Wireless data shoots up 40 per cent YoY

Looks like its good times for wireless data revenue makers, considering there has been an increase of 10 per cent in wireless data revenues in 2008, as compared to just two years ago, as per trade group CTIA. U.S. carrier service revenue from wireless data, or non-voice services, reached $14.8 billion in the first half of the year, up 40 percent from the first half of 2007, according to the results of CTIA’s semi-annual wireless survey presented during the CTIA Wireless conference in San Francisco this week. Read more

CTIA Wireless: World’s first Dual-mode WiMax networking adapter coming to the U.S.

Networking specialist C-Motech introduced the world’s first dual mode WiMax/EVDO USB dongle during the CTIA Wireless in San Francisco this week. The so-called CMU-300 fully supports the IEEE 802.16e-2005 WiMax standard as well as EVDO Rev A or HSDPA wireless networks. Read more

TiVo and RIM partner to control DVR via BlackBerry

TiVo and RIM this week announced during CTIA Wireless in San Francisco that the companies teamed up to enable BlackBerry users to control their TiVo boxes using their phones. With the help of a special app that is currently under development, anyone who owns a RIM phone can wirelessly control their TiVo DVRs wherever they are. Read more

CTIA Wireless: Mobile companies want to capitalise on data, but worry about vulnerability

With the increase in data services being used by people, mobile companies are all up for grabs when it comes to making cash from data, but when it comes to the openness that situation demands, they get a litte skinned and apprehensive. Read more

Yahoo’s Marco Boerries decides to give us a tech feast

Yahoo’s Marco Boerries has good news for us today. For starters he is going to tell us where the company stands as of today, and is then going to launch OneConnect, and give an update on BluePrint. That’s a lot in a day’s plate right? Read more

CTIA Wireless 2008: Opening Day Photo Gallery

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