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Article | 14/05/2013 U.S. carriers line up against texting while driving

The major U.S. mobile operators are all putting their weight behind a campaign against texting while driving that will include a blitz of advertising ...

Article | 13/05/2013 Networks in 2020: More traffic, less energy

Networks could use far less energy by 2020 even though they'll be carrying much more traffic, an industry group says.

Article | 8/05/2013 San Francisco axes cellphone warning law in settlement with CTIA

San Francisco killed its cellphone radiation warning law on Tuesday by agreeing to settle a lawsuit by the mobile industry group CTIA.

Article | 8/05/2013 Fusion-io CEO resigns, is replaced by former HP executive Robison

Fusion-io President and CEO David Flynn has resigned and will be replaced by Shane Robison, the former CTO of Hewlett-Packard.

Article | 8/05/2013 Isilon OneFS software to expand scope of EMC's scale-out NAS

EMC will continue extending its Isilon OneFS network-attached storage operating system to new use cases later this year, adding deduplication, complia...

Article | 7/05/2013 EMC's Syncplicity to gain hybrid-cloud storage capability

Only a year after acquiring Syncplicity, EMC is getting ready to make the company's enterprise file management system work with hybrid clouds.

Article | 6/05/2013 Clearwire lays out its case for a Sprint buyout

Sprint Nextel's network partner Clearwire hasn't been able to find any other big wholesale customers nor sell any of its spectrum, so selling out to S...

Article | 4/05/2013 A telecom landmark gets wired for the cloud

The Pacific Bell tower in San Francisco, the high-rise headquarters of the phone company through eight decades and several name changes, was a monumen...

Article | 3/05/2013 US mobile data growing while SMS falls, CTIA reports

U.S. mobile networks carried 69 percent more data traffic in 2012 than in the prior year, but roughly the same number of voice minutes and fewer SMS m...

Article | 30/04/2013 Qualcomm calls for shared in-home cells to handle mobile demand

Consumers will have to share small, inexpensive cells in their homes with nearby mobile users to affordably meet the growing demand for mobile data in...

Article | 30/04/2013 Detector finds smuggled cellphones even without batteries or SIM cards

Turning off cellphones or even locking them in metal boxes won't be enough to keep them hidden with a new phone detector introduced on Monday.

Article | 25/04/2013 T-Mobile USA agrees to come clean about 'uncarrier' service plans

T-Mobile USA's "radical" service plans promising no annual contracts aren't quite as radical as consumers might think, and the mobile operator will ch...

Article | 25/04/2013 Wireless networks may learn to live together by using energy pulses

Researchers at the University of Michigan have invented a way for different wireless networks crammed into the same space to say "excuse me" to one an...

Article | 24/04/2013 MetroPCS shareholders OK merger with T-Mobile USA

The merger of T-Mobile USA and MetroPCS cleared its last major hurdle on Wednesday as MetroPCS shareholders overwhelmingly approved the deal.

Article | 23/04/2013 Machine-to-machine systems resurrect a mobile rivalry

Just as the mobile world seems to be finding peace and harmony around LTE, the age-old feud between GSM and CDMA is flaring up again.