2008

Nokia Corp. hit the second-quarter finish line (pun intended) with strong year-over-year growth in handset shipment volumes, a key metric for Wall Street and those given to horse-race analogies.The company’s performance established that, despite global macro-economic woes, growth in shipments …

SAN FRANCISCO – The thud of the morning newspaper landing on the front porch may one day be replaced with the beep of download onto a cellphone.

PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) – Motorola Inc (MOT.N: Quote , Profile , Research , Stock Buzz ) will create three businesses within its home and networks mobility business to focus on the sectors’ growth potential, the cell phone maker said.

More than ‘a common bug,’ but not cancer, NYT says. Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs has some health problems, but they are not life-threatening, the New York Times reported.

LOS ANGELES — Apple’s experiencing serious Microsoft-type growing pains with its launch of the new iPhone that went on sale two weeks ago.

The iPhone and Nokia handsets are the most-used handsets for accessing mobile maps, according to ComScore.

Starting with its upcoming E71 and E66 smartphones, Nokia said it wants to offer the option of connecting to other e-mail services.

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 introduction of the iPhone was the most significant event …

The tower industry was busy last week with Sprint Nextel Corp. announcing the sale of 3,300 towers to TowerCo L.L.C. for $670 million and tower giant SBA acquiring a pair of smaller players. Sprint Nextel said the sale of its …

The satellite radio pioneers have the green light to unite, but pressure from rivals and declining car sales threatens to turn satellite radio into a niche market

A majority of members of the Federal Communications Commission have cast votes in favor of punishing Comcast Corp. for blocking subscribers’ Internet traffic, an agency official said Friday.

SPRINT NEXTEL CORP. AND CLEARWIRE CORP.’S CAMPAIGN to win government approval of a their national WiMAX plan is drawing static from AT&T Inc. and rural cellular operators on key unsettled wireless policy issues, but the deal has picked up backing …

Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News has teamed with the Yankee Group to conduct a series of market surveys of RCR Wireless News’ subscribers to gauge their thoughts o technology issues impacting the wireless ecosystem. Those of you who respond to …

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. solidified its position as the world’s No. 2 handset vendor in the second quarter, with less than half the volume of Nokia Corp. but nearly twice the volume of closest rival LG Electronics Co. Ltd.Handsets proved …

SkyTerra Communications Inc. and Mobile Satellite Ventures L.P. announced Harbinger Capital Partners Funds agreed to provide $500 million of debt financing to fund the former’s business plan through the third quarter of 2010.In addition, SkyTerra and MSV said they entered …

RadioShack Corp. reported a 6.9% increase in sales, driven by revenues from digital-to-analog TV converter boxes, GPS device sales, video gaming sales, prepaid wireless phones and improvement in AT&T Mobility’s postpaid offerings. However, Sprint Nextel Corp. continued to drag on …

Public-safety groups, which last year successively persuaded federal regulators to adopt a strict enhanced 911 location accuracy standard over the objections of wireless providers, now say the rule is unworkable and should be replaced with a more lenient one. They …

Stephen King fans can check out the author’s latest work on their phones through a deal between Marvel Entertainment, CBS Mobile and Simon & Schuster subsidiary Scribner.The companies have teamed to produce 25 original video episodes based on “N,” a …

Nearly lost in the generally positive hubbub over an agreement between Qualcomm Inc. and Nokia Corp., was the former’s actual earnings in fiscal third quarter and outlook for the rest of the year.Tepid guidance from Qualcomm, on the heels of …

Today, at least two companies have incorporated an innovation for M2M that first was aimed at the handset market: FOTA, or, firmware-over-the-air. Make that DOTA (based on OFDM standards), in Wavecom’s parlance: download-over-the-air. Or, in Red Bend Software’s case, FOTA …

Verizon Wireless is smart to quickly agree to sell off wireless properties in 85 markets where it overlaps with Alltel Communications L.L.C. assets in order to try to speed approval of its plan to buy the nation’s No. 5 carrier …

AT&T’s new service, AT&T Navigator Global Edition, uses data connections to download maps, so an international data-roaming plan is strongly recommended in conjunction with the service.

The Federal Communications Commission delivered to House Commerce Committee investigators at least 40 boxes of documents as part of a probe of agency activities under Chairman Kevin Martin, sidetracking any possibility of a hearing this month and virtually guaranteeing the …

Sprint Nextel Corp. sold its 3,300 towers to TowerCo L.L.C. for $670 million, a move that provides the carrier with some cash and relieves it of the business of owning and managing the towers.The companies expect the deal to close …