The future of the SIM hangs by a single wire
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20 years young and past its prime? Mobile World Congress SIM manufacturers still have some of the largest stands here at Mobile World Congress, but not as big as last year and with a lot less to show on them. Now the industry is betting that proximity payments will be their future, and if they're wrong they'll be a lot of empty space here in Barcelona come 2009.â¦
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One technology promises to harness the power of the Internet for voice communications. Its competitor has been around for a century, and has an industry shorthand that needs two adjectives -- "plain old telephone service" -- to describe just how boring it is.
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Business models followed technology too closely A year ago, hardly a week went by without news of a major municipal wireless project in the US, supporting free or subsidized access and a host of shiny business models. Now hardly a week goes by without news of the death of one of these plans.â¦
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Itâs funny how circumstances can change your perception of whatâs possible. A few months ago, key Microsoft architects were telling me that it would be impossible to decouple the Avalon presentation subsystem from the Longhorn OS.
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Qualcomm is betting on its Code Division Multiple Access cellular technology.
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First person: What's a telecommuter to do when the Web telephony service vanishes?
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The mobile phone industry has been  predicting for years that the future of television is wireless.
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Wireless revenues make up for lackluster landlines, but the industry at large is still on hold.
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Yet another communications-infrastructure player reports promising results.
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Bows to OEM pressure to drop delayed soft AP feature
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Bluetooth -- a short-range wireless technology -- is finally coming of age.
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The biggest wireless service provider keeps getting bigger
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Dark days are coming for analog cellular phones.
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In a perfect world, there'd be no wires. They clutter the view, get tangled behind desks and limit how far networks can reach. That's why the telegraph gave way to the radio. Cell phones unstrung telecommunications. Wi-Fi liberated computer data.
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Wake up, operators Ovum reckons that only one US mobile phone subscriber in 50 will have a Wi-Fi enabled phone by 2010.â¦
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A cordless phone borrows a trick from its cellular cousins, shrinking toward the vanishing point.
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Internet telephony application balks on IPaq and Axim Pocket PC devices.