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Nokia Corp. will enhance its N800 Internet tablet with VoIP from Skype, giving the latter a degree of legitimacy in the mobile device market. The N800 is a handheld Internet browser that eschews cellular connections in favor of Wi-Fi, and …

Tira Wireless said it will expand beyond mobile entertainment after pocketing $5 milion in a Series D funding round.The San Mateo, Calif.-based company has gained considerable traction by helping game-makers and other publishers deploy their offerings across a broad swath …

Welcome to our Monday column, Analyst Angle. Every Monday, the industry’s leading analysts give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry, from carriers to content to handsets to infrastructure. The July 4th holiday is just behind us, …

Maybe it’s fitting that the two newest players in mobile social networking are named after sea creatures. Because they’re diving into a very crowded pool.Cellfish Media L.L.C. is hoping to be a one-stop shop for on-the-go consumers with a new …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our Monday 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’ …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to Reality Check, a feature for RCR Wireless News’ new weekly e-mail service, Mobile Content and Culture. We’ve gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile content industry to give their insights into the marketplace. …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our Monday 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 Jupiter Research’s …

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 …

Clear Channel Radio selected VeriSign Inc. to launch a suite of mobile radio services for the broadcast giant. Clear Channel in May announced a mobile effort that the company said would expand to around 100 of its U.S. stations by …

The Internet is rapidly evolving from a desktop experience into a multi-platform phenomenon available on the go and around the world. Carriers, publishers and marketing firms are just hoping advertising doesn’t get lost in translation. The wireless Web remains a …

A couple of online casual gaming heavyweights lumbered into the mobile sphere. Oberon Media bought a big chunk of the wireless gaming playground last week, picking up London-based publisher I-play for an undisclosed sum. The New York-based firm-which powers storefronts …

Third Screen Media Inc. and iLoop Mobile plan to work together to help companies looking to generate advertising revenue from their wireless Web sites. The deal looks to integrate iLoop’s technology, which is designed to simplify the processes for developing …

Third Screen Media Inc. and iLoop Mobile plan to work together to help companies looking to generate advertising revenue from their wireless Web sites.The deal looks to integrate iLoop’s technology, which is designed to simplify the processes for developing and …

Nuance Communications Inc. continued to thin the speech-recognition herd, snapping up VoiceSignal Technologies Inc. in a deal valued at nearly $300 million.The company said it will fork over 5.8 million Nuance shares as well as $204 million in cash for …

Nuance Communications Inc. continued to help thin the speech-recognition herd, snapping up VoiceSignal Technologies Inc. in a deal valued at nearly $300 million.Nuance said it will fork over 5.8 million Nuance shares as well as $204 million in cash for …

Traffic is as American as apple pie-millions of commuters face challenges and choices every day as they search for the least stressful, most direct route to work. Indeed, morning and afternoon radio and television news programming is saturated with traffic …

Institutional Shareholder Services has endorsed billionaire investor Carl Icahn’s campaign to gain a seat on Motorola Inc.’s board of directors, according to Icahn. The move would appear to boost Icahn’s ambition to shift management and operational strategies at the ailing …

Mbile software developers are coping with the headaches of the small screen by-strangely enough-cramming it with as much information as possible.Instead of forcing users to scroll through seemingly endless lists and drill through more layers than an archeologist could manage, …

As mobile banking and payments come further into focus, one of the potential areas for carriers to explore involves international remittances, or cross-border person-to-person transactions. Today, that market is dominated by players like Western Union, which claims more than 170,000 …

Crisp Wireless and Internet Broadcasting have formed a partnership to launch 29 different mobile Web sites delivering breaking news, weather conditions, forecasts, live radar, sports scores and other content from local TV stations.“One of the largest categories of mobile Web …

On Friday, fans wandering around the sidelines of the Texas Motor Speedway in Dallas will be the first to experience the mobile arm of GSD&M’s “Do Something Amazing” campaign for the United States Air Force. The Air Force said it …

Conventional wisdom has it that since early January, every handset vendor and carrier has scrambled for an answer to the you-know-who phone, due in June. Regardless of the handicapping already taking place-who wins, who loses?-Apple Inc.’s iPhone has contributed to …

The wireless Web is strewn with potholes and speed bumps, but John SanGiovanni hopes that widgets can pave the way.SanGiovanni is the founder of ZenZui, a spinoff of Microsoft Corp. that will emerge from stealth mode last week at CTIA …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to a special CTIA Show Daily edition of our weekly online feature, Analyst Angle. Every Monday at www.RCRNews.com you can find columns from the industry’s leading analysts, including Current Analysis’ Avi Greengart, Compete’s Miro Kazakoff and Jupiter …

ORLANDO, Fla.-A packed hall heard evangelism, exhortation and ebullience from a trio of industry speakers yesterday morning, as the CTIA Wireless 2007 trade show got underway. Attendees also got a surfeit of commercialism as each keynote speaker extolled their partners …