It's official: the BlackBerry Curve from Research In Motion Ltd., is available at AT&T Mobility beginning tomorrow. Price is $200, with two-year contract and mail-in rebate. The quad-band device rides on AT&T Mobility's EDGE network. Any doubts that RIM-known for its productivity-oriented, e-mail slabs-has...
You've heard that smartphones are the growth area in mobile handsets, with actual numbers to support this development-long-sought by vendors seeking higher average selling prices and carriers seeking improved data revenue.On a dollar-for-dollar basis, however, handset accessories will generate more revenue this year than...
Women's mobile content startup LimeLife Inc. pocketed $3.9 million in funding-and a potentially important new board member-thanks to Core Capital Partners.LimeLife targets on-the-go women with mobile content from Rachael Ray and Time Inc.'s In Style magazine. Under terms of the deal, Core Capital executive...
The global trend toward 3G technologies will lift Qualcomm Inc.'s earnings and stock value over the coming years-despite the company's ongoing dispute with Nokia Corp., according to American Technology Research. Over the next three years, W-CDMA will replace GSM in two-thirds of wireless networks...
The enterprise telephony space is ripe for consolidation, a Prudential analyst said in a new report, and there is plenty of appetite in the industry for a takeover of Avaya Inc.Nortel Networks Ltd., Cisco Systems Inc. and a private equity firm are all reported...
A Virginian jury ruled in favor of TeleCommunication Systems Inc. in the company's patent-infringement battle with Sybase Inc., awarding TCS a one-time payment of $12.1 million for past royalties. Sybase said it would appeal the verdict.The issue stems from TCS' patent No. 6,985,748, which...
Online gaming giant PopCap Games launched its first internally developed wireless title with a mobile version of its popular game Chuzzle.PopCap claims to have delivered more than 200 million downloads on computers and mobile phones, and the company owns the blockbuster cross-platform title Bejeweled....
Longtime VeriSign Inc. chief Stratton Sclavos stepped down as the company's internal investigation into stock-options grants comes to an end.The Mountain View, Calif., company declined to offer reasons for the departure of Sclavos, who joined VeriSign 12 years ago. But the firm said the...
The venture capital arm of German telecom giant Deutsche Telekom AG has joined Intel Corp. in investing in Jajah Inc., a two-year-old company offering global Voice over Internet Protocol service.The T-Online Venture Fund, managed by DT's T-Venture entity, participated in Jajah's third funding round,...
New research shows that the early entrants into the WiMAX market-firms like Alavarion, Aperto, Redline and Airspan-will be able to profit from their jump into an unproven industry, and will not be swallowed up by larger but slower WiMAX players like Motorola Inc. and...
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 Jupiter Research's Julie Ask, Current Analysis'...
Third-generation networks are expected to capture only 30 percent of the machine-to-machine communications market by 2012, predicts a new report from ABI Research."Municipal Wi-Fi and WiMAX will both challenge 3G cellular technology as the most suitable methods to achieve high-speed M2M communications for many...
Verizon Wireless is one of two premiere sponsors behind a new TV show that overtly places brand names and products in budding filmmakers' creative talent. The filmmaking competition, "On the Lot," will prominently feature its partners, Verizon and Ford, in the TV show, as...
When cold weather began to take hold in the nation's capital a couple years back, Washington Post columnist Courtland Milloy, attempting to dispense a bit of common-sense wisdom to readers and put in a dig at a consumer culture based on brand names,...
Growth in the handset market in the United States remains healthy, and recent market-share figures for vendors paint a markedly different picture than the global scene. Handset sales in the first quarter grew 12% from the year-ago quarter, with the sale of about 39...
UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif.-Who is watching mobile TV and video? Whoever holds the answer will find a lot of interest among mobile TV providers, broadcasters, TV networks, film studios and advertisers.Data on TV viewership has been a staple in the entertainment industry for decades, but...
In a city that prides itself on the blood sport of politics, good guys are supposed to come in last. Often they do. It's just business, nothing personal, you understand. Dog-eat-dog. The jungle. Dogged Darwinism. Smash-mouth democracy at its finest. Bring it on! JAY...
Arlene Harris has been connecting people to one another for a long time-ever since she was a child, helping connect calls for her family's mobile telephone switchboard in the 1950s. Harris has continued to forge connections through communications products as the wireless industry has...
PHILADELPHIA-A three-judge appellate panel hinted the Federal Communications Commission's small-business bidding rules could be on shaky legal ground, but seemed hesitant about throwing out results of last year's $13.7 billion advanced wireless services auction.Council Tree Communications Inc., Bethel Native Corp. and the Minority...
Mozilla Corp. is looking to Joey to help untangle the wireless Web.The Mountain View, Calif.-based developer is toying with a service that allows users of its Firefox browser to store content on a remote server. Firefox users can save pages on the server, which...
Mobile game publishers and their carrier partners are hoping to lure newbies by giving away everything from 30-second game demos to a Volkswagen Beetle. Whether they're succeeding, though, is far from certain. Wireless gaming continues to struggle to expand past the "golden nickel"-the 5%...
HOLLYWOOD, Calif.-Casual gaming will become a first tier of entertainment thanks to innovative thinking by entrepreneurs and barriers lowered by technology, John Welch, president and CEO of Playfirst, said in his opening keynote address at the Games and Mobile Forum, part of the LA...
The U.S. cellular industry added 18 million connections during 2006, bringing the total number of U.S. wireless connections to 232 million, according to Wireless Intelligence, a joint venture of Ovum and the GSM Association.Connections include subscribers, but also potentially machine-to-machine applications.Wireless Intelligence said the...
Harbinger Capital Partners is hoping to buy Openwave Systems Inc. at closeout prices. And as the Alltel Corp. deal demonstrates, Harbinger isn't the only private firm looking for a bargain in wireless.The investment firm is looking to buy more than 40 million Openwave shares...
