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U.S. carriers are missing out on millions of dollars by making it difficult for users to discover and download mobile games, according to new figures from Strategy Analytics.The market research …

Sprint Nextel Corp. made the cut this time, snagging one of the prized contracts in a multibillion-dollar program to modernize the federal government’s telecommunications system. The General Services Administration today …

Online casual gaming giant Oberon Media bought its way onto the mobile playground, picking up London-based publisher I-play for an undisclosed sum.Oberon powers storefronts customers such as MSN Games Network, …

Clearwire Corp. completed its acquisition of 2.5 GHz spectrum from AT&T Inc.; the larger company had to divest itself of the spectrum as part of the requirements for the approval …

Motorola Inc. said yesterday that it would cut 4,000 more jobs in the coming year, on top of 3,500 job cuts to be completed by next month. The reduced headcount …

As AT&T Inc. continues its acceleration of transitioning away from the Cingular brand, the company has revamped Cingular.com into an AT&T-branded site. Instead of reaching the old Cingular.com site, users …

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 this column is a chance for …

WASHINGTON-A federal judicial panel has conditionally remanded a brain cancer lawsuit and class action headset lawsuit against mobile phone companies to courts in Florida and Pennsylvania respectively.U.S. District Judge Catherine …

Third Screen Media Inc. and iLoop Mobile plan to work together to help companies looking to generate advertising revenue from their wireless Web sites.The deal looks to integrate iLoop’s technology, …

Enterprise applications are poised for impressive growth in the United States while the U.K. mobile content market is approaching a “tipping point,” according to two new reports.Compass Intelligence L.L.C. said …

Alltel Corp. made clear its interest in the upcoming 700 MHz spectrum auction in filings with the Federal Communications Commission, and requested that the commission avoid plans to set aside …

Longer contracts are pushing American consumers to keep their handsets longer, according to a new study by J.D. Power and Associates. The average length of ownership of a particular handset …

Following a major financial reporting setback due to an internal review of stock-options granting practices in mid-March, Wireless Facilities Inc. announced it has agreed to sell its wireless engineering business …

Broadcom Corp. is “pleased” and “gratified” that a federal jury in Santa Ana, Calif., found Qualcomm Inc. willfully infringed on three of its patents and awarded it $19.6 million in …

Business users in Western Europe and other regions will help drive surging sales of smartphones and other converged devices over the next few years, according to new figures from IDC.The …

It’s official: the BlackBerry Curve from Research In Motion Ltd., is available at AT&T Mobility beginning tomorrow. Price is $200, with two-year contract and mail-in rebate. The quad-band device rides …

You’ve heard that smartphones are the growth area in mobile handsets, with actual numbers to support this development-long-sought by vendors seeking higher average selling prices and carriers seeking improved data …

Women’s mobile content startup LimeLife Inc. pocketed $3.9 million in funding-and a potentially important new board member-thanks to Core Capital Partners.LimeLife targets on-the-go women with mobile content from Rachael Ray …

The global trend toward 3G technologies will lift Qualcomm Inc.’s earnings and stock value over the coming years-despite the company’s ongoing dispute with Nokia Corp., according to American Technology Research. …

The enterprise telephony space is ripe for consolidation, a Prudential analyst said in a new report, and there is plenty of appetite in the industry for a takeover of Avaya …

A Virginian jury ruled in favor of TeleCommunication Systems Inc. in the company’s patent-infringement battle with Sybase Inc., awarding TCS a one-time payment of $12.1 million for past royalties. Sybase …

Online gaming giant PopCap Games launched its first internally developed wireless title with a mobile version of its popular game Chuzzle.PopCap claims to have delivered more than 200 million downloads …

Longtime VeriSign Inc. chief Stratton Sclavos stepped down as the company’s internal investigation into stock-options grants comes to an end.The Mountain View, Calif., company declined to offer reasons for the …

The venture capital arm of German telecom giant Deutsche Telekom AG has joined Intel Corp. in investing in Jajah Inc., a two-year-old company offering global Voice over Internet Protocol service.The …

New research shows that the early entrants into the WiMAX market-firms like Alavarion, Aperto, Redline and Airspan-will be able to profit from their jump into an unproven industry, and will …