State and local police departments requested 9,000 “cell tower dumps” last year to gather reams of data on private calls — a practice that cries out for guidelines, according to Senator… Read more »
With the three tie-up between Sprint, Clearwire and SoftBank now final, Dish Network is left empty handed. But Dish’s chairman Charlie Ergen is hatching other plans, some of which he’s already… Read more »
But we also saw some new developments in recent months. Android tablets began to steal market share from Apple’s iOS, thanks largely to the success of Amazon’s Kindle Fire. And the… Read more »
By , Ph.D." rel="author" class="url fn">J. Gerry Purdy, Ph.D.
Today tablets are a fast-growing sector of mobile computing, and while the tablet market is still in the early stages of adoption, tens of millions of units are being sold each… Read more »
T-Mobile added a new family locator service called FamilyWhere to its suite of carrier-specific Android apps on Tuesday. The software is powered by Safely, which now has passed one billion “locates”… Read more »
LightSquared filed a reporton Thursday that shows that its planned wholesale LTE wireless network would interfere with existing GPS equipment, and suggested a three-part plan to resolve the issue. The report,… Read more »
LightSquared, the company trying to build a wholesale 4G wireless network using a mix of FCC waivers, satellite spectrum, a to-be-built terrestrial network and a helluva lot of gumption may have… Read more »
Verizon Wireless continued releasing a barrage of press releases today at its developer conference in Las Vegas. As part of the onslaught, V… Read more »
Garmin is prepared to leave the smartphone business if the company does not see some light at the end of the tunnel in the next couple of qu… Read more »
In the beginning, carriers were especially wary of application stores, like the iPhone App Store, and rightfully so — they competed with th… Read more »