May 2008

Nokia Corp. took another baby step to pry open the U.S. market with an announcement that its 5310 XpressMusic phone would sell at T-Mobile USA Inc. beginning on May 28. …

Sprint Nextel Corp. plans to begin selling its touchscreen Instinct phone through its retail outlets on June 20, a date that may put the device on store shelves at almost …

Wireless Maingate, a machine-to-machine company in Europe, has chosen Blueslice Networks to provide its ngHLR 3000T to help Maingate with roaming and other applications.Blueslice said the ngHLR 3000T has a …

The market for cellular machine-to-machine communications modules is expected to grow to nearly 80 million shipments in 2013, according to a new study from ABI Research.The firm predicts four applications …

An initial effort spearheaded by Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin and Verizon Wireless to secure support from leading consumer groups to give subscribers relief on early termination fees – …

Despite being less of a target in recent years, the cellphone industry remains entangled in health-related litigation that could turn on how the District of Columbia Court of Appeals rules …

Qualcomm Inc. is backing an industry association that aims to create a “mobile giving channel” for nonprofits looking to raise money via text messaging.The chipmaker invested an undisclosed amount in …

Verizon Wireless continues to please its business customers, both big and small. According to the J. D Power and Associates 2008 Business Wireless Satisfaction Study, released today, the carrier ranked …

Google Inc. co-founder Larry Page said there are not technical impediments to making vacant television channels – white spaces – available for unlicensed wireless broadband access, but that powerful lobbying …

Mobile virtual network enabler Visage Mobile announced plans to sell its Subscriber Management business to billing giant Convergys Corp. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.Visage was one of a …

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 …

Allie Winter has joined RCR Wireless News as a reporter covering the wireless carrier beat. Winter, a Minnesota native, graduated from the University of Minnesota with a Bachelor of Science …

Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News has teamed up with Yankee Group to conduct a series of market surveys of RCR Wireless News’ subscribers to gauge their thoughts on various technology …

Samsung Electronics said Thursday it was consolidating some of its key businesses a week after announcing a new executive lineup.

The UK’s Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has welcomed the release of the Advanced Trusted Environment recommendations document from the mobile industry’s device requirements body, OMTP.

Google is committed to many open-source tenets with its Android mobile phone software–but it’s willing to step on a few open-source toes, too.

You’ve already got a phonebook on your cellphone. What about turning that list into a social network?

The Global Positioning System that helps us navigate the highways was a brilliant idea. So brilliant that industry watchers at ABI Research Inc. in New York say there will be …

PARIS – Advertising on mobile phones has enormous potential to become a significant platform for marketers, but any breakthrough is years away and major operators must work together to succeed, …

In Korea where broadband Internet speed is one of the world’s fastest, downloading a two-hour movie file may not take more than five minutes.

Exactly one week after EarthLink Inc. said it would be shutting down its nearly citywide municipal Wi-Fi network in Philadelphia, one of the city’s elected officials is making political hay …

Virgin Mobile USA has tapped AOL’s Platform-A to handle its WAP banner inventory.Platform-A will serve as the “exclusive display advertising and sales partner” for the mobile virtual network operator’s mobile …

Qualcomm Inc. will buy a stake in ip.access Ltd., a U.K.-based femtocell vendor. The dollar amount of the investment and Qualcomm’s relative share in ip.access were not made public, but …

AT&T Mobility is set to put the icing on its 3G network cake. The industry’s No. 1 carrier said that by the end of June it expects to have its …

Alltel Communications L.L.C. is the latest major mobile-phone carrier to be tagged with a patent infringement suit by NTP Inc., the Virginia-based patent holding firm that scored a $612.5 million …