CTIA: The good, the bad and the very, very ugly
I have a confession to make: I like CTIA Wireless. A lot of my colleagues in tech media are down on the show, saying that it’s dying. They’re right in one sense. CTIA is long past its prime as a...
View ArticleCTIA combines its shows as carrier influence over phones, apps declines
Instead of running two suffering conferences, mobile carrier industry group CTIA hopes to create a single successful “super mobile show”. In 2014 it’s canning its annual spring conference and will...
View ArticleNvidia’s new Tegra superchip boasts 150 Mbps speeds, but it’s not LTE-Advanced
Nvidia’s first integrated smartphone chip won’t just have the latest and greatest Tegra processor; it will support some impressive LTE connection speeds as well. Nvidia has upgraded the radio of its...
View ArticleBoost Mobile applies a unique spin on the mobile wallet
Sprint-owed prepaid operator Boost Mobile unveiled a mobile financial services app called Mobile Wallet at CTIA Wireless in Las Vegas on Tuesday. This isn’t your typical near field communications (NFC)...
View ArticleBoost’s new Mobile Wallet is coming to Virgin and maybe even Sprint
At CTIA Wireless, I had a chance to sit down with Sprint vice president of product platforms and services Kevin McGinnis and talk about Boost Mobile’s new digital wallet. It quickly became apparent...
View ArticleEricsson, Nokia Siemens lay the groundwork for HetNet with new Wi-Fi technology
Wireless equipment makers Ericsson and Nokia Siemens Networks took important first steps toward the future heterogeneous networks this week at CTIA Wireless. Both vendors announced new traffic steering...
View ArticleNokia Siemens invites Intel into the guts of the mobile network
Intel has been angling to get its processors into the mobile network for years. Now thanks to partnership with Nokia Siemens Networks it’s finally getting its chance. At CTIA Wireless Thursday, NSN and...
View ArticleNetwork transparency: How future mobile networks could be built in glass windows
Ericsson engineers have begun experimenting with a new type of cell site – one embedded inside a window. As demand for mobile data grows, networks must get denser. That means building increasingly...
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