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  • Facebook is the new religion, Ashton Kutcher says

    Internet communities are more trustworthy than some big corporations, but mobile is proving a hard nut to crack even for the best of them, actor and venture capitalist Ashton Kutcher told CTIA Wireless Thursday.

    Written by Stephen Lawson23 May 13 20:32
  • Ericsson makes bus windows part of a Wi-Fi network

    Ericsson may have a contender for oddest networking product if it commercializes the wireless bus windows it demonstrated at this week's CTIA Wireless trade show.

    Written by Stephen Lawson23 May 13 04:48
  • Aruba Networks latest to unveil 802.11ac access points

    Aruba Networks became the latest company to announce Wi-Fi access points that can support over 1Gbps throughput, at the cellular industry's CTIA show in Las Vegas this week.

    Written by John Cox21 May 13 13:30
  • SAP to crunch and sell carriers' data on mobile use

    Mobile operators collect huge amounts of data about how their subscribers use mobile data, and that information is starting to go on sale as targeted intelligence that enterprises can use to better reach consumers.

    Written by Stephen Lawson21 May 13 13:09
  • Nokia Siemens unveils tools to boost mobile video performance

    Mobile network builder Nokia Siemens Networks unveiled tools to optimize video performance on mobile devices on Monday, just in time for the CTIA Wireless trade show that begins Tuesday in Las Vegas.

    Written by Stephen Lawson21 May 13 04:28
  • Corning taps into optical fiber for better indoor wireless

    Bringing wireless indoors, which was once just a matter of antennas carrying a few cellular bands so people could get phone calls, has grown far more complex and demanding in the age of Wi-Fi, multiple radio bands and more powerful antennas.

    Written by Stephen Lawson20 May 13 12:34
  • Smartphones driving violent crime across US

    On Feb. 27th in the middle of the afternoon, a 16-year-old girl was walking through San Francisco's Mission district when she was ordered at gun point to hand over her cellphone. The robbery was one of 10 serious crimes in the city that day, and they all involved cellphones. Three were stolen at gun point, three at knife point and four through brute force.

    Written by Martyn Williams10 May 13 21:22
  • 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 messages, according to the industry group CTIA.

    Written by Stephen Lawson03 May 13 00:00
  • New immigration bill focuses on high-skill workers

    New legislation introduced by a bipartisan group of 10 U.S. senators would nearly double the number of H-1B visas that companies can get each year to hire foreign high-skill workers, including technology employees.

    Written by Grant Gross29 Jan. 13 19:32
  • Google, other tech firms among top lobbying spenders in US

    Google, AT&T and Verizon Communications were among the top corporate spenders on lobbying the U.S. government in the fourth quarter of 2012, according to information released this week by the U.S. House of Representatives.

    Written by Grant Gross23 Jan. 13 20:36
  • CTIA to merge its mobile trade shows into one event

    U.S. mobile trade group CTIA will combine its two annual trade shows starting in 2014 as it tries to attract a bigger share of the world's interest in smartphones, apps and other hot technologies.

    Written by Stephen Lawson02 Jan. 13 10:06
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