Institutional Shareholder Services has endorsed billionaire investor Carl Icahn's campaign to gain a seat on Motorola Inc.'s board of directors, according to Icahn. The move would appear to boost Icahn's ambition to shift management and operational strategies at the ailing handset giant, while dealing...
Research In Motion Ltd. announced a "World Edition" BlackBerry for international travelers that combines CDMA and GSM technology and will be sold by Verizon Wireless and Sprint Nextel Corp.The two-carrier deal covers the two CDMA operators in the United States, an arrangement that may...
Text-based mobile search company 4INFO said it will begin to monetize its basic service by placing advertisements in its search results.The San Francisco-based startup said it will sell space for relevant ad campaigns that can be independently managed by marketing companies, allowing them to...
The mobile payment space continued to gain steam as Nokia Corp. and 10 network operators joined an effort by the GSM Association to allow consumers to pay with their phones at retail outlets.European and Asian network operators KPN, O2, Orange, SingTel, Vodafone Group plc...
AT&T Inc., parent of the top mobile phone carrier, urged the Federal Communications Commission to decide whether Sprint Nextel Corp. should be fined for failing to meet a key deadline in reconfiguring the 800 MHz band to fix interference caused to public-safety radio systems."he...
As has become commonplace between the nation's two largest wireless providers, AT&T Inc. has followed its smaller rival Verizon Wireless in unveiling unlimited text messaging plans for its wireless service. The AT&T offer, dubbed Messaging Unlimited, provides customers with unlimited text, picture, video and...
Tira Wireless this week unveiled an upgrade of its porting technology, adding features that allow developers to automatically tweak applications across handsets.The Toronto-based company is boosting its Jump platform with "Jumplets"-customized components that can be used time and again with different builds. The J2ME-compatible...
DETROIT-OnStar subscribers will be able to send driving directions to their vehicles under a new partnership between General Motors' telematics service and the MapQuest Web site.The navigation program, called OnStar Web Destination Entry, is scheduled to begin this summer. It will allow customers to...
Industry and disability groups reached agreement on an alternative approach to a federal mandate requiring half of the cellphones offered by national wireless carriers to be hearing-aid compatible (HAC) by Feb. 18, 2008.The consensus accord calls for additional microphone-rated and telecoil-rated HAC handsets than...
Tellabs Inc. said its first-quarter net profit plummeted 51 percent and revenues fell 12 percent as the company suffered decreased sales of its broadband and access products.The Naperville, Ill.-based equipment provider reported quarterly revenue of $452 million, down from $515 million during the year-ago...
Sprint Nextel Corp. is upstaging with the Upstage.Perhaps taking advantage of a lull in pricing changes by its larger rivals, Sprint Nextel this week slashed its price on the latest and greatest from Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.; the Upstage music phone, a Sprint Nextel...
Although Alcatel-Lucent warned of lower revenues and an operating loss for the first quarter, it appears that investors had expected worse as the company's stock rose more than 5 percent on its announcement to $13.22 per share. The firm blamed much of its first-quarter...
Internet service provider Moline Dispatch Publishing Co. said it plans to launch a WiMAX network covering western Illinois and eastern Iowa using equipment from Nortel Networks Ltd.The service, to be offered through MDPC's Quad-Cities Online subsidiary, will use 2.5 GHz spectrum available through a...
AT&T Inc.'s wireless division, Cingular Wireless, posted mixed first quarter results with customer growth coming in below expectations but churn and average revenue per user exceeding forecasts.The country's largest wireless carrier said it added just shy of 1.2 million customers during the quarter, which...
Oz Communications Inc. is looking to expand its mobile messaging offerings with the acquisition of Thumbspeed Inc. from Hands-On Mobile Inc.Terms of the deal were not disclosed.Thumbspeed develops and publishes mobile messaging, photo-sharing and personalization services and applications, including branded services from AOL, MSN...
Leap Wireless International Inc. unveiled a new payment schedule for its Cricket wireless service that allows customers to pay their bills on a weekly basis.The carrier's new Cricket by Week product is priced at $18 per week and includes unlimited anytime minutes, domestic long...
Texas Instruments Inc. reported revenue of $3.2 billion and net profit of $516 million, down 4 percent and nearly 12 percent, respectively, over the year-ago quarter. The chip vendor said that revenue was impacted by an inventory correction in the market. "We believe the...
InfoSpace Inc. got some good news-a rarity lately-as AT&T Inc. said the buffeted company will continue to power the carrier's MEdia Net service.The agreement renews a pact struck in 2003, when InfoSpace began offering mobile e-mail access, messaging, games, ringtones and other content to...
L.M. Ericsson announced that it has completed its public cash offer to acquire all remaining shares of Norway's Tandberg Television. A finalized settlement for shares submitted in the offer is expected to close this week.Immediately following the settlement, Ericsson plans to proceed with a...
Napster L.L.C. said it will team with Tower Records Japan on its first over-the-air, full-track mobile music service.NTT DoCoMo Inc. will be the first operator to market the mobile service, which will expand the Napster To Go offering beyond sideloading into on-the-go downloads. The...
Financial institutions are rushing to deploy mobile banking services consumers don't appear to want, according to new figures from JupiterResearch.The market research firm found that just 8 percent of online consumers who own a mobile phone are interested in browsing on the device to...
With wireless carriers expected to begin announcing first quarter results this week, accounting-challenged U.S. Cellular Corp. reported much-delayed fourth quarter results as well as limited first quarter results.The carrier said it added 86,000 net subscribers during the final three months of 2006, which was...
Time Warner Cable has partnered with Spanish-based hotspot company FON to offer its subscribers access to any of FON's 60,000 Wi-Fi hotspots scattered throughout the country.Interestingly, those FON hotspots are actually managed by FON community members who share their unused bandwidth via a FON...
Research In Motion Ltd. said it would provide software later this year to expand BlackBerry software applications to third-party devices running Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Mobile and, eventually, other operating systems. The move is aimed at extending BlackBerry applications to a broader range of devices,...
