Mobile and Wireless Industry Reports

After 219 developers signed a petition asking for more information about Android ‘s progress, Google offered a two-sentence reply saying, in essence, “thanks.”

Sun Microsystems has open sourced its Java toolkit for building mobile applications just as the role Java plays on handsets comes into question.

Chip will allow people to receive phone calls on their PCs even when the machine is powered-down.

The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.Carrier–RBC Capital Markets raised its price target on Leap Wireless to …

Someone was attacking women in Fairfax County and Alexandria, grabbing them from behind and sometimes punching and molesting them before running away. After logging 11 cases in six months, police …

A substantial number of mobile users worldwide will follow the Olympics on their cell phones this summer, including nearly 45 percent of United States and 31 percent of United Kingdom …

CNN announced on Tuesday that it would assign journalists to 10 cities across the United States, a move that would double the number of domestic cities where the cable news …

Can developing free software for mobile phones be a business? It can if you’re Illusion Labs, a fledgling company in the Swedish port city of Malm

Penetration of all mobile device management (MDM) technologies in handsets is growing strongly globally, claims a new report from Ovum.

Despite billions invested in turning mobile phones into pocket TV sets, the public continues to find it all a giant yawn. A study by TMC Media published earlier this month …

Hurdles remain for wider use of mobile banking. Mobile carriers must have broad enough coverage to connect urban and rural users, as many remittances come from urban migrants sending money …

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. —Amobee: Motorola and Cisco …

Sprint Nextel Corp.’s comeback campaign showed limited progress but remains a work in progress, as the struggling No. 3 wireless provider slowed its hemorrhaging customer churn while recording a $344 …

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin said he wants action before month’s end to relax roaming rules and freeze further licensing of wireless microphones in the 700 MHz band as …

Mobile video revenue will exceed $3.5 billion this year, driven by consumer demand for personalization and entertainment content on their mobile phones, according to new research from MultiMedia Intelligence.By 2012, …

The fast-growing femtocell market will generate $360 million in revenues for companies that provide device and service management for femtocell networks, according to a research brief from ABI Research.These companies …

The maturing U.S. handset market continued to chug along in the first half of the year – though slowing relative to years past – and analysts offered an array of …

The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.Handset and infrastructure vendors –R.W. Baird lowered its estimates on Alcatel-Lucent …

iPhone developer Armin Heinrich has released an application for the iPhone with two noteworthy characteristics: 1) Its primary function is to display a handsome glowing red jewel on your iPhone’s …

If there’s one lesson to be gleaned from all the mobile TV trials in the last year or so, it’s that users aren’t very interested in paying for the stuff. …

The following list details this week’s infrastructure awards for the cellular, Wi-Fi, and WiMAX industries. The contracts are broken down by transmission technology, country and vendor. The value of the …

Jimmy Jellinek to direct magazine’s online, mobile content.

Delta Air Lines announced today that it will begin offering wireless broadband Internet service on domestic flights as early as next month. Delta appears to be the first U.S. airline …

Technology buffs have been quick to predict the death of personal navigation devices–those clunky little boxes in cars that call out driving directions in an austere, yet soothing, tone.

The CEO acknowledges problems with the debut of MobileMe, and says the company has much more to learn about delivering Internet services.