Word: cellularized
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...mobile-phone industry used to be straightforward. Operators, like Vodafone, ran networks based on cellular technologies that transmitted signals through the air from giant, ground-based antennas. And handset vendors, like Nokia and Motorola, churned out phones that worked on those networks, which they'd sell through the operators. An easy-enough, symbiotic relationship for all involved. [an error occurred while processing this directive...
...based mobile technologies are challenging the dominance of traditional cellular networks - a shift that has left the carriers scrambling for a strategy as they increasingly face the prospect of competing head-on with their long-term collaborators, the handsetmakers. At stake? Potentially nothing less than the structure of the $600 billion worldwide mobile industry. Motorola ceo Ed Zander says: "There's going to be a lot of turmoil in the next couple of years...
...with handheld devices probably won't be ready until next year, handsetmakers are already giddy at the prospect. With WiMax's roots in the Internet, the reasoning goes, mobile networks based on that technology will be able to deliver the multimedia goods to mobile-phone customers better than traditional cellular networks. Motorola chief technology officer Padmasree Warrior says WiMax offers "three times the data transfer and half the cost" of cellular networks, which were originally designed only to handle voice calls. Handset vendors also like the prospect of a WiMax future which may help to free them from intellectual property...
...cellular carriers are far less enthusiastic. They see WiMax as a threat to the 3G cellular networks they have invested in so heavily. For now, many operators are settling for relatively small software upgrades that boost the speed of 3G networks at far less cost than building a new WiMax network. But some operators acknowledge that these enhancements will probably not be powerful enough to compete with mobile WiMax, and few seem to have a strategy beyond that. Sanjiv Ahuja, chief executive of Orange, the France Telecom?owned mobile carrier, says only that Orange "will be making decisions over...
University officials said this week that four Latino employees won’t be laid off by the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, following an effort by students and activists to save the employees’ jobs. The employees said they were told on Oct. 3 they would lose their posts because some of their animal cage-washing duties could be completed by machines. But the four employees charged that they were actually to be fired because of their race and ethnicity. In recent weeks, students have rallied around them, forming a group to protest alleged racial discrimination against...