Ina Fried in Mobile on October 12, 2011 at 10:00 am PT
There was a distinct lack of new hardware at the fall CTIA show in San Diego, though Dick Tracy would have been able to get an upgrade.
Ina Fried in Mobile on October 11, 2011 at 10:24 am PT
Speaking at a cellphone trade show in San Diego, executives from Sprint, AT&T and Verizon Wireless managed to get in a few digs while largely giving stump speeches on their respective businesses.
Anton Troianovski, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on June 9, 2011 at 12:00 am PT
Growth in the volume of text messaging is slowing sharply, just as new threats emerge to that lucrative source of wireless carrier profits.
While U.S. cellphone users sent and received more than one trillion texts in the second half of 2010, according to CTIA, a wireless industry trade group, that was just an 8.7 percent increase from the prior six months.
Ina Fried in Mobile on May 31, 2011 at 11:00 am PT
A unit within the World Health Organization on Tuesday warned that the radiation stemming from cellphones is possibly cancer-causing, citing a new analysis of existing published studies.
Naturally, the cell phone industry trade group took issue with the finding.
Ina Fried in Mobile on April 7, 2011 at 12:58 pm PT
Regulators are proposing rules that would allow the sale of cellular repeaters that can boost cell phone coverage despite objections from carriers that the devices can cause interference.
John Paczkowski in News on March 29, 2011 at 3:00 am PT
Remarking on Samsung’s Galaxy Tab Interview Project at CTIA last week, CSO Omar Khan described it as a compilation of “true life stories.” Turns out that was a really poor choice of adjectives, because the customer testimonials showcased in the video were nothing of the kind.
Ina Fried in Mobile on March 25, 2011 at 4:00 am PT
It wasn’t all work and no play in Orlando. While there was plenty of news at the show–not to mention AT&T’s pre-show bombshell–Mobilized did manage to make a detour to Universal Studios and the Wizarding World of Harry Potter.
Ina Fried in Mobile on March 24, 2011 at 4:20 pm PT
While most phones are busy becoming little computers, the Snapfon prides itself on doing just a couple of things. With big buttons and an SOS help feature, the product is aimed at seniors who view their phone as a lifeline rather than an on-ramp to the information superhighway.
Ina Fried in Mobile on March 24, 2011 at 3:00 pm PT
A move to delay the release of Honeycomb’s source code won’t stop the flow of new tablets, but it does mean that those with other plans for the OS will have to wait a while.
Plus, the move also highlights that when it comes to the timing of Android releases, it is all in Google’s hands.
Ina Fried in Mobile on March 23, 2011 at 12:06 pm PT
It’s the topic of conversation and the subject whose name dare not be spoken. Overarching everything at the Orlando trade show is AT&T’s plan to buy T-Mobile USA, yet at the same time, few seem to have much to say.
