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  • Boeing taps AT&T to restructure communications infrastructure

    If there’s one thing that AT&T knows how to do well, it’s building and maintaining telecommunications infrastructure. Boeing, the airplane manufacturer, has tapped AT&T to help enhance Boeing’s business productivity through a more efficient communications system. AT&T will be overhauling Boeing’s wireless and wireline services with an IP-based system that includes wide area network services, voice [...]

  • Wireless parking sensors alert San Francisco drivers to open parking spaces

    Wouldn't it be nice to be notified via your mobile phone, or even street signs, whenever a street-parking space opens up? Sure it would. And, in a city where parking is more valuable than your first-born (well, not quite, but almost), wireless notification of open parking spots are something of a blessing. San Francisco has announced [...]

  • UK Office of Communications to allow in-flight cellphone calls - OfCom plan allows voice calls

    We've been hearing a lot about all the data service offerings that will allow airline passengers to get their data-fix while in-flight, so it's refreshing to here of some developments regarding in-flight voice calls. Following on Norwegian Air's plan to offer in-flight voice calls and internet services through its Call Norwegian venture, the Office of [...]

  • US Cellular goes unlimited too

    All the big-dogs in the US wireless market are doing it, so it makes sense for the smaller, regional puppies to jump in on the unlimited-action. US Cellular has done and announced their own flat-rate unlimited wireless calling plan for $99 a month. And, to keep itself within eye-shot of the competition, US Cellular is [...]

  • Wireless charging from MWg and Slashpower

    The newest entrant into the wireless-charging , magnetic-induction game comes in the form of a partnership between Mobile & Wireless Group ( MWg ) and Slashpower . The two companies have joined forces to bring wireless charging (by which electrical currents are induced by magnetic fields) to a handset near you. As with all wireless-charging solutions , MWG and Slashpower will have you place your handset on a special “charging pad” - which will charge your device by magnetically inducing the electrical fields that move those Lithium ions to the “charged” side of the battery. Until now, wireless charging solutions have required that mobile phones be retrofitted before they work with the charging-technology. MWg and Slashpower are working to integrate these components into handsets that should be made available in the second half of 2008. Forget the wires, bring on the magnetic fields! [Via: textually ] ---Related Articles at IntoMobile:Seiko Epson and Murata working on wireless power transmissionPicture: Nokia dominates hamburgers in the PhilippinesPalm, i-mate, and MWG go back to HTC for ODM handset ordersUSB Battery Charging Revision 1.0 spec has been launchedBurger King in the Philippines provides free mobile phone charging!

  • Mobile WiFi router in a box - Sprint mobile broadband card powers iBox2Go mobile router

    We love the idea of sharing your mobile broadband connection with more than one device. The only other solution along that line of thought was the WMWifiRouter application that turns your WiFi-enabled 3G WinMo smartphone into a wireless broadband router . With WMWifiRouter, you can share your data connection with multiple WiFi-enabled devices - an elegant solution indeed. A not-so-elegant option comes to us in a mini-attache case that includes everything to you need to share your Sprint mobile broadband card’s data connection with up to 10 other devices. iBox2Go is basically a mobile WiFi router that uses Sprint’s Novatel U727 EVDO Mobile Broadband USB card to provide on-the-go access to wireless data. There are other wireless routers that work with mobile broadband cards, but iBox2Go offers a convenient ready-for-the-road package. iBox2Go is offered in three trim levels - iB300 is $200 and works out to 40-feet, the iB100 costs $250 and offers a 50-foot range, the iB500 runs $350 and projects a signal out to 200-feet. The bottom-end iB100 rocks a single Ethernet port and only works with a USB card; the mid-range iB300 adds a PCMCIA card slot; and the iB500 adds ExpressCard goodness, 802.11n WiFi, and three additional Ethernet jacks. Of course, the cost of an iBox2Go doesn’t include the monthly payment on your Sprint wireless data plan. Sprint’s mobile broadband offerings discourage the sharing of a wireless data plan by assigning each account to a single piece of hardware. If you want to go wireless with multiple devices, Sprint would have you pay for an additional mobile broadband account. With iBox2Go you could get multiple devices, and people, online while on the road - with just a single wireless data plan. Wanna see it in action? Here’s a vid. iBox2Go [Via: ComputerWorld ] ---Related Articles at IntoMobile:CTIA: Sprint Announces Cisco Enzo 3G RouterNew T-mobile HotSpot @Home Router outed by FCCTurn your WiFi-enabled Windows Mobile smartphone...

