Kevin covers mobile broadband, carriers and wireless technologies for Gigaom. He has been writing about wireless networks for since 2000 working first at Telephony Magazine and then its online successor Connected Planet before he joined Gigaom in 2011. Kevin has two dogs, can cook a mean cassoulet and lives in Chicago.
San Francisco CBS affiliate KPIX has been following a mysterious minivan tooling around Concord, California, with a roof rack fool of advanced sensors. Checking in with the Department of Motor Vehicles,… Read more »
Last month, Wirecard unveiled a wristband device that functioned like a digital wallet, storing credit cards, ID cards and even tickets on the end of your arm. The Smart Band was… Read more »
Sprint is getting creative with its “For Life” leasing programs, announcing Tuesday that it is creating a $100-a-month package that includes an iPhone 6, a 4G iPad Mini 3 and their… Read more »
After getting suspended from the New York Stock Exchange, RadioShack is probably headed for bankruptcy, but it looks to have a couple of potential buyers lined up to take over its… Read more »
If you were looking for surprise winners out of the blockbuster 4G spectrum auction that ended Thursday, then you’ll likely be disappointed. Only four operators paid more the $1 billion for their… Read more »
Verizon said on Friday it will soon launch an program that will allow its customers to opt out of “supercookies,” a pervasive customer tracking tool that records all activity on the… Read more »
4G services are finally coming to Chicago’s subways. Verizon, AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile are collectively installing a $32.5 million LTE upgrade in the Chicago Transit Authority’s 22 miles of subway tunnels,… Read more »
Nexmo, a telecom carrier that offers communications services from the cloud, had quite the 2014 as it saw the calls to various APIs double. Like its larger and better-known rival Twilio, Nexmo sells… Read more »
It took a grueling two and half months, but the Federal Communications Commission auction of new 4G airwaves is finally over. The provisional winning bids totaled $44.9 billion for 65 MHz… Read more »
For the first time, someone outside the U.S. will be able to use a Google Wallet to do something more than buy Android apps and content. Starting on Thursday, Google is… Read more »