Whatever you think about Steve Jobs, you must admit the guy knows how to steal a show. Of the hundreds of gadgets on display at last week’s CTIA Wireless trade show—the year’s big cell-phone confab—the only one with real buzz was Apple’s iPhone, a product that won’t be available for months. The iPhone appeared only […]
* The good: The SCH-U620 is the first cell phone to support Verizon’s V Cast Mobile TV service. With excellent video performance, a 1.3-megapixel camera and camcorder, Bluetooth connectivity, and music playback, this is a full-featured multimedia phone.
* The bad: Given that live TV is the big selling point, the external speakers could be […]
After a late start the software giant recorded its first profit in the mobile business last year
ORLANDO — Microsoft Corp. may be the king of personal computer software. But it’s another story when it comes to the cell phone, the ubiquitous device that is increasingly becoming a mobile computer.
Since entering the phone software business […]
Startup Sonopia will rent network space from Verizon and provide cell phones, billing and a Web site for clients.
NEW YORK - The business of providing cell phone services has mostly been limited to companies with deep pockets, but start-up Sonopia Corp. says it will enable anyone to launch their own wireless service for free.
Whether […]
In the gadget world, few things are cooler than watching TV on your cell phone. And in the world of TV on your cell phone, nothing beats SlingPlayer Mobile.
To use SlingPlayer Mobile, you have to have a Slingbox attached to your home TV. Then, install the SlingPlayer Mobile software on your smartphone (a snap to […]
Oceanside residents gathered last week to plot their strategy to fight T-Mobile¹s proposal to install six cell phone antennas on a 20-foot flagpole atop the 51-foot-high roof of a local bank building.
T-Mobile hopes to place the antennas on the roof of the G&M Wolkenberg Mortgage Bank, at 2838 Long Beach Road, a few yards south […]
What Apple’s competitors get wrong about the next generation of cell phones.
Whatever you think about Steve Jobs, you must admit the guy knows how to steal a show. Of the hundreds of gadgets on display at last week’s CTIA Wireless trade show—the year’s big cell-phone confab—the only one with real buzz was Apple’s iPhone, a […]
Seems like one of those things that should’ve happened a long time ago: using your cell phone for banking. But this week Citibank is joining just a handful of other U.S. banks in offering such a service.
“We’re changing; banking is changing,” Citigroup CEO Charles Prince said. “You got to keep up with that change; you […]
The retail banking giant Citibank announced a new service that its customers can download to their cell phones — to review balances and transactions, transfer funds among accounts and pay bills, among other features. The new mobile service will be free to consumers, although they probably will have to pay data download charges from the […]
* The good: The SCH-U620 is the first cell phone to support Verizon’s V Cast Mobile TV service. With excellent video performance, a 1.3-megapixel camera and camcorder, Bluetooth connectivity, and music playback, this is a full-featured multimedia phone.
* The bad: Given that live TV is the […]