  • EU wireless regulatory body looks into mobile phone billing - European Commission wants per-second mobile phone billing

    The EU has just started enjoying the fruits of the European Commission’s (the EU’s wireless regulatory body) labor to put caps on EU roaming rates , and the European Telecommunications Commissioner Viviane Reding is turning her attention to carrier’s wireless billing practices. It’s well-known that operators like to bill customers on a per-minute basis - which means that all those 20 or 30 second phone calls are getting charged as 60 second phone calls. The European Commission said that they are “concerned that customers are being charged on a per-minute basis instead of for the actual time of the call…At the retail level, the difference between billed and actual minutes appears to be typically around 20 percent.” So, chances are that you’re getting docked for 20% more minutes than you are actually using every month. And, if Reding gets her way, carriers will be required to bill customers on their actual wireless-minute usage, rather than rounding up to the nearest whole minute. Reding also mentioned that caps on SMS text message and data services could be levied if carriers fail to cut costs to Reding’s satisfaction. Damn, she’s got some serious sway (read: balls). We’d love to see per-second billing become an official regulation! We’re always making 20-second phone calls that get billed for a bull 60 seconds - that means we’re getting billed for 200% more wireless-time than we are using. It’d be nice to see this sort of consideration in The States. Go Reding! [Via: AFP ] ---Related Articles at IntoMobile:Verizon ONE-BILL, integrated billingVerizon partners with Obopay; Set to announce a mobile payment serviceEU citizens benefiting from Eurotariff roaming charge price capQualcomm being investigated by European Union for abusing its market positionEuropean Commission approves the formation of Nokia Siemens Networks

  • iPhone as webcam - iPhoneCam turns your iPhone into a wireless Mac webcam

    If you’re already a Mac-user, chances are you already have a built-in iSight camera to do all the web-cam legwork for you. But, if the “cool factor” of having a built-in webcam on your MacBook Pro’s display bezel has started to wear, there’s good news. Mac/iPhone developer Ecamm has released a sneak-peak of their new iPhoneCam application for the, well, iPhone. The application leverages your iPhone’s camera to stream video, via WiFi, to your Mac machine. The video stream can be used in iChat, Skype, PhotoBooth, basically any Mac video application. Now, unless you have incredible muscle tone or a handy-dandy iPhone-stand, we envision some serious deltoid-cramping in store for anyone trying to use iPhoneCam for an extended video chat session. Still, we gotta give kudos to Ecamm for this super-cool app. Now, let’s get video recording on the iPhone, shall we? Check out a video of the iPhoneCam demo here . [Via: TUAW ] ---Related Articles at IntoMobile:Turn your S60 device into a Windows XP/Vista wireless webcamWhy aren't you built in: Turn my camera phone in to a webcamApple Patent Hints At Secret iPhone FeatureWirelessly synchronize your iPhone - iPhone iSync promises to bring WiFi-based iTunes syncAlcatel introduces OT-C825, leather phone with webcam function

  • Turn your WiFi-enabled Windows Mobile smartphone into a GPRS/UMTS/HSPA wireless router

    If you’re paying for unlimited data through your carrier’s data network, shouldn’t you be able to use that data package on more than one phone? Why get an unlimited data package for each and every Windows Mobile smartphone in your collection? WMWifiRouter is a new application for Windows Mobile 6 (possibly 5) that lets you share your WiFi-enabled smartphone’s data GPRS/UMTS/HSPA data connection over that delicious WiFi connection. As long as your other smartphones have WiFi connectivity, you can essentially use WMWifiRouter to turn one handset into a wireless router, and then log into that handset via WiFi to surf the unlimited data network to your heart’s content. Grab WMWifiRouter here . [Via: Smartphone Thoughts ] ---Related Articles at IntoMobile:Deal: Free La Fonera WiFi router - no taxes and FREE shippingBlackBerry Curve 8320 with WiFi set to hit T-Mobile on September 24thNew T-mobile HotSpot @Home Router outed by FCCBrowse network-shared Windows files with Pocket Internet ExplorerCTIA: Sprint Announces Cisco Enzo 3G Router

