2009

Thanks to its open-ended design and a thriving user community, Twitter is fast outgrowing its roots as a simple, easy-to-use messaging service. Enterprising hackers are creating apps for sharing music …

The following list details this week’s infrastructure awards for the cellular, Wi-Fi, and WiMAX industries. The contracts are broken down by transmission technology, country and vendor. The value of the …

If the idea of marketing Porsche sports cars on mobile handsets seems unlikely, it’s for good reason: Mobile skews young, but the core Porsche demographic is more middle-age male. And …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We’ve gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace. Billions of …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We’ve gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace. Billions of …

Text messaging remains the most profitable value-added data service, according to a new study from research firm In-Stat.The company said short message service (SMS) and multimedia message service (MMS) technologies …

The compromise Senate economic stimulus bill reduces funding for broadband grants from $9 billion to $7 billion while retaining tax breaks for high-speed Internet deployment in underserved areas, setting the …

The LiMo Foundation continues to make strides as it announced updates to its open platform, notched six new operators to deliver handsets and added two new directors to its board.NTT …

The Communications Workers of America and AT&T Mobility failed to reach an agreement over the weekend on a new contract covering 20,000 wireless workers in the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Midwest, Mountain …

Microsoft Corp. is the latest company to jump on the cloud-computing craze with a free new service for Windows Mobile users.The software giant unveiled My Phone, a Web-based service that …

If Verizon Wireless completes the acquisition of Alltel Communications L.L.C the same way it has with previous purchases, there are a few certainties: the network comes first and don’t expect …

The wireless pundits are chattering about a new offer from Verizon Wireless. The nation’s largest carrier is offering a buy-one-get-one-of-equal-or-lesser-value-for-free promotion on the most popular smartphone brand – Research In …

Is Nokia about to launch an application store for its Symbian platform at next week’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona? That’s the rumor buzzing about the Internet this morning.

Vodafone, the world’s largest wireless carrier, and Hutchison Telecommunications, a unit controlled by Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing, said Monday they will merge their telecommunications businesses in Australia, forging an …

Samsung in Korea announced that it will be showing off a new version of its TouchWiz user interface at Mobile World Congress. Some of the new features will include 3D …

Amazon’s second-generation e-book reader has just been unveiled in New York as a device that measures 8 x 5.3 x 0.36in and which has a 6in, 600 x 800 E-Ink …

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. …

Communications Workers of America members overwhelmingly voted to authorize a strike on behalf of more than 20,000 unionized AT&T Mobility employees if concerns about compensation, employment and working conditions are …

Google Inc. launched a mobile version of its book search offering, enabling users with devices such as Apple Inc.’s iPhone and T-Mobile USA Inc.’s G1 to access more than 1.5 …

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. eked out a slim lead in market share over Motorola Inc. in the United States last year, in part due to the latter’s fading fortunes, according …

For all the things the iPhone can do, running Flash – a platform that displays interactive graphics and animations – isn’t one of them. But Greystripe isn’t waiting around for …

Nortel Network Corp’s decision to shut down its mobile WiMAX division not only hurt Alvarion Ltd.’s 2008 bottom line but its severed agreement will linger this year and may result …

“The time for talk is over,” Obama bellowed. “The time for action is now. Because we know if we do not act, a bad situation will become dramatically worse. Crisis …

Nickelodeon is launching a series of iPhone and iTouch applications based on its popular shows “SpongeBob SquarePants,” “Dora the Explorer” and “iCarly.” Users will be challenged to match shapes, count …

Sales of GPS-enabled mobile phone are expected to buck the global trend of handset shipment declines this year, according to a report from ABI Research.And even though the market is …