Rating: Mobile social networker accepts cross-provider, open source id code Wadja is a mobile social networking site that concentrates on easy media uploading and free global SMS texting. Using your Wadja account, you can send pictures and updates to everyone on your friends list for free. OpenID is an idea sprung from the minds of the Open ...

President-elect Barack Obama’s thematic “change” mantra has infiltrated Capitol Hill, with a shakeup in the leadership of key House and Senate committees likely to raise the profile and potency of consumer protection, open access and universal...

One of the panels I moderated yesterday at the Open Mobile Summit was focused on US regulatory trends around open access, focusing on this year's 700MHz auctions, and also recent moves to free up spare spectrum in what are known as "white spaces". One of the speakers was from the FCC, so I got a pretty definitive view on what's going on and why. For those people not familiar with the US ...

The wireless industry group had been suing to see if the FCC had the authority to require open access on the C block 700-MHz spectrum.

Today the FCC gave the final green light to Verizon Wireless after it bid $4.7 billion to acquire large blocks of 700MHz spectrum earlier this year. Google had been hoping that stricter open access rules would be attached to ...

Operators scramble for a piece of the pie Despite its co-dependent relationship with the iPhone, O2 UK plans to launch its own developer community and app store next year, which could put non-Apple handsets in a better position to compete with the iPhone and its App Store.…

I know a lot of people have been more than skeptical of Verizon Wireless' claims, beginning in late 2007, that they would go open access, allowing any (technologically-compatible, obviously) device and any application on their network. Was this, as many assumed, just a ploy to influence the regulators, simply a cynical attempt to curry market favor supported by little or no real effort?

How Verizon Wireless learned to stop worrying and love open access. Step one: Realizing it's a way to add low-cost customers

From early indications, the uncertain shift to open platforms in the wireless space will not take a linear path and instead is apt to evolve in zigzag fashion due to variances in unpredictable political, technological and market forces.

It was at this time last year when the whole debate over wireless open access hit a fever pitch, and Verizon Wireless made big news when it said it was going to allow devices open access to its CDMA network in the second half of 2008. Everyone appeared to be clamoring for the opportunity. It is now the second half of 2008 and one has to ask: Where are all of the devices? During a FierceWireless&nb...