June 2008

BARCELONA, Spain – Nokia Corp. used its S60 Summit ’08 to tout the reach of its smartphone platform, woo low-profile developers and – like just about everybody else in mobile …

The Federal Emergency Management Agency said it will oversee the national mobile-phone alert system, the announcement coming after the agency earlier this year hesitated about taking on the role because …

Mobile content provider go2 Media Inc. notched its third tier-one carrier win, announcing an agreement to deliver information through T-Mobile USA Inc.’s t-zones service.The Boston-based firm said T-Mobile wireless Web …

Following the Chinese government’s decision to require a complete restructuring of the country’s telecommunications sector prior to issuing 3G licenses, one the country’s operators announced more details about the mergers …

Welcome to our weekly RCR Wireless Newscast. Top stories this week include China’s 3G moves, the future of mobile marketing, and a look at what to do with the D …

MARINA DEL REY, Calif. – A pair of Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group executives didn’t paint such a rosy picture for mobile in a keynote here at the MEFCON conference.Thomas …

Vodafone Group plc will say goodbye to its fearless leader. After five years as CEO, Arun Sarin announced last week that he is retiring as head of one of the …

MARINA DEL REY, Calif. – The writing team of Terry Rossio and Jocelyn Stamat wasn’t allowed to write during the 100-day-long writer’s strike that ended last February, but they were …

Maybe John McCain should take up singingMore than 78 million text messages were sent to vote for the winner of this year’s American Idol show, shattering the previous record of …

Coupon clipping is going mobile. Juniper Research estimates almost 3 billion mobile coupons will be issued to mobile users by 2011. And those coupons will yield about $7 billion of …

IMS Research predicts users of contactless mobile payments, mobile banking and over the air transactions will reach nearly 900 million by 2012.Those subscribers will complete 62 billion transactions in 2012, …

The mobile device management services market is expected to grow from $583 million in 2007 to more than $20 billion by 2013, according to a report from ABI Research.“The range …

The iPhone is still the second-most sold smartphone in the U.S. behind RIM’s BlackBerry, but RIM and Palm gained ground in the first quarter at Apple’s expense.

Internet giant says phones with its Android software are still on track to ship this year, contrary to a report Monday.

Under pressure to help dispose some of the electronic waste it helped create, Best Buy Co. is testing a free program that will offer consumers a convenient way to ensure …

You’re used to paying extra if you use up your cell phone minutes, but will you be willing to pay extra if your home computer goes over its Internet allowance?

Intel Corp. has been heavily promoting a new breed of pocket-size portable devices as a future market for its chips. Its competitors now hope to reap the benefits.

Apple’s iPhone took 19.2% of the US market for “smart” phones in the first quarter of 2008, according to research firm IDC.

Apple’s splash into the cell phone market proved consumers will pay for hip devices. Now the race is on to one-up the iPhone.. What a difference a year makes. This …

The fifth season of the FX series Rescue Me won’t air until next spring, but fans of the firehouse drama are being rewarded for their patience.

Don Reisinger considers the possibility of game developers getting into other forms of entertainment. Will it really work?

Contrary to some reports, everything that makes Android “Android”, including all the core platform components and libraries needed to port Android to new devices will be open sourced under commonly …

TD-SCDMA WORKS. That’s the view of one analyst who participated in trials in Baoding, China, as long ago as December 2006.A very modest supply of subsidized handsets and data cards …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly 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. …

The buzz is inescapable. Next week, Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs is expected to announce the next iteration of the company’s iPhone at Apple’s annual developer conference.In the run-up to …