Mobile Phones

Time was when the wireless industry’s major, marketshaping impact in the telecom sphere was defined by the number of mobile phones that became substitutes for landline telephones, which historically consumers …

Wirefly, the online retailer, is offering mobile handsets at prices that defy gravity.Tis the season, apparently, for free or low-cost offers on the market’s leading handsets to erode the last …

WASHINGTON-A federal appeals court rejected a request by Sprint Nextel Corp. and T-Mobile USA Inc. to stay its reversal of a Federal Communications Commission decision pre-empting state regulation of line-items …

Like a high-tech runaway bride, Nokia Corp. is readying for another N-Gagement. The handset maker is preparing to dust off the familiar-but tarnished-brand next year, expanding the N-Gage from a …

SAN FRANCISCO-Former YouTube head of sales Tony Nethercutt has joined one of the hottest startups in the mobile-marketing space, AdMob.Before joining AdMob as vice president of advertising sales, Nethercutt headed …

The oft-repeated statement-“thin is in”-like many obvious axioms, tends to mask nuance. What exactly is this quality that appears to rule the current landscape for fashion phones? Ask a variety …

WASHINGTON-While lawmakers and civil libertarians aggressively scrutinize privacy implications of the Bush administration’s domestic surveillance initiative and other anti-terrorist programs in the post-9/11 world, the FBI is using wiretap law …

The future of the “anywhere Internet” likely will involve a variety of networks and devices, analysts said during a teleconference last week-and if wireless operators want to get in on …

Cingular Wireless L.L.C., Nokia Corp, Citigroup and MasterCard Worldwide have teamed up on a trial of Near Field Communication technology.The companies are testing mobile phones with MasterCard’s PayPass contactless payment …

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 …

Like a runway model sporting the latest fashions, mobile handsets have gone thin with a vengeance. That’s hardly earth-shaking news, but new data reflects the industry’s headlong embrace of thin. …

WASHINGTON-The mobile phone industry plans to take the line-item billing controversy to the U.S. Supreme Court.Sprint Nextel Corp. and T-Mobile USA Inc. asked the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals …

WASHINGTON-Key House Democrats said Federal Communications Commission General Counsel Samuel Feder made a weak legal case for authorizing Commissioner Robert McDowell to participate in AT&T Inc.’s hung-up $79 billion acquisition …

SAN FRANCISCO-Former YouTube head of sales Tony Nethercutt has joined one of the hottest start-ups in the mobile-marketing space, AdMob.Before joining AdMob as vice president of advertising sales, Nethercutt headed …

DALLAS-A slowdown in wireless chip sales forced Texas Instruments Inc. to trim its fourth-quarter revenue outlook from between $3.46 billion and $3.75 billion to between $3.35 billion and $3.5 billion …

FRAMINGHAM, Mass.-Steep prices are keeping U.S. mobile consumers from buying wireless entertainment offerings, according to a study from IDC.The market research group found that 47 percent of the coveted 18- …

WASHINGTON-Congress before adjourning for the year passed legislation criminalizing the use of fraudulent means-such as impersonating wireless and wireline telecom subscribers-to obtain their phone records, a practice made infamous in …

BURBANK, Calif.-The Walt Disney Co. appears ready and willing to work with Apple Computer Inc. across a number of media devices, if a recently filed patent is any indication.In a …

‘Tis the season for gifting and Christmas lists a mile long. But what to do if someone’s list includes a Tetris download for their cell phone, or a new ringer …

Under the banner, “Simpler and Slimmer,” Consumer Reports’ January 2007 issue weighed in on a handset category that has even the experts scratching their heads. At CTIA I.T. in September, …

CAMPBELL, Calif.-Mobile software developer Atrua Technologies Inc. snared $9 million in its fourth round of funding.BlueRun Ventures led the round, and Atrua welcomed new backers including Chian’s Hua Hong Group …

WASHINGTON-Federal Communications Commission member Robert McDowell could be drawn into the AT&T Inc.-BellSouth Corp. merger debate as early as today in order to break a 2-2 deadlock on the $79 …

WASHINGTON-Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin told Congress he asked agency lawyers to determine whether fellow GOP Commissioner Robert McDowell can be ethically cleared to participate in the agency’s consideration …

MILPITAS, Calif.-Chipmaker LSI Logic Corp. jumped into the wireless arena by scooping up Agere Systems Inc., a mobile phone chip producer. LSI develops chips for hard drives and DVD recorders, …

UPDATED December 7, 2006OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-Sprint Nextel Corp. and Sanyo Electric Co. introduced the latter’s M1 handset, a high-end multimedia phone with lots of onboard memory and a two-megapixel camera, …