Mobile and Wireless Industry Reports

Is mobility a new revolution, or is it just an extension of the previous PC and Internet revolutions ? Is anything really different?

The battle between Sprint Nextel Corp. and its subsidiary iPCS Wireless Inc. rages on, with iPCS gaining some yardage. The affiliate announced that an Illinois court denied Sprint Nextel’s motion to dismiss or stay the lawsuit brought by three iPCS …

Just a few years ago, a Web site offering virtually every notable song ever recorded for free listening would have had music business executives speed-dialing their lawyers.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. phone company AT&T Inc plans to eventually link Apple Inc’s iPhone to its high-speed Internet and video service called U-verse, and introduce new features like using the phone as a remote control.

Programs like Meet or Delete and Engine Room, which are created for marketers and feature products interwoven into the plots, are becoming more popular among execs at TV networks. Such shows, known on Madison Ave.

CMMB may not be the only mobile TV standard in China for long, as Legend Silicon is rolling out more new digital TV chips based on China’s terrestrial digital television broadcast standard called GB20600-2006, designed for both fixed and mobile …

Ever had to wait 10 minutes for a credit card transaction in a cab to go through? Those days might be over for New York City’s iconic yellow cab fleet thanks to the Sprint-Nextel Corp. and VeriFone Holdings Inc. taxi …

In today’s wireless world, your marketing messages have to be able to reach consumers no matter where they check their email. Here’s how to mobilize your campaigns.

Apparently, the soul of the new machine is mechanical.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – As personal computers go, the new rash of ultra-mini laptops are full of geeky goodness. Light, portable and powerful, they are almost perfect. Almost.

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TEL AVIV (Reuters) – Mobile phone operator Cellcom (CEL.TA: Quote , Profile , Research , Stock Buzz ) (CEL.N: Quote , Profile , Research , Stock Buzz ) on Sunday launched a new advertising model in Israel enabling subscribers to …

Consumer interest in mobile banking and payments services offered by their financial institution has increased significantly in the past two years, according to new findings from a consumer research study released by financial services provider, Fiserv.

Sprint is lining up partners to help localize the WiMAX experience it plans to roll out this fall. Sprint users will get local news, weather, restaurant reviews, and other features on the XOHM 4G network through “geobrowsing.”

Like millions of motorists, Eric Hanson used a Global Positioning System unit in his Chevrolet TrailBlazer to find his way around. He probably didn’t expect that prosecutors would eventually use it too — to help convict him of killing four …

A new mobile plan offers customers a 65 percent monthly discount for customers who agree to receive mobile advertisements. Australian telco ComTel, who runs on the Vodafone network, launched the new service this week.

Apple has been forced to withdraw an advert for the original iPhone after its claims that the device could access “all parts of the internet” were deemed inaccurate.

Just when you thought no one could possibly launch yet another search engine along comes Viewzi .

LG Electronics will launch in October a netbook-class laptop PC based on Intel’s Atom processor that also includes 3G wireless, it said Wednesday at the IFA show in Berlin.

This morning Nokia officially announced the N85 and N79 handsets, which are targeted at the North American market. Both run S60 3rd Edition with Feature Pack 2 and house tri-band HSDPA 3G and quad-band GSM/EDGE radios for world-wide roaming.

The design of HTC’s latest slider handset may hark back to early smartphone formats, but the S740 still packs in all the technology necessary to make it a leading contender in the modern mobile market, its maker claims.

I’ve been playing with a free iPhone application called Loopt (Web site, App Store ). It allows you to stay connected to your friends, colleagues and relatives who are also members of the service.

Google dropped Bluetooth and the GTalkService instant messaging APIs (application program interfaces) from the set of tools for the first version of the mobile phone OS, Android 1.0, according to the Android Developers Blog .

Virgin Mobile completed its acquisition of struggling cellular carrier Helio for US$38 million in stock, an Associated Press report said.

People Telecom, an Australian retailer of telecoms services has announced a three-year agreement with Vodafone for an MVNO platform.