Microsoft demos Windows Mobile 6.1 at CTIA
Microsoft demonstrated new features for its Windows Mobile 6.1 platform this week, including Internet Explorer and Adobe Flash capabilities.
Stories by Brad Reed
10 ways to cut wireless telecom costs
1. Conduct an inventory of wireless devices across the company. Simply determining the types of devices in use can be an eye-opening experience. Many times, departments made these kinds of decisions. Other times, individual employees are allowed to select their wireless device and service plan of choice.
How to cut mobile telecom costs
With wireless usage exploding, corporate telecom managers are faced with the specter of untold numbers of wireless devices chewing up voice and data services, not to mention creating major risks for corporate security.
Comcast agrees to stop picking on BitTorrent
Comcast announced this week that it has decided to stop targeting such P2P protocols as BitTorrent when managing network traffic.
Verizon gets into P2P technology
Verizon announced last week that it has successfully tested a new peer-to-peer, file-transfer system that the company says could eliminate many of the headaches that P2P systems have traditionally caused ISPs.
Apple aims iPhone applications at corporate users
Now that Apple's iPhone has swept the US consumer market off its feet, it's moving toward becoming a dominant enterprise device as well.
Akamai wins patent dispute with Limelight
Limelight Networks suffered a major blow on Saturday, as a jury in the Massachusetts US District Court found that the company had infringed upon a key content delivery patent held by rival content delivery network provider Akamai.
National Science Foundation taps into IBM-Google computers
The National Science Foundation announced this week that it had reached an agreement with Google and IBM that would let the academic research community conduct experiments through the companies'1,600-processor computer cluster.
Is a free global Wi-Fi network possible?
WeFi is hoping to do for Wi-Fi connectivity what Facebook has done for social networking.
What do unlimited calling plans really offer businesses?
Verizon's announcement last week that it was launching a flat-rate wireless plan that would allow for unlimited calling had a cascading effect on the US telecom industry, as AT&T and T-Mobile soon followed suit with flat-rate wireless calling plans of their own.
Comcast's defense of P2P traffic management practices meets skepticism
Critics of the US ISP Comcast aren't backing down after the company defended its traffic management practices in a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) filing last week by asserting that its tactics fall well within the bounds of reasonable network management practices.
First Google Android phone to debut next week?
The first mobile phone to incorporate Google's open-source Android platform will debut at next week's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, a source close to British chipmaker ARM Holdings has told Reuters.
IBM blamed for fire-truck maker's bankruptcy
IBM probably won't be asking American LaFrance for product endorsements anytime soon.
Femto Forum looks to standardize femtocell architecture
In an effort to slim down a crowded femtocell architecture field, the Femto Forum this week announced a program to unite different device models.
Apple, AT&T, 31 others sued for smart phone patent violation
Last week, the United States Patent and Trademark Office granted a patent to Minerva Industries, a Los Angeles-based patent-holding firm. On the same day it received the patent, Minerva proceeded to sue 33 companies for patent infringement.