  • Update your LG Voyager's firmware at your nearest Verizon Wireless Store

    If you’re the proud owner of Verizon’s newest flagship handset, you may have noticed a couple niggles with the LG Voyager ’s user interface. Well, you’re not the only ones to have noticed - it seems Verizon’s been hard at work to make sure that Voyager delivers an experience that rivals the iPhone’s (even with a pressure-based touchscreen). It’s been on market for barely a month now and Verizon Wireless has already issued an update to the LG Voyager’s firmware. You do have to get your lazy bum down to a brick-and-mortar Verizon Wireless Store in order to update your LG Voyager with the latest bits, but we hear it should be worth it. Longer battery life, better browsing experience, more applications accessible from the external touchscreen, functional Google Maps - they’re all in the cards for the LG Voyager. Here’s a rundown of the complete firmware updates for the LG Voyager: Fixed issue with V CAST Music and 4GB+ removable memory read error Adds ability to reset V CAST Mobile TV client Update power settings to improve battery life performance Bluetooth enhancements to audio, pairing, and key tone Mobile Web - HTML browser enhancements Fixed to display ?=? symbol on the bottom in the calculator for LG Joy font Fixed to access to keypad through only one step while in a call Fixed the auto lock setting so that the touch screen will not lock on its own when auto lock is set to off Fixed to allow ESPN application on external touch screen Fixed to allow Mobile IM on external touch screen Fixed to have no difference between the displayed image (to let you know which scene was taken) and the actual saved image, when you take a picture aiming at any moving objects Fixed when device goes to maps.google.com, the device resets Head on down to that Verizon Wireless store and let us now how the update suits you. [Via: PhoneNews ] ---Related Articles at IntoMobile:Verizon Wireless intros over-the-air mobile phone updatesUS...

  • First-ever authorized BlackBerry store opens, looks lonely

    Research In Motion, maker’s of the heralded enterprise-oriented BlackBerry lineup of smartphone, has just given their blessing on a new “authorized” BlackBerry store in Farmington Hills, Michigan. Of all the places RIM could have chosen to bless with a BlackBerry-only retail storefront, we can’t imagine why they would pick the fairly non-glitzy township in the heartland of the US. Manhattan, Los Angeles, heck, even somewhere in Canada (RIM is from Canada, by the way) would have made more sense than Farmington Hills. Anyway, the new BlackBerry store is actually managed by Wireless Giant, and offers RIM’s full BlackBerry lineup on all four national carriers. It’s just sad to see this plain-white building all by its lonesome in the middle of the snow-covered vastness. You would think RIM’s first flagship store would be a bit more upscale and surrounded by other buildings, or at least have some shiny exterior signs or something . Poor little BlackBerry store, we would come over and visit you, but you’re all the way out there in Farmington Hills - try not to get too lonely. [Via: Information Week ] ---Related Articles at IntoMobile:First "authorized" BlackBerry store opens in the middle of nowhereSling Media working with RIM on BlackBerry compatible SlingPlayerSony Ericsson opens first exclusive store in BangladeshRIM Opens Up Blackberry API'sNokia opens Concept Store in Chandigarh, India

  • Survey: 1/8 of US households rely soley on mobile phones - 13.6% shun landlines

    With wireless coverage and services growing ever larger and more attractive, it’s not hard to see why one in eight US households have shunned the traditional hardline telephone in favor of the wireless variety. A new survey conducted by the National Health Interview Survey has indicated that 13.6% of all US households have done away with their landlines and are relying on their mobile phones as their sole means on communication/connection with friends and loved ones. The number of households going wireless-only has been steadily increasing since 2003. The most-recent numbers suggest that: More than 55% of adults living with unrelated roommates used only their cellphones 28% of renters were wireless-only, compared with 6.7% of homeowners More than 30% of those aged 25-29 rely solely on mobile phones; almost 30% of those aged 18-24 shunned landlines; 13% of adults in the 30-44 age group are landline-free; about 7% of people 45-64 used only cellphones; while only 2% of adults 65 and older shunned hardline telephones Men were more likely than women to be landline-free - a trend that has persisted throughout the years But, there’s an interesting correlation between wireless-only adults and their penchant for the “finer things” in life. Mobile phone-only adults were twice as likely to binge drink, twice as likely to report not having health insurance, and more likely to be current smokers. However, most of these adults also reported their health to be in “excellent or very good” condition and participated in more physical activity in their free time than those that had landlines. Whatever the causation, it seems that the wire-free life is the life to live. At least until all that not-having-health-insurance catches up with them. Time to get us some health insurance! [Via: RCR ] ---Related Articles at IntoMobile:Young adults prefer mobiles over landlinesThird of all UK calls are made from mobilesMen chat more on mobile phones than women ...
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