January 2007

Former Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton are scheduled to appear for an hour-long joint keynote session at 9:30 a.m. March 29 during the CTIA Wireless 2007 trade show …

Mobliss Inc. made its exit from mobile messaging official, selling off its assets in the space to digital company New Motion Inc. for an undisclosed sum.Mobliss, a subsidiary of Japan’s …

Entertainment media giant IMG jumped onto the wireless video field with the acquisition Nunet AG, a Cologne, Germany-based mobile media company.Terms of the deal were not disclosed.Nunet powers 200 streaming …

Leap Wireless International Inc. plans to offer a new mobile music service through its Cricket brand, thanks to a new partnership with mobile music provider Musiwave. Paris-based Musiwave, a subsidiary …

Third Screen Media will partner with market research firm Telephia to help wireless advertisers target their marketing messages.The mobile marketing company said it will integrate Telephia’s mobile Internet research into …

Nokia Corp., the world’s leading handset maker but a laggard in the U.S. market, has begun a search for a new global advertising agency. Nokia’s current agencies were invited to …

Verizon Wireless announced it captured 2.3 million net new customers in the fourth quarter, numbers that show it continues to dominate other national carriers with its retail performance.Cingular Wireless L.L.C. …

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. …

The latest player in the wireless advertising arena hopes to provide a one-stop shop for companies looking to deploy marketing campaigns across mobile platforms. And it’s set to lock horns …

Content providers and application developers often cite fragmentation as their most difficult and costly challenge. But like a handful of other startups, Mobile Complete sees the issue as an opportunity.The …

As tier-one carriers vie to lure users with eye-catching video clips of hit TV shows and music stars, Patrick Kearney is hoping to draw mobile viewers with monkeys reading the …

Yahoo Inc. is hoping a new online advertising system and an increased presence in wireless can help it close the widening gap between it and rival Google Inc.The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based …

AT&T INC. HAS A HISTORY as a highly respected brand. Cingular Wireless L.L.C., its name and image conjured out of thin air just a few years ago, is a young …

Hollywood is no stranger to change. It continues to ride a wave of new mediums, distribution channels and formats. Major television studios and networks have learned to embrace new technologies …

Cingular Wireless L.L.C.’s last quarter before being absorbed by parent company AT&T Inc. resulted in a company-record 2.4 million net customer additions, up from 1.8 million net adds a year …

It’s only been a few months since the close of the Federal Communications Commission’s advanced wireless services auction, and carriers aren’t expected to begin using the spectrum they purchased until …

While nothing new for the inside-the-Beltway crowd, it may be noteworthy to the great consuming masses just how incestuously intertwined telecom policy-making and lobbying have become in the nation’s capital. …

The late chess grandmaster Edward Schuyler Jackson used to regale anyone who would listen with stories, stories with a point. One featured a Wall Street tycoon berating a young business …

Mobile-phone and high-tech sectors urged the new Democratic-led Congress to oppose any effort to dilute the pool of auction-bound 700 MHz spectrum, a major portion of which is being sought …

As Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin pushes for a wireless alternative to the telephone-cable TV broadband duopoly, and the Bush administration predicts it will make good on its vow …

Mobile virtual network operators have definite target demographics that they’re trying to lure away from mainstream wireless operators with a unique approach to service and handsets. A recent study by …

Wireless operators increasingly are cutting ringtone aggregators out of the loop, opting instead to make deals directly with recording labels. But as EMI Entertainment World Inc.’s lawsuit against InfoSpace Inc. …

Rarely does a handset launch embody the challenges and strategies of a carrier and its vendor partner as clearly as the recent offer from Sprint Nextel Corp. and Motorola Inc. …

Nokia Corp.’s earnings report last week may well have drawn sighs of relief from many in the industry. The Finnish handset vendor established that winning strategies are possible even as …