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Wireless broadband service provider Clearwire Corp.’s stock rose briefly today as analysts issued favorable reports of the company’s prospects, but later continued its downward trend. Clearwire’s stock rose more than …

Television viewers tuning in to catch updates of Monday’s shootings at Virginia Tech saw glimpses of the tragedy through Jamal Albarghouti’s mobile phone.A graduate student at the school, Albarghouti was …

Alltel Corp. announced that it hired a wireless industry veteran to coordinate its mobile advertising strategy for its data services and technology platforms. Eric Martin has spent 11 year working …

The voice-activated mobile search space continued to heat up as Microsoft Corp. launched a series of services delivering local business information.The free offerings, unveiled by Microsoft subsidiary Tellme Networks Inc., …

Alltel Corp., the nation’s fifth-largest carrier, discounted two smartphones over the past week, dropping prices on the Palm Inc. Treo 650 to $150 (from $200) and the UTStarcom PPC6700 to …

AT&T Inc. has dropped negotiations to acquire a one-third stake in a holding company, Olimpia S.p.A., which controls about 18 percent of Telecom Italia’s ordinary shares. AT&T said in a …

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History said it received for future display prototypes and patent papers documenting the work of 911 GPS cellphone pioneer Robert Tendler, recognition that comes …

A free conference calling service says that Sprint Nextel Corp. has stopped blocking calls to its numbers, a move that comes after FreeConference.com urged its customers to make an outcry.Now, …

User-generated content is the largest threat-and, perhaps, the biggest potential opportunity-to media and entertainment companies, according to a survey of executives released by Accenture.The poll of front-office personnel found that …

Nokia Corp. has joined the mobile widget bandwagon.The handset maker said it initially will use the icon-based applications on its S60 platform, providing one-click access to mobile Web sites via …

Rather than ceding control of the mobile TV market to the nation’s wireless carriers, nine U.S. television broadcast groups have formed an industry alliance called the Open Mobile Video Coalition …

Verizon Wireless has stepped into the unlimited messaging arena by including bottomless messaging in a new tier of individual and family plans. The individual plans are $20 more expensive per …

To accelerate adoption of DVB-H-based mobile TV services, Nokia Corp. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. will work on interoperability of their devices that run on that standard, the two companies …

LAS VEGAS-Universal Service Fund concerns and access to 700 megahertz spectrum topped the list of legislative concerns for Rural Cellular Association members during a discussion of the organization’s Washington, D.C., …

LAS VEGAS-Apple Inc.’s influence has apparently spread far and wide as various speakers at the Rural Cellular Association’s annual convention cited the company and its products as something to aspire …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our Monday 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. …

Near Field Communication technology is expected to be available on more than 20 percent of handsets shipped by 2012, according to ABI Research.The firm predicts about 292 million phones will …

The market for mobile marketing and advertising is expected to be worth $3 billion by the end of the year and top $19 billion by 2011, surpassing text messaging as …

LAS VEGAS-New technologies and trends are trickling down to impact the businesses of rural carriers, bringing with them a host of new opportunities and challenges. The common theme among sessions …

Mobile may not be the final frontier, but it sure is the latest frontier for media companies looking to expand their reach. As more and more people consume media on …

Even in the confusing, clinical world of mobile software terms, the term “speech-recognition technology” draws yawns. Lately, though, it’s also drawing a flood of investment money.Speech-recognition developers for years were …

Businesses in the United States are wasting in excess of $2 billion each year by not paying their mobile employees’ wireless bills, according to research from In-Stat.These findings should lead …

Hedge*hog*ing v. Interrupting conversations in an office environment by poking your head over the top of the cube.You gotta love Nokia. Here is a company that is handily the largest …

THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION’S DECISION TO PRESS TRADE COMPLAINTS AGAINST CHINA COULD COMPLICATE ALREADY-FRAGILE U.S.-SINO BILATERAL RELATIONS ON KEY TELECOM ISSUES, INCLUDING THE ASIAN GIANT’S PURSUIT OF ITS HOMEGROWN TD-SCDMA TECHNOLOGY, …

Editor’s note: This column by Keith Crain, chairman of Crain Communications Inc., which owns RCR Wireless News, first appeared in Automotive News, a Crain publication that covers the automotive industry. …