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Looking to entice more of its “basic” phone users to sign up for data services, Verizon Wireless has added a handful of previously premium applications to its bundle for no …

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 …

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.For many years, …

Editor’s Note:This article is an excerpt from RCR Wireless News’ March Special Edition, “The Perfect Storm – A Focus on Mobile Messaging, Marketing, Content and Apps.” The 80-page special edition …

VeriSign Inc. said it partnered with CAQH, a nonprofit alliance of health plans and trade associations, to conduct a pilot program to demonstrate secure authentication for health IT interoperability. The …

The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York handed a significant victory to Verizon Wireless against the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) by holding …

Leap Wireless International Inc. is bringing music to the masses, or at least those wireless consumers packing its Cricket devices.Despite the languid adoption of full-track mobile music download services, the …

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. …

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 …

SAN FRANCISCO — Verizon Wireless stoked the white-hot social-networking fire, launching three offerings that allow subscribers to share content and stay in contact with their friends.The carrier yesterday unveiled SocialLife, …

Alltel Communications L.L.C. announced a tiered approach to its data pricing, with options starting at $10 per month for unlimited mobile Web access.The carrier – which is in the process …

It’s no secret that the recording industry is increasingly looking to mobile to offset plummeting revenues from CDs and other physical goods. But sometimes its strategies seem horribly misguided. Word …

Virgin Mobile USA Inc. has tapped LiveWire Mobile to power a new ringback application that allows subscribers to choose pre-selected content channels rather than individual tracks.Ringback Playlist, as the offering …

Mobile music has been a one-hit wonder. But the big follow-up to the lucrative ringtone market may not be ringback tones, full-track downloads or any other single application. It may …

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. …

Full-track music download services continue to spin their wheels in mobile, but Verizon Wireless is hoping to get some traction by overhauling its offering.The carrier last week launched a new …

NEW YORK CITY — The tears, deafening screams and all-around giddiness were nonstop last night as Madonna played a six-song set at the Roseland Ballroom for a select group of …

Five years after 50 Cent’s “In Da Club” helped launch the multibillion-dollar ringtone phenomenon – and as CD sales continue to plummet – the music industry continues to look for …

NMS Communications Corp. subsidiary LiveWire Mobile is hoping to gain traction in a very slippery space: full-track mobile downloads.LiveWire, which was rolled out as a separate division in December, last …

NMS Communications Corp. subsidiary LiveWire Mobile said it pocketed Groove Mobile for $14.5 million — less than half the investment capital the startup had attracted in its six-year existence.LiveWire, which …

And if he hadn’t won? Alltel gave 500 free bonus minutes to new customers and existing customers who added a line of service to celebrate race car driver Ryan Newman’s …

The opening day of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, was all about mobile advertising.Nokia Corp. made the biggest splash with its Media Network, an alliance of more than …

Verizon Wireless said its users will get exclusive access to an entire “mobile album” from hip-hop producer Timbaland.Timbaland, a five-time Grammy nominee, will be the first subject of Verizon Wireless’ …

Many of the sexiest offerings in mobile content will continue to struggle to take flight in 2008. Wireless video will slowly gain steam in the United States, thanks largely to …

Further proof that numbers are fun: According to the National Center for Health Statistics, cellphone-only users are Hispanic males between 25 and 29 years old, live with people they are …