Monthly Archives: January, 2007

Qualcomm rides solid quarterly earnings

Qualcomm Inc.'s shares jumped briefly after the company reported increases in both its net income and revenues during its first fiscal quarter of 2007,...

Ailing InfoSpace ditches U.S. gaming studio

InfoSpace Inc. continued to consolidate its businesses with the announcement that it will sell off its U.S. gaming studio to Twistbox Entertainment for an...

J.D. Power: T-Mo again leads in customer-service ratings

T-Mobile USA Inc. continued its run as the carrier with the best customer-service ratings by consumers, edging out other operators for the fifth year...

Worst of the Week: Are People Really That Stupid???

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...

Nokia posts solid earnings, despite Euro and U.S. woes

Nokia Corp. is making lots of money churning out mobile phones, but the pattern of its success is shifting. Its position as the world's...

Kyocera mates with Runcom for WiMAX

Handset vendor Kyocera Wireless Corp. announced it will team with chipset maker Runcom Technologies to pursue the high-speed, inexpensive network promise of WiMAX. Kyocera...

Moderati fakes it with new services

Moderati is expanding beyond ringtones with a series of offerings designed to ward off pesky suitors or impress potential dates.The content provider launched Mobile...

Pair of health studies fail to clear up cellphone-cancer debate

Two newly publicized health studies on mobile phone and base station radiation have produced mixed results, likely keeping alive the long-running scientific debate over...

BenQ inks UMA agreement with Kineto, company focuses on regrouping

BenQ Corp.'s mobile communications business, apparently now limited to its home turf in Taiwan and other Asian markets, has selected Kineto Wireless Inc.'s UMA...

Yahoo rides mobile focus during fourth quarter

Yahoo Inc. is hoping a new online advertising system and an increased presence in wireless can help it close the widening gap between it...

Disney Mobile cuts handsets prices, launches ‘Steamboat Willie’ collectors’ model

Disney Mobile has chopped the price of two handsets for a limited time, and is promoting a limited-edition "Steamboat Willie" phone aimed squarely at...

Lycos offers games, ringtones

Web search company Lycos Inc. launched a mobile content Web site powered by PlayPhone Inc. The LYCOSmobile site offers downloadable games, wallpapers and ringtones....

MTV to debut ‘multi-platform’ program to take advantage of mobile

MTV announced a new program-one that will incorporate a variety of wireless technologies-that will run across its standard broadcast networks as well as Internet...

Analyst Angle: Measuring mobile games market share

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...

Out with a bang: Cingular posts record 2.4 million new customers

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...

Tellabs results show rocky fourth quarter

Infrastructure company Tellabs reported that its revenues were down for the fourth quarter but up overall for the full-year 2006. The company's troubled fourth...

Movero offers Treo management software

Movero Technology Inc. said it is partnering with Palm Inc. to couple its device management software with Treo smartphones.The startup is hoping to gain...

Panel to consider consolidating lawsuits over hearing loss from Bluetooth headsets

A panel of federal judges is set to hear arguments Thursday in Miami on whether to consolidate more than a dozen lawsuits against Motorola...

High-tech interests come out against increased spectrum for public safety

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...

Weather Channel uses WAP to speed innovations to users

The Weather Channel Mobile continued to expand its offerings, adding traffic information and hourly forecasts to its wireless services.The Weather.com mobile Web site now...

Nextcode scans first carrier deal

Bar-code scanning company Nextcode Corp. announced a deal with Philippine wireless provider Smart Communications Inc. The deal is Nextcode's first with a carrier. The...

Sony BMG and Warner Music invest in Chinese mobile download market

Sony BMG Music Entertainment and Warner Music Group are backing an effort to provide full-track mobile music downloads to Chinese subscribers.The companies announced a...

Verizon Wireless outpaces Sprint Nextel in data ARPU

Verizon Wireless subscribers spend more on mobile data than customers of any other U.S. carrier, according to new data from IDC.The market research firm...

LG’s handset volume up, revenue and profit down

LG Electronics Co. Ltd, whose handset division last year slipped from No. 4 to No. 5 in global rankings, posted drops in revenue and...

Wall Street grumbles over Alcatel-Lucent profit warning

Alcatel-Lucent, one of the world's leading network suppliers, warned that its fourth-quarter revenues will come in below expectations, news that sent investors scurrying away...
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