Unfortunately Verizon Wireless customers are all too familiar with having Wi-Fi removed from their smartphone privileges. It seems Verizon would rather have customers pay for data plans than conveniently use Wi-Fi, but the times are changing. The BlackBerry Aries is proof.

Not only will the BlackBerry Aries 8530 have Wi-Fi, but it MIGHT be the first [...]

Verizon Wireless has just opened the doors to its developer program where apps will be submitted, certified and added to VCast Apps. This is brand new territory for Verizon executives, developers and customers alike, but a Q&A interview with Executive Director of Eco-System Development Brian Higgins clears up some of the question marks.
How will apps [...]

With many perceiving a detrimental shift of carriers turning into commodities (dumb pipes), companies are looking for new revenue streams to expand growth and long-term value. Verizon Wireless has teamed up with Qualcomm to explore just that in a venture designed “to offer machine-to-machine wireless services to companies in sectors such as healthcare, manufacturing and [...]

Verizon is widely known/accepted as being America’s Most Reliable 3G Network… and it ISN’T just because those exact words are the company’s tag line. Big Red have firmly rooted themselves as the leading carrier simply because their network works like it should and for the most part, customers don’t have problems with service. If a [...]

You probably know about the rumored Apple Tablet heading to Verizon. Those initial rumors were mainly blogosphere based but now the Financial Times is weighing in on the issue saying a September launch is likely. Unfortunately, the details don’t look very good for any Verizon involvement.
The Financial Times talked to “4 people familiar with the [...]

In April, May and June of 2009, Verizon Wireless added a net 1.1 million customers – a pretty stunning figure considering the economic times. It doesn’t quite reach the 1.4 million that AT&T acquired and you can be sure they’re clutching the iPhone 3GS tightly… without that one piece of hardware their figures might be [...]

We already know Verizon is working on their 4G network. In fact, they’ve told us we can probably expect it in the latter part of 2010. They might be playing it safe and setting us up for a sexy surprise as TechCrunch reports Verizon 4G could launch in the first quarter of 2010!
Maybe THAT is [...]

If you’re not familiar with David Pogue, he is an influential tech journalist with the New York Times who last week published a scathing criticism of the American wireless industry. The article took the industry to task for everything from rising TXT messaging fees (when the cost to txt hasn’t changed) to the inability/difficulty/costliness of [...]

Verizon Wireless is joining SoftBank and China Mobile -huge carriers from Japan and China  – to create the Joint Innovation Lab which will become a common software foundation for the carriers to launch application stores. With the success of Apple’s iPhone App Store and Google’s Android Market, Verizon Wireless wants IN and VZW CEO Lowell [...]

Something fishy is going on in Verizon’s computer system. Right after the BlackBerry Storm where you might THINK that the word “BlackBerry Storm 2″ should appear there is a “BlackBerry Thunder” listed:

I can only think of 2 possible reasons:

Consumers have associated the name “Storm” with “Annoying” so they want to try and start on a [...]