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Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. AT&T, Verizon, Sprint Report Record iPhone 4S Sales
Read More »Work/Life: Two Smartphones Or One?
The international wireless association that represents the wireless communications industry is officially recommending to employers to let workers "bring their own device to work." I put that in quotation marks because its actually the name of CTIA's formal campaign being pushed at this week's Enterprise & Application conference in San Diego. So, do you agree? Should employers let their workers use their personal smartphones and tablets for work
Read More »New iPhone Carriers Aim To Control, Or Profit From, Mobile Data Consumption
Since the iPhone first arrived on the scene, it has been used to access mobile data like no other device before it .
Read More »Kindle’s Success: A Look Behind The Screen
Most attribute the runaway success of Amazon's Kindle to the E Ink technology that makes it so readable. But if that were true, why didn't Sony's Librie, which used the same technology and was launched three years earlier in the vibrant Japanese book market, succeed? The true explanation of the Kindle's triumph is something far less obvious--the behind-the-screen elements that make up a product's backstory
Read More »Slower WiFi Frequencies Stretch Smartphone Batteries
We love our smart phones. Except when they run out of batteries. And we find ourselves cruelly cut off from the wireless world.
Read More »Kill Your Router: The Internet Can Come From Anywhere
Everyone needs the Internet, and as our data requirements explode, it's putting a strain on broadband networks. Luckily, scientists can make wireless signals come from your TV and your lightbulb
Read More »PayCloud Does Wireless Loyalty Cards Without The NFC
The payments space is evolving quickly, and lots of NFC-enabled schemes are brewing, but SparkBase has leaped ahead and is launching a wireless store loyalty card scheme that works using existing tech.
Read More »How LightSquared Could Cast A Wider Web (And Ruin Your Road Trip)
LightSquared, a 4G satellite internet provider backed by an eccentric billionaire, could change the nature of broadband Internet in the United States. The only problem is that their network could just make GPS receivers go blank
Read More »Customer Research Leads to Success
Recently, I had the pleasure of speaking with Navman Wireless’s Vice President, Renaat Ver Eecke . What Renaat said about how he led his company to success sounded very similar to Adrian Slywotzky’s hassle map . Below, Renaat describes how market research led to big success for Navman Wireless.
Read More »Wi-Not? South Korea’s Seoul To Blanket The City With Free Wi-Fi
South Korea is already light years ahead of the U.S.
Read More »iFive: Facebook’s iPad App, Spotify In U.S., Sony Ericsson’s NFC Phones, Slowing RIM Sheds Jobs, Streaming Movies A Felony?
As you can see the bizarre story of Rebecca Black's "Friday" runaway viral video hit has taken another strange turn. It's been taken down not due to YouTube's strict copyright infringement rules, but by Black's command.
Read More »WHO Links Cancer To Cell Phones
A couple of days ago, the official party line from the World Health Organization on cell phones was this: "no adverse health effects have been established". Not anymore..
Read More »How NFC Shopping Will Save You Money While You Wave Your Phone Like A Loon
A French startup is launching a shelf-edge NFC system that demonstrates why NFC could revolutionize shopping, add value, and save you some money in the process. Get ready to wave your phone in the air like you just don't care... Think&Go 's new NFC commerce platform is all kinds of exciting, if you're into near-field wireless tech or interested in the future of shopping
Read More »Carbon-Fiber iDevices? We Think Not
According to new information that's allegedly leaking from Apple , Steve Jobs is intent on pushing for wireless iDevice syncing. Better Wi-Fi connections thanks to a carbon fiber chassis may be the solution, it is said. Let's see if this makes sense.
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