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Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this forum for those with something meaningful to say to the wireless industry. We want to keep this …

Not only does Apple Inc. (AAPL) have the most succesful tablet on the market with the iPad, it’s also made significant headway in dominating the enterprise market, a sector that hasn’t been strong historically for the company. Apple is no …

Alvarion, provider of 4G networks in the Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) market, announced that Bandera Electric Cooperative, an electric cooperative since 1938, has deployed a 4G network in Texas. The GSMA announced that Barcelona has been selected as the Mobile …

Alcatel-Lucent Russia: With Mobile TeleSystems, telecommunications operator in Russia and the CIS, for the modernization of MTS transport infrastructure by deploying a mobile IP network. MTS has selected Alcatel-Lucent’s IP/MPLS-based mobile backhaul solution to gain more flexibility and efficiency following …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this forum for those with something meaningful to say to the wireless industry. We want to keep this …

Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) said it will begin providing “business-grade” security and full device management features on its Android-powered devices through an agreement with Good Technology Inc.The Good for Enterprise solution includes Good’s Mobile Control feature that provides for mobile …

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.I have been thinking for quite some time about writing a …

Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared in our September Special Edition, Behind the Scenes, a focus on integrated subscriber and network management systems. To download the complete Special Edition, click here. In an increasingly mobile world, securing data on the …

Motorola Inc. will spin off its enterprise-focused mobile e-mail business just two years after entering the space.The troubled handset maker said it will sell Good Technology to Visto, a Silicon Valley-based mobile e-mail player, for an undisclosed sum. Motorola acquired …

There likely won’t be any 3G service at this summer’s Olympic Games in Beijing, but the host country is finally making progress on a years-long plan to issue licenses that will enable carriers to begin deploying third-generation networks, the government …

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’ …

Visto Corp. managed to dispense with one of its patent-infringement battles, agreeing to license its mobile e-mail technology to Seven Networks Inc.The two Redwood City, Calif.-based startups ended their three-year legal tussle as Seven “acknowledged the validity and enforceability of …

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 …

Funambol plans to push ahead with its open source mobile e-mail strategy this week with an upgraded version of its white-label offering for carriers.The Redwood City, Calif.-based startup is set to unveil Funambol v6, a Java-based application that pushes e-mail …

Visto Corp. added to its already impressive coffers earlier this month, raising another $35 million in what the mobile e-mail service provider said is its final round of funding. But this time it’s the investor-not the amount of cash-that’s raising …

Motorola Inc.’s plan to drop $200 million on broadband home equipment provider Netopia Inc. has been cleared by United States antitrust authorities. Based in Emeryville, Calif., Netopia makes wired and Wi-Fi modems, routers and gateways. The company sells to individuals, …

Financiers continue to flood the white-hot-and increasingly litigious-mobile e-mail space. Specifically, white-label wireless e-mail provider Seven Networks Inc. snared $42 million in an oversubscribed round of funding. The company said undisclosed new investors joined existing backers, which include Amadeus Capital …

Motorola Inc. is quietly offering users of its Moto Q smart phone a free software upgrade intended to strengthen the device’s e-mail and security functions, increase its appeal to business and productivity-oriented users and bring the device up to speed …

Research In Motion Ltd. will likely continue to dominate the high-end mobile e-mail market, according to Strategy Analytics. But the growing number of open-standard service providers will drive the market in the long term, the market research firm predicted. The …

ATLANTA—Cingular Wireless L.L.C. expanded the availability of Good Technology Inc.’s Mobile Messaging for its business customers. Cingular customers now can get Good Mobile Messaging for IBM Lotus Domino; the carrier has been offering the mobile e-mail platform for Microsoft Corp. …

While a handful of mobile e-mail service providers seem most at ease in the courtroom, Fabrizio Capobianco is comfortable on the tightrope. Capobianco is chief executive officer of Funambol Inc., a Redwood City, Calif.-based software developer that offers a mobile …