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App-Enabled Accessories Abound at the Apple Store
April 9, 2013 | by Andrew Berg | Comments
There's a special section over at Apple's online store devoted entirely to “app-enabled accessories.” These items include extravagances like a Wi-Fi enabled scale that shoots its data straight to the iPhone, or a flying drone that can be controlled right from your very own iOS device...
The Super Storm and Wireless
December 17, 2012 3:30 pm | by Andrew Seybold | Comments
According to the FCC, fully 25 percent of the cell sites in the affected area were out of...
Broad Coverage and Disparate Access with Mission Critical Availability for First Responders
December 17, 2012 3:25 pm | by Keith Mallinson | Comments
Today’s public safety wireless networks reflect much of what is wrong with historic airwave...
Superstorm Sandy Reveals Wireless Network Vulnerabilities
December 17, 2012 3:15 pm | by Elliott Drucker | Comments
For better or worse, a natural disaster has once again demonstrated just how vulnerable today’s...
CTIA 2013 Show Daily: Day 2
May 22, 2013 4:39 pm | CommentsWelcome to the Wednesday, May 22 edition of WIRELESS WEEK’s CTIA 2013 Show Daily featuring highlights from day two of this year’s conference and exhibition. Click here for complete coverage of today’s news and events. And for even more coverage of the wireless marketplace visit www.WirelessWeek.com...
CTIA 2013 Show Daily: Day 1
May 22, 2013 10:50 am | CommentsWelcome to the Tuesday, May 21 edition of WIRELESS WEEK’s CTIA 2013 Show Daily featuring highlights from day one of this year’s conference and exhibition. Click here for complete coverage of today’s news and events. And for even more coverage of the wireless marketplace visit www.WirelessWeek.com...
How Big Data is Driving Trends in Connected Home
May 14, 2013 3:19 pm | by Ben Munson | CommentsThe connected home market is maturing quickly as more households fill out with connected devices. CTIA has its eyes on watching how wireless data is propelling the market segment. other key players in the market are focusing on the huge amounts of data being generated by a connected home. Big data will factor in heavily at next week’s pre-show Connections event at the upcoming CTIA 2013 spring show.
Device Innovation Is Passé: Why UE Is King in 2013
May 8, 2013 10:48 am | by Jeff Glueck, CEO of Skyfire | CommentsIt’s getting increasingly difficult for smartphone and tablet makers to “shock and awe” the media and the buying public with groundbreaking, “never before seen” hardware. While each high-profile device launch brings hardware advancements over previous models...
Q&A: Lurie Welcomes Customers to AT&T's Digital Life
May 7, 2013 1:57 pm | by Wireless Week Staff | CommentsAT&T has officially launched its IP-based Digital Life home automation service in 15 markets, with plans to introduce the service in up to 50 markets by the end of 2013. The new service, which was announced last spring and has been trialing in Dallas and Atlanta...
Keynote Mobile News and Portal Index: Delivering Video on Mobile News Sites
May 1, 2013 10:46 am | by Venkatesh Giri, Keynote Mobile Expert | CommentsWe all know more online users are now accessing news via their smartphones - and not just via the traditional news sites we monitor in our Mobile News and Portal Index, but also via social media. As we’ve seen with recent news events...
Looking Beyond the Bill
April 29, 2013 9:48 am | by Dr. Andy Tiller, Vice President, Product Marketing, AsiaInfo-Linkage | CommentsA simple charting of the evolution of mobile communications services would begin with the delivery of basic voice and text messaging, and show today the enabling and provision of multi-channel voice, data, video, social media, imagery, financial services and more. An obvious assumption would be that...
GGI Makes Mobile Games as Social Change
April 26, 2013 10:25 am | by Ben Munson | CommentsAs good as giving back can make you feel, people could still use a little extra encouragement to be charitable. Global Gaming Initiative gets that and the company has gone ahead and made a game of it, literally. GGI’s first mobile game, “Sidekick Cycle”—developed by IT Matters and arriving on iOS devices in June—is equal parts downhill racer and charitable simulation.
CTIA's John Walls: My Experience at the Boston Marathon
April 25, 2013 1:33 pm | by John Walls, Vice President of Public Affairs, CTIA | CommentsLike most of us, I use my wireless device every day—email, text, talk, “surf”. All of the usual stuff. But on the afternoon of April 15, my smartphone was transformed into the most precious and helpful tool I’ve ever needed, giving me invaluable connectivity to the world outside of the chaos surrounding me...
Q&A: Verizon Pitches Future-Proof M2M on LTE
April 15, 2013 4:48 pm | CommentsVerizon’s LTE network is second to none in the United States. The company is so confident in its existing infrastructure that it has already announced plans to sunset its 2G and 3G networks. That has implications for those customers currently operating their M2M solutions on Verizon’s 2G airwaves...
Broken Healthcare System Needs a Wireless Fix
April 15, 2013 4:29 pm | by Andrew Berg | CommentsRick Valencia, vice president and general manager of Qualcomm Life, a subsidiary of Qualcomm responsible for all things mHealth related, believes the healthcare in this country need a bit of a technological overhaul. “There are two industries that have fought off any kind of technological...
LTE-Advanced and Small Cells: Techniques for a Tiered Deployment Approach
April 15, 2013 10:42 am | by Renuka Bhalerao, Radisys | CommentsIt’s no secret; we’ve all become data hogs. As today’s smartphone users consume ever-increasing network resources, mobile operators are rushing to deploy their LTE networks to meet subscriber demand. Given this trend, operators are already planning their LTE-A deployments. Delivering true 4G speeds...
Review: BlackBerry Z10
April 15, 2013 10:10 am | by Ben Munson | CommentsIt’s still too soon to predict BlackBerry’s fate. But it is clear to see, after spending some time with the Z10, that the company is making tangible strides toward shaking off some vestiges of what a BlackBerry was and embracing what it can be.
The Keynote Mobile News and Portal Index: The Effect of Third Party Content On Performance
April 2, 2013 9:36 am | by By Venkatesh Giri, Keynote Mobile Expert | CommentsA big challenge today for any site operator is getting their proverbial arms around third party plugins or links, with services such as Google Analytics, Adobe Omniture or social media sites and other APIs or widgets. While you want or even need...
Why Operators Need to Make Mobile the Center of Customer Experience
March 29, 2013 9:10 am | by Dominic Endicott, Partner at Nauta Capital | CommentsMobile Network Operators (MNOs) face a dilemma: they fund the networks and subsidize many of the devices that power the digital landscape, and yet they are mostly marginal players in new digital ecosystems such as social networks, search, app-stores, apps, video distribution... Dominic Endicott is a partner at Nauta Capital.
