May 20 2004 - 03:07 PM ET | 3G
Hutchison Whampoa's 3G subscriber data is looking better. The company has picked up nearly 700,000 new customers in the last 2 months. The total number of Hutchison 3G subscribers sits at 1.73 million. More subscribers are still needed for profitability....
May 20 2004 - 12:51 PM ET | In The News
The Orlando Sentinel has a piece on a [possibly] upcoming cell phone number directory. For years cell phone users have enjoyed keeping their numbers private, but that might change. bq. The database being assembled by the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet...
May 20 2004 - 12:44 PM ET | Sprint Nextel
Sprint PCS today announced plans for a mobile banking solution, Sprint Mobile Loan Officer. While the details are still sketchy, the coompany provides a description of the service: bq. The new solution will allow bank employees to process loans, establish...
LG Electronics USA yesterday announced the VI-5225, a Sprint PCS exclusive. The company is calling the VI-5225 the, "Little black dress" of wireless handsets. Here are the specs: * Black case * SMS (big deal for Sprint PCS phones) *...
May 20 2004 - 12:31 PM ET | Data
Analysts at research group IDC don't see a killer app in mobile data's future. Killer apps are usually what drive sales to the next level... For personal computers it was VisiCalc, a spreadsheet. This doesn't mean that data is dead,...
May 20 2004 - 12:28 PM ET | SMS
A story out of Korea notes that 1 in 10 SMS messages in the country are spam. While that number may seem high, remember when email was only 10% spam? According to the latest reports, more than half of email...
