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While not everyone can ride the Google Shuttle to work and enjoy a free Wi-Fi connection, in-vehicle Internet access for all is not far off as cars roll into the digital age. In-car access to everything from real-time traffic updates to favorite iTunes songs...

Smartphones will come of age as the primary venue for mobile Internet content in the U.S. this year. The proliferation of these devices will reshape the sector and force content companies, operators, and advertisers to retool.Companies in the mobile advertising sector have been busy...

Mobile security has been a topic of discussion for many years. Skeptics have always said "mobile security is a solution looking for a problem." True, few mobile security disasters have occurred on the scale of a Code-Red or Blaster, however, mobile data usage has...

What is mobile search? A search for "mobile search" on Merriam-Webster's online dictionary returns only paid search terms. I will refrain from comment. Wikipedia returns the following:". an evolving branch of information retrieval services that is centered around the convergence of mobile platforms and...

Don't be fooled by the flow of VC funding or the fact that Google Inc. and MySpace are in on it. The truth is, mobile social networking is not as cool as its fixed Internet brethren. An obsession with user-generated content, coupled with the...

Proponents of blind bidding claim the nearly $20 billion in pledges for 700 MHz licenses as well as the possible addition of a few new players (though unlikely national) in the wireless space vindicate their emphatic embrace of the no-name competition methodology. And who...

Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. each announced impressive wins at Mobile World Congress 2008 last week, but it was Yahoo's news that raised eyebrows in the mobile search space.Nokia Corp. said it will begin to include Google's technology with its own mobile search application...

Mobile phone design efforts over the past two years appear to have taken the handset as far as it will go, for now, if the handsets coming out of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, are any indication.The forefront of innovation today is...

You may have never heard of it, but Google Inc. is behind it. So are AOL, Microsoft Corp., and Yahoo Inc. With that kind of support, OpenID may soon be coming to mobile in a big way.Designed as a standardized platform for online authentication,...

Like Britney Spears, mobile advertising is desperately in need of some monitoring.Market research firms seem to be tripping over themselves to offer the most optimistic projections for wireless ads. The Kelsey Group predicts the U.S. market will grow from $33.2 million last year to...

Pieter Knook, the leader of Microsoft Corp.'s mobile business and an 18-year company veteran, has jumped ship to Vodafone Group plc.Knook will lead the operator's efforts in consumer Internet services, Vodafone said Thursday at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain.Vodafone, based in the...

BARCELONA, Spain - Yahoo Inc. claimed it plans to reinvent mobile communications with oneConnect service, a mobile product with an open architecture that aggregates a user's e-mail, instant messaging and text messaging, with what it calls a socially connected address book.A key feature of...

Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. each announced impressive wins in the mobile search space at Mobile World Congress 2008.Nokia Corp. said it will begin to include Google's technology with its own mobile search application "in select markets," integrating the search on the Nokia N96...

Editor's Note: Welcome to On the Margins, a feature for RCR Wireless News' weekly e-mail service, Mobile Content and Culture. Every week, the RCR Wireless News staff considers events in the wider business world and how they could affect the wireless industry.--Microsoft Corp. stunned...

BARCELONA, Spain -- The Android has landed, so to speak.A number of chip companies showed off demonstrations of Google Inc.'s Android cellphone software today at the Mobile World Congress trade show here. Google and the Open Handset Alliance released Android's software development kit (SDK),...

Apparently it wasn't a Super Bowl hangover. Bidding in the Federal Communication Commission's 700 MHz spectrum auction continued to slow today as bidders placed only 582 new bids during five rounds, adding just over $113 million to the auction's total haul. That number is...

The 700 MHz spectrum auction took another unexpected turn today as bidding on individual C-Block licenses usurped the previous high bid for a package of eight C-Block licenses covering the 50 states. While the Federal Communication Commission's Auction 73 continues to operate under blind-bidding...

It's still seemingly early in the game, but bidding in the Federal Communications Commission's 700 MHz auction is materializing into a good news-bad news auction of epic proportions.Click here for complete 700 MHz auction coverage.In less than two dozen rounds, bidding shattered the $13.8...

AS WORD SANK IN that Motorola Inc. is "exploring the structural and strategic realignment" of its business - including the possible creation of a standalone company for its devices business - attention has turned to the company's strategy, its actual value and potential outcomes.Strategically,...

If Google does manage to exit the 700 MHz spectrum auction with a substantial chunk of airwaves, it will be interesting to see what it plans to do with it. Most observers said they would be surprised if Google were to win spectrum; most...

Bidding in the Federal Communication Commission's 700 MHz auction continued to slow throughout today, though enough money has been thrown around to push total potential winning bids past $18.5 billion after round 26. Auction 73 is now set for a well-deserved weekend break, after...

As word sank in that Motorola Inc. is "exploring the structural and strategic realignment" of its business - including the possible creation of a standalone company for its devices business - attention has turned to the company's strategy, its actual value and potential outcomes.Strategically,...

Microsoft Corp.'s proposed acquisition of Yahoo Inc. may be centered on Internet search, but the takeover - if consummated - could make huge waves in the world of wireless.The Redmond, Wash.-based software giant offered $44.6 billion in cash and stock for Yahoo, marking a...

Following a few tense rounds without any bids, the nationwide package of eight C-Block licenses picked up a new bid during round 17 to push the potential winning price for the block past the $4.6 billion reserve mark, thereby triggering the spectrum's open-access provision....