State groups said the Supreme Court need not review a lower court ruling that dealt with line-item charges on mobile-phone bills. The Supreme Court ruling struck down a Federal Communications Commission decision pre-empting states from regulating line-item charges on cellphone bills.Sprint Nextel Corp. and...
Alltel Corp. added a new handset over the past week dubbed the "Snap," which the carrier is selling online for 99 cents with a two-year contract.The Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. flip phone features a camera and support for Alltel's various Web and application offerings.The...
Warner Music Group unveiled a division that will develop and produce original programming for mobile phones, cable TV, computers and other platforms.The division, dubbed Den of Thieves, will work with WMG's record labels to create content for distribution around artists' releases and special projects....
T-Mobile USA Inc. appears to have refreshed its handset lineup by discounting most of its Motorola Inc. Razrs-four models dropped to $30 from $50-and discontinuing the Moto Pebl.The Pebl had once been one of Motorola's flagship devices, and T-Mobile USA was the only major...
Synchronica plc announced it received $6.9 million in funding. The company, which specializes in data synchronization, device management and over-the-air updating services, said it plans to use the new funding to increase sales through a more streamlined handling of potential customers and to increase...
Intercasting Corp. announced that it raised $12 million in a second round of funding. The San Diego-based company said it will use the money to expand on carrier-based distribution and partners for its mobile social networking application, Rabble, and its social networking service gateway,...
Tween-focused mobile virtual network operator kajeet Inc. added more than 400 Longs Drugs stores as points of distribution for its pay-as-you-go wireless service. The Longs Drugs stores are located in California, Nevada and Hawaii. Kajeet will offer the LG Electronics Co. Ltd. LX150 handset...
Dobson Communications Corp. reported a larger net loss for the first quarter due to refinancing activities.The regional carriers posted a net loss of $32.6 million for the quarter, more than double the net loss of $13.3 million reported during the first quarter last year....
Tower vendor SBA Communications Corp. reported a wider net loss for the first quarter while revenues improved.The company reported total revenues of $95.8 million, up 39.2% from revenues of $68.8 million during the same period last year. SBA said its net loss increased from...
Counting on "small details" to differentiate its latest product launch, Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications L.P. announced it will launch its new S500 handset in the United States. Pricing and distribution were not provided.The quad-band, EDGE-enabled handset focuses on colors, materials and finishes-CMF, in industry...
Motorola Inc. said that dissident, billionaire investor Carl Icahn did not win a seat on the company's board of directors. The handset maker said that, based on an estimate of the votes cast at the company's annual stockholders' meeting in Chicago last night, it...
The front-office shuffle continued among the tier-one carriers as AT&T Mobility said Jim Ryan has stepped down from his post as VP of consumer and business data services.Ryan joined AT&T-then known as Cingular Wireless L.L.C.-in 2003, and oversaw several major initiatives including the carrier's...
Research In Motion Ltd. today announced its BlackBerry Mobile Voice System, which offers BlackBerry enterprise users a secure connection to their desk phone. The solution includes enhancements to BlackBerry device software, the BlackBerry Enterprise Server and the Ascendent Voice Mobility Suite from Ascendent Systems....
Qualcomm Inc. said Lenovo Mobile Communications Technology Ltd., a Chinese handset vendor, would license the San Diego company's 3G W-CDMA technology for its products. Qualcomm took the trouble to mention that "royalties payable by Lenovo Mobile are at Qualcomm's standard worldwide rates," perhaps to...
A majority of 12-to-14-year-olds have their own wireless phones, according to a recent study by research company iGR Inc., and a "significant percentage" of children younger than 10 years old also have their own phones.The numbers stem from a survey of tween and teen...
Where the days of yesteryear may have seen executives working business deals and networking on the golf course, the poker table has become the new venue for some.Bplay Inc. and Hands on Mobile Inc. have invited 150 guests to the World Poker Tour BlackBerry...
Investment capital continued to flow into the mobile social networking space as two new startups closed their first rounds of funding.Project Goth, which operates the "global mobile Internet community" mig33, said it pocketed $10 million in a first round of funding led by Accel...
American Tower Corp., one of the big three in the wireless tower industry, showed positive growth in its financial results for the first quarter of 2007. The company's total revenue increased 10% year-over-year to $352.5 million, with net income of $22.2 million."Wireless communications continue...
Apptix announced it acquired WebMessenger Inc. for $7 million in a combination of cash and company stock. The company aims to enhance its e-mail and voice services for small- and medium-sized businesses through the acquisition of the company and its mobile instant messaging technology.Los...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our Monday 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. In the coming weeks look for columns from Current Analysis' Avi Greengart, Compete's Miro...
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When it comes to reporting global broadband rankings, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has become to Bush administration telecom officials what Al Jezeera's coverage of the war on terrorism is to the White House. Indeed, it has not been unusual for Bush's...
The word last week that Nokia Corp.'s new N75 device would debut soon at AT&T Mobility drew its share of attention, for good reason. Though Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, Nokia's CEO, has made a point to extol the value of the U.S. market-declaring it a hotbed...
Traffic is as American as apple pie-millions of commuters face challenges and choices every day as they search for the least stressful, most direct route to work. Indeed, morning and afternoon radio and television news programming is saturated with traffic reports aimed at giving...
