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VIDEO REVIEW: Hiccups limit effectiveness of SpinVox's voicemail transcriptions

October 1 2009 - 6:00 am ET | Allie Winter

SpinVox provides a relatively accurate and useful service, although transcribed voicemails can take up to 10 minutes to arrive and are in some cases truncated. If you prefer to read transcriptions of voicemails via text messages - ... Read More »

Video Interview: Sue Spradley, Nokia Siemens Network

October 1 2009 - 3:14 pm ET | Tracy Ford

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Tracy Ford sits down with Sue Spradley of Nokia Siemens Networks to talk about NSN's plans for North America, its management service contract with Embarq and plans to light up rural America via the Broadband Stimulus package. ... Read More »

NSN to open LTE center in Dallas

August 20 2009 - 11:57 am ET | Dan Meyer

-NSN's Sue Spradley was named to the company's executive board.-Nokia Siemens

Nokia Siemens Networks said it was establishing a “center of competence” in Dallas dedicated to developing LTE for the North American market. The center is expected to employ approximately 500 people, including current Nokia ... Read More »

Slowdown may snag smartphone newbies

March 3 2009 - 6:00 am ET | Phil Carson

Like cartoon coyotes that draw themselves to full height before an exaggerated pounce on prey, handset vendors have offered little this year — but portended much — before an expected lunge at the market. ... Read More »

Nokia pulls new smartphone from shelves

March 2 2009 - 11:54 am ET | Phil Carson

Even giants stumble, as Nokia Corp. discovered over the weekend when it pulled its mid-tier 5800 ExpressMusic smartphone from shelves at its New York and Chicago flagship stores. ... Read More »

Brightpoint, Synchronoss win T-Mobile online business

March 2 2009 - 11:03 am ET | Allie Winter

Brightpoint Inc. will serve as an Online Master Dealer for T-Mobile USA Inc., the companies announced. ... Read More »

Nokia’s big miss: Company’s 5800 touchscreen smartphone launches in U.S. with no carrier support

February 27 2009 - 12:15 pm ET | Phil Carson

-Nokia's 5800 touchscreen smartphone features support for 3G networks. It will sell for $400 in the U.S. without carrier support.-

Nokia Corp. said today it would offer its mid-tier, touchscreen smartphone — the 5800 XpressMusic — in the United States for $400, with no carrier support. The news undercut Nokia’s public statements that it has approached the U. ... Read More »

By the Numbers: Venture capital deals for fourth quarter of 2008

February 26 2009 - 6:00 am ET | Kristen Beckman

The following list includes venture capital and other investments into wireless companies announced during the fourth quarter. ... Read More »

Smoothing the path for mobile Linux

February 25 2009 - 11:31 am ET | Phil Carson

When in past years Symbian Ltd. nervously eyed the nascent promise of mobile Linux, Symbian evangelists noted sharply that the rival, open-source platform would require considerable sweat equity or costly out-sourcing to ready it ... Read More »

Financial ratings wrap-up: Sprint Nextel, U.S. Cellular, Motorola and more

February 25 2009 - 6:00 am ET | Kristen Beckman

The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms. ... Read More »

Nokia invites 1,000 to leave

February 24 2009 - 11:58 am ET | Phil Carson

In an ongoing effort to cut costs, Nokia Corp. today invited 1,000 workers worldwide to voluntarily resign. ... Read More »

Visto snaps up mobile e-mail technology from Motorola

February 24 2009 - 11:37 am ET | Colin Gibbs

Motorola Inc. will spin off its enterprise-focused mobile e-mail business just two years after entering the space. ... Read More »

‘Mission Impossible’ movies to be included on Samsung phones

February 23 2009 - 12:02 pm ET | Colin Gibbs

-The “Mission Impossible” trilogy will be included on microSD cards with the purchase of new Samsung Delve handsets via Alltel through April 16.-

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. is teaming with Paramount Digital Entertainment to package the three “Mission Impossible” films with the purchase of new Samsung Delve phones from Alltel Wireless. ... Read More »

Nokia puts $6.8M into China’s KongZhong

February 23 2009 - 11:51 am ET | Colin Gibbs

Nokia Growth Partners announced a non-binding deal to back China’s KongZhong Corp. with $6.8 million in five-year convertible senior notes. ... Read More »

EIB invests $630M in Symbian platform

February 20 2009 - 11:55 am ET | Colin Gibbs

The European Investment Bank (EIB) is backing the home team — namely, Nokia Corp.’s Symbian platform — with a hefty $630 million investment. ... Read More »

‘Other’ vendors surge on smartphones, niches

February 20 2009 - 6:00 am ET | Phil Carson

-THE RISE IN SMARTPHONES has given a boost to well-known brands such as HTC Corp.’s G1 handset for Google.-Bloomberg News

FOR YEARS, THE TOP FIVE HANDSET VENDORS in the world took an ever-increasing slice of global market share. But something happened on their way to global hegemony. ... Read More »

@MWC Worst of the Week: All touched out

February 19 2009 - 6:00 am ET | Mike Dano

-<a href=http://www.rcrwireless.com/section/Columnists?tag=Mike%20Dano&tagid=3587>Click here for more from Mike Dano</a>-

So the word du jour for 2009 seems to be “touchscreen.” This is bad news because no one trusts me with anything related to touching. Indeed, the whole touch thing appears to have smeared itself all over the Mobile ... Read More »

@MWC PHOTOGUIDE: The phones of Mobile World Congress

February 18 2009 - 10:43 am ET | Mike Dano

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BARCELONA, Spain - The world's handset makers pulled out all the stops this year in their attempts to grab attention and generate interest in their products. At this year's Mobile World Congress trade show, Nokia Corp., LG ... Read More »

