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Cyren Call Communications Corp. said it never demanded long-term payments as a condition for a winning bidder of the 700 MHz national commercial/public-safety license, breaking its silence in response to …

Shares of Research In Motion Ltd. surged after the BlackBerry maker reported strong quarterly revenues and offered a rosy forecast for the current quarter.The Waterloo, Ontario-based developer reported $1.88 billion …

I know there is a lot of news to talk about. During this year’s CTIA Wireless show, we got to see a bunch of fun, new devices, we heard interesting …

LAS VEGAS — As usual, the CTIA Wireless show stood as a launch pad for a variety of new devices coming onto the market in the coming months. First up …

The country’s two largest wireless carriers are stepping up their retail experience, with more interactivity and new design elements. AT&T Mobility is introducing Microsoft Corp.’s Surface at select stores, which …

Amazon.com is making purchases from its Web site as easy as sending a text message. The online retailer announced a new service called Amazon TextBuyIt, which allows users to text …

If MVNOs had a theme song, it would probably be “Another One Bites the Dust.” Movida Communications Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy this week in a Delaware court, blaming …

Federal Communication Commission Chairman Kevin Martin’s well-received announcement here that he will push for dismissal of Skype Ltd.’s open-access petition has now prompted a reaction from an influential House lawmaker. …

So it was about 24 hours ago when in these same pages – and if we did our jobs right, in this same general area – I made some wild …

The brave new world of handsets includes no comfort zones (watch out, Nokia!), disruptive influences run rampant, software transcends hardware and micro-segmentation is likely. These were among the conclusions drawn …

Yes, the mobile industry would be well-served if everyone got behind a single 4G technology. No, it’s not going to happen anytime soon. Vodafone Group CEO Arun Sarin used his …

Anyone looking for more talk of interplanetary colonization during the Day Two keynote surely was disappointed. Wednesday’s speakers eschewed Richard Branson’s April Fools’ Day hijinks in favor of a more …

Chris Pearson is the president of 3G Americas, L.L.C. In his role as the senior operating officer of the trade organization, he is responsible for strategic planning of 3G Americas …

Richard Lowe is president of carrier networks at Nortel Networks Inc. The Carrier Networks group, which is Nortel’s largest division, includes a large portfolio of mobility and converged solutions including …

The adult mobile content market will nearly triple over the next several years, reaching $4.6 billion by 2012, according to a recent forecast from Juniper Research. But don’t expect much …

Is the struggle for mobile security a losing battle? “There is no such thing as absolute security,” former White House Cyber Security Adviser Howard Schmidt told an audience of mobile …

The mobile enterprise world for years has been rife with talk of Trojan horses, data-soiling worms and other Internet-age nasties. For the time being, though, the biggest threat to mobile …

While ‘interoperability’ and ‘9/11’ have become mainstays in debates on how to improve the highly fragmented public-safety communications regime in the United States, a new survey reveals first responders do …

It didn’t take long after the 2001 terrorist attacks for the Federal Communications Commission to get energized on wireless priority access service, which during emergencies queues first responders and government …

A recent compendium of bank technology case studies from financial research and advisory firm Celent, asked the question, “What would it look like for a bank to do everything right …

She has been on your TV set for about a year now. If you grew up in the 1970s, the girl in the commercial might remind you a bit of …

Telecom policymakers and special-interest groups are fond of talking about ubiquity, making sure communications — wireless, wireline, Internet and video — are within reach of all Americans. Indeed, there are …

Flashback to CTIA 2006: As former Nokia Corp. CEO Jorma Ollila gave his farewell address to the industry two years ago this spring, he exhorted his audience to keep working …

Mobile television is all over the place, yet going nowhere fast all at the same time. Consumer choice for TV and video on their cellphones is pretty robust, but that’s …

Blake Krikorian is CEO of Sling Media, purveyor of the SlingBox, which allows users to stream content from their home television to either a laptop or mobile device. Q: Mobile …