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U.S. Cellular Corp. has taken its push-to-talk retail offering out of commission and limited the sale of walkie-talkie phones and service only to business channels. Retail stores and call centers …

The nation’s 236 million mobile subscribers rang up an impressive $4.8 billion in mobile data purchases last year, using their phones to do everything from sending text messages to watching …

Sure, cellphones have drastically changed the way people communicate, but what of the other powers mobile devices bring to the table?In this round-the-clock information age, cellphones are more than a …

The new joint venture known as Nokia Siemens Networks officially began operations April 1, but it didn’t want to fool anyone: growth in the networks sector will be “very slight” …

This year, worldwide replacement handset sales will rise to more than double the number of first-time purchases, according to a forecast by market research firm iSuppli Corp. And that has …

Google and Yahoo have done a bang-up job optimizing search tools on the wired Internet, and the companies are moving aggressively into the mobile space. But they are going to …

With the intractable Iraqi war having become so divisive after four years and ironically so devastatingly disruptive to the once-overarching homeland security framework for nearly all public policy, Sen. Hillary …

NBC Universal plans to start selling ads for its mobile video programming when the upfront season kicks off in May. That’s the latest piece of evidence that the once-scoffed-at business …

Hedge*hog*ing v. Interrupting conversations in an office environment by poking your head over the top of the cube.If you want to be inspired about the wireless industry, the United States …

Another technology designed to get people to watch TV beyond the living room is getting ready for its close-up. Mobile-Pedestrian-Handheld technology, or MPH, is an in-band mobile digital television system …

EMI Group has become the first major music label to offer digital music tracks without anti-piracy software. The move has some claiming digital rights management (DRM) software is slipping precariously …

The turbulent world of mobile content was highlighted once again last week as one well-known firm filled its coffers and another continued to fight for its life.CellFish Media raked in …

Federal Communications Commission member Robert McDowell cast doubt on Frontline Wireless L.L.C.’s public-safety broadband plan, which picked up backing from consumer, utility and public-interest groups last week, with the GOP …

With their patent cross-licensing agreement scheduled to end today, Qualcomm Inc. and Nokia Corp. each fired last-ditch legal salvos last week in hopes of gaining an edge in negotiations where …

Editor’s Note: In this monthly feature, RCR Wireless News talks to retail managers across the country to get a first-hand view of what’s hot in wireless.Retail store manager Mark Jones …

Trip Hawkins is at it again.The CEO of Digital Chocolate is proselytizing, pushing what he calls “Mobile Games 2.0”-an effort to create next-generation titles that incorporate familiar themes like community, …

The wireless industry was tagged with new privacy rules it decried as overkill and potentially costly to consumers, while Sprint Nextel Corp. downplayed suggestions its joint venture with four cable …

Money was the root of all interest at the recent CTIA Wireless conference, with various announcements from companies that want to play in the mobile payments and banking space, and …

J.H. Snider, research director of the New America Foundation’s Wireless Future Program, is the correct attribution for the New America Foundation quote in the April 2 story, “NTIA’s waiver policy …

Alltel named best in show at CTIA 2007Alltel Wireless won an E-Tech award for best in show at CTIA Wireless 2007 for its Celltop application. Celltop allows Alltel customers to …

Conventional wisdom has it that since early January, every handset vendor and carrier has scrambled for an answer to the you-know-who phone, due in June. Regardless of the handicapping already …

As it approaches its one-year anniversary, Disney Mobile L.L.C. has ambitious plans to develop new applications and move toward the use of EV-DO in delivering services. The company recently provided …

A coalition of consumer and public interest groups said the Federal Communications Communication should craft the 700 MHz auction to foster wireless broadband alternatives based on net neutrality principles. Not …

Days after Steve Jobs emerged victorious, at least with one major record label, in his quest to eliminate digital-rights management, a new study appears to offer another reason the Apple …

Carrier Access Corp. announced it will report a larger net loss for the first quarter than expected, and it plans restructuring activities to help it reduce costs.The company said it …