2007

In the spirit of freewheeling online wireless forums such as Howard Forums and SprintUsers.com, Sprint Nextel Corp. has started its own virtual community for wireless fans, foes and aficionados.Users do …

A flurry of mobile gaming news is coming out of San Francisco in conjunction with the Game Developers Conference. Powerhouses and startups in the gaming industry have saturated the market …

U.S. Cellular Corp.’s parent company, Telephone and Data Systems Inc., is no longer considering making an offer to acquire the portion of the carrier’s stock that it doesn’t already own. …

Treo maker Palm Inc. is considering strategic options ranging from acquisitions to a full-out sale of the company, according to media reports. The news comes as the market for cellphones …

Qualcomm Inc. announced that China Network Systems (CNS) and Taiwan Television Enterprise Ltd. (TTV) have signed an agreement to conduct a technical trial of the San Diego-based company’s MediaFLO technology …

Motorola Inc. does not plan to support billionaire investor Carl Icahn’s plan to join the company’s board, according to media reports.The handset vendor is recommending shareholders vote for the company’s …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our Monday feature, Analyst Angle. We’ve collected a group of the industry’s leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry. …

Some attendees at last month’s 3GSM World Congress in Spain got an unexpected come-on as they entered the show: a Bluetooth-transmitted inquiry asking if they’d like to receive an official …

Leap Wireless International Inc. plans to offer CDMA2000 1x EV-DO service in its markets by the end of 2007, and expects to introduce new prepaid products in the second quarter. …

“Consolidation” is a well-worn phrase in business circles because it politely masks the fact that someone probably is going to get it in the neck.Typically, that means workers get hurt, …

Sorry, wrong numberA Kentucky middle school teacher was arrested after trying to arrange to buy drugs via text message. The woman mistakenly sent text messages about the buy to a …

Motricity Inc. once again added to its bank account, pocketing $50 million in equity funding from controversial investor Carl Icahn. Whether the cash will be enough to see the company …

Obopay Inc. continued to gain ground in the mobile payment space, inking an impressive deal for a pilot program to allow Citi customers to send and receive money from their …

Sprint Nextel Corp. and T-Mobile USA Inc. asked the Supreme Court to review a lower court ruling that reversed a Federal Communications Commission decision pre-empting states from regulating line-item charges …

The mobile-phone industry has jumped into a major Internet music rate case in a New York federal court. The outcome could determine whether cellular carriers, and thus subscribers could be …

What is it about the wireless industry that causes everyone outside the space to think that they can have their cake and eat it too?The most recent perpetrator is Skype, …

The U.S. House of Representatives canceled MobileAccess Networks’ in-building wireless license and add-on business to improve cellphone coverage in the House because of concerns the bidding process may have been …

Mobile marketing startup Mozes Inc. picked up $5 million in a first round of funding from Norwest Venture Partners and North Bridge Venture Partners.Mozes’ service, which is in beta testing, …

Snoop Dogg took the music world by storm in late 1992 when he helped propel gangsta rap to the most commercially successful subgenre of hip hop up to that point. …

The cellphone industry, the Bush administration and others are urging the Supreme Court to abandon a century-old antitrust standard in favor of one that would give carriers, vendors and others …

U.S. Cellular Corp. executives told analysts that they continue to be skeptical about the value of upgrading their CDMA 1x RTT network to EV-DO, preferring to wait until they are …

Sprint Nextel Corp. confirmed its dismal fourth-quarter customer numbers, which reflected an increasingly schizophrenic performance: reasonably healthy performance of its CDMA offerings, dragged down by unhappy iDEN customers. Meanwhile, competitor …

The mobile handset has become something of a looking glass in Wonderland. And mPortal Inc. was founded in 2000 to help clients-network operators, mobile virtual network operators, content providers and …

California is sprinkled with television studios, and while many of the traditional Hollywood studios already have or are in the process of creating separate divisions for endeavors in the mobile …