Mobile and Wireless Industry Reports

My colleague Olga Kharif quite succinctly walks you through in this blog all the reasons why its unlikely Apple in the next month or so won’t release a stripped-down version …

Don’t expect your 3G phone to work at the 2008 Olympics Games , running August 8-24, 2008 in Beijing .

In San Antonio test market, customers can get voice, wireless, broadband and television services. AT&T is testing out its new U-Verse voice services by making them available to all current …

The company announced a host of products that aim to unwire the enterprise.

The LiMo Foundation announced nine new members today and said that more handsets with its operating system are launching in North America and Japan. The organization is a leading proponent …

For years, mobile advertising has been touted as the next frontier. Its day may finally have arrived. Recent reports suggest that almost 60 million consumers were exposed to mobile advertising …

Battery life, security issues could affect custom business apps. After three weeks of testing and reviewing Apple Inc. ‘s new iPhone 2 .0 firmware and an iPhone 3G for use …

The furniture retailer claims that its new pay-as-you-go mobile service for loyal customers is Britain’s cheapest by 25%

In an overlooked USA Today article from Friday, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson and “insider sources” quietly all but confirmed that the company has retained exclusive rights to the iPhone until …

Apple yanks connection-sharing software from App Store a second time. The on-again, off-again saga of NetShare, an iPhone tethering application, continued over the weekend as Apple Inc. briefly returned the …

About this time a year ago rumors began circulating about a smaller nano-sized iPhone. The UK’s Daily Mail has resurrected the rumor again, just in time for the holiday shopping …

Today’s camera phones will give way to ‘intelligent’ phones that use their image camera subsystems in ways beyond simple still image or video capture.

Satellite communications company TerreStar Networks Inc. said it signed a nationwide reciprocal roaming agreement with AT&T Inc.TerreStar is developing an all-IP integrated satellite-terrestrial communications network. The company plans to target …

Verizon Wireless quietly launched visual voicemail, allowing customers to view caller and voicemail information and listen to voicemail messages in any order on their phone.Voice messages will be displayed on …

Safran said it will swallow $343 million to spin off its troubled Sagem Mobiles division to venture capital firm Sofinnova.Sofinnova plans to rebrand the handset manufacturer as Sagem Wireless, with …

Nortel Networks Corp.’s stock plunged nearly 15% after the infrastructure provider released relatively flat second quarter results, but warned of future instability in the U.S. market. The Toronto-based company posted …

Toshiba Corp. said it will shut down its four-year-old, satellite-based digital multimedia broadcasting service, which it offers via its Mobile Broadcasting Corp. business unit.The company said the service has failed …

Luxury brand Dolce&Gabbana said it ran a successful mobile advertising campaign on the Nokia Media Network.The company’s youth-oriented brand, D&G, used a viral campaign on mobile handsets to raise awareness …

I guess if you lose a few billion dollars, someone has to take the blame. Or at least that was the case last week at Alcatel-Lucent, where after posting another …

Motorola Inc. says its troubled handset business is improving and will be stronger by the end of the year, but CEO Gregory Brown isn’t willing to say when he expects …

Verizon Wireless is the latest marketer to yank an ad deemed offensive, in what has become a minor trend of marketers caving to pressure from advocacy groups. The ad, a …

Despite the buzz surrounding the femtocell market, 2008 will probably be a low-key year for femtocell vendors with only about 100,000 units expected to ship, according to predictions from ABI …

More than 550 million GPS-enabled mobile phones are expected to ship by 2012, according to a new report from ABI Research.“While most CDMA handsets are already GPS-enabled and GPS is …

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.—Celeno: Cisco led a $16 …

Nokia Corp. is more than doubling the size of its direct venture investment fund with an injection of $150 million, with a view to putting some of the money to …