Wireless

Everyone knows video usage — especially mobile video usage — is on the rise. Bigger pipes? Check. Optimized devices? Yup. More content offerings? Mais oui. And now, it looks like it’ll be nice and cheap, too.Leap Wireless is offering the low, low price of five bucks per month for unlimited mobile video offerings. That’s throwing down the gauntlet to mobile ...

Earlier in the week Apple Inc. got smacked upside the head by whatever the British regulatory entity is that follows truth-in-advertising. The reason? Saying the iPhone provides a true Internet experience.See, the problem is — and I know this is tough to own up to, iPhone lovers — but the device provides no support for Flash or Java. And last ...

In early August, Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff announced the nation's largest-ever hacking and identity-theft case, involving 11 perpetrators who allegedly stole as many as 40 million credit card numbers from local branches of eight retailers in the United States, storing and then selling the information in the Ukraine and Latvia. The crooks accomplished this feat via "wardriving" — ...

Location-based services have been talked about for a while, but for the consumer they’ve tended to be clunky, hard to set up or just thinly veiled ways to spam your mobile with coupons you don’t need. Sprint-Nextel Corp., with a nod to open development, today said it would change all that with the integration of location awareness into its WiMAX ...

Everybody seems to be all for creating revenue-generating next-gen services and content, but it sure isn’t easy.Service delivery platforms (SDPs) hold the promise of making the most of softswitch-based network architecture and IMS cores, allowing carriers to abstract services from the converged underlying transport layer and create reusable components of services — a bit like Lego blocks. The goal is ...