At CTIA 2013 today Verizon is live streaming a press announcement, one of the few from large carriers at the show. Verizon announced a new company, VivaMovil, which will support the Latino market. Jennifer Lopez is the chief creative officer and majority owner in Viva Movil. Lopez said the U.S. Latino market represents $1.2

Big phone companies have begun to sell the vast troves of data they gather about their subscribers’ locations, travels and Web-browsing habits, reports the Wall Street Journal. Even as Americans browsing the Internet grow more accustomed to having every move tracked, combining that information with a detailed accounti

Verizon Wireless has promised single-mode LTE devices in 2014, and 4G LTE-only smartphones may be included in the line-up by the end of the year. Single mode phones would use voice-over-LTE (VoLTE) and would not require CDMA for voice fall-back. Dual mode phones are compatible with more than one form of data transmission. V

Redline Communications, a leading provider of wireless backhaul, today unveiled a White Space system for the 470-698 Mhz band. Redline’s RDL-3000 is a sub-700 MHz network technology, which operates in frequencies between 470 and 698 MHz and leverages the non-line-of-sight network attributes of the UHF spectrum. Built on R

Microsoft has a live stream today at 10AM Pacific Time. The new Xbox One will launch in markets around the world later this year. The Xbox Wire blog has more features on the new system. Engadget had a liveblog. A new Kinect motion-sensing camera that goes alongside the new Xbox One game console is expected [...]

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Charlie Ergen, chairman of Dish Network, has made a $2 billion bid for radio frequencies from LightSquared , reports Bloomberg. Ergen has offered to buy the spectrum even though the Federal Communications Commission has yet to approve its use, according to the people, who asked not to be named because the deal hasn’t been

CTIA 2013 runs May 21 – 23, 2013 in Las Vegas at the Sands Expo & Convention Center this week. Expect lots of Show News, Buzz, Videos , and MobileSmarts, Infographics & Whitepapers. Show Topics include: Apps, Content & Media Big Data Analytics Cloud Connected Consumer Cybersecurity Location-Based Services M2

Portland indoor mapping startup Meridian has been sold to Aruba Networks for an undisclosed sum, reports the Oregonian today. Meridian helps people find their way within large buildings, such as malls, stadiums or airports, and enables marketing directed at a phone’s precise location. Aruba Networks is a wireless LAN

Canada’s four wireless players are maneuvering for advantage reports the Globe and Mail. It would represent a failure in the government’s years-long push to create more competition in the wireless business, according to the Globe and Mail. Mobile Service in Canada is Overpriced and Anti-Competitive, according to

Engadgetreports a fleet of camera-equipped, remote-controlled blimps are live-streaming Google I/O on YouTube, right now, It’s called Google AirShow and it’s taken over the airspace within Moscone Center. Chris Miller, a software engineer with AKQA (Facebook), explained to Engadget they use an off-the-shelf mode

Google Play for Education marks an entirely new addition to the Google Play Store. Google Play for Education is like an app store designed especially for teachers with some powerful management tools built-in. Android Engineering Director Chris Yerg introduced it yesterday at Google I/O. The new store, which is scheduled to

New wireless customers are choosing no-contract over contract by 10 to 1, reports Fierce Wireless. The 10 to 1 margin in favor of prepaid in the first quarter is quite significant, says Roger Entner. Tracfone, a no contract operator, became the fastest growing carrier in the United States with 839,000 new customers, in the

Today Google announced they’re buying a quantum computer from D-Wave Systems. NASA’s Ames Research Center will host the computer at the Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab, which will house the machine. The Universities Space Research Association (USRA) will invite researchers from around the world to share time on

According to the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG), Google has committed to updating Android with support for Bluetooth Smart (also known as Bluetooth Low Energy) “in the coming months.” That means future smartphones and tablets running the OS will be able to take advantage of the low power consumption in d

There were so many new things announced at Google I/O opening keynote yesterday, let’s review the stories from C/Net, Engadget, The Verge, Android Authority, ComputerWorld, GigaOm, and TechCrunch. Engadget has a recap of the announcements: Android There have been 900 million Android activations, 48 billion app install

