Ina Fried in Mobile on January 24 at 10:44 am PT
Over the course of 2012, the carrier will bring the service to 20 countries in the region it covers.
Ina Fried in Mobile on November 15, 2011 at 4:00 pm PT
The unit of France Telecom is teaming with the social network and Alcatel on three phones aimed at both mature and emerging markets.
Ina Fried in Mobile on October 10, 2011 at 9:01 pm PT
T-Mobile says it has expanded its voice-over-IP calling service to run on mobile devices, as the No. 4 U.S. carrier looks for new inroads into the calling market.
Ina Fried in Mobile on September 8, 2011 at 5:00 pm PT
Vodafone’s new Redwood City facility aims to identify partners and have them in trials on one of the company’s networks within nine months.
Ina Fried in Mobile on August 15, 2011 at 1:30 pm PT
There’s been a deafening silence from Verizon, AT&T and Sprint in the wake of Google’s announcement that it aims to buy Motorola’s phone unit for $12.5 billion.
Ina Fried in Mobile on June 27, 2011 at 5:00 am PT
While several American carriers have said they are considering plans that allow people to share a data plan among several devices, France Telecom has actually launched such plans in France, Spain, the United Kingdom and Austria.
And they are having some success.
Ina Fried in Mobile on June 20, 2011 at 3:10 pm PT
Smartphones now make up roughly half of all mobile phone sales in many parts of the world. But even as the devices have gone mainstream, they can still be complex and intimidating to the novice. Carriers and manufacturers are trying new approaches in an effort to make the devices less intimidating to newbies.
Ina Fried in Mobile on February 27, 2011 at 9:00 pm PT
The French mobile carrier is hoping to make some waves with an app that replaces the iPhone’s standard voicemail with one that can deliver custom messages to specific recipients.
It’s part of a small effort inside the cellular firm that is hoping to pull a page from Silicon Valley.
Spencer E. Ante, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on February 4, 2011 at 4:30 am PT
Billboards and posters are one of world’s oldest forms of advertising. Now, some marketers and start-ups say wireless technology could revamp outdoor advertising by bringing interactivity and pay-for-performance models.