T-Mobile Int’l to use Nokia’s Ovi

February 18 2009 - 11:52 am ET | Allie Winter

T-Mobile International announced it will pair up with Nokia Corp. to offer integrated marketplace content. The carrier said that together, the two will provide widgets, applications and other content through the web’n’walk widget ... Read More »

Traction in mobile gaming brings sea change to space

February 18 2009 - 6:00 am ET | Colin Gibbs

-GLU MOBILE LAST WEEK said it is stepping up its smartphone efforts with games such as 
Bonsai Blast (top left), Cooking Star (top right) and The Dark Knight: Batmobile Game (bottom).-

After years of treading water and failing to live up to outlandish hype, mobile games finally may be starting to make progress. And it’s the Apple’s iPhone — and, to a lesser extent, other multimedia-friendly smartphones — that’s ... Read More »

@MWC: Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson win big in Verizon Wireless LTE buildout

February 18 2009 - 6:00 am ET | Mike Dano

-Verizon CTO Dick Lynch announces the carrier's LTE vendors during a keynote address at the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona, Spain.-Mike Dano

BARCELONA, Spain – Verizon Wireless fleshed out its LTE plans by naming its network suppliers and setting a commercial launch date of 2010. The company, which plans to initially use its 700 MHz spectrum for the buildout, did not ... Read More »

@MWC: AT&T chief calls on Apple, others to develop open ecosystem

February 17 2009 - 9:31 am ET | Mike Dano

BARCELONA, Spain - AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph de la Vega used his Mobile World Congress keynote speech here to plead industry leaders for a common set of applications and application programming interfaces. De la Vega’s comments ... Read More »

@MWC: Nokia and Qualcomm snuggling up in U.S.

February 17 2009 - 11:47 am ET | Phil Carson

Since the settlement last year that ended the industry’s highest-profile cross-licensing battle, Nokia Corp. and Qualcomm Inc. have been expected to cozy up. Now it’s official. ... Read More »

@MWC: MySpace to update wireless site, announces support for Symbian

February 17 2009 - 10:44 am ET | Colin Gibbs

MySpace said it is overhauling its mobile site in an effort to grow its base of 20 million wireless users. ... Read More »

@MWC: Yahoo overhauls mobile portal

February 17 2009 - 10:32 am ET | Colin Gibbs

Yahoo Inc. unveiled an overhauled mobile portal that it hopes will become “your starting point to the Internet.” ... Read More »

@MWC: Microsoft updates Windows Mobile, intros app store, supports Flash

February 16 2009 - 2:06 pm ET | Mike Dano

-Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer discusses Windows Mobile 6.5.-Mike Dano

BARCELONA, Spain – As Research in Motion Ltd., Opera Software, Apple Inc. and others encroach on its territory, Microsoft Corp. sought to fight back with an updated version of its mobile-phone operating system, along with an app ... Read More »

@MWC: As Samsung looms, LG promises Android, Windows Mobile phones

February 16 2009 - 12:45 pm ET | Mike Dano

-The LG GM-730 will combine Windows Mobile with LG’s newly announced 3D S-Class user interface.-

BARCELONA, Spain – LG Electronics Co. Ltd. said it will make smartphones running both the Windows Mobile and Android operating systems, and will release an application storefront in the second quarter. ... Read More »

@MWC: Nokia´s new Ovi app store to cover potentially 50 million shoppers

February 16 2009 - 7:55 am ET | Mike Dano

-Nokia´s Ovi Store, running on the company´s N97 device.-

BARCELONA, Spain - Nokia Corp. introduced an application storefront that will connect developers directly with consumers, a move that comes almost a year after Apple Inc. announced a similar offering for its iPhone device. Nokia ... Read More »

Motorola promises next-gen smartphones by fourth quarter

February 14 2009 - 6:00 am ET | Phil Carson

Handset manufacturer Motorola Inc. is likely to pin its future on smartphones based on Google Inc.’s Android operating system, while ceding its low-end, high-volume business to others. ... Read More »

Glitch in Nokia’s cloud-based Ovi service destroys 3 weeks of users’ updates

February 13 2009 - 11:47 am ET | Colin Gibbs

-Nokia included this picture with its apology to users. The picture's file name is

Nokia Corp. begged for forgiveness from consumers after its new cloud-based service broke down. The Finnish manufacturer — which is striving to evolve into a mobile Internet services company — said its Contacts for Ovi offering ... Read More »

A new platform for wireless: Sun releases mobile version of JavaFX

February 12 2009 - 6:00 am ET | Colin Gibbs

-Sun Microsystems is hoping the mobile version of JavaFX will help developers create rich, immersive content.-

Sun Microsystems Inc. is hoping to bridge the gap between smartphones and feature phones with a new platform targeting mid- and lower-end devices. ... Read More »

Nokia shuffles Finnish site operations, job cuts on deck

February 11 2009 - 11:09 am ET | Allie Winter

Nokia Corp. is scaling back operations by closing up shop in one location and cutting employees in another. The world’s largest handset vendor announced today that it would close its Jyvaskyla, Finland, site, and will now ... Read More »

Forecast: 23% of all new phones in 2013 will be smart

February 11 2009 - 6:00 am ET

Smartphone sales are expected to increase 95% to more than 300 million by 2013 and could help key brands like Nokia during the current economic downturn, according to a new report from Juniper Research. ... Read More »

Google licenses Microsoft’s ActiveSync, beats rival to market with synching service

February 10 2009 - 10:49 am ET | Colin Gibbs

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Microsoft Corp.’s ActiveSync technology is behind Google Inc.’s latest mobile synching offering. ... Read More »