Google I/O kicks off with a three-hour-long keynote address Wednesday morning. Here’s the live Google I/O 2013 Keynote. Among the rumored announcements are a new Google Maps interface, Bluetooth 4.0 support for the Nexus 4, tracking sensors, new subscription music services and Google Glass apps. According to a blog po

The future will see “real-time entertainment” dominate fixed access networks, accounting for two-thirds of total data usage in 2018, driven largely by ubiquitous integration between smart TVs, set-tops, game consoles and streaming services,” according to market researcher Sandvine. “Web Browsing will

Gladstone, Missouri is the next city to get Google Fiber. Google announced Fiber would be coming to the nearby town of Shawnee, Kansas on May 3rd, and now has Sprint’s headquarters in Overland Park virually surrounded. Google also added Austin, Texas and Provo, Utah, to its Fiber-enabled communities in the past two mo

AT&T is pulling the plug on the “Facebook phone”, an anonymous source told the Boy Genius Report. According to their source, AT&T sold fewer than 15,000 units of the HTC First nationwide through last week when the phone’s price was slashed to $0.99.

Ruckus Wireless today announced that it was selected by Telecom NZ, the national communications service supplier in New Zealand, to transform conventional payphones into outdoor Wi-Fi hotspots in locations across the country. Telecom’s initial pilot project, completed in less than 12 weeks, outfitted phone booths in holid

RelayRides has acquired Wheelz, says TechCrunch, making it the leading, peer-to-peer car sharing marketplace. San Francisco-based RelayRides was launched about five years ago, and connects people who need a car with vehicle owners whose rides would otherwise be sitting idle. Car owners set the price and availability, and Re

Portland’s transit agency, TriMet, unveiled an e-ticket app from GlobeSherpa this week which is said to be the first used by a U.S. transit agency to let bus, train and streetcar riders buy and use fares from their iPhones and Androids. The free app, developed by local software startup GlobeSherpa, provides mobile tic

At Google I/O, May 15-17, a Google team will place hundreds of Arduino-based environmental sensors around the conference to track things like temperature, noise levels, humidity and air quality in real-time, reports TechCrunch. Google’s Cloud Platform lets you build applications and websites, store data, and analyze d

On the eve of his return to Earth, Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield (twitter) released a video of himself singing David Bowie’s 1969 classic “Space Oddity”. The video has some stunning shots of the station zooming over our planet, as well as Hadfield’s acoustic guitar drifting through a module. On 1

Sports media giant ESPN has talked with at least one large U.S. carrier about subsidizing wireless access to its content, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. These discusions could potentially lead to a “toll-free” data plan with carriers and open up new revenue streams for both parties, says Fierc

Popular news magazine reader Flipboard has been updated to version 2.0, for Android and IOS, with new features focused on allowing users to create curated magazines of their favorite content. Articles and posts on Flipboard can now be added to users’ own custom magazines to create a custom-built Pinterest-like arrange

Nokia has introduced the Lumia 928 exclusively for Verizon Wireless. The Lumia 928, a Windows Phone 8 smartphone, comes equipped with Nokia’s powerful PureView imaging technology, including Optical Image Stabilization (OIS), a Carl Zeiss lens and a xenon flash. It also features wireless charging so you can simply place yo

A teardown analysis conducted by IHS/iSuppli the U.S. version of the Galaxy S4 with 16 gigabytes of NAND flash memory carries a bill of materials (BOM) of $229.00, which rises to $237.00 when the manufacturing cost is added. Without a contract subsidy, the entry-level 16GB version of the phone costs $639 when sold by AT

The 4G LTE industry has hit 100 million global connections, according to Wireless Intelligence. The research firm says there are 163 LTE networks in operation across 70 countries. By December 2017, they forecast over 400 networks will be live across 120 countries. Joss Gillet, senior analyst at Wireless Intelligence, expect