Mobile and Wireless Industry Reports

All over Beijing, Olympic countdown clocks tick off the seconds that China has awaited for seven years: the moments until Aug. 8, 2008, at 8:00 pm, when the opening ceremonies …

LAS VEGAS — Microsoft and Harrah’s Entertainment introduced a high-tech interactive bar table Wednesday that lets patrons order drinks, watch YouTube videos, play touch-screen games and even flirt with each …

Mozes will enable music artists to send text and voice messages to fans. No, this isn’t spam as hardcore fans are only sent messages they’ve asked for.

The CEO of the company behind KFC and Motorola’s mobile advertising gives his perspective on the state of the industry and where it’s headed.

It will be 2010 before a Long Term Evolution (LTE) network is commercial, however ABI Research forecasts that by 2013, there will be more than 32 million subscribers using LTE …

New smartphone is still largely untested from a corporate security standpoint, Gartner says.The enhanced security features built into Apple’s new iPhone 3G will enable the devices to be connected more …

Today, at the Internet Retailer Conference and Exhibition in Chicago, Nic Covey , Director of Insights for Nielsen Mobile, spoke on the subject of m-commerce (commerce that takes place via …

The pace of action on the world’s infrastructure stage has increased over the past several months, with a number of major carriers announcing multibillion-dollar buildout plans, intellectual property owners realigning …

NEW YORK – The key to moving the needle in mobile advertising? Make it easier for would-be advertisers to spend money on the stuff.That was the takeaway from the roundtable …

Verizon Wireless appears to have been inspired by the company it is currently working to acquire.Just days after the carrier proposed purchasing Alltel Communications L.L.C for almost $30 billion, Verizon …

The push to make magazine pages more interactive is building mass and, dare we say it, even real momentum as major publishers and advertisers adopt a pair of technologies centered …

The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.Carrier–R.W. Baird raised its 2009 EPS estimate on Verizon to $2.97 …

The iPhone install base will balloon and users will download at least two applications next year, according to a Piper Jaffray assessment.

I guess you have no choice but to announce a few handsets that have been leaked all over the place or it was all just coincidence. Whatever the case, Verizon …

A first for European consumers, free mobile TV is landing on their fingertips as 3 Italia starts offering free mobile broadcast TV, based on DVB-H. The user will be able …

Airlines can’t afford to spend money on much of anything beyond fuel these days, but that’s not stopping them from pouring cash into the technology that will let passengers surf …

Meraki, a municipal Wi-Fi provider has announced it will

Belgian private equity group, GIMV has brought the entire Open Transport Network (OTN) division at Nokia Siemens Networks for a undisclosed amount.

The forthcoming apps from Oracle mirror the look and feel of Web 2.0 social networking services — including MySpace and Facebook.

Two big mobile players made headlines in the past few days, but they seem to be headed in very different directions.Apple once again displayed its marketing chops, grabbing headlines in …

The Justice Department’s agreement to let Verizon Wireless purchase Rural Cellular Corp. so long as the No. 2 mobile-phone carrier sells off a handful of licenses in Vermont, New York …

Qualcomm Inc. is downplaying a Supreme Court decision that restricts the ability of a patent holder to continue to collect royalties after an invention is sold or licensed, despite urging …

AT&T Mobility and T-Mobile USA Inc. have exchanged lawsuits claiming the other has breached agreements related to the carriers’ providing Wi-Fi access in Starbucks Corp.’s locations across the country. Earlier …

UTStarcom Inc.’s infrastructure business has gone private. The company, which also makes a range of cellphones, has sold its mobile solutions business unit to private equity firm OpenGate Capital for …

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 …