Computerworld - Mobile payment technologies are finally vaulting forward in the U.S. after years of slow advances. The biggest move ahead could occur in September, when Apple is widely expected to embrace a mobile payment scheme with its ...
Tags: Mobile payment technologies, mobile payment network, Apple, mobile
IDG News Service - Japan's Softbank, which is in negotiations to make a major investment in U.S. operator Sprint Nextel, is also mulling a competitive bid for MetroPCS, Japanese media reported Friday. The reports from sources such as the ...
Tags: Japan, Softbank, Sprint Nextel, MetroPCS
IDG News Service - U.S. cellphone carriers took a major step on Wednesday toward curbing the rising number of smartphone thefts with the introduction of databases that will block stolen phones from being used on domestic networks. The ...
Tags: cellphone, smartphone thefts, SIM card, second-hand market
IDG News Service - Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile USA and MetroPCS Communications have signed an agreement to merge in a deal that will see MetroPCS shareholders receive US$1.5 billion in cash and 26 percent of the new company. The combined ...
Tags: Deutsche Telekom, MetroPCS Communications, merger, company news
Network World - As of June 2012, there were 237,000 iPad apps listed in the App store, many of them priced at 99 cents or even free. Yet very few of them let companies actually do business -- take customer orders, update inventory, submit ...
Tags: iPad apps, App store, IT groups, IT industry
IDG News Service - Cellular telecom carriers spent Saturday working to restore wireless service to customers across the U.S. northeast, which is just beginning to pick itself up from the battering it suffered earlier in the week from ...
Tags: Cellular telecom, wireless service, cell sites, company news
IDG News Service - Japan's Softbank said Monday it has reached a deal to acquire a 70% stake in U.S. mobile operator Sprint Nextel for $20 billion, forming one of the world's largest telecom operators. The companies said the deal would ...
Tags: Softbank, telecom operators, network, network speeds
It looks like the iPhone will finally be coming to T-Mobile USA. Deutsche Telekom, the German parent of the only major U.S. wireless carrier not to offer the iPhone, says it has a deal to begin selling Apple devices in the U.S. in 2013. ...
The four largest mobile carriers in the U.S. -- AT&T, Verizon, Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile -- have agreed to accelerate the availability of emergency texting, or text-to-911. The four carriers have committed to major deployments of ...
Tags: U.S, mobile providers, emergency texting service, APCO, NENA
Computerworld - Individuals have no reasonable expectation of privacy in historical cell phone location data collected and maintained by phone companies, a federal prosecutor said in oral arguments Monday before a three-judge panel from the ...
Tags: Cell Phone, cell phone location, cell phone location data
NEW YORK, NY, November 20, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- YourAppleiPhone offers permanent iPhone IMEI unlock solution for all the available iPhone models in the market including iPhone 5 as well. It's all in one solution provider or can be ...
Tags: Unlock iPhone, sim unlock, iPhone and iPad models, YourAppleiPhone
Vodafone today revealed its latest management strategy in Europe and has brought in a top telecoms CEO from the US. Mobile operator Vodafone has split its European operations into two divisions–Central and Northern Europe as one and ...
Tags: Vodafone, CEO, management strategy, Philipp
More that a dozen retailers including Best Buy, Walmart, Target and 7-Eleven have joined forces to form the Merchant Customer Exchange (MCX), a mobile-payments network that will compete with Google and Isis. The retailers claim that they ...
Tags: Walmart, Target, MCX, mobile payments network
Three has announced it will be recruiting almost 800 new staff by the end of 2014. The majority of the roles will be based at its Glasgow offices with the addition 380 telesales staff, making the total employees close to 1,000. However, ...
Tags: Three, retail stores, employee, Maidenhead headquarters
Vodafone has publically stated it is "extremely disappointed" with Everything Everywhere's successful bid to revamp its 2G databand into the UK's first 4G network coverage. Speaking at yesterday's Broadband Britain Westminster eForum, the ...
Tags: Vodafone, 4G, network, EE, disappointment