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Have you noticed that mobile wireless accessibility isdropping? As I wrote in a post called “Mobility, Portability and Accessibility in a Wireless Age,” mobile and wireless devices are becoming larger, causing transport problems as new mobile gadgets flood the market. Despite phones shrinking in weight and size since Motorola introduced the first cell phone–the Dyna-tech in […] The post Mobile Wireless Accessibility Dropping first appeared on MobileBeyond.

Clearwire WiMax  broadband service is currently available in 62 U.S. markets and reaches over 41 million people. By the end of 2010, 120 million people in the U.S. will have access to its wireless mobile service in New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Denver, Minneapolis, the San Francisco Bay Area, Miami, Cincinnati, Cleveland and Pittsburgh. David Maquera, […] The post Clearwire WiMAX Mobile Broadband Falls to LTE first appeared on MobileBeyond.

  Deposit a Check with Your Smartphone Camera? Have any checks in your wallet or purse you need to deposit? ATM nearby? If not and you own a smartphone (iPhone, Android or Windows OS), you might want to use its camera and mobile imaging software. Take a photo, enter your checking account info, transmit it […] The post How to Deposit a Check with Your Smartphone Camera first appeared on MobileBeyond.

  Mobile Music Shared With Friends O.k., you’re Facebooked, Twittered, social networked and mobiled. You’re into location-based services. People appear on your smartphone map filled with tiny dots representing your friends like jets on radar. But you haven’t merged mobile music, social networking and geotagging into your life.  Soundtrckr, a new mobile music streaming service, […] The post Mobile Music Location Based Services at Soundtrckr first appeared on MobileBeyond.

Thinking of using mobile GPS to find your friends on your new smartphone? Think again. The global positioning system (GPS) is under strain. Why? Mobile device consumers, the military, and businesses demand greater accuracy and reliability. GPS also has a direct impact on location-based services. In 2009, the U.S. House of representatives asked the GAO […] The post How Mobile GPS Enables Location Based Services first appeared on MobileBeyond.

M2M (machine-to-machine communications) may yet save wireless carriers while offering consumers and businesses innovative new services. While carriers madly search for alternative revenue streams, such as wireless health products, they continue hoping smartphones and data plan revenues will save their core mobile phone business. This “churn/burn” strategy is worsened by the large number of cellular […] The post M2M Smart Devices Boost Carrier Revenues first appeared on MobileBeyond.

Mobile marketing performance helps marketers better understand campaign results. Yet, as analytics transitions to mobile from online, app and website measurement needs improvement so marketers better understand consumer sentiment. Andy Bovingdon, VP of Product Marketing for Bango remarks about the change in consumer adoption of mobile: “…Analytics is less about measuring clicks and more about […] The post Mobile Marketing Performance with Andy Bovingdon first appeared on MobileBeyond.

Wireless healthcare is a rapidly expanding industry that’s changing health monitoring. The Health and Life Sciences group at Qualcomm is one of the key companies driving wireless solutions in healthcare. Welcome to “wireless band-aids,” wireless sensors,  remote health monitoring, pill containers that kindly remind you to take your meds and devices that measure fitness. Behind […] The post Wireless Healthcare with Don Jones of Trice Imaging first appeared on MobileBeyond.

The debate whether cell phone radiation causes or contributes to brain cancer continues. Worldwide, one in 29,000 men and one in  38,000 women develop brain tumors each year from all causes. Residents in developed nations are twice as likely to develop cancer than in developing countries. But scientists, governments, the wireless industry and the public […] The post Cell Phone Radiation and Brain Cancer Debate Continues first appeared on MobileBeyond.

Every so often in human history one person shares a vision so compelling and mind shattering that we take pause. Pranav Mistry is an exciting, visionary who’s having a dramatic impact on sixth sense mobile augmented reality. MIT’s Pranav Mistry, the inventor of “sixth sense mobile technology” made a presentation at the TEDIndia 2009 meeting. Since then, interest […] The post Sixth Sense Mobile Augmented Reality – Pranav Mistry first appeared on MobileBeyond.

There’s a lot of discussion these days about mobile devices–phones, iPads, Kindles, netbooks. I suppose a car or truck is a mobile device too. Although it weighs several thousand pounds, put gas in it, start it up and it moves. It’s mobile. But a fridge is not a mobile device, unless you’ve installed wheels under […] The post Mobility, Portability and Accessibility in a Wireless Age first appeared on MobileBeyond.