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Verizon Wireless, the US mobile JV between Verizon and Vodafone, has confirmed that it will use LTE for its next-generation mobile network. This is significant because it, in essence, will bring Verizon into the GSM-based camp (though LTE isn’t technically a GSM technology, it’s viewed by most GSM operators as the logical upgrade path from [...]

EU telecom meddler-in-chief Viviane Reding’s effort to get DVB-H made an official EU standard for mobile TV has been successful, giving the technology a boost on the continent. Reding said earlier that the ruling will help make “DVB-H a similar success story as the GSM standard for mobile phones 20 years ago.” It’s not entirely [...]

With all the attention being garnered by the mobile web these days, further life’s being breathed into that age-old argument of which is the better strategy for mobile: developing mobile web content, or standalone applications. Like so many things, this argument gets ridiculously oversimplified in a desire to make it a black/white, either/or proposition — [...]

Nokia says that trials of next-generation mobile networks using LTE and SAE technology have delivered their first set of successful results, as the 3GPP carries on with the LTE standardization process. LTE, or Long Term Evolution, seeks to evolve the UMTS radio interface standard to deliver 100Mbps download speeds and 50Mbps up in 20 MHz [...]

While Apple and Google attract all the attention, Symbian keeps chugging along in the background. The company says that 20.4 million smartphones running its OS shipped in the third quarter of 2007 That’s up 56% over the same quarter a year earlier, and means a cumulative total of 165 million Symbian devices have been sold. [...]

Cellular-News reports that somebody is considering using the Russian Myasishchev M-55 spy plane as a flying mobile mast. The story appears based on a piece from the Russian site Novosti, which alleges that makers of the plane are negotiating with “an unnamed Western firm” about the resumption of manufacturing of the plane, last made in [...]

UIQ has announced another Fast Track event, scheduled for November 29 and 30 in Budapest. I went to the San Francisco Fast Track back in May, and was really impressed. If you’re just getting started in UIQ or mobile development, it’s well worth attending. Along with the announcement, I’m going to do a little giveaway [...]

The discussion about how Vodafone UK is using Novarra’s transcoding technology to break the mobile web rolls on, but kudos to Tom Hume for spotting this gem from somebody at Novarra in an email to a W3C list: A well-designed content transformation server can do a better job of following the mobile best practices than [...]

Back in June, I pointed how Vodafone UK’s newly launched “improvements” to the mobile web experience for its customers included using a transcoding system from Novarra that undoes the hard work of developers and publishers that have bothered to create mobile-specific sites that use autodetection. Instead of passing through the correct user agent from a [...]

A lot of companies have been talking for a while about femtocells — tiny base stations users could put in their home or office, and which use a broadband internet connection for backhaul. The idea is that they can improve in-building coverage and offer cheaper phone calls, since they can travel over the internet rather [...]