We know that Cricket wireless is expanding their coverage area, and plan to double their covered POPs by 2009. This will be accomplished by rolling out service in Seattle; Minneapolis; Milwaukee; Chicago; Philadelphia; Baltimore; Washington, D.C.; Richmond and Virginia Beach, Va.; Columbia and Greenville, S.C.; Huntsville, Mobile and Birmingham, Ala.; Biloxi, Miss.; New Orleans, Baton Rouge and La...

PhindMe, a Philadelphia-based mobile technology company, today launched its direct-to-business brand, Everywhereigo. It's a suite of easy-to-use mobile marketing tools aimed directly at businesses and groups of all sizes. A basic no-cost version is available at www.everywhereigo.com to organizations of any size interested in learning through experience why mobile marketing is the evolution of...

A Philadelphia-based mobile technology company today launched its direct-to-business brand, Everywhereigo, a suite of “easy-to-use mobile marketing tools aimed directly at businesses and groups of all sizes.” What caught my attention was the basic no-cost version available at www.everywhereigo.com to organizations of any size interested in learning through experience why mobile marketi...

Verizon Wireless Rallies Mobile Transmission Site To Boost Coverage At Championship Games TAMPA, FL — Verizon Wireless technicians have deployed a high-tech Cell on Wheels (COW) at Tropicana Field to ensure championship-caliber wireless service for the thousands of fans, media and baseball officials as the Tampa Bay Rays play in their first championship series versus the Philadelphia Phillies. T...

It was back in July of last year when we first posted about Obopay and Citi’s partnership. Now Citi announced that it has launched a pilot program to provide mobile person-to-person money transfer service to all its customers in the U.S., with a focus on Boston, Chicago, Maryland, Philadelphia, and New Jersey. Citibank customers participating in

The Philadelphia Parking Authority will give $100 refunds to 4,390 motorists ticketed this year, because its red-light cameras were a little too quick on the draw. Seven months after discovering that cameras were suffering from “premature activation” - but failing to determine the depth of the problem - the authority yesterday announced that it would wipe

Citibank has launched a pilot of a new mobile person-to-person money transfer service with Obopay, for new and existing Citibank customers. Beginning on October 14, 2008, the Citi Obopay mobile payment service will be offered to all Citibank customers in the U.S., with a focus on Boston, Chicago, Maryland, Philadelphia, and New Jersey This is the first time that a real-time, person-to-person mobil...

Financial services provider Citi announced the launch of a new mobile person-to-person money transfer service developed in conjunction with mobile payments service provider Obopay. According to Citi, the service--launching Tuesday for all Citibank customers in the United States, with a focus on the Boston, Chicago, Maryland, Philadelphia and New Jersey markets--heralds the U.S.'s first real-t...

Sprint Nextel hopes to turn Baltimore into the Starbucks of WiMAX by making the port city between Washington and Philadelphia one big hotspot. While Starbucks drew hordes of laptop users to its coffee shops with the promise of WiFi connectivity, Sprint aims to lure a new breed of laptop users to Baltimore with WiMAX connectivity accessible through eight new laptops built by four manufacturers--Len...

Sprint officially announced their XOHM WiMAX network in Baltimore today, and Phone Magazine were there for the launch.  XOHM promises average downlink speeds of 2-4 Mbps and uplink rates of 1-2 Mbps, with coverage initially in Baltimore and in Chicago, DC, Dallas, Fort Worth, Providence, Boston and Philadelphia over the coming months. Several notebook manufacturers are