Mobile and Wireless Industry Reports

LG Electronics will launch in October a netbook-class laptop PC based on Intel’s Atom processor that also includes 3G wireless, it said Wednesday at the IFA show in Berlin.

This morning Nokia officially announced the N85 and N79 handsets, which are targeted at the North American market. Both run S60 3rd Edition with Feature Pack 2 and house tri-band …

The design of HTC’s latest slider handset may hark back to early smartphone formats, but the S740 still packs in all the technology necessary to make it a leading contender …

I’ve been playing with a free iPhone application called Loopt (Web site, App Store ). It allows you to stay connected to your friends, colleagues and relatives who are also …

Google dropped Bluetooth and the GTalkService instant messaging APIs (application program interfaces) from the set of tools for the first version of the mobile phone OS, Android 1.0, according to …

Virgin Mobile completed its acquisition of struggling cellular carrier Helio for US$38 million in stock, an Associated Press report said.

People Telecom, an Australian retailer of telecoms services has announced a three-year agreement with Vodafone for an MVNO platform.

My company is considering purchasing new smartphones for all employees and I am concerned about the implications of what this means for tracking our sensitive data.

The financial functionality of mobile phones is poised to explode.

MENLO PARK, California — Matt Murphy eats at expensive steakhouses, likes to watch his kids play soccer and is a loyal fan of Peet's Coffee & Tea. And if he …

Disney embarked on a cellular phone business in the US as early as June 2006 but pulled the plug at the end of last year, citing delays in the spread …

Verizon Communications Inc. is nearing an agreement with Google Inc. on a wide-ranging partnership, according to people familiar with the situation, in what could be a much-needed jolt for the …

iPhone 2.0 make waves with thousands of downloadable applications. Despite complaints from some users about iPhone 3G wireless connections, Apple Inc.

Nortel Networks ( NT ) said it’s paying up to $10 million for DiamondWare, a provider of positional voice technology. It’s paying $7 million in cash, plus up to $3 …

An Alabama woman is suing Apple for claiming its latest iPhone offers 3G connectivity when she can’t get connected most of the time, despite AT&T having decent coverage where she …

Bankers report adoption exceeds industry expectations, but not everyone is convinced.

The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.Carrier–Lehman Brothers dropped its estimates on Leap Wireless based on predictions …

Every year is the “year of mobile.” There have been expectations from the outset for this advertising platform to revolutionize the industry, and if mastered, marketers could tag along with …

How high it will climb depends on how the market is sized.

Open Mobile Video Coalition to work with Advanced Television Systems Committee to speed standards process.

Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo are all offering ways to follow the Democratic and Republican conventions online. They are facilitating the conventions in a number of other ways as well.

Greece’s OTE has announced that its pilot WiMAX network in Mount Athos is now operational. In total, six WiMAX base stations have already been installed. The network range reaches 50 …

If you want a marketing platform that offers reach, ease of entry, targeting and interactivity, then text marketing has it all.

Ringtone is part of a three-year campaign to normalize condom use in India. And it’s actually quite catchy.

Those tunes that play while you wait for someone to pick up are expected to generate $4.7 billion in revenue for mobile operators by 2012, according to new research.