February 3, 2011  AT&T Launches Hotspot App, Excludes iPhone AT&T yesterday announced that it will offer its first Mobile Hotspot App, which will be available Feb. 13. continue U.S. Cellular Warns of 4Q Customer Losses, Sales Slump U.S. Cellular warned investors of customer losses and lower-than-expected sales in preliminary fourth-quarter and full-year results published today. continue Google Talks Android, Honeycomb Google yesterday took time at a developer event to delve a little deeper into a couple of announcements it made at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), including a detailed look at the company's tablet-optimized 3.0 version of Android (Honeycomb). continue mGive: SMS Donors Don't Cannibalize Funding The mGive Foundation says a new survey found that mobile donations are unlikely to deter people from donating by traditional channels... continue Murdoch Launches iPad-Only The Daily Rupert Murdoch, CEO of News Corporation, has unveiled The Daily, the first national daily news publication created specifically for the iPad. continue Vodafone: Egypt Forced Us to Send Text Messages Egyptian authorities forced Vodafone to broadcast government-scripted text messages during the protests that have rocked the country... continue News Briefs for February 3, 2011 Companies in today's briefs include: All Things Digital, NTIA, Nokia, Best Buy, Verizon, AT&T, FlipSwap, The Weather Channel, Synchronica, Neustar NGM, Acision, Poynt, go2Media, Mobile Cause, Trunkbow International Holdings... View All From the Website: Convergence More Than Voice + Data Today, the converged device has become more ambiguous, with executives throwing it around as fill-in for just about any device that combines multiple technologies, not just voice and data... Continue |