Yearly Archives: 2007

New Helio device sports haptic feedback

MVNO Helio L.L.C. continues to roll out devices in the face of financial challenges, offering a new Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. slider handset sporting...

SkyTerra, MSV, Inmarsat ink pact for hybrid mobile satellite services

SkyTerra Communications Inc., Mobile Satellite Ventures L.P. and Inmarsat plc said they reached a major pact to resolve complex technical, regulatory and business issues,...

Redknee nabs Argent Networks

Redknee Solutions Inc. acquired New Zealand-based Argent Networks Ltd. for an initial payment of $4 million in cash that could eventually increase to an...

Bush administration weighs in on preemption

The Bush administration urged the Supreme Court not to review a lower court decision overturning a Federal Communications Commission rule preempting state regulation of...

AT&T Mobility extends store hours during holidays

AT&T Mobility is spreading the holiday spirit by opening its stores earlier and keeping them open later on the days before and after Christmas....

RIM stock rises on robust results

Research In Motion Ltd. posted another strong quarter with an equally strong outlook, sending its stock up more than 11% after results were announced...

Qualcomm raises guidance for fiscal first quarter

Qualcomm Inc. said its revenue in the fiscal first quarter would come in at the high end of previous guidance of $2.3 billion to...

Sidekick maker Danger to go IPO route: Firm warns of its dependence on T-Mobile USA

Danger Inc., the "software-as-service" company that enables data and Internet services to T-Mobile USA Inc.'s Sidekick devices, will pursue an initial public offering to...

Chicago sued over ban on talking and driving

Chicago has been tagged with a lawsuit alleging the city violated state law by not posting signs on the prohibition against talking on mobile...

3Guppies on the way out?

VantagePoint Venture partners has reportedly pulled its $20 million investment in mobile content firm 3Guppies Inc.-a rare move for a venture-capital firm-thereby apparently forcing...

Sprint Nextel settles in Missouri for $52.2M

Sprint Nextel Corp. said it agreed pay $52.2 million in back taxes and legal fees to settle tax litigation with scores of Missouri cities,...

Nokia renews with Brightpoint

Brightpoint Inc. announced it extended its distribution agreement as an authorized distributor for Nokia Corp. gadgets in the United States through next year. Brightpoint...

Worst of the Week: Your predictions for 2008

Hello!And welcome to a special edition of our Thursday column, Worst of the Week. As 2007 draws to a close and we take stock...

Palm CEO: ‘We’re working on it’: Colligan promises ‘breakthrough’ products

Palm Inc.'s fiscal second-quarter results and its outlook for the next quarter, announced yesterday, took its stock down nearly 10%, to the lowest point...

WiMAX certification lab opens

The WiMAX Forum has opened its first, and lead, lab to formally test and evaluate mobile WiMAX products for certification. With the lab now...

ZTE USA begins long march with regional carrier

ZTE USA, the American face of the Chinese handset and network vendor, will begin supplying co-branded CDMA handsets to MetroPCS Communications Corp., which offers...

FCC releases full list of applicants for 700 MHz auction: Qualcomm to bid, while T-Mobile USA could sit it out

The Federal Communications Commission said it received 266 applications for the 700 MHz auction, with small and rural telephone companies dominating a field that...

Financial ratings wrap-up: AT&T, Leap, Research In Motion and more

The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.Carrier--Lehman Brothers raised its price...

Venture capital financing wrap-up: BelAir, Mobile Posse, Streamezzo and more

The following list includes venture capital and other investments into wireless companies announced during the past week. The value of the investment is included...

A mobile social service to get you out to the bar: BuzzD the latest mobile venture from Ipsh founder Mehta

Want to know how long the line is outside your favorite club on a busy Saturday night? Or the guy-to-girl ratio at a bar...

LG Viewty racking up Euro sales

LG Electronics Co. Ltd. announced recently that the company's new Viewty handset has sold more than 310,000 units over its first five weeks in...

Senate delays on immunity for carriers’ wiretapping

AT&T Inc., Verizon Communications Inc. and Sprint Nextel Corp. will have to wait until next year to find out whether Congress can make scores...

SinglePoint expanding interactive TV efforts: Firm provides technology for variety of campaigns

SinglePoint controlled the lion's share, or 67%, of interactive TV transactions done via premium SMS in the third quarter of the year, having processed...

MetroPCS to offer mobile coupons through Cellfire deal

Regional, flat-rate carrier MetroPCS Communications Inc. has brought Cellfire Inc. on deck to offer its subscribers direct access to mobile coupon and discount offers....

Embarq chief to take reins at Sprint Nextel: Hesse a veteran of AT&T

Sprint Nextel Corp. has taken the head of its wireline spin-off back into the wireless fold, tapping Embarq Corp. Chairman, President and CEO Dan...
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