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SAN FRANCISCO — Nine more companies have joined the Symbian Foundation as its group members work toward developing an open and complete mobile software platform that will be free for its members.Acrodea, Brycen, HI Corp., Ixonos, KTF, Opera Software, Sharp, …

Even as Apple Inc.’s 3G iPhone ventures into the enterprise market, Research In Motion Ltd. is expected to continue its dominance in the business sector with the upcoming release of the 3G BlackBerry Bold, according to a report by Pacific …

SAN FRANCISCO — Nokia Corp.’s Ovi conjures images of cutting-edge mobile services that run the gamut from entertainment to navigation to social communities. But the success of the ambitious concept may hinge on much simpler — and stickier — features.The …

Mobile e-mail company Visto Corp. announced a major new push into the social-networking space, an effort to expand the company’s offerings beyond e-mail and into various real-time information services. Specifically, Visto’s new Mobile 6 product allows users to maintain connections …

Following a lot of bad publicity in the wake of AT&T Mobility’s exclusive contract for Apple Inc.’s iPhone and 700 MHz auction rules that demanded an open network, wireless carriers are prying open their networks.Earlier this year, Verizon Wireless began …

American consumers may well be treated to “a moveable feast” this fall. Unlike the sketches of 1920s Paris by Ernest Hemingway by the same name, however, this one is more akin to a mobile smorgasbord for buyers: more choice, cutting-edge …

The carrier deck is still the most valuable real estate in mobile content, but the future of downloadable wireless goodies may just lie in third-party storefronts. And for now, at least, developers are the key to success.Apple Inc. stole headlines …

AT&T Mobility has dodged another network bullet. The carrier’s East Coast customers woke up today to find themselves without access to Internet services. AT&T Mobility spokesman Mark Siegel said the issue was addressed and fixed by mid-day. “It was a …

AOL L.L.C.’s Platform-A debuted a mobile platform and network specifically for serving ads to Apple Inc.’s iPhone.The new offering, which is available through AOL’s Third Screen Media subsidiary, delivers targeted, iPhone-optimized ads through sites within Third Screen’s mobile network, Advertising.com’s …

Nokia Corp.’s ambitious new mobile music service is just weeks away from making its debut. But the Finnish phone maker has plenty of work left to do before Comes With Music comes to market.The offering – which essentially packages one …

Vimpelcom and MegaFon – two of Russia’s three largest wireless carriers – will offer Apple Inc.’s iPhone “later this year,” according to company statements in recent days. Together, the two carriers serve about 80 million Russians, according to news reports. …

My teen daughter complains that I treat her like my own private marketing lab. Over the years, when a new cellphone comes in with apps to review, I learned to toss the black slab at her and say, “here, play …

Google Inc. unveiled its answer to Apple Inc.’s App Store, outlining a distribution system for applications built on its Android platform.Android Market will serve as an unrestricted storefront where registered developers can offer their wares simply by uploading their applications …

An Irish comic publisher is lobbying Apple Inc. to embrace content ratings after its graphic novel was dropped from the company’s App Store.Infurious Comics is pushing for a ratings system after Apple rejected “Murderdrome,” which the publisher describes as a …

Newswires have been buzzing with reports that Apple’s 3G iPhones might not be selling as briskly in Poland as they are in the U.S., noting that the company’s telecom partner in the country, Orange, has hired people to stand outside …

AT&T Mobility is set to expand international data plans for 3G iPhone owners – but they’ll pay a pretty penny for it.Beginning tomorrow the carrier will release two new, international data plans for Apple Inc.’s uber-device: 100 megabytes of data …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We’ve gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace. It feels like every day we are seeing articles about the “operating …

A new report from Informa Telecoms & Media predicts the struggling mobile base station market could be revived by mobile data traffic demands by 2011.The report predicts mobile data traffic will grow nearly 1,100% to 1,925 petabytes by 2012 from …

Believe it or not, CEOs still tell their I.T. managers to let them use whatever device they fancy, regardless of company standards for security and device management. Works for Apple Inc., which may well have chosen that path to get …

Lately in the land of red, white and blue, people are talking a lot about green, including wireless service providers. In an industry that boasts 263 million subscribers who get a heap of stuff with their service, carriers can have …

A slice of iPhone 3G owners have said they are experiencing 3G connectivity issues such as weak signals, dropped calls and devices that revert from a carrier’s 3G network to its EDGE network, eclipsing the device’s much-ballyhooed 3G advantage. That’s …

Apple Inc. and AT&T Mobility just added nearly another 1,000 retail outlets for the iPhone 3G by hooking up with big-box retailer Best Buy. That’s likely to gin up iPhone sales, boost AT&T Mobility’s fortunes and probably anger some of …

Mobile operators are smiling through clenched teeth as the mobile industry moves toward “openness.” And “I Am Rich” is a good example of why some of their fears are well-placed.In case you missed it, Apple last week got a little …

The initial question on many minds when news broke last week that Sanjay Jha, COO at Qualcomm Inc., would help lead Motorola Inc. out of the woods: Why swap celebrated success for plying the trackless wilderness?Last week, Jha himself essentially …

Three things you need to know about the handset market in the United States last quarter, courtesy of Strategy Analytics: 1) Overall unit sales reached nearly 42 million, up 5.3% over the year-ago quarter, which the market analysis firm said …