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The deployment of 3G services can be viewed as a turning point in the evolution of mobile networks as people began to realize that their wireless phones could do more than just place calls and send text messages. Those devices became multimedia gadgets that...

Worst of the Week: Time to take a breath

Hello! And welcome to our Friday 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 us the wrong way....

Worst of the Week: I signed what?

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 us the wrong way....

Sprint Nextel drags on RadioShack

RadioShack Corp. reported a 6.9% increase in sales, driven by revenues from digital-to-analog TV converter boxes, GPS device sales, video gaming sales, prepaid wireless phones and improvement in AT&T Mobility's postpaid offerings. However, Sprint Nextel Corp. continued to drag on the company; RadioShack said...

Developers look for happy medium for mobile Web

Traditional Web sites are often lost in translation on mobile phones. So developers are hoping to bridge the disconnect between wireless phones and the Internet by building a "middle Web."The emergence of Apple Inc.'s iPhone has spawned a flurry of activity by developers looking...

New legislation targets wireless taxes

Reps. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) and Chris Cannon (R-Utah) introduced a bill to impose a five-year freeze on new discriminatory state and local wireless taxes."The wireless sector of the technology industry continues to be an important driver for growth in our nation's economy. Americans don't...

The life and times of Kevin Martin: Candid interview with FCC chairman

If left to cynics and partisan naysayers, Kevin Martin's legacy as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission might be one of delayed public meetings, agency mismanagement and a novel national commercial/public-safety license approach that bombed in the 700 MHz auction. And wh ile it's...

Carriers push E-911 lawsuit in court despite winning deadline extension

Wireless carriers have turned up the heat on the Federal Communications Commission, arguing in a lawsuit that new enhanced 911 location accuracy guidelines grossly miss the mark and that the agency's extension of a 2008 deadline is inadequate. The FCC last year clarified that...

Search for the mobile masses: Mobile search set to explode as platform evolves

It's no secret that trying to find content or information on a mobile phone is a daunting task for most consumers.Carrier deck layers can seem like concentric circles of hell, wireless Web searches are often ill-suited for wireless devices, and the screen sizes of...

More football fans hit ESPN’s mobile site than its PC pages: Shift could be a bellwether for the medium

The biggest upset of this football season may have been Appalachian State University's victory over Michigan. But for the mobile-marketing industry, it came the day ESPN had more visits to the NFL content on its mobile Web site than it did to the same...

GAME ON: Vollee looks to leverage networks to enhance games

It seems the entire mobile gaming industry is scampering to churn out pick-up-and-play, made-for-mobile titles that emphasize simplicity and downplay rich graphics and other sophisticated features.Vollee Inc. is headed the other direction.The San Mateo, Calif.-based firm is hawking a kind of placeshifting technology that...

Courts, Congress scrutinize carrier control

THE MOBILE-PHONE INDUSTRY'S BUSINESS MODEL continues to come under attack, with challenges to carrier control increasingly playing out in the courts, Congress and at the Federal Communications Commission.National wireless carriers find themselves ensnarled in more than a dozen handset-locking and early-termination-fee cases consolidated in...

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Ticket to ride Siemens IT Solutions and Services said it will soon offer technology that allows bus and train tickets to be purchased via mobile phones. The company conducted a countrywide pilot of the technology in 12 German cities and regions for six months....

VZW, Sprint Nextel ink settlements in handset unlocking lawsuits : Customers may now move between major U.S. CDMA carriers

Here's just one reason the mobile-phone industry wants Congress to approve expanded federal pre-emption: lawsuits galore in a California state court that have ensnarled national carriers and prompted some to settle. More than a dozen handset locking and early termination fee cases have...

Sprint Nextel drags on RadioShack results

RadioShack Corp. shares appeared relatively stable, jumping nearly 3% to $20.99, after the company reported a net income of $46.3 million for the third quarter. In the year-ago period the company reported a loss of $16.3 million.The company reported a substantial total sales decline...

Green: the color of controversy

What a paradox that Apple Inc.'s iPhone has become at once the gold standard for wireless devices and, according to critics, plaintiffs' lawyers and others, all that is wrong with a mobile-phone industry that conscientiously controls what goes into the phones and onto networks.There's...

Holiday Buzz: Colors, youth and accessories abound as carriers load up for critical selling season

Wireless carriers are heading into the all-important holiday selling season, flashing new handsets designed to dazzle consumers and riding sales trends which have been building over the past year.The Apple Inc. iPhone craze has, as expected, prompted interest in touch-screen technology-and competitors are taking...

Finnish city matches wireless with practical apps for business, gov’t

OULU, Finland-This small city in the cold north, with its combination of cobblestone streets and sleek technology buildings, is integrating wireless service into everyday life as it seeks to compete globally in attracting and supporting high-tech companies. Oulu, home to a Nokia Corp....

Cellphone video on forefront of Virginia Tech news coverage

Television viewers tuning in to catch updates of Monday's shootings at Virginia Tech saw glimpses of the tragedy through Jamal Albarghouti's mobile phone.A graduate student at the school, Albarghouti was on his way to class when he heard gunshots and saw police responding. So...

National Academy of Science to review cellphone radiation research

The Food and Drug Administration said the National Academy of Science will conduct a symposium and issue a report on future research requirements regarding possible health effects from radio frequency radiation emitted by mobile phones and other wireless devices, marking the final phase of...

Flash Lite illuminating alternative porting options

North American game developers are looking to Adobe Systems Inc. to help Lite-n the load.Flash Lite-essentially a stripped-down, mobile version of the company's ubiquitous Flash Player for computers-has gained substantial traction in Japan and North Korea, where it has won accolades from developers for...

AT&T begins Cingular store rebranding in Houston

AT&T Inc. is retooling the look and feel of its wireless retail stores to reflect a multi-faceted product offering, and introduced its first super-sized, flashy AT&T Experience Store in Houston.The company called the 5,000-square-foot store "the first to demonstrate the benefits of housing AT&T's...

AT&T integrates Cingular with new ‘Experience Store’

AT&T Inc. is retooling the look and feel of its wireless retail stores to reflect a multi-faceted product offering, and introduced its first super-sized, flashy AT&T Experience Store in Houston.The company called the 5,000-square-foot store "the first to demonstrate the benefits of housing AT&T's...

Mobile music fails to find its rhythm

In these early days of mobile entertainment, full-track download services are a bit like the weather: everyone complains about them, but no one seems to be doing much about them.While carriers such as Sprint Nextel Corp. and Verizon Wireless have claimed success hawking tunes...