June 2008

Hello! And welcome to our Thursday column, Worst of the Week. There’s a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so this column is a chance for …

Analyst Tero Kuittinen at Global Crown Capital L.L.C. said in a note to investors that top-tier carriers in the United States were pulling back on support for Motorola Inc., and …

This week Leap Wireless International Inc. brought on a new chief financial officer and, in turn, the company gave itself some financial breathing room. Walter Berger is Leap’s new CFO, …

Sprint Nextel Corp. is hoping to bridge the gap between enterprise users and multimedia devices with a new mobile e-mail service.The offering, awkwardly dubbed Sprint Mobile Email Work, allows customers …

Denny Marie Post has joined T-Mobile USA Inc. as chief marketing officer. She was previously senior VP of global food and beverage at Starbucks. “Denny has deep and varied experience …

CANNES, France — They’re hip, hot and everywhere on the planet. But despite a drumbeat about mobile phones being the new frontier in the ad world, marketers have been slow …

Analysis Contractors and sector-straddling quangocrats sought yesterday to convince politicians of the need to spend defence or security funds on radio-based backups for GPS satnav, according to reports.

Most employees know their bosses are usually within their rights snooping on workers’ e-mail, but text messaging has been in murkier territory.

Security appliance developer eSoft has updated its email gateway with the ability for users to spam-file or whitelist emails from any device, including a BlackBerry or smartphone. Previously, only Outlook …

Local mobile search services are growing in popularity, and nearly 1.3 billion mobile-phone users are expected to use local mobile search services by 2013, according to a new report from …

The Asia-Pacific region represents a significant opportunity for mobile WiMAX technology, according to a recent report from ABI Research.“Because mobile WiMAX is aimed at untapped markets, almost all vendors including …

The companies listed below represent the ten largest national and regional licensed wireless carriers based on subscriber numbers at the end of the first quarter of this year. There were …

The nation’s leading consumer groups urged the Federal Communications Commission to act on a request to investigate exclusivity pacts between top mobile-phone carriers and handset suppliers that rural wireless operators …

Apple Inc.’s iconic iPhone could become more prevalent in official Washington – especially among subway commuters – owing to House passage of an Amtrak funding bill with a provision designed …

LAS VEGAS – On day two of the NXTcomm08 event here, wireless seemed to jump out of the backseat and into the limelight. Executives Denny Strigl, current president and COO …

Delta Air Lines is the latest air carrier to get on board with mobile, allowing travelers at New York’s LaGuardia to use their phones as a boarding pass.Domestic flyers departing …

A group of private equity investors has rescued the municipal Wi-Fi network in Philadelphia, the city announced yesterday.The situation has been closely watched due to the failure of a number …

Google Inc. is still the player to beat in mobile search, according to new figures from Nielsen Mobile.The Internet giant accounted for a dominating 61% of all mobile Internet searches …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. phone companies would be shielded from potentially billions of dollars in lawsuits under an anti-terror spy measure that appears headed toward approval, congressional sources said on …

Global mobile transactions are forecast to mushroom—from 2.7 billion in 2007 to 37 billion by 2011—with growth mainly in developing countries

The White Spaces Coalition has some strong words for one ofits harshest critics, the wireless microphone industry.

MimoOn GmbH (Duisberg, Germany), a developer of software-defined radio technology, has recruited research team from Nokia Research in Bochum, Germany and Helsinki, Finland.

The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.Carrier–RBC Capital Markets lowered its price target on AT&T to $46 …

Carriers are changing their minds about outsourcing pieces of their operations. The decision for carriers to put units of their business in others’ hands is beginning to increase in popularity …

LAS VEGAS – The growing importance of wireless in the general telecom space was evident during this morning’s keynote session at the NXTcomm08 trade show here, as AT&T Inc. chief …