[Carriers prepare for an explosion of cell phone use inauguration day in Washington D.C.]
By Cecilia Kang (Washington Post) — “When President-elect Barack Obama takes stage in a few weeks to deliver his inauguration address, no doubt many of the estimated 2 million people expected to gather on the Mall will simultaneously hold their cellphones aloft […]

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[Motorola revises employee compensation and benefit programs and co-CEOs voluntarily reduce 2009 base compensation by 25 percent.]
Schaumburg, IL — Motorola, Inc. today announced additional actions to further reduce costs amid continuing global economic challenges. These measures include changes to employee compensation and benefit programs as well as changes to executive compensation.
As part of the overall […]

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[Forbes offers ideas on how to reduce cellphone bill costs noting that more than 20% of in-plan, or paid peak, minutes go unused every month]
By Tom Pepe (Forbes) — “Wireless services have become so essential to everyday life that even the recession hasn’t forced most consumers and businesses to give them up.”

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[AdMob reports the iPhone has the greatest WiFi usage, with 42 percent of US requests coming in over WiFi instead of a mobile operator network.]
San Mateo, CA and London — AdMob, the world’s largest mobile advertising marketplace, today highlighted growing WiFi usage in the US and the UK in its November 2008 Mobile Metrics Report. […]

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[The BlackBerry Curve 8350i features iDEN technology, built-in WiFi support, integrated GPS, 2 MP camera, advanced media player, Bluetooth plus the latest PTT features.]
Overland Park, Kan and Waterloo, Ontario — Responding to the requests of Nextel Direct Connect customers, Sprint today launched the BlackBerry® Curve(TM) 8350i smartphone. Developed by Research In Motion (RIM), the new […]

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[Fourteen mobile phone and chip makers joined the Open Handset Alliance supporting the Android mobile device platform including Ericsson, Sony Ericsson, ARM and Vodafone.]
London, Cambridge — The Open Handset Alliance, a group of technology and mobile players, is pleased to announce the membership of 14 additional companies. By joining the founding members of the Open […]

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[Sprint announces a next-generation open software platform, initially deploying with the Sprint TitanTM platform for Sprint Windows Mobile devices.]
Overland Park, Kan. — In the application developer community, 7.1 million JavaTM developers are creating desktop applications, but only around 3.6 million developers are creating mobile applications.* Sprint is changing that today by announcing a next-generation open […]

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[AT&T is testing femotcells in employee’s homes and plans to make the technology available in a trial market next year.]
New York (AP) — “AT&T Inc., the country’s largest wireless carrier, is testing a technology that can improve the signal available to cell phones in subscribers’ homes, and plans to make it available in a trial […]

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[S.Korean deregulation creates opportunity for foreign mobile device platforms such as Google’s Android and open-source Linux software.]
Seoul — “South Korea said on Wednesday it would lift a rule that forces handsets sold domestically to use a locally developed mobile device platform, opening the market to more foreign cellphones.”

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[LG develops the first 3GPP LTE handset modem chip supporting download speeds of 100Mbps and upload speeds of 50Mbps.]
Seoul — LG Electronics (LG), a worldwide technology and design leader in mobile communications, announced that it has independently developed the first handset (user equipment) modem chip based on 3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology standards. The […]

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