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Motorola Inc. announced its first touchscreen phone for the U.S., called the Krave, with Verizon Wireless on Tuesday. The phone is now available for $150 with a mail-in rebate. The phone is a variant of the Ming, a popular model …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our coverage of 25 years in wireless. RCR Wireless News is celebrating with a package of stories detailing the advances of the past three decades. For full coverage please visit RCRWireless.com/25years. When Nextel started to roll …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our coverage of 25 years in wireless. RCR Wireless News is celebrating with a package of stories detailing the advances of the past three decades. For full coverage please visit RCRWireless.com/25years.The history of mobile data teems …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our coverage of 25 years in wireless. RCR Wireless News is celebrating with a package of stories detailing the advances of the past three decades. For full coverage please visit RCRWireless.com/25years. People of a certain age …

Dropped-call suit should be dismissed since unhappy users didn’t seek refund, lawyers say. Apple Inc.

It looks like Google is about to hop onto an iPhone advertising revolution. Adweek reports that Google will soon debut an iPhone-specific advertising network and has been showcasing these iPhone advertisements in private meetings with ad agencies.

Tonight, some AT&T subscribers were texted with the news that AT&T will discontinue the $20/month “Unlimited” MEdia Net option as of November 12, 2008.

Research In Motion Ltd. said today that its new touchscreen effort – the Storm – is due at Verizon Wireless “later this fall,” pricing to be announced.The price of the device is, of course, the most critical bit of information …

The cheap, voice-centric, clamshell handset still rules the American marketplace, as Motorola Inc.’s Razr V3 remains the top-selling handset in the country, according to recent data from NPD Group. Yet smartphones claim three of the top five slots, with Apple …

There may not be much room at the top of the mobile e-mail service food chain, but there seems to be plenty of opportunity below.Nokia Corp. last week finally threw up its hands and pulled the plug on Intellisync, its …

Streaming-music service providers bought some time last week when Congress approved legislation that will allow them to renegotiate royalty rates some claim may otherwise drive them out of business. But nobody’s celebrating yet.Legislators approved the Webcaster Settlement Act, which grants …

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. Maybe you should buy your mother one, too. My mother …

NEW YORK — A delayed top-of-the-line BlackBerry phone from Research in Motion Ltd. is still undergoing testing by AT&T, and RIM’s co-CEO implied that the carrier wants to avoid the chorus of complaints about performance that greeted the new iPhone …

Shares of Glu Mobile Inc. continued to slide after the company lowered its third-quarter forecast. The San Mateo, Calif.-based mobile game publisher said it expects revenues “slightly below” its August forecast of $24 million to $24.7 million. The company also …

The second half of 2008 already ranks highly for offering the most advanced handsets and most reasonable prices in the history of wireless. And myriad device launches are yet to come in October and November.In a word, the season is …

An Israeli researcher, frustrated with the lack of response from Apple, has disclosed technical details about two iPhone security flaws he first uncovered more than two months ago.

Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign has launched an iPhone application that enables supporters to communicate with each other and consume breaking news, reports The New York Times.

After months of hinting at the device, the world’s largest handset maker unveiled its answer to Apple Inc.’s iPhone with the inspiringly named 5800 XpressMusic. The Nokia Corp. gadget features a touchscreen and, starting next year, will ship with the …

Wireless competition may soon be coming to the throngs of subway riders who comprise official Washington. A bill passed by Congress and en route to President Bush will allow any licensed mobile-phone carrier to provide service on subways serving the …

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 RCRWireless.com to rant and rave about whatever rubs …

Like a lot of news networks, CBS jumped on the citizen journalism bandwagon with a free iPhone app, Eyemobile for iPhone, to make it easy for users to upload news to its user-generated news site, CBSeyemobile.com. Interesting, though, the citizens’ …

CHICAGO – Even as AT&T Mobility Inc. touted its decision to deploy Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology for its fourth-generation network, the carrier is confident it can tweak its HSPA network to increase speeds gradually, without having to rush to …

It seems you’re nobody in wireless if you’re not building – and bragging about – your app store. Apple got the ball rolling, of course, by opening its iPhone to developers and adding an on-device storefront, and its unqualified success …

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. By far and away, the most popular question I was asked at …

You’ve got to hand it to carriers for at least trying to come clean with consumers, though in some cases those efforts are a day late and a dollar short. Take Verizon Wireless, for instance, which has made waves in …