Helio L.L.C. has 90,000 MySpace friends and counting—and how many wireless companies can say that? Cingular Wireless L.L.C.'s "Cingular Sounds" MySpace page only has...
TOKYO—Japanese super-carrier NTT DoCoMo Inc. has reportedly halted the sale of two international roaming handsets that suffered malfunctions when users returned to Japan after...
Nortel Networks Ltd. and Microsoft Corp. are teaming up to provide unified communications with the intent of transforming business communications systems. The companies said...
The story "Mobile emergency alert plans advance" in the July 17 issue should have referred to the Appleton, Wis., mobile-phone carrier as Airadigm Communications...
OTTAWA—Canada’s DragonWave Inc. said it won a contract to supply EarthLink Inc. with wireless backhaul solutions for use between wireless base stations and the...
EAST SUSSEX, U.K.—Open-source mobile e-mail developer Synchronica plc said it scored a deal with IXI Mobile Inc. to provide push e-mail for Ogo devices....
BASKING RIDGE, N.J.—Verizon Wireless reeled in 1.8 million net new customers last quarter, all of which the company says were retail customers—and the second-largest...
SIOUX FALLS, S.D.—A Verizon Wireless spokesman confirmed reports that the carrier suffered a network glitch on Friday afternoon that made it impossible for customers...
WASHINGTON—Rep. Chip Pickering (R-Miss.), co-chairman of the Congressional Wireless Caucus, is asking lawmakers to join him in writing a letter to the Federal Communications...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.—Skype Ltd. has tapped mobile transaction company mBlox Inc. to power its new text message service. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.Skype...
MOSCOW—WiMAX base station and subscriber unit developer Aperto Networks Inc. announced that its WiMAX Forum-certified PacketMAX products are shipping to Avalcom, the company’s leading...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.—Chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is set to scoop up graphics card specialist ATI Technologies Inc. for around $5.4 billion, putting ATI’s long-standing...
SEATTLE—Starbucks Coffee Co. is the latest mega-brand to go mobile, launching a scavenger-hunt promotional campaign for wireless users. The coffee giant launched a Web...
Mobile-phone penetration rates are surpassing 90 percent in markets around the world, reaching the saturation point in Hong Kong, South Korea and Western Europe....
Yet another wireless startup is diving head-first into the mobile payment waters this week, as Secure Wireless Transfers Corp. plans to team with the...
WASHINGTON—Instead of giving subsidies to rural telephone companies, the government could save $1 billion a year by giving away free wireless and satellite phones...
WASHINGTON—The Michigan Association of Chiefs of Police is urging Congress to lean on the Federal Communications Commission to put the 700 MHz Cyren Call...
Amid speculation that some CDMA operators are turning to GSM technology, GSM proponents have stepped up lobbying efforts to tout the technology's global success....
PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y.—As multimedia-enabled handsets flood the market, so are external memory options, according to a new report from The NPD Group. The number...
Hey, here's one for Texas gubernatorial candidate Kinky Friedman and other hopefuls for Texas Gov. Rick Perry's job in Austin, stepping stone to the...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Shares of L.M. Ericsson dipped after the infrastructure provider posted a slight decline in second-quarter net profit due to its recent acquisition of...
