Mobile and Wireless Industry Reports

Loopt scored another carrier win, notching a deal to place its friend-finding service on Verizon Wireless’s deck.The Silicon Valley-based startup offers a GPS-based service that allows users to locate friends …

Based on preliminary analysis of the 3G iPhone, Apple’s new handset may be its most profitable product, garnering better than 50% margins, according to analysts.Though the grand shift from hardware …

Looking to cut into its rivals’ wireless-wireline bundles, T-Mobile USA Inc. announced it will expand its wireline calling plan nationwide. The carrier’s @Home offering allows T-Mobile USA customers to place …

Speech-recognition startup vlingo Corp. launched a free downloadable application that allows BlackBerry users to navigate their phones using voice. Vlingo for BlackBerry users can speak commands into their handsets to …

WASHINGTON – Federal regulators agree that distracted drivers are dangerous. But the government won’t require phones built into cars and trucks to shut down automatically when the vehicles are moving. …

The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.CarrierStandard & Poor’s Ratings Services revised its outlook on U.K.-based mobile …

A network management system that lets users get to the video, music and other files on a home or small-business LAN will soon offer that remote access from mobile phones.

SEOUL (Reuters) – Virgin Mobile USA (VM.N: Quote , Profile , Research , Stock Buzz ) is set to acquire a US mobile arm of South Korea’s SK Telecom Co …

HELSINKI (Reuters) – The world’s first advertising-funded mobile telecoms operator, Blyk, will enter the highly competitive German, Spanish and Belgian markets next year, the firm said on Wednesday.

Apple Inc. is distributing to its retail and sales personnel an internal iPhone 3G Frequently Asked Questions document which implies that first-day sales and activation procedures are still being ironed …

We know that the iPhone 3G will have “assisted GPS.” But what does that mean? Unfortunately, there is no clear definition of this term, and of course it's beneath Apple …

Interactive media’s share of worldwide advertising expenditures is expected to hit 15 percent in 2009, almost double from four years ago, and will remain the main source of growth as …

Commerce over mobile devices such as cell phones is accelerating in the U.S., according to data released earlier this month by Nielsen Mobile.

If desperation is the mother of innovation, Yahoo may just be the future of mobile.A pioneer in the Internet’s youngest days, Yahoo may now be seriously wounded. Shares of the …

Sprint Nextel Corp. announced its small- and medium-sized CDMA business customers now have access to its Business Premier loyalty program.Since its merger with Nextel Communications Inc., the carrier has been …

Nokia Corp. will acquire total ownership of Symbian Ltd., buying out current partners in a deal valued at about $411 million, the company said today.Nokia said it would combine its …

Mobile virtual network operator Virgin Mobile USA Inc. unveiled its new “Totally Unlimited” calling plan, which stands as a shot against the company’s larger rivals by undercutting their prices by …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Yay or Nay. Every week we’ll review a new wireless application or service from the user’s point of view, with the goal of …

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 …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We’ve gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace. In the …

AT&T has created a new business unit that has already begun offering commercial streaming video, webcasting, e-learning and virtual trade show applications. These offerings will be supplemented with products from …

“Virtual” wireless carrier Helio could be on its last legs. We hear that it’s finally closing its barren retail stores this week, confirming a few earlier reports . And even …

Automated passenger profiling is rubbish, the Home Office has conceded in an amusing – and we presume inadvertent – blurt.

FMC has supporters, but cost and complexities are a concern.Whether fixed-mobile convergence is for you in the near-term depends in part on how you define it, but for most, there’s …

All evidence points to the fact that smartphone viruses will be a threat to your network even though they aren’t at this moment.