than 100,000 hot spots.
• Juniper Research reports that the volume of green application downloads to mobile handsets could exceed 400 million by 2014. The firm based its findings on scenario-based models to derive estimates of green app downloads, handset recycling rates, no-load energy emissions from handset chargers and green handset shipments. The incremental model anticipates relatively low-key promotion of environmentally sustainable products and services by handset vendors and operators, and a consequently lower level of awareness of such products by end-users. Under this model, adoption and download levels were considerably lower, reaching 192 million by 2014.
• Motorola has added a new wireless broadband distribution and access network solution to its fixed wireless broadband portfolio. Motorola says the OFDM-based PMP 430 offers increased throughput rates and better range in the 5.4 GHz and 5.8 GHz frequency bands.
• Mobile payment companies INSIDE Contactless and Dynamic Card Solutions are partnering to speed the deployment of new contactless cards, mobile payment stickers and mobile payment peripheral devices. The partnership ensures that banks will be able to instantly personalize and activate a variety of mobile payment solutions based on INSIDE's MicroPass contactless (MicroPass 4000) and dual interface (MicroPass 6000) payment chip sets, and will make it faster and easier for them to deploy cards, stickers and mobile payment peripheral devices for contactless payments.
• Asurion Mobile Applications announced the availability of Asurion Mobile AddressBook, an application that marries a user's mobile address book with social content and services. The technology provides customization and added intelligence to cut through the social media chatter and improve communications. Users can add content from social sites, including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Flickr, directly into their address book and tailor the types of updates they want from the contacts they want.