2008

The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.Carrier–Credit Suisse First Boston lowered its estimates on Leap Wireless to …

The government is quietly negotiating to help cell phone customers avoid expensive fees when they cancel contracts with wireless companies, The Associated Press has learned.

The mobile Internet industry very much resembles the fixed Internet industry of the mid-1990s: lots of promise, but the business models have yet to evolve.

Peter Adderton, the man behind Boost Mobile and Amp’d Mobile Inc., has unveiled his next business venture. And like those before it, the plan doesn’t lack one bit in the …

The simple banner ad: Those tiny little slivers of real estate on tiny little cellphone screens produce the same level of brand recall as a 30-second television commercial, a Verizon …

Rural mobile-phone operators have asked the Federal Communications Commission to investigate exclusivity deals between the industry’s major carriers and handset vendors, taking aim at an entrenched business practice that they …

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

AT&T Mobility is providing Web-hungry users with free Internet. The catch? They must already be an AT&T customer.Qualifying AT&T Mobility LaptopConnect customers who subscribe to the carrier’s $60-per-month DataConnect plan …

Application: ZumobiRunning on: Samsung ACE running Windows Mobile 6 on Sprint Nextel’s EV-DO network.Yay: Zumobi usually runs in the background and updates content regularly, allowing us to call up the …

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Sprint ‘s customer satisfaction rating plummeted by more than 8% in the first quarter of 2008, according to the latest American Customer Satisfaction Index , published today.

Korean telecommunications provider SK Telecom has long wanted a bigger beachhead in the U.S. Last year the company went so far as to make an audacious attempt to buy a …

AOL on Monday said it has completed the acquisition of Bebo, an online social network focused on the youth market and particularly strong in the United Kingdom.

NEW YORK – Nokia, the world’s leading mobile phone maker, does not expect to start to see returns from its investment in Internet services until 2010, Chief Financial Officer Rick …

Company has a new plan for engaging application developers and getting their programs to market.

Its gains fly in the face of current economic downturn, says analyst. Apple Inc. ‘s Macs accounted for 66% of all personal computers priced at $1,000 or more sold at …

Much has been made of Best Buy’s ( BBY ) $2+ billion investment in Carphone Warehouse (CRWHF.PK) , announced Thursday, May 8 th . This article suggests a manner in …

NEW YORK When word came down on March 12 that New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer was going to resign after revelations that he’d paid more than $80,000 for sex, Jeff …

Ovum, a consulting firm that specializes in telecom and software consulting, released a study this week projecting that the global market for managed services will deliver revenues of $66 billion …

According to Opera’s survey of the more 11.9 million Opera Mini users in March, almost 41% of mobile traffic now goes to social networking — up to 60% in some …

Travelling in this electronic age is all very nice – it’s now easy to communicate with the folks back home, send them photos, catch up on news in New Zealand, …

Sierra Wireless introduced its PinPoint XT intelligent device targeted at vehicle tracking, fleet management and telematics applications.The product is part of the company’s AirLink suite of in-vehicle modems. The PinPoint …

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 …

AT&T and Vodafone have been named as possible buyers for a 50% stake in Huawei Technologies’ handset division.

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