Mobile News - May 2005

Verizon Wireless Prepares for Hurricane Season

Tue May 31, 2005 9:54 am | By Allen Tsai
With the start of the 2005 hurricane season around the corner, Verizon Wireless' team of "test men and women" are fine tuning the company's network to maintain its reputation as provider of the nation's most reliable wireless network when it really counts. The company's national team of test men and women work to ensure coverage and call quality across the Verizon Wireless nationwide network, including areas which are often directly in the path of hurricanes, as well as other regions that can be affected by these storms.

Cingular Survey Reveals Men Talk 35% More Than Women

Tue May 31, 2005 9:46 am | By Allen Tsai
What's one thing men are definitely doing more than women? If you guessed drinking milk from the carton or not asking for directions, you're wrong... well sort of. One answer that is certainly true is men are communicating more than women, at least on their wireless phones. For the fifth consecutive year, men prove to gab more than women in the wireless world, according to an annual survey conducted for Cingular Wireless. Men talk 35 percent more on their wireless phones than women, more than double the 16 percent lead men held in 2004.

Cingular Delivers GoodLink Email and PIM to Business Users

Tue May 31, 2005 2:17 am | By Allen Tsai
Cingular Wireless today added a powerful wireless e-mail and data capability to its broad range of solutions for business customers by directly offering GoodLink, Good Technology's award-winning wireless messaging and data access software and service. Cingular is the first wireless cellular company in North America to offer GoodLink directly to its B2B clients.

CTIA Wants More In-Flight Testing Before FCC Lifts Phone Ban

Tue May 31, 2005 2:06 am | By Allen Tsai
The Wireless Association today filed comments in the Federal Communications Commission's Wireless Use on Aircraft proceeding, examining whether existing rules should be modified in order to allow the use of wireless phones in airplanes. In its filing, CTIA expressed concern about relaxing such restrictions and suggested the restrictions not be relaxed or removed unless and until it is demonstrated that such action would not cause harmful interference with existing terrestrial wireless services.

Samsung Makes First 4-Gigabit NAND Flash Memory

Tue May 31, 2005 2:01 am | By Allen Tsai
Samsung Electronics today announced that it has begun mass producing the highest density NAND flash device yet to take advantage of advanced 70-nanometer process technology - 4-Gigabit (Gb) NAND flash memory. The faster technology offers larger storage densities for consumer and mobile applications at more affordable pricing.

LG Launches Integrated Marketing and Advertising Campaign

Tue May 31, 2005 1:46 am | By Allen Tsai
Building on its reputation for making stylish, functional mobile phones that enable consumers to express themselves in a variety of creative ways, LG Electronics, today announced the launch of its newest marketing and advertising campaigns, which together form an integrated platform designed to differentiate LG from its competitors, educate consumers as to the many ways in which LG mobile phones fit into their lives and provide cross-promotional opportunities with LG's wireless carrier and retail partners. The campaign, whose theme "six degrees" illustrates the many ways in which LG mobile phones ensure that consumers are constantly in touch with their worlds, was developed in partnership by LG and the company's advertising agency of record, BrandBuzz.

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Editorials & Opinion

The Future of mHealth: Can the FDA Keep Up with Mobile?

By Janet Maragioglio

Mobile devices increasingly diagnose and manage disease, putting them under the watchful eye of federal regulators, who could slow the pace of innovation.