Yearly Archives: 2007

UrbanWorld forms panel in bid to expand

UrbanWorld Wireless announced a high-profile advisory board in an effort to move beyond mobile content into the broader world of digital media.The company has...

Worst of the Week: Rantings of a madman

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...

Microsoft: Windows Mobile 6.0 coming to T-Mobile USA in second quarter

The latest version of Microsoft Corp.'s operating system for mobile handsets, dubbed Windows Mobile 6.0, is set to become available in the second quarter....

CBS creates wireless entertainment division

The interactive arm of CBS said it is creating a new division to focus on building the company's wireless entertainment properties.The creation of CBS...

Hearst Magazines pushes mobile

Hearst Magazines is pushing into the mobile space this week with the introduction of new cellphone sites for its teen magazines Seventeen, Cosmopolitan and...

Verizon Wireless gets exclusive on Mobile ESPN content

The content and user interface of the short-lived Mobile ESPN L.L.C. mobile virtual network operator is set to be resurrected as an addition to...

CDG hypes $35 CDMA phones ahead of 3GSM

Just as the GSM Association prepares to announce the winner of its low-cost 3G handset contract in conjunction with the group's 3GSM trade show...

Vodafone inks MySpace Mobile agreement

Vodafone Group plc became the latest carrier to partner with MySpace.com, agreeing to allow subscribers to edit profiles, message friends and post photos from...

Apple’s Jobs calls for end to DRM

The fight against digital rights management gained an unlikely backer as Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs called for record companies to offer music without...

NY bill would require E911 coverage info, ETF grace period

The American Association of Retired Persons hailed committee passage of a wireless consumer protection-enhanced 911 bill in the New York State Assembly. The legislation,...

Virgin Mobile USA at the high end: 1,000 minutes for $100

Virgin Mobile USA L.L.C. unveiled a new high-end option for customers who want to do a lot of talking without a contract.For $100 per...

Financiers pump $40M into Beceem on promise of mobile WiMAX

Beceem Communications, a WiMAX chipset vendor, announced it raised more than $40 million in its latest round of venture financing to expand on its...

Texas sues Sprint Nextel over ‘false, misleading and deceptive’ billing

Texas made good on its threat to sue Sprint Nextel Corp., asserting the No. 3 mobile-phone carrier's imposition of a new fee violates the...

Nokia phones to scan barcodes

Nokia Corp. said it will embed barcode-reading technology from Scanbuy Inc. on some of its handsets. The world's No. 1 handset manufacturer said it...

Brightpoint rolls in solid quarter

Handset distributor Brightpoint Inc. reported increases in both revenues and net income for the fourth quarter and full year 2006, news that helped give...

Nortel to cut 9 percent of workforce

Nortel Networks Ltd. announced it will cut 2,900 jobs and shift an additional 1,000 positions to "lower-cost" locations, moves designed to boost the network-equipment...

Mywaves touts off-deck mobile video search service

Just six weeks after the company debuted, mywaves has launched a new, free personalized mobile video search to accompany its mobile video service, which...

High-tech group pushes for auction of prized 700 MHz spectrum

A coalition of wireless and high-tech groups urged the Senate Commerce Committee to keep intact the legislative framework that gives public safety additional radio...

Pocket touts customer growth in San Antonio

Pocket Communications, a small, all-you-can-eat carrier in San Antonio, said it has surpassed 85,000 customers in that market and is touting that fact in...

European operators team to counter child access to porn

European carriers are joining forces in an effort to prevent children from accessing adult content on their mobile phones.Vodafone Group plc, Deutsche Telekom AG...

LG turns to Ericsson for 3G mobile platform

Ericsson Mobile Platforms AB and LG Electronics Co. Ltd. announced that LG will license an HSPA platform from Ericsson for "ultra-small," mass-market 3G phones.Ericsson's...

Verizon Wireless expands Rev. A

Hot on the heels of its first CDMA2000 1x EV-DO Revision A market launches, Verizon Wireless expanded the availability of the high-speed data service...

Sony Ericsson expands handset lineup, adds 100 engineers to U.S. workforce

Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications L.P. announced eight new handsets in three basic categories, expanding its lines of Walkman and Cybershot handsets and offering four...

Helio burns through $200M in 2006, expects 100,000 customers by Q2

Helio L.L.C. expects to reach the 100,000-customer mark by early in the second quarter, and its subscribers have been generating average revenue per user...

Cellphoners continue to prefer hip-hop tunes

Hip-hop tunes continue to dominate the U.S. ringtone market, according to new information from content provider 9 Squared.Rap tunes accounted for eight of the...
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