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Article | 11/05/2012 Small cells could raise big problems
Amid growing interest in small cells, widely seen as an inevitable tool for carriers to deal with booming mobile data demand, there are now signs that...
Article | 10/05/2012 Apple's modified nano-SIM revealed
Apple has modified its nano-SIM design to eliminate Nokia's arguments against it. The new design was revealed at the CTIA tradeshow in New Orleans, wh...
Article | 10/05/2012 For LTE network slow but thorough will win the day, Sprint says
Sprint Nextel's methodical rollout of new cell sites with LTE may not win the deployment race, but each market that gets the upgrade will see competit...
Article | 10/05/2012 Ericsson lets operators speed up mobile, fixed networks using caching
Using caching technology from Akamai Technologies, Ericsson's Smart Cloud Accelerator, announced Wednesday, is designed to allow operators to improve ...
Article | 9/05/2012 Carrier CEOs touch on customer trust
Trust is central to mobile operators' relationships with consumers, and carriers may have their work cut out for them in restoring that trust, based o...
Article | 9/05/2012 AT&T sees an end to Wi-Fi-only tablets
Tablet makers are moving toward selling only models equipped with cellular radios and away from having separate Wi-Fi-only units, as the added cost of...
Article | 8/05/2012 Samsung Focus 2: First impressions of a $50 Windows Phone
AT&T and Samsung Monday showcased the latest Windows Phone, the Samsung Focus 2, in an old colonial mansion in New Orleans' Garden District during CTI...
Article | 9/05/2012 Genachowski lays out plans for more spectrum, lays into AT&T
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski outlined several agency initiatives to open up more spectrum for mobile services, as wel...
Article | 8/05/2012 Nokia Siemens to tap into Ruckus for service-provider Wi-Fi
Two deals that Wi-Fi system vendor Ruckus Wireless will announce at the CTIA Wireless show this week reflect service providers' growing interest in th...
Article | 8/05/2012 Samsung, Qualcomm join forces on wireless charging
Samsung Electronics and Qualcomm have joined forces and formed the Alliance for Wireless Power (A4WP) which aims to accelerate the development of wire...
Article | 8/05/2012 MasterCard's PayPass Wallet will span online, mobile, in-store shopping
MasterCard WorldWide announced a digital wallet on Monday that consumers will be able to use for purchases in stores, on the Web and on their mobile p...
Article | 8/05/2012 MasterCard, startup PaidPiper tap into credit cards for mobile payments
PaidPiper, a startup that will debut at the CTIA Wireless show this week, is developing a mobile money transfer system suited to developed economies w...
Article | 27/04/2012 House passes CISPA cyberthreat sharing bill, despite privacy concerns
The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a cyberthreat information-sharing bill that critics say will give U.S. government agencies access to the ...
Article | 26/04/2012 CDT, White House oppose CISPA cyberthreat sharing bill
As the U.S. House of Representatives prepares to debate a controversial cyberthreat information-sharing bill, a key deal with a vocal digital rights g...
Article | 25/04/2012 House vote on cyberthreat sharing bill CISPA scheduled for Friday
A vote in the U.S. House of Representatives on a controversial bill aimed at expanding the amount of cyberthreat information shared between private co...