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LG Electronics Co. Ltd. announced recently that the company’s new Viewty handset has sold more than 310,000 units over its first five weeks in the European market, where it is on sale in 14 countries. The phone with a 5-megapixel …

AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands-Nokia Corp.’s strategy hasn’t wavered much in the past few years and the message for 2008 is essentially more of the same. While at one end of the spectrum, the Finnish company is eyeing more feature-rich devices and …

That sucking sound you hear is the wireless industry on the mat, gasping for air.Enter the dragon, Steve Jobs, RCR Wireless News’ Person of the Year.In the United States alone, in six months, Apple Inc. sold more than 1.4 million …

What a perfectly odd year it has been. Indeed, I think 2007 will go down as a year filled with surprises in the wireless space.A few of the major twists and turns this year:● A cellphone with a closed operating …

For spectators at the iPhone circus, two basic questions seem prevalent. Will Apple Inc. sustain the brisk sales of its signature handset at AT&T Mobility here in the United States?And, in the circus’ high-wire act, how will the iPhone fare …

Google Inc. just keeps making things better for Apple Inc. iPhone users who want their Google fix. The search juggernaut has launched a new Web-based iPhone interface optimized for Google’s Picasa photo service.iPhone users who go to the Picasa Web …

Palm Inc., which employs about 1,250 people, yesterday made job cuts of undisclosed magnitude, the company said.“Palm is working to sharpen its focus and better align resources behind core initiatives that will make the greatest impact to our business,” the …

Mobile Complete launched an application that gives Web surfers the opportunity to try out various handsets before buying them. The interactive, consumer-focused Web program, called “TryPhone,” builds off the company’s DeviceAnywhere suite of products, which gives application developers and others …

For Apple Inc., it’s all about control and making money. Factor that into your reading of the tea leaves on the news that Apple has quietly raised the limit on iPhone purchases from two back to five.The blogosphere has cogitated …

The worldwide mobile music market will ring up $11 billion in annual revenues by 2011, according to a study released last week by the U.K. firm Understanding & Solutions Ltd. Meanwhile, IDC predicts the global market for wireless devices will …

Palm Inc.’s stock plunged more than 16% after the company acknowledged that “a key product” failed to launch in the lucrative fourth quarter, that sales would badly miss its own estimates and that a financial loss loomed.The company’s quarterly revenue …

AT&T Mobility isn’t wasting any time promoting its products and services in the former Dobson Communications Corp. territories it just acquired. The carrier said that the first phase of its integration of Dobson-a $2.8 billion purchase that closed in mid-November-will …

Hello! And welcome to our Thursday column, Worst of the Week. There’s a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so this column is a chance for us at RCRWirelessNews.com to rant and rave about whatever rubs …

If some early returns from Land Rover and 20th Century Fox are to be believed, Apple Inc.’s iPhone will raise the stakes for marketers that go mobile. To be sure, the iPhone, with more than 1 million sold since its …

A German court has given T-Mobile the go-ahead to lock its German iPhones and require purchasers to buy a two-year contract, nixing a court challenge from rival Vodafone Group plc, according to media reports.In a public relations gesture, T-Mobile said …

One feather, two caps. Verizon Wireless’ CEO Lowell McAdam told BusinessWeek, in a story published today, that the carrier would join Google Inc.’s open-source effort known as Android.The move gives Verizon Wireless an additional PR boost in its well-publicized pursuit …

In its annual rating of wireless service, Consumer Reports christened Verizon Wireless and Alltel Corp. its top picks-and largely panned service from Sprint Nextel Corp.Based on nearly 48,000 responses from Consumer Reports’ online subscribers, the magazine ranked the five largest …

Conventional wisdom has American shoppers descending like locusts on brick-and-mortar retail stores on the Friday after Thanksgiving-presumably working off the turkey-and-gravy by lightening their wallets-then returning to work on Monday, where they resume spending online.AT&T Mobility appeared to make the …

The third quarter of 2007 saw few changes to the relative positions of the ten largest wireless carriers, but pending acquisitions soon will continue the industry’s march toward consolidation. AT&T Mobility had a particularly strong quarter due to a boost …

The French finally got their chance to embrace another American export last night. Move over McDonalds and EuroDisney. Orange, the iPhone’s exclusive French carrier (owned by France Telecom), offered a typically complex French equation for those who wanted the device: …

Google Inc. apparently got so fed up waiting for more GPS-enabled devices to hit the market that it has taken matters into its own hands. Google Maps for Mobile users can now have their location automatically set, with or without …

AT&T Mobility and LG Electronics Co. Ltd. are betting that American consumers will upgrade their handsets based on a combination of style and features-and are willing to pay the price. Those are the twin lures of LG’s new Shine handset, …

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 …

So Amazon.com released a new electronic book reader called the “Kindle.” It’s pretty neat stuff: You can download new books wirelessly via Sprint Nextel’s EV-DO network. However, the device goes for a whopping $400, a price that does not include …

The holiday season can be stressful enough. But combine it with fears of high-tech/telecom domination by Microsoft Corp. or Google Inc. or Apple Inc. or the parent companies of the No. 1 and No. 2 mobile phone carriers-AT&T Inc. and …