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Novatel Wireless Inc., maker of embedded laptop modems, warned this week that it would miss its first-quarter profit forecast.The company cut its first-quarter earnings estimate to $91 million from $110 …

LG Electronics Co. Ltd. shipped 24.4 million handsets in the first quarter, above analysts’ estimates of 23 million to 24 million units.Handset sales reached $3.2 billion, up nearly 36% over …

The Parrot PARTY Black Edition claims to be the first commercially available Near Field Communication (NFC) enabled speaker system . The NFC technology will enable users to pair their device …

The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.Handset and infrastructure vendors–RBC Capital Markets lowered its price target on …

Reps. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) and Chris Cannon (R-Utah) introduced a bill to impose a five-year freeze on new discriminatory state and local wireless taxes.“The wireless sector of the technology industry …

AdLink Technology Inc., which makes test-and-measurement solutions for telecommunication equipment manufacturers, introduced a new ATCA blade using Intel Corp.’s 5100 chipset.The new CPU blade is designed to help telecom equipment …

One year after launching Mowser, Russell Beattie has pulled the plug on his transcoding business.Beattie, a former mobile developer for Yahoo Inc., had hoped to compete with Google Inc., Greenlight …

Public-interest groups reiterated their call for federal regulators to protect text messaging rights, framing the issue with far-reaching implication for free speech, disability access and competition in the wireless industry.Public …

While the Federal Communications Commission’s failure to attract a bidder for a national commercial-public safety spectrum license dominated a House telecom subcommittee hearing today, the panel’s review of the 700 …

Crush or Flush members can now give advertisers a thumbs-up or thumbs-down — just like they do with each other.IceBreaker Inc’s mobile social networking site added Golden Ticket, a component …

The wireless industry’s two heavyweights continued to tweak their service plans with both AT&T Mobility and Verizon Wireless offering up new packages targeted at different demographics.AT&T Mobility unveiled a new …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to On the Margins, a feature for RCR Wireless News’ weekly e-mail service, Mobile Content and Culture. Every week, the RCR Wireless News staff considers events in …

What’s with all the new pricing plans? Are carriers moving toward customization in lieu of simplicity?The introduction of unlimited plans a few months ago seems to have sparked a rallying …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to Yay or Nay, a feature for RCR Wireless News’ weekly e-mail service, Mobile Content and Culture. Every week we’ll review a new wireless application or service …

Today Nokia announced the 6212 Classic, a bar-style phone that incorporates near-field communications technology for mobile payment services.

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 …

Redback Networks, an Ericsson company (NASDAQ:ERIC) that makes video-centric routers for 75+ percent of the world’s largest triple-play networks, today announced the results of an Ovum/RHK study, which found that …

Verizon Wireless is hoping to spur uptake of the wireless Web with a new, all-you-can-surf plan for smartphone users.The carrier introduced a $30-per-month plan that gives smartphone users “an unlimited …

Verizon Wireless has tapped AOL L.L.C.’s Platform-A as a “major advertising provider” of its online and mobile Internet destinations.The operator said it will use Platform-A’s sales force as well as …

The market for LTE technology took another step forward today as seven infrastructure heavyweights announced a framework for licensing the rights to the next-generation wireless standard. Alcatel-Lucent, L.M. Ericsson, NEC …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We’ve collected a group of the industry’s leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry. …

LAS VEGAS–Sun Microsystems today announced an expansion of its Streaming System video portfolio, adding small to mid-scale streaming of television and IP-based video to create an IPTV that can scale …

Cisco is opening up two pieces of its branch office gear to application developers in an effort to reduce the amount of equipment businesses have to place and manage in …