Cingular Testing Pay-By-Phone Service in NYC
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Although it may be five or more years behind similar capabilities in Europe, the US is finally getting technology that would allow consumers to use their cell phones as a way to pay for consumer goods.
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Motorola will test handsets that include wireless payment functions.
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Cingular, the largest U.S. wireless phone carrier, will offer a version of popular Internet social network MySpace on its phones in an expansion of their partnership, the companies plan to announce on Monday.
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Cingular Wireless marked the completion of its $41 billion takeover of AT&amp;T Wireless Services Inc. by immediately expanding unlimited mobile-to-mobile calling between the two networks. Subscribers of the original Cingular and AT&amp;T Wireless who have had plans that gave them unlimited calls to fellow subscribers now also get free unlimited calls to subscribers of the other carrier. Cingular is now ...
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(InfoWorld) - High Tech Computer Corp. (HTC), the largest maker of handsets that use Microsoft software, hasÂ developed a smart phoneÂ that's just a half-inch thick, or 1.3 centimeters. It's available now in the U.S. from Cingular Wireless. The Cingular 3125 Smartphone is a slender clamshell handset that runs on Windows Mobile 5.0, enabling it to compete with the BlackBerry's push e-mail service through its Outlook Mobile software. In fact, Microsoft joined the fanfare of the Cingular 3125's launch by dedicating a huge portion of its home page to the device, including a link to a description of the phone's capabilities. Cingular is offering the smartphone from $149.99 in its own retail stores and Web site, as well as through national retailers in the U.S. along with service packages. The company's unlimited monthly Smartphone Connect plans are $19.99 with Xpress Mail, $29.99 with Microsoft Direct Push and $39.99 with Good Mobile Messaging with a Cingular voice plan of $39.99 or more. The smartphones will allow users to talk or surf the Internet, access corporate and personal e-mail accounts, listen to digital music, take photos and video with its 1.3 megapixel camera, and run the Mobile Office suite. It works on several wireless technologies, including quad-band GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) / EDGE (Enhanced Data GSM Environment), WLAN (wireless-LAN) and Bluetooth.ADVERTISEMENTMAKE SOA REAL WITH IBM WEBSPHERE PODCASTStreamline processes and maximize efficiency within a proven service oriented architecture. Take back control of your business processes with IBM WebSphere.
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The peak time for dates from hell in New York City is Friday at 8 p.m. - judging by the cell phone calls delivering emergency excuses to bolt. Truth is, they're fake "rescue" calls - now being offered by two cell phone providers, Cingular Wireless and Virgin Mobile USA.
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New York City will spend $500 million   on a wireless data network for emergency services following   complaints that authorities had trouble communicating with each   other when responding to the September 11 attacks.
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(InfoWorld) - MySpace went mobile in a big way on Monday, launching a service that lets Cingular Wireless subscribers use many features of the social networking portal on their cell phones. For $2.99 per month plus standard use charges, Cingular subscribers can download a Java application that lets them blog, upload photos and update their MySpace profiles, among other things. The service, MySpace Mobile, is available now on select handsets. Subscribers can text-message "MYSPACE" to the Cingular number 386. The offering represents the first big mobile deal for the popular News Corp. portal, which claims 80 million active users. MySpace already offers some capabilities to users of Helio, a relatively small-scale mobile joint venture from SK Telecom Co. Ltd. and EarthLink Inc. Many would-be competitors have tried to emulate MySpace's success on the Web, and mobile devices present a new opportunity to capture social-networking users and make them loyal. Other MySpace Mobile features let subscribers read and reply to their MySpace messages, view and manage their friend requests, post comments, and view the profile, friends list and groups list of any MySpace user. For now, MySpace is leaving out video, said Amit Kapur, MySpace vice president of business development. Video may make it onto the service as mobile devices and networks improve, he said. Also, the mobile client cuts down on the elaborate graphics and wallpaper that can make MySpace pages slow to fully load even on the Web. To appeal to the big audience of Cingular's more than 58 million subscribers, MySpace is offering a simpler interface than it does for Helio's mobile-browser-based offering, Kapur said. The process of creating blog entries will be similar to standard mobile text-messaging and can be used for quick, short entries. The entries will appear on both the user's mobile and Web pages. The Cingular deal will be exclusive into next year, but MySpace intends to make mobile access ubiquitous across the U.S. cellular landscape in 2007, Kapur said. It also is looking into mobile offerings in other countries. Today, MySpace Mobile has no advertising. As the mobile advertising market and technology mature over the next few years, MySpace may offer a free, advertising-supported version of the service, Kapur said. Cingular and MySpace earlier this year set up a service that lets MySpace musical artists make songs into Cingular ringtones. The mobile operator's subscribers can also get MySpace Mobile Alerts that tell them via text message when they get messages, comments and other postings to their MySpace pages.
