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HOLLYWOOD, Calif. – A panel of five mobile entertainment CEOs took the stage this week at OnHollywood 2008 to make the case for their varying business models and address what …

Editor’s note: RCR Wireless News has teamed up with Yankee Group to conduct a series of market surveys of RCR Wireless News’ subscribers to gauge their thoughts on various technology …

Conservationists called for a freeze on all tower registrations and re-registrations until the Federal Communications Commission complies with environmental statutes at issue in a court ruling earlier this year, likely …

Concerts are nothing new on mobile. Sprint Nextel Corp. aired the first concert on mobile in 2005 with a huge marketing push behind a Bon Jovi concert that year. Others …

The once hotly contested push-to-talk market appears set for a competitive resurgence as the nation’s two largest CDMA carriers are rolling out new PTT initiatives that should prove more compelling …

ATLANTA – Innovation has to become institutionalized if wireless content is going to be successful, AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph de la Vega last week told attendees at the GSM Association’s …

Consumers are increasingly using their mobile phones to access banking services and products, and about 816 million consumers are expected to do so by 2011, according to a new study …

Mobile instant messaging will eventually cannibalize SMS and computer-based e-mail, according to a survey from TNS Technology.The survey of 17,000 respondents in 30 countries found that once users adopt MIM, …

The mobile device market is expected to show shipments of 289 million units during the first quarter of 2008, according to a new study from ABI Research.“Operators and distributors continued …

The woes besetting Motorola Inc.’s consumer handset division have been the stuff of headlines for the past year. The company has said it remains committed to creating two independently traded …

Verizon Wireless’s purchase of Alltel Communication L.L.C. is leaving many gasping for breath. The $28.1 billion purchase of the nation’s fifth-largest U.S. mobile operator seems to make sense for Verizon …

Smaller entrepreneurial wireless developers could lose a friend with Verizon Wireless’ acquisition of Alltel Communications L.L.C. Alltel supports a number of cool applications on its deck. Celltop, which allows you …

Chip provider, and thorn in Qualcomm’s side, Broadcom saw its co-founder Henry Nicholas III indicted last week on fraud, conspiracy and . wait for it . drug charges. While the …

Disaster reliefVerizon Wireless launched a program designed to make it easy for its customers to donate to disaster relief efforts targeted at China and Myanmar. The program allows postpaid customers …

One key message to enterprises that mobilize their work force, according to analyst Iain Gillott at iGR:“If you think networks are fast today, there’s more coming – what are you …

Rave Wireless is upgrading its Rave Guardian program, a two-way safety solution that puts scared students in touch with the right people.Rave, which started operations in 2005, offers a service …

We reported on the seizure of nearly 20,000 mobile phones deemed to be outright counterfeits by federal officials. In the suspected bogus category, there also were 2,000 headsets, 462 boxes …

A dispute has erupted over whether a federal appeals court should delay ruling on the wireless industry’s challenge to the Federal Communications Commission’s backup power rule until Bush administration budget …

Overnight, it seems, mobile Internet devices, or MIDs, are the topic du jour.But like many overnight sensations, the MID category is constructed of a fragile combination of long-term toil in …

TEXTING. IF YOU HAD ASKED AMERICANS WHAT THAT WORD MEANT 15 years ago, most would have been short for words. Now the definition of texting, even though still not listed …

High-stakes battles over early termination fees are playing out in official Washington and California at a time when carriers face pressure to make good on commitments to open their networks …

Last year around this time Apple Inc.’s iPhone had yet to be unleashed on the public. AT&T Mobility, which was set to be the exclusive carrier for the device, was …

BARCELONA, Spain – Nokia Corp. used its S60 Summit ’08 to tout the reach of its smartphone platform, woo low-profile developers and – like just about everybody else in mobile …

MARINA DEL REY, Calif. – A pair of Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group executives didn’t paint such a rosy picture for mobile in a keynote here at the MEFCON conference.Thomas …

Vodafone Group plc will say goodbye to its fearless leader. After five years as CEO, Arun Sarin announced last week that he is retiring as head of one of the …