October 2008

What do you do when you have one of the fattest marketing wallets in the world, but a chunk of your potential customers are being drawn in by ancillary offerings …

How is it possible that a company largely written off in the ISP world — EarthLink — could make money in its third quarter? The company reported net income of …

Police are calling for prepaid cellphone customers to be registered on a national database to stop criminals using the phones.

The online ad market is slowing, and Chinese rival Baidu is a global search threat. But Google’s idea lab is still a powerhouse to bet on

The YouTube phone, which 3 Italia plans to follow up soon with a Facebook phone, will be free when bought with a two-year contract. After uploading a video, the user …

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The next upgrade of Office business software from Microsoft Corp will include a version that edits word processing documents and spreadsheets inside a Web browser, the …

Company behind an application that can turn video, images, and slideshows into a personalized ringtone experience inks a deal to bring its service to Turkey.

The following list details this week’s infrastructure awards for the cellular, Wi-Fi, and WiMAX industries. The contracts are broken down by transmission technology, country and vendor. The value of the …

Texas Instruments Inc. said last week that it will sell or shutdown its merchant baseband chip business, and focus on application processors and multimedia for smartphones. The news appeared to …

LOS ANGELES — Looking for growth in new markets where it is increasingly being bypassed, Microsoft said Monday that it would begin offering a new “cloud” operating system that would …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We’ve gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.The news from …

CenturyTel Inc.’s board of directors gave the company the green light to acquire Embarq Corp. in a projected $11.6 billion transaction. CenturyTel will also acquire $5.8 billion of Embarq’s debt.If …

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION CHAIRMAN KEVIN MARTIN is coming under mounting pressure to postpone votes on major wireless items scheduled for Nov. 4. As Martin tries to round up support for …

Everyone loves a good horse race. But with macro-economic conditions reverberating throughout the wireless industry – handset vendors’ aggregate volume growth in the third quarter appeared to be stagnating – …

In an attempt to keep up with the needs of today’s businesses, Alltel Communications L.L.C. launched a new service allowing workers with smartphones access to client information and data while …

Verizon Wireless added 2.1 million customers during the third quarter, just slightly behind numbers posted by rival AT&T Mobility last week.In organic growth, Verizon added 1.5 million retail net customer …

Cable company Cox Communications announced it will build a wireless network with the $500 million in spectrum the company has accumulated over the past several years, and will launch commercial …

Qik has announced an alpha version of the Qik video-sharing application for the BlackBerry. The Qik application will allow BlackBerry uses to stream live video around the world.

Similar to Google Earth for desktop computers, the free software’s animated world rotates and zooms in on a map of one’s location.

SK Telecom, the country’s biggest mobile telephony operator, has seized upon the global market in the past decade and struggled to stay relevant.

The discount retailer says it’s ready for holiday shoppers as it scales back growth of namesake stores.

During a press event, CEO Dan Hesse said Sprint would eventually sell Android phones, but that it needed a bit more time to put the Sprint brand on it.

The positive merits of social networking have been leveraged in a multitude of ways by consumers, businesses, and other organizations for some time.

One of the joys of the Mac community is that if you find something–a program, a method of doing something, what have you–there usually isn’t a shortage of people willing …