2007

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 features traffic data for 24 metro …

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 company’s ConnexTo carrier platform provides software …

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 strategic investment in Access China Media …

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 found Verizon Wireless users spent an …

LG Electronics Co. Ltd, whose handset division last year slipped from No. 4 to No. 5 in global rankings, posted drops in revenue and operating profit for the fourth quarter …

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 from the company’s shares. Alcatel-Lucent’s stock …

Texas Instruments Inc. reported modest gains in the fourth quarter-revenue up 4 percent, profit up 2 percent over the year-ago quarter-but it will cut 500 jobs as it prepares to …

WASHINGTON-A British mobile phone radiation expert and the country’s health agency reportedly plan to study the long-term health effects of mobile phone use.Dr. Lawrie Challis, a physics professor and chairman …

Openwave Systems Inc.’s proxy battle continued after the company failed to reach a settlement with its second-largest shareholder.The wireless software developer said Harbinger Capital Partners rejected an offer that included …

SilverBirch Inc. is jumping into the mobile marketing arena with the acquisition of mobile marketing firm Jambo Mobile Solutions Inc. for an undisclosed sum. Both companies are based in Toronto.Jambo’s …

Music publisher EMI Entertainment World Inc. has slapped InfoSpace Inc. with a $100 million lawsuit, claiming the buffeted mobile content company has been underpaying royalties and selling ringtones without proper …

Mobidia Inc., a Canadian mobile service management company, has received a fresh infusion of $3.2 million from DBC Venture Capital, bringing the company’s total funding to around $6 million.Mobidia said …

Alltel Corp. wireless customers who just can’t get enough of personalizing their wireless phones now have a new option: ringback tones. The carrier introduced a ringback tone service, and will …

Big opportunities come with big risks, particularly in chasing the future of the mobile handset business.One opportunity, pursued by the market’s two giants and their challengers, is to deliver ultra …

High average royalty rates for W-CDMA technology are one among several elements dragging on the uptake of 3G handsets and service, according to a study by ABI Research. These high …

WASHINGTON-The Bush administration’s top two telecom officials said wireless issues will have high priority this year, with policymakers anxious to see wireless networks evolve into a competitive alternative to the …

WASHINGTON-Mobile-phone carriers’ tax lawsuit against Kentucky is back on track, giving center stage to a federal pre-emption argument that’s also at the heart of industry efforts to prevent states from …

BASKING RIDGE, N.J.-Verizon Wireless plans to join its compatriots in raising the price of per-message texting, bumping the rate for sending and receiving messages from 10 cents apiece to 15 …

Mobile video is still very much in its infancy, but Third Screen Media claims it is reaching consumers by delivering a click-to-play wireless TV commercial.The Boston-based mobile marketing company this …

An odd thing is going on in Washington policymaking circles. Folks are beginning to talk again about the budget, specifically about erasing the deficit and how the situation could woefully …

I have bought into the WiMAX hype. I’m a true believer.When Nortel, Motorola, Alvarion and other WiMAX vendors gush over all the great things WiMAX will do-level the playing field …

Hedge*hog*ing v. Interrupting conversations in an office environment by poking your head over the top of the cube. Awesome factoid of the week: A consumer survey last week from comScore …

SAN JOSE, Calif.-The business opportunities enabled by WiMAX and other broadband wireless technologies are as abundant as those being touted for the mobile-minded consumer. After all, it promises nothing short …

SAN JOSE, Calif.-The potential for mobile WiMAX is as big as the Internet itself, if you trust the true believers gathered last week in San Jose, Calif., for the Wireless …