2008

By the time you read this, Black Friday will be in the record books. But it will be weeks, perhaps, until the wireless industry knows whether consumers embraced their inner spender on the hottest shopping day of the year, or …

Casino operator Harrah’s Operating Company Inc. is testing a new mobile-based loyalty program from bCode.

Editor’s Note: The following lists ranks the 10 most popular handsets in the United States for the month of October. Rankings were provided by AvianResearch L.L.C. The firm derives its ranking via its Monthly Retail Store Survey, which is based …

Blockbuster Inc. caught up to the competition last week by introducing a set-top box that brings rentals from the Internet to the television.

One of the most heated battles for control of people’s lives is about to take place, pitting the cell phone, TV, and computer against one another.

Alltel is teaming with mFoundry to create a new product called the Alltel Wallet.

Zumobi just launched a free iPhone application that meshes several social-networking sites, RSS feeds and other types of content into one place that users can access in real time.; iphone; smart phone; software; Ziibi; Zumobi; Zumobi just launched a free …

The App Store is doing well, there’s no doubt of that. And according to reports, the list of official, approved apps in the App Store has surpassed 10,000. This, of course, doesn’t include apps for jailbroken phones.

Word of the successful kernel porting was made on the Linux on the iPhone blog, complete with instructions and source code. About the touch screen, though…

THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION’S DELAY in ruling on backup power reporting requirements mandated by the Federal Communications Commission could suggest it sees merit in mobile phone industry arguments that compliance obligations imposed on carriers and accompanying costs are far greater than …

The Advertising Standards Authority in the United Kingdom has ruled that a particular Apple commercial touting the iPhone 3G as “really fast” to be misleading and has pulled the plug on the advertisement.The authority rendered its decision after receiving 17 …

The mobile information superhighway is in need of some serious maintenance. That’s the take-away from a new Yankee Group evaluation of 32 consumer-facing mobile Web sites. The market research firm scored the sites on a scale of one to 100, …

More shakeup continues at the senior executive level for Alcatel-Lucent, as the company has brought in a new CFO.The French-U.S. company announced today that Hubert de Pesquidoux has decided to leave his post as CFO to pursue other opportunities. Pesquidoux …

A company that manages wireless accounts for some of the largest corporations in the United States has teamed up with a firm that is well known for recycling handsets.Rivermine Inc. struck a deal with ReCellular Inc. to provide its enterprise …

Funny how an economic crisis rivaling (but hopefully not surpassing) the Great Depression tends to concentrate the minds of policymakers otherwise given to pugnacious political ideologies left to right. Survival has a way of quickly bringing into focus a vivid …

To lure customers, Blockbuster is offering the player at no charge for people who rent 25 online Blockbuster movies in advance for $99.

Twitter has apparently rejected an all-stock acquisition offer from Facebook. Twitter officials may want more than an estimated $500 million valuation as it continues to build its user base.

The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.Carrier–Barclays Capital lowered its price target on Sprint Nextel to $5 from $10 an lowered its 2009 EPS estimate to a …

Carriers are putting the finishing touches on their portfolios this week as the traditionally hottest shopping day of the year draws close. That’s Black Friday, this Friday.The new Samsung Omnia touchscreen smartphone will land at Verizon Wireless on Wednesday at …

The patent-licensing dispute between InterDigital Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. appears to be over as the two companies have hammered out an agreement regarding royalties for the sale of 2G and 3G products.According to the agreement, InterDigital has agreed …

A Los Angeles real estate developer filed a lawsuit against Apple Inc. claiming the company’s iPhone violates a patent he was awarded last month. Elliot Gottfurcht, a land developer and managing director of EMG Technology L.L.C., claims the iPhone’s Internet-navigation …

Sprint Nextel Corp. is back at it again with a new advertising campaign claiming the carrier is the industry leader in value, network superiority, customer service and wireless user experience.On Nov. 23, Sprint Nextel began airing more black-and-white commercials featuring …