AT&T Inc. launched a new service that allows customers to manage television recordings using their cellphones, further evidence of the carrier's moves toward an ever-tighter connection among the PC, the TV and the wireless phone.AT&T's Homezone uses a set-top device to integrate the company's...
A robust economy in China may be fueling robust ambitions. Two domestic Chinese handset makers will use the upcoming CTIA Wireless 2007 show to launch handsets in the United States, one under its own brand and the other under a well-recognized name, if not...
Sen. John Sununu (R-N.H.) is pushing an amendment to a homeland security bill that would ensure Internet Protocol-based solutions are not excluded from government grants aimed at making public-safety communications interoperable.Sununu's proposed amendment is expected to be voted on this week in Senate floor...
Infrastructure equipment maker ADC Telecommunications Inc. announced it increased earnings by 9 percent in the past quarter from the same quarter a year ago, but was also forced to restate its earnings for the fiscal year ending Oct. 31, 2006, to include a $6.7...
Rural Cellular Corp. posted mixed results as its losses widened, but it made major improvements in churn and customer gains.The Minnesota-based regional carrier reported a net loss of $53.6 million for the fourth quarter of 2006, more than double the loss of $21.8 million...
Mach announced that it acquired CB Holdings Inc., the parent company of financial-settlement company Cibernet. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Combined, Mach and Cibernet is expected to have more than 650 mobile operator clients that will process more than 25 billion billing...
The opening day of the 2007 Game Developers Conference was all about 5 percent.While U.S. consumers increasingly use their phones to send photos and experiment with the wireless Web, mobile gaming continues to lag. Less than 5 percent of all wireless users download a...
Research in Motion Ltd. has announced that it will adjust its earnings by $250 million due to the results of an internal review of its stock-option grants, and that several corporate officers will change positions as a result of the review.In September, RIM announced...
The Senate is set to vote this week on a homeland security bill that includes more federal support for interoperable public-safety wireless communications.The legislation addresses a serious first-responder problem highlighted in rescue efforts in the immediate aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks....
TracFone Wireless Inc. agreed to settle a class-action suit alleging the top prepaid cellular company misled consumers by charging them at the roaming rate in their home calling area and refusing to extend the length of their prepaid service periods during repairs of defective...
In the spirit of freewheeling online wireless forums such as Howard Forums and SprintUsers.com, Sprint Nextel Corp. has started its own virtual community for wireless fans, foes and aficionados.Users do not have to be Sprint Nextel customers to participate, nor are the topics limited...
A flurry of mobile gaming news is coming out of San Francisco in conjunction with the Game Developers Conference. Powerhouses and startups in the gaming industry have saturated the market of late; indeed, on-portal mobile gaming downloads generated more than $566 million last year,...
U.S. Cellular Corp.'s parent company, Telephone and Data Systems Inc., is no longer considering making an offer to acquire the portion of the carrier's stock that it doesn't already own. TDS had said in February that it might make an offer to issue shares...
Treo maker Palm Inc. is considering strategic options ranging from acquisitions to a full-out sale of the company, according to media reports. The news comes as the market for cellphones and smartphones continues to tighten for smaller players.Palm hired investment-banking firm Morgan Stanley to...
Qualcomm Inc. announced that China Network Systems (CNS) and Taiwan Television Enterprise Ltd. (TTV) have signed an agreement to conduct a technical trial of the San Diego-based company's MediaFLO technology in Taipei this month. The trial will feature four live channels of CNS content...
Motorola Inc. does not plan to support billionaire investor Carl Icahn's plan to join the company's board, according to media reports.The handset vendor is recommending shareholders vote for the company's own slate of directors. "We urge stockholders NOT to sign any proxy card that...
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 M:Metrics' Seamus McAteer, Ovum's Roger Entner...
U.S. Cellular Corp. executives told analysts that they continue to be skeptical about the value of upgrading their CDMA 1x RTT network to EV-DO, preferring to wait until they are certain to see a return on the network investment before doing anything more than...
The cellphone industry, the Bush administration and others are urging the Supreme Court to abandon a century-old antitrust standard in favor of one that would give carriers, vendors and others in the wireless supply chain greater protection against price-fixing lawsuits.The high court set oral...
Snoop Dogg took the music world by storm in late 1992 when he helped propel gangsta rap to the most commercially successful subgenre of hip hop up to that point. But, the world-famous rapper who brought us songs that will live on in clubs...
Mobile marketing startup Mozes Inc. picked up $5 million in a first round of funding from Norwest Venture Partners and North Bridge Venture Partners.Mozes' service, which is in beta testing, allows brands and other potential advertisers to build targeted, interactive mobile marketing campaigns through...
The U.S. House of Representatives canceled MobileAccess Networks' in-building wireless license and add-on business to improve cellphone coverage in the House because of concerns the bidding process may have been tainted by the lobbying scandal that resulted in guilty pleas by lobbyist Jack Abramoff,...
What is it about the wireless industry that causes everyone outside the space to think that they can have their cake and eat it too?The most recent perpetrator is Skype, which has asked the Federal Communications Commission to declare that all devices should be...
The mobile-phone industry has jumped into a major Internet music rate case in a New York federal court. The outcome could determine whether cellular carriers, and thus subscribers could be forced to pay more-actually twice-for downloading ringtones. It's not a rinky-dink matter. Ringtones,...
