The FCC says the number of mobile subscribers with data plans for full Internet access increased by 40 percent over the first six months of 2009, to 35 million. Out of a total of 71 million fixed connections to households, only 44 percent met or exceeded the speed tier set in the National Broadband Plan of 4 Mbps downstream and 1 Mbps upstream.
CTIA has announced its educational program agenda and speakers for its Enterprise and Applications 2010 show in October. The educational program will focus on six tracks: applications, enterprise, mobile commerce, retail, health and location-based service. The sessions will take place on Wednesday, Oct. 6, and Thursday, Oct. 7, at the show.
Verizon Wireless and the Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) have launched the Danger Thumbs educational campaign to make the state's roads safer by urging young Florida drivers to stop texting on their wireless phones when behind the wheel. The campaign targets young, inexperienced motorists who also are generally the most prolific users of wireless text messaging. The campaign will kick off with a series of presentations by FHP officers at high school driver's education classes across the state. The first will be Sept. 4 at Charles W. Flanagan High School in Pembroke Pines.
eReader company Kobo says former Lavalife CEO Marina Glogovac has joined the company as chief marketing officer. Glogovac’s background includes more than a decade of experience growing magazine brands, building diverse online and mobile communities and launching new business across multiple consumer communication channels.
Aruba Networks has completed its acquisition of Azalea Networks, a supplier of outdoor mesh networks. The acquisition includes an operations center in Beijing which will complement Aruba's existing research and development centers in Bangalore and Silicon Valley. Azalea Networks develops mesh products for critical outdoor industrial applications in the oil and gas, logistics, manufacturing, mining, petrochemical, public safety, smart grid and transportation sectors.
Rajant, a provider of tactical wireless solutions, has added of Bill Jordan and Jim Newell to its software engineering team for its proprietary communications protocol, InstaMesh. InstaMesh is the engine in Rajant's line of wireless mesh-networking products known as BreadCrumbs. Jordan initially will focus on adding support for new radios to the BreadCrumb line, and Newell will focus first on efficiency improvements to expand network scalability.