February 2009

AT&T Mobility filed a lawsuit in Georgia federal court to crack down on autodial telemarketers offering wireless consumers extended automobile warranties, making it the second national wireless operator to pursue …

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With wireless providers looking to enhance their networks during an economic downturn, Nokia Siemens Networks unveiled a base station that it claims can handle the migration from 2G to 3G …

VeriSign Inc. continued to streamline its business by jettisoning part of its European mobile messaging division.The Mountain View, Calif.-based company had established a mobile foothold in Europe with the 2006 …

Mobile application retailer Handmark announced a deal to acquire FreeRange Communications, a Portland, Ore.-based mobile technology firm, for an undisclosed amount.FreeRange offers a publishing platform designed to help media companies …

Following a lengthy legal process, the Circuit Court of Cook County Illinois has ordered Sprint Nextel Corp. to sell all Nextel operations in affiliate iPCS Inc.’s service areas. Sprint Nextel …

Four executives, including RIM’s co-CEOs and chief operating officer, will pay fines totalling about US$75 million, the company said.

Security software maker Certicom Corp said that BlackBerry maker Research In Motion had tendered a superior bid to VeriSign Inc, the latest move in a takeover tug-of-war.

Now that retailers have honed in on wireless, realizing that it can serve as an integral part of its business, they’ve also begun to notice that customers need more help …

Several retail chains reported steep drops in January store sales. But Wal-Mart sees some relief at its discount stores.

Motorola has begun testing 4G Long-Term Evolution (LTE) broadband in the UK. The firm said the trial kicked off at a testing lab in Swindon with a “live, over-the-air, standards-compliant …

Facebook has joined the board of the OpenID Foundation and will host an OpenID Design Summit later this month, according to a post on the social network’s developer blog.

Although the 15-seconds of Internet fame surrounding games and videos parodying the George W. Bush shoe throwing incident have probably passed, an interesting new nugget about the iPhone App Store’s …

Congress approved legislation to postpone the digital TV transition from Feb. 17 to June 12, capping a fiercely-partisan House debate today that forces wireless carriers to wait another four months …

A big chunk of the billions of dollars earmarked in economic recovery bills for broadband grants for wireless and other service providers likely will not make it into the private …

French-American telecommunication equipment manufacturer Alcatel-Lucent posted its eighth straight quarterly loss, posting a $5 billion loss for the fourth quarter, which is the company’s largest since it was formed more …

According to a Wall Street Journal report this morning, AT&T Inc. is very interested in acquiring network assets and customers Verizon Wireless has to divest as part of its acquisition …

Shares of Electronic Arts Inc. soared as the company announced cost-cutting measures after its wireless business suffered an estimated $368 million charge.The Redwood City, Calif.-based publisher posted a $641 million …

T-Mobile USA Inc. scored a 755 out of 1,000 possible points in J.D. Power and Associates latest wireless customer care performance study, the highest out of all carriers tested. The …

Google Inc. is jumping headfirst into the location-aware social networking space.The Internet titan unveiled Latitude, a Google Maps feature that allows users to share their location information and check the …

The land rush is on for the new .tel domain. The question is, why?The U.K.-based firm Telnic is hoping to create a “phone book for the Internet” with the new …

Dallas-based MetroPCS Communications Inc., the surprise winner in a 2006 auction of $3.6 billion worth of licenses covering the New York area, made its wireless debut today in New York …

Smartphones are no longer the exclusive domain of high-powered executives and road warriors. But what that means for the mobile e-mail space – which seems perennially on the verge of …

The difficult economy has had an effect on the Ultra Wideband market, with 2008 marking the exit of four UWB chip makers from the market, according to a report from …