Mobile and Wireless Industry Reports

There was a time when only the IT shop had the smarts to hook a smartphone into the enterprise network and grant it access to services such as mobile email. …

While not yet ready for everyone, organizations should consider buying notebooks with embedded wireless broadband capability for moderate to extensive travelers in 2009.

Retailers and restaurants can run coupons in local newspapers to try and pull more consumers in. With mobile technology, they can do the same not just when consumers are at …

SAN DIEGO–Verizon Wireless affirmed its commitment to Qualcomm’s BREW platform, announcing at the BREW developers event it would enhance its Get It Now content deck with new features such as …

Ever looked at your cellphone menu and wondered what the heck the wrench is for? Or the clipboard? Or any other random icon put there to help, but which sometimes …

The success of smartphones among U.S. shoppers has served to boost the average purchase price for cellphones, according to new research from J.D. Power and Associates. According to the firm’s …

The Federal Trade Commission said it snuffed out an alleged pretexting scheme in which at least two parties were accused of obtaining cellphone records from wireless carriers by impersonating subscribers …

As its BREW developer conference kicks into high gear today, Qualcomm Inc. announced a handful of efforts designed to entice a broader array of players into the mobile content field.–Qualcomm …

Hello! And welcome to our Thursday column, Worst of the Week. There’s a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so this column is a chance for …

Less than a year after The Nielsen Co. acquired mobile research and measurement firm Telephia, digital measurement company comScore Inc. made its own move into mobile. The firm announced it …

In case book buyers felt limited by stores, direct mail and online options, Barnes & Noble is adding one more: mobile phones. The Manhattan-based book retailer announced the launch of …

The Amazon Kindle e-book reader is back in the news again with a headline $40 device price cut to US$359, with Jeff Bezos giving an interview at the annual All …

Network equipment maker Cisco has unveiled a new mobility appliance, which it claims will ease businesses’ path to unified collaboration. The Cisco 3350 Mobility Services Engine helps users unify fixed …

New research claims that IT security vendors are developing products to support a next-generation of “deperimeterised” business networks that have been opened up to support collaboration between customers, partners and …

STOCKHOLM -(Dow Jones)- Nokia said Thursday its plan to use one chip for radio technology in its mobile handsets is still on track, despite news from supplier Infineon Technologies of …

When they use their mobile phones to go online, Americans flock to different sites than when they surf from their computers. Meet the mobile Web

If you expect a growth in sales for your mobile operating system over the coming years, it follows that you make sure your sites render well on mobile browsers.

India’s Tata Teleservices has announced that it will commercially deploy a new location-based service that is the first to use Qualcomm’s Assisted GPS (A-GPS) technology in the Indian market.

Advertisers in the Wireless Telephone Services category spent nearly $4.1 billion in 2007 – an increase of $431 million (12 percent) over 2006, according to a Nielsen Monitor-Plus and Nielsen …

Mobile advertising revenue worldwide will increase from $1.4 billion in 2007 to more than $10 billion by 2013, according to a study by Heavy Reading.

The continued adoption of wireless broadband technologies will have a major positive impact on the U.S. economy, according to a new report by the CTIA (Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association).

Sprint Nextel Corp. has been hit with a new class-action lawsuit alleging subscribers were billed for text messaging they did not authorize, litigation that is becoming increasingly common in the …

THE FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION SET A JUNE 20 DEADLINE for public comment on D-Block revisions, but already the agency has begun receiving suggestions from industry, public safety and academics. Most …

Qualcomm Inc.’s annual BREW developer’s conference got underway this morning, and the obligatory stream of news from the company’s home base in San Diego has kicked into high gear:–Qualcomm and …

TeliaSonera, the Stockholm-based network operator, will offer Apple Inc.’s iPhone this year to some portion of the 115 million subscribers it covers in seven countries, the operator said yesterday in …