2008

Virgin Mobile USA Inc. is to unroll a set of new pricing plans that streamlines some of its pay-as-you-go offerings and enhances features included in monthly plans.The move comes less …

Our week o’ Dell scoops continues with what Dell calls its “mainstream” and “essential” series of Latitude E-series laptops.

Research and Markets has announced the addition of World GPS Market Forecast to 2012 to their offering.

SEPANG, Malaysia (AP) — McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton and Heikki Kovalainen were penalized five grid places Saturday for impeding other drivers and rival Ferrari took pole position for the Malaysian Grand …

Vantage Communications, a company providing hosted unified communications, has announced that the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) has chosen its Vantage IP Service (VIP) as a finalist for the …

Verizon Wireless and AT&T Mobility ran the table at the 700 MHz auction, accounting for most of the record $19.6 billion in bidding that broke historic ground on open access, …

SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO. LTD. appears to be upping the ante in the U.S. cellphone market, where it is No. 2 – some distance behind Motorola Inc. and trailed closely by …

CARRIER DECKS AND AGGREGATOR STOREFRONTS are so last year. Because application developers are quickly discovering that the hottest places to showcase their wares are the top social networking sites.Facebook last …

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration released a comprehensive report on federal government frequency usage, setting in motion initiatives to help agencies better exploit the airwaves – federal and private …

The government – not just the Federal Communications Commission – failed in its plan to deploy a mixed-use network that could be used by regular Joes and the public-safety community …

So it was on a sunny, wickedly windy day last Thursday that identities of winning 700 MHz bidders roared out of the Federal Communications Commission, ending with anticlimactic suspense an …

CTIA is taking its big show back west this year as the CTIA Wireless 2008 event is set to take place April 1-3 in Las Vegas (and if you haven’t …

At the end of the day – the verbal pause du jour – a gathering of thousands of industry people bursting with innovative products, some of them handsets, will undoubtedly …

Sprint Nextel Corp. last week rolled out an updated Web browser designed to deliver “a PC-like experience” on mobile phones. But not everyone is impressed.The carrier announced plans to launch …

Ringtone sales are flat and full-track mobile download services are falling on deaf ears. But streaming wireless music offerings may be hitting the right notes.A recent study from TNS Global …

BURLINGAME, Calif. – The idea of wireless handsets and home consumer electronics being interconnected, seamlessly sharing content is one that would be a boom for many in the entertainment business, …

NMS Communications Corp. subsidiary LiveWire Mobile is hoping to gain traction in a very slippery space: full-track mobile downloads.LiveWire, which was rolled out as a separate division in December, last …

So we never expected that Google would actually become a wireless licensee, but the FCC certainly did not get its wish for a bunch of new competition in the wireless …

The Federal Communications Commission took steps to improve outdated broadband data collection, an issue of concern to wireless carriers. An issue that’s tied to the highly charged, largely partisan debate …

As for the D Block, which received a single $472 million bid from Qualcomm Inc. in the opening round and eventually fell far short of the $1.3 billion reserve price, …

A report from Strategy Analytics finds there is strong demand among small and large enterprises for wireless services in Europe.“Spending on wireless solutions is expected to grow by 23% in …

The fixed-mobile convergence market could grow to 250 million users by 2012, according to new research from ABI Research.Converged services on fixed and mobile networks are currently available, and a …

Sales of mobile phones to consumers in the United States reached 146 million units in 2007, according to a report from The NPD Group. The market generated $11.5 billion in …

A federal appeals court gave few signals how it will rule on Sprint Nextel Corp.’s challenge to the Federal Communications Commission’s 800 MHz rebanding ruling last year, leaving uncertainty over …