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While the wireless industry haggles over the price of anti-piracy software supported by the Open Mobile Alliance, Microsoft Corp. is quietly gaining traction in the mobile world with its proprietary …

Financials from smart-phone makers Research In Motion Ltd. and PalmOne Inc. indicate users are warming up to the expensive, high-end gadgets. However, sluggish results from Palm OS vendor PalmSource Inc. …

BEIJING-China Mobile has selected Nortel Networks Ltd. to upgrade its optical backbone network in Zhejiang province to address accelerating subscriber growth and prepare for migration to third-generation services. Zhejiang Mobile, …

WASHINGTON-Auction revenues from the sale of licenses for spectrum in the 700 MHz band made available with the transition to digital TV first should be used to provide set-top boxes …

The coming surge of mobile virtual network operators will target virtually every demographic, from ethnic groups to sports fans to rural users. But no group of consumers is being courted …

WASHINGTON-A newly published study says talking on a cell phone while driving is risky business because the brain simultaneously cannot give complete attention to both the visual requirements of driving …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission has asked a federal appeals court in Atlanta to delay setting a briefing schedule for challenges to the agency’s truth-in-billing decision to avoid a confusing hodgepodge …

SAN DIEGO-ProfitLine, which provides telecom expense management services, said it has acquired mobile outsourcing company FedCel. The value of the deal was not disclosed. “The addition of FedCel’s expertise makes …

WASHINGTON-A newly published study says talking on a cell phone while driving is risky business because the brain cannot give complete attention simultaneously to both the visual requirements of driving …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission has asked a federal appeals court in Atlanta to delay setting a briefing schedule for challenges to the agency’s truth-in-billing decision to avoid a confusing hodgepodge …

PALO ALTO, Calif.-Airgo Networks Inc. unveiled its True G and True AG chipsets, which the company said would deliver the benefits of Multiple Input Multiple Output technology to mid-market pricing …

Seventy-five years after it sold the first car radio, Motorola Inc. wants to get back into your dashboard. The world’s No. 2 handset manufacturer is preparing to beta test iRadio, …

Leap Wireless International Inc. reported delayed first-quarter results that were in line with recently released guidance. Leap previously stated that the delayed reporting was due to accounting issues. The carrier …

Seventy-five years after it sold the first car radio, Motorola wants to get back into your dashboard. The world’s No. 2 handset manufacturer is preparing to beta test iRadio, a …

Leap Wireless International Inc. reported delayed first-quarter results that were in line with recently released guidance. Leap previously stated that the delayed reporting was due to accounting issues. The carrier …

WASHINGTON-In separate actions Tuesday, the Federal Communications Commission lowered the universal-service contribution factor to 10.2 percent and said it would begin examining the USF subsidy program, perhaps dramatically changing the …

The mobile-phone industry has evolved in countless ways during the past few decades. Phones today feature a dizzying array of new technologies and services, from multiple radios to integrated digital …

WASHINGTON-The chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee said that listening to the wireless industry has prompted him to set a national standard on the font size of cell-phone contracts and …

Carrier consolidation among the wireless industry’s top players has had a similar effect on smaller operators, which are being forced to cooperate more closely to provide advanced services that larger …

The wireless industry’s drive for cost efficiencies has seen marked improvements during the past several years as many carriers have begun posting operating profits after years of racking up huge …

In the backdrop of everything innovative and exciting going on at the BREW conference in San Diego last week, there was one overriding idea that kept popping up in the …

Just a week after relaunching its prepaid offering around the GoPhone brand, Cingular Wireless L.L.C. refined its postpaid plans cutting the total number of plans available and eliminating some of …

AUSTIN, Texas-A wireless handset with a $25 cost of production could come within the next two years, according to a recent survey conducted by Portelligent of its customers in the …

LONDON-Independent market analyst Datamonitor plc predicts radio frequency identification technology, including hardware, software and services, will be a $6 billion market by 2010, or three times that of today. The …

WASHINGTON-State and local taxes imposed on telecom services are more than double the average tax assessed on general business, according to a new study released today by the Council On …