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LG Electronics Co. scored a pair of carrier wins last week spanning the range of wireless offerings. One of the deals was with the industry’s largest player and long-time LG partner AT&T Mobility, while the other was with mobile virtual …

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AT&T Mobility is hawking its MobiTV, XM Radio Mobile and music portal services with the launch of LG Electronics Co.’s new trax handset, an HSDPA-enabled, clamshell-style handset. The handset will be available tomorrow at AT&T Mobility stores and online for …

Editor’s Note: In this monthly feature, RCR Wireless News talks to retail managers across the country to get a first-hand view of what’s hot in wireless. Despite the travails of Amp’d Mobile Inc., not all news is dour in the …

Aruba Networks Inc. will acquire two mobile security product lines from Network Chemistry to complement its existing offerings, the two companies announced.The deal-terms were not disclosed-transfers Network Chemistry’s RFprotect and BlueScanner products to Aruba, which is located in Sunnyvale, Calif. …

Retail franchise Yakety Yak Wireless’ location in Huntington Beach, Calif., sells devices and service from Verizon Wireless, Sprint Nextel Corp. (both Sprint and Nextel brands) and soon will offer wares from MetroPCS Communications Inc. It offers services that include contact-list …

Sprint Nextel Corp. unveiled, though didn’t launch, a new, music-friendly handset that includes support for larger memory cards as well as an FM transmitter that allows users to listen to tunes through a radio. The Muziq from LG Electronics Co. …

Motorola Good Technology Group this week plans to take its first serious swipe at Research In Motion Ltd’s dominance of the mobile e-mail space.The Motorola Inc. subsidiary is expected to unveil an upgraded version of its flagship product for road …

GPS chipmaker SiRF Technology Holdings Inc. announced it purchased Centrality Communications Inc, which makes processors for “mobile navigation devices,” in a deal worth $283 million in stock and cash.SiRF’s stock bounced more than 3% on the news to around $22.18 …

Finnish handset vendor Nokia Corp. used its annual Nokia Connection event at telecom conference CommunicAsia in Singapore to beef up its mid-range offerings with three handsets, one destined for the United States.The Nokia 3500 emphasizes style over substance, apparently, as …

The Bluetooth Special Interest Group once again made an ally out of a competing technology, agreeing to take the Wibree Forum under its umbrella.Wibree addresses devices with very low battery capacity such as watches, heart-rate monitors and pedometers, allowing them …

HTC Corp., the nimble, Taiwan-based smartphone maker that is a leading purveyor of Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Mobile operating system, announced its new HTC Touch, a phone that employs touchscreen technology. The move is notable as Apple Inc.’s iPhone, which also …

Editor’s Note: In this monthly feature, RCR Wireless News talks to retail managers across the country to get a first-hand view of what’s hot in wireless. Wireless Toyz stores operate in 24 states across the country offering devices and services …

HTC Corp., the nimble, Taiwan-based smartphone maker that is a leading purveyor of Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Mobile operating system, announced in London its new HTC Touch, a phone that employs touchscreen technology. The move is notable as Apple Inc.’s iPhone, …

Whether it’s through a transistor radio, a Walkman or an iPod, on-the-go music has an impressive track record as a business model. But when it comes to revenues from full-track downloads, their may be little room on the dance floor …

Gadgets beget more gadgets, leading to fun, safety and productivity for consumers and profit for all. What’s not to love about that? New figures for the accessory market place its ascendance in context and underscore how handset vendors and network …

In the sudden rush of handset announcements-isn’t June the traditional window for launching handsets?-AT&T Mobility plans tol bring on two new models from Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. The Samsung SGH-a717 is a slim clamshell with 3G multimedia offerings priced at …

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 RCR Wireless News to rant and rave about …

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 …

The handset market in the United States in the first quarter grew 12% over the year-ago quarter, with the sale of about 39 million units valued at nearly $3 billion, according to The NPD Group. That growth is roughly similar …

Carriers measure upA former Yahoo employee has created a new Web site, www.MeasuredUp.com, that is designed to provide a forum for cellular phone subscribers to rate their experience with their carrier. Users can log on to the Web site and …

Editor’s Note: In this monthly feature, RCR Wireless News talks to retail managers across the country to get a first-hand view of what’s hot in wireless. By Kelly Hill Leap Wireless International Inc.’s Cricket store in Greenwood Village, Colo., is …

Motorola Inc. is shifting its marketing strategy away from its mobile devices such as the Razr or Pebl to one more squarely focused on the consumer. Casey Keller, in one of his first interviews since being named chief marketing officer …

The word last week that Nokia Corp.’s new N75 device would debut soon at AT&T Mobility drew its share of attention, for good reason. Though Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, Nokia’s CEO, has made a point to extol the value of the U.S. …

Alltel Corp. added “The Wafer”-a new, thin, bar-style handset from Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.-to its portfolio. The handset is $50 with a mail-in rebate and two-year contract, and is available to existing Alltel customers whose rate plan allows them to …