Mobile merger: CTIA and MobileCon morph into ‘super show’
The beefed-up show will offer a wider range of content -- and it won't compete with other Q1 mobile events like Mobile World Congress and CES.
The beefed-up show will offer a wider range of content -- and it won't compete with other Q1 mobile events like Mobile World Congress and CES.
Editor's Pick BlackBerry 10 is late. Late for its originally scheduled release date, and even later to a mobile revolution that some say has already been won by Google and Apple. But the word "late" doesn't seem to be in RIM's lexicon.
BlackBerry 10, the hyped mobile operating system that could resurrect the Research in Motion brand, is still months away from reaching consumers. Thousands of developers, however, were given early access to the platform to build BlackBerry 10-ready applications.
Next week, Verizon Wireless' 4G LTE service will take the unprecedented step of landing in its 400th market, showing the company's dominance in next-generation wireless service.
In business for over a decade, car sharing network Zipcar has embraced mobile, driven forward by a generation of people 35 and under who prefer 4G to V8.
Mobile marketing and messaging leader Urban Airship has served more than 20 billion push notifications through iOS, Android, and other platforms, the company revealed today.
Urban Airship currently is helping more than 65,000 companies — including ESPN, Groupon, and other …
Despite the hype, it turns out Samsung’s Galaxy S III doesn’t quite dazzle as bright as a supernova.
Last night I finally got my hands on Samsung’s hyped Galaxy S III superphone at the CTIA Wireless conference. While the features …
Sprint announced Wednesday that its awesome-looking HTC Evo 4G LTE will arrive on shelves on May 18 and retail for $200 with a two-year contract.
The Evo 4G LTE is the successor to the incredibly popular Evo 4G, which was …
Mozilla CEO Gary Kovacs is optimistic about the future of the mobile web, but as it stands now, he simply isn’t satisfied with the mobile web’s accessibility and openness.
“We’re standing in the middle of a tremendous platform shift,” Kovacs …
When the CEOs of AT&T Mobility, Verizon Wireless, Sprint, and T-Mobile sit together on the same panel, sparks fly.
Just as they did a year ago, these prominent CEOs sat down today at the CTIA Wireless conference to talk about …
Prominent mobile chip manufacturer Qualcomm showed off its Wi-Fi Display technology Tuesday, and it’s a serious step forward for connecting TVs and phones.
Essentially, the Wi-Fi Display mirrors everything you do on your phone on your TV. When you play …
Japanese phone-maker Kyocera has a long way to go before it can really penetrate the U.S. market in the smartphone realm, but its just-announced Rise smartphone — running Android 4.0 and sporting a pleasant physical keyboard — might help.
Kyocera …
Online radio service Pandora has surpassed 150 million registered users, the company announced today at the CTIA Wireless conference in New Orleans.
Pandora CEO and President Joe Kennedy spoke today on the main stage at CTIA. While most of his …
At the CTIA wireless conference this week, a lot of the tech advances we’re seeing are superficial and nonsensical. Not HzO, which showed off its incredible waterproofing tech to many folks tonight.
HzO provides a nanotech-engineered coating that protects phones …
AT&T announced its new Digital Life home automation system this morning, and we got to see the system in action in a New Orleans home during this week’s CTIA Wireless show.
The solution will compete with Verizon’s Home Monitoring and …
It’s often said the third time’s the charm. With Verizon’s just-announced HTC Droid Incredible 4G, the third incarnation of this Android smartphone, both Verizon and HTC hope they have a winner.
The device debuts just ahead of the CTIA Wireless …
Whether intentional or not, Sprint CEO Dan Hesse may have started luring bitter T-Mobile subscribers to the Sprint network who share common ground with him when it comes to AT&T.
Neither camp thinks AT&T’s purchase of the T-Mobile network is …
Top mobile device company executives obviously overestimated their ability to positively spin responses to hard-hitting questions from Wall Street Journal tech columnist Walt Mossberg, who moderated a panel discussion about new mobile device trends at the CTIA Wireless 2011 conference …
[Richard Wong, a venture capitalist with Accel Partners, submitted this piece to VentureBeat.]
Mobile has never been hotter with the iPhone, Android, the explosion in mobile advertising, and the rise of mobile apps, but, you’d never know it …