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Reuters reports the announcement coming today:  Cingular, the largest U.S. wireless phone carrier, will offer a version of popular social-networking site MySpace.com on its phones in an expansion of their partnership, the companies plan to announce on Monday.  For an additional $2.99 a month, customers will be able to upload photos taken on cell phones, read and [...]
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Cellular operators in the U.K. are expected to start testing new technology to improve indoor reception of 3G wireless signals.
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Cingular Wireless, AT&amp;T Wireless and Triton PCS have an agreement that would give Cingular expanded wireless service in Virginia and Triton PCS added coverage in North Carolina as well as entry into the Puerto Rico MTA.
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Cingular Wireless, which completed its $41 billion acquisition of AT&amp;T Wireless in October, is to have finished today its makeover of 226 company-owned stores that were former AT&amp;T Wireless locations, a job that started Sunday night.
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SAN FRANCISCO Cingular Wireless will have to pay millions of dollars in fines because of the steep fees it charged its customers who wanted to end their contracts early.
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Cingular Wireless LLC has reached an agreement with the US Department of Justice that will allow the company&#39;s proposed $41 billion acquisition of AT&amp;T Wireless to proceed on schedule.
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Meraki Networks&#39; plan to cover San Francisco with free Wi-Fi, with residents&#39; help, could be a way around the political and business barriers some municipal wireless projects have run into.The startup, partly funded by Google, believes it will succeed&#160;where EarthLink and Google did not: Building Wi-Fi access throughout San Francisco at no cost to the city. It expects to finish by year&#39;s end, filling the whole city with 1Mbps coverage.The catch is that Meraki is footing the whole bill on this project so that&#160;it can learn how to roll out such networks for profit elsewhere. The good news, if the plan works, is that it could do so for less than $5 million, lower than the cost many other municipal wireless projects have run into. That&#39;s partly because of intelligence in access points and software, making the network more robust with fewer nodes, according to Meraki spokeswoman Erika Shaffer.Meraki will build the backbone of its network with solar-powered rooftop access points and fill out its coverage with smaller repeaters to sit in windows or on balconies. Both will be designed and built by Meraki and provided free to residents and businesses that agree to house the gear on their property in return for better coverage. All the nodes will be meshed, so Meraki won&#39;t have to get wired broadband links everywhere its access points go.The idea has potential in developing countries with little broadband, where Meraki sees its biggest market, but also in highly wired cities such as San Francisco, analysts said.A key advantage is that by asking users instead of the city for mounting rights for its gear, Meraki will bypass the rancorous political fights over contract terms like the one that slowed down EarthLink&#39;s initiative last year. But seeking volunteers also makes sure that however fully Meraki has actually covered the city by the end of the year, it is pretty sure to have coverage where people actually want it.&quot;You know exactly where your coverage needs to be, because someone just asked you for a repeater,&quot; said IDC analyst Godfrey Chua.Meraki believes it won&#39;t have any trouble getting people to host repeaters in their homes, based on its existing test networks in parts of San Francisco, Shaffer said. There are about 500 repeaters today, and about 40,000 people have used the network, she said.Another problem that would seem to solve itself, assuming the network and distribution system run smoothly, is the difficult issue of indoor coverage, said Craig Settles, an independent municipal network analyst at Successful.com. EarthLink&#39;s network was to be built largely on streetlights and electricity poles, which are well suited to mobile outdoor coverage, but not so good for providing home broadband to residents who can&#39;t afford wired alternatives, Settles said. Meraki&#39;s small repeaters are designed for indoor coverage in the home where they&#39;re located as well as to flesh out the whole network.On the San Francisco network, which Meraki will treat as a research and development cost, the company will test advertising as a possible revenue source for future deployments. When it approaches service providers that want to charge for access, it will also offer a billing system. Meraki has trials going on today with carriers in developing countries, Shaffer said.In places where most people don&#39;t yet have broadband, Meraki&#39;s approach could be an attractive low-cost alternative, analysts said. However, WiMax, which requires far fewer base stations than Wi-Fi because it has a longer range, also has relatively low costs and is already a competitor in those markets, Chua said.&quot;I doubt that Wi-Fi would be the dominant access medium in emerging markets,&quot; Chua said.
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Sprint Nextel Corp. unveiled on Thursday a new service that allows mobile handset customers to buy and compare a wide range of products over their phone.
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Philadelphia has finished testing  its wireless Internet project, setting the stage for America&#39;s  biggest citywide Wi-Fi network that will also offer access to  low-income households, officials said on Thursday.