Standard & Poor’s lowered its long-term corporate credit rating on Motorola Inc. on Friday to “junk (bond) territory,” according to the Wall Street Journal.S&P’s rating change was to “BB+” from …
Regional carrier Cellular One released an unlimited monthly wireless plan priced at $80, undercutting similar offerings from its nationwide competitors. The carrier’s new “All of America” plan includes nationwide unlimited …
Buzzwire Inc. bagged a new leader, hiring former Newsweek president and worldwide publisher Greg Osberg to expand its network of content and carrier partners.The Denver-based startup powers Verizon Wireless’s m.vcast …
Rumors of a pending deal to sell the iPhone 3G at Wal-Mart are bouncing around between mainstream media, bloggers and analysts. The San Jose Mercury News reported Friday that Apple …
AT&T Mobility launched an end-to-end solution for its enterprise customers interested in tracking and managing their fleet of vehicles with a solution developed by TeleNav Inc.Starting this week, AT&T Mobility …
You could see it coming. Once President Bush signed the $700 billion Wall Street bailout bill into law, most certainly it was not going to end there. With clouds of …
Nokia Corp. said last week that holiday-related handset sales will likely fall short of the company’s last estimate, issued in mid-November. Three weeks ago, Nokia had forecast 330 million units, …
A leading watchdog group accused the Bush administration in a lawsuit of withholding records on traffic deaths associated with cellphone use by operators of motor vehicles, one of several developments …
In a scant 25 years, wireless technology has revolutionized the world. The cellphone is now a necessity; the network is now a conduit to friends, family, colleagues, TV, e-mail, maps, …
Next week Alcatel-Lucent CEO Ben Verwaayen will unveil a plan that is geared to turn around the fortunes of the world’s largest telecommunications equipment maker – and wireless is expected …
Various metrics for how the handset market is faring at this juncture are swirling like the snow in a paperweight designed to be shaken for pleasant effect. But this swirl …
Flickr is targeting smartphone users with an upgraded mobile site.The popular photo-sharing destination – which claims it has seen a 50% increase in mobile traffic over the last year – …
I just got back from a long weekend in a place that is defying the economic downturn, where there is a housing shortage because of all of the people flocking …
AT&T hopes to standardize on a single operating system for AT&T-branded smartphones as part of a “dramatic consolidation” of its mobile platforms over the next few years, a company executive …
A California satellite technology provider has signed a deal to put a planned broadband Internet satellite into orbit above the US in the first half of 2011.
The economy has apparently been heading south for about a year now, but the iPhone's sales numbers haven't taken a nosedive just yet. The global smartphone market has also been …
Sports fans jump at the chance to keep up with teams via mobile.
Talk about blazing trails: Ericsson has taken its uber-fast HSPA+ gear commercial in Telstra’s network in Australia, which is now capable of delivering the head-spinning speed of 21mbps — a …
Rapidly deteriorating employment picture bodes ill for merchants trying to salvage their key season.
Goodbye Xohm, hello Sprint 4G.Just over a year after inventing a new word for its WiMAX plans, Sprint Nextel Corp. has decided on a name that is easier on the …
The following list includes venture capital and other investments into wireless companies announced during the past week. The value of the investment is included when available.—Awarepoint: Cardinal Partners led a …
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, are hoping to use GPS-enabled wireless phones to help them study traffic data. Participants in the study will be asked to download software …
Nokia Corp. executives told analysts and press today that holiday-quarter handset sales will likely fall short of the company’s last estimate, given less than three weeks ago. Even with its …
Hello! And welcome to our Thursday column, Worst of the Week. There’s a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so this column is a chance for …
