David Haskin

While analysts and investors are wary about high market projections for handsets, they’re praising dominant Finnish handset manufacturer Nokia’s cautious sales forecasts for future sales. “I think they’re being appropriately cautious,” Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Analyst Arindam Basu told Wireless Today. “It sounds like things are back-hand loaded for the industry. It probably makes sense […]

Liberate Technologies said Tuesday it is adding support for interactive games and other programming to run on low-end set-top boxes that use its Liberate TV Platform and its PopTV program. The company’s PopTV service provides cable operators with pre-packaged interactive programming that they can offer their customers. The service was launched for high-end interactive TV […]

Internet radio products, which play streaming audio from the Internet, have barely been launched and already they are being ported to television platforms. 3Com, which is about to launch its Kerbango Internet Tuning Service (KTS), said Tuesday that it has reached an agreement to integrate the service into the interactive television (i-TV) platform developed by […]

Rapid growth of Bluetooth-enabled products will occur sooner rather than later, a new study released Monday by Frost & Sullivan claims. The study said that more than 11 million Bluetooth-enabled products will be shipped this year with a value of $2.5 billion. Bluetooth is a short-range wireless technology for connecting devices. And the future looks […]

AT&T Wireless and Japanese wireless giant NTT DoCoMo said Monday that they have started implementing their previously announced alliance to develop third generation multimedia services on high-speed networks. The most visible part of that alliance was the acquisition by DoCoMo of a 16 percent stake in AT&T Wireless for $9.8 billion. To that end, DoCoMo […]

ImaginOn previously known for streaming video technology for set-top users, said Thursday it is developing what it termed a “next generation” wireless search engine. The search engine, which the company will call Vizario, will “bring significant new benefits to telcos, wireless equipment manufacturers and end users,” claimed CEO David Schwartz. It is designed for Java-based […]

Third generation (3G) wireless systems could easily become commercial failures if operators focus on so-called killer applications such as multimedia, a new study released Wednesday by consultants Herschel Shosteck Associates claims. “The relentlessly cited 3G future – ‘full motion video’ and ‘multimedia’ – is irrelevant,” said Dr. Herschel Shosteck of the consulting firm. “The concept […]

[ASIA] It’s no secret that, despite massive hype, consumer acceptance of the wireless Internet in the U.S. has been inconsequential. However, the recent acquisition by NTT DoCoMo of a stake in AT&T Wireless could help change all that. When it announced the DoCoMo buy-in, AT&T also said it would license i-mode and to add a […]

A few years ago, the industry and Wall Street were convinced push technology was The Next Big Thing. IPOs were floated and virtually every big name in computing got into the act before push went bust. Now, wireless marketers are convinced they are laying the golden egg. Mobile e-commerce and wireless marketing and advertising are […]

Home Net appliance vendor Netpliance (Nasdaq:NPLI) announced lower-than-expected revenues for the quarter ending September 30 and a major shift in emphasis. The company, which developed the consumer i-opener Net device, says it will stop selling the device after January 31 and, instead, will focus on providing infrastructure and managed services for devices. The company says […]

A data security vendor is reporting a new virus that is reportedly the first ever to hit wireless phone users. F-Secure Corp. said the VBS/Timofonica worm is delivered via an e-mail chain letter similar to the recent “Iloveyou” virus. “This is the first ever virus to do anything with mobile phones,” said Mikko Hypponen, manager […]

Golden Telecom, Inc. (GTI) , a facilities-based telecom and Internet service provider in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), has acquired 51 percent in a large Russian ISP. GTI (GLDN) acquired Commercial Information Networks (KIS) the largest Internet service provider in Nizhny Novgorod, which is Russia’s third major business center after Moscow and […]