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Apple, others license Klausner voicemail patents

Klausner Technology said on Monday that Apple, eBay and AT&T have agreed to license its "visual voicemail" technology and settled a lawsuit against them.

Velocita nabs SkyTel’s paging service for $7.5M

Bell Industries Inc. has finally gotten SkyTel off its plate. Velocita Wireless L.L.C. bought the division for $7.5 million, paying $3 million in closing, $3 million in 30 days and $1.5 million in deferred payments over the next year. SkyTel offers paging, messaging and...

LG hides Bluetooth headset inside phone

Verizon Wireless unveiled what it said is the first mobile phone with a built-in detachable Bluetooth headset.The Decoy, from LG Electronics Co. Ltd., features a docking port on the back that houses the small headset, which can be released by pressing a button on...

Cox papers go mobile

Cox Newspapers has tapped Quattro Wireless to power 19 new wireless Web sites.The subsidiary of Atlanta's Cox Enterprises Inc. launched mobile destinations for newspapers such as the Austin (Texas) Statesman, the Palm Beach (Florida) Post, the Dayton (Ohio) Daily News and the Waco (Texas)...

Analyst Angle: Apple’s possible iPhone miss

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly 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' Peter Jarich, NPD Group's...

Telstra’s media ambitions pay off

TELSTRA'S bid to turn itself into a media company is paying dividends, according to BigPond chief Justin Milne, who yesterday told the Cannes Advertising Festival that the number of people viewing media content on the carrier's 3G network had grown 43 per cent in...

T-Mobile to sell 3G iPhone from 1 euro in Germany

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Deutsche Telekom AG's (DTEGn.DE: Quote , Profile , Research , Stock Buzz ) T-Mobile will sell Apple Inc's (AAPL.O: Quote , Profile , Research , Stock Buzz ) new iPhone for as little as 1 euro ($1.

Mozilla Girds for Mobile Browser Warfare

When Mozilla releases its Firefox 3 browser update June 17, it hopes to set the first-ever Guinness world record for number of Internet software downloads in 24 hours. The target: 5 million. That would be quite a feat, since the last Firefox update netted...

Tiny text messages can pack a wallop

Are marketing and transactional text messages right for e-retailers? They're being used by a handful of merchants and garnering success as consumers are growing increasingly fond of the tiny communications vehicles, akin to miniature e-mails that can pack a wallop when used right.

DoCoMo Confirms Bangladesh Investment

Japan's DoCoMo has finally confirmed that it is buying a 30 percent stake in TM International (Bangladesh) Limited (TMIB), a mobile phone operator based in Dhaka, Bangladesh, by directly acquiring all stock in TMIB held by A.K. Khan and its four group companies.

Motorola’s Tricky Reality

Motorola Inc. and its mobile-devices division have amicably agreed to separate. But working out the financial details may be tough.

Panasonic’s Link to Cell connects cordless phones to cellphones through Bluetooth

Panasonic announced its Link to Cell KX-TH1211 accessory is now available at retail outlets.The product connects a Bluetooth-enabled cellular phone to home-based cordless handsets and allows users to initiate and receive mobile calls from a cordless handset. The company said the product preserves battery...

Bank of America counts 1 million mobile bankers

Bank of America said it has topped the 1 million mark for its unique active mobile banking customers after one year of service.The company introduced its mobile banking service nationwide in May 2007. The service allows customers to check balances, pay bills, transfer funds,...

GE Healthcare gives white space broadband a boost

Advocates of unlicensed broadband devices may have won a small but significant victory at the Federal Communications Commission.

Motorola Intros Car-Centric Bluetooth Headset Ahead of New Hands-Free Laws

Starting July 1, expect to see lots of drivers in California and Washington talking hands-free on their mobile phones. Or else being handed a ticket by a cop if they choose to hold a phone to their ear.

Martin wades into ETF debate: The burning question: Federal or state oversight?

The Federal Communications Commission appears poised to begin crafting federal guidelines on early termination fees, with Chairman Kevin Martin offering a blueprint on how a national regime might look.At the same time, it remains unclear whether Martin will pursue the far more controversial step...

Nokia beefs Verizon Wireless position with ‘The Dark Knight’

To resurrect its profile - and profits - in the United States, Nokia Corp. has pledged to make inroads with each of the major carriers. At Verizon Wireless, enter "The Dark Knight," which seeks to capitalize on the summer release of another cinematic triumph...

Sour Apple

Apple's unveiling of its 3G iPhone this week came as little surprise to any industry observer or, for that matter, any person who happened to contact any form of media over the past several months. Countless trees and digital ink were sacrificed in the...

Venture capital financing wrap-up: Beeco, Roamware and Yap

The following list includes venture capital and other investments into wireless companies announced during the past week. The value of the investment is included when available.--Beeco: RTI International and Intersouth Partners co-led a $5 million Series A funding round into semiconductor company Beeco. The...

New face for MySpace as site upgrades

A major overhaul of MySpace, to make its debut on Wednesday, could greatly alter the social-networking market.

GPS will help drivers go more with traffic flow

The most ambitious use of technology to combat traffic congestion debuts next month along one of the nation's most clogged arteries and could become a model duplicated throughout the USA.

German Railway Testing NFC Enabled Mobile Tickets

An expanded trial of mobile ticketing - this time using NFC enabled mobile phones - has been announced by a railway operator in the German federal state of Hesse. The trial is being organised by the public transport authority of the Frankfurt Rhein-Main region...

AT&T: Usage-Based Pricing ‘Inevitable’

Last week new AT&T CTO John Donovan let loose that the company will begin testing "usage-based pricing" starting this Fall. "Traffic on our backbone is growing 60 percent per year, but our revenue is not," complained Donovan.

Starbucks, AT&T claim settlement in Wi-Fi dispute with T-Mobile USA

Starbucks Corp. and AT&T Mobility said they've agreed to settle T-Mobile USA Inc.'s lawsuit regarding free Wi-Fi access in the coffee chain's cafes.The brouhaha stemmed from an agreement earlier this year when Starbucks announced a deal with AT&T Mobility for the carrier to become...