Continental Airlines this week announced an agreement with LiveTV (a wholly-owned subsidiary of JetBlue) to offer 36 channels of DIRECTV on its flights, along with onboard Wi-Fi for e-mail and...

K-NFB Reading Technology, a joint venture of the National Federation of the Blind and Kurzweil Technologies, this week introduced the knfbREADER Mobile, a solution to give blind users access to SMS...

At the DEMO 08 conference in Palm Desert this week, Skyfire unveiled its new mobile browser which supports all Web technologies, including Flash, Ajax, Java, etc. — and thereby offering a much...

FreeFi Networks today announced a partnership with Disney-ABC Domestic Television to provide video-on-demand (VOD) rentals to users of FreeFi's free Wi-Fi network at Denver International Airport...

The FCC's 700 MHz auction started this week, with BusinessWeek's Olga Kharif, among many others, suggesting that the troubles in the stock market may be having an impact on the enthusiasm of...

TDS Telecom this week announced the launch of WiMax services in Madison, Wisconsin, making it the first provider in Wisconsin to offer WiMax. The service, which uses equiment from Alvarion, will be...

Southwest Airlines today announced plans to test broadband Internet access via satellite on multiple aircraft in its fleet. Unlike, say, JetBlue's planned Wi-Fi offering, Southwest will offer...

Fortinet this week announced the discovery of a new worm targeting Symbian OS phones on mobile networks. Dubbed Beselo.A, the worm runs on Symbian S60 devices including Nokia 6600, 6630, 6680, 7610,...

A recent study funded by the Mobile Manufacturers Forum (MMF) and conducted by researchers at Sweden's Karolinska Institute and Wayne State University in Detroit has found that cell phone...

Sprint today announced plans to cut 4,000 jobs in response to a loss of 885,000 customers during the fourth quarter of last year. "The No. 3 wireless carrier behind AT&T and Verizon Wireless...

As expected, Steve Jobs announced the new MacBook Air today at Macworld - and I for one am seriously disappointed. With an 80GB (or 64GB solid state) hard drive, and a maximum 1.8 GHz processor with...

The FCC today released its final list of 214 qualified bidders for the upcoming 700 MHz auction, down from a list of 266 applicants announced last month. According to Reuters' Peter Kaplan, the...

Much buzz online today about comments by Wired's Bruce Schneier suggesting that it's perfectly acceptable - in fact, it's just "basic politeness" - to run an open wireless...

Frontline Wireless, the startup that was positioned as a key bidder in the upcoming 700 MHz auction, has closed its doors. The company this week issued the following terse statement:...

At CES this week, WowWee introduced its Rovio roving webcam, a Wi-Fi-enabled video guard dog for your home. "Through a built-in camera that streams video and audio, users can view and interact...

At CES today, OQO Inc. demoed a WiMax-enabled version of the OQO model 02, the first UMPC (ultra-mobile PC) designed to work with Sprint's Xohm WiMax service. "OQO has teamed up with Sprint...

At CES today, Motorola announced the DVB-H-compatible Motorola Mobile TV DH01 media player, a pocket-sized device with a 4.3-inch display that plays both live TV and on-demand programs from a DVR....

Get ready for wireless transmission to your HDTV: WirelessHD today announced the completion of its first wireless specification for high-definition baseband video transmission. Consortium members...

Marvell today introduced the Marvell TopDog 11n-450, the first 802.11n Wi-Fi chip that operates at a blazing 450 Mbps (megabits per second). "In addition to this hefty boost in bandwidth, the...