Texas Hold'em and the iFart may be, they're not going to change the world. Nokia's mobile application developer community, Forum Nokia, recently called on enthusiasts to create applications that will do more than quell boredom.
Analyst firm Gartner has published a report highlighting eight technologies which it predicts will have a major impact on the mobile industry over the next two years. These range from new wireless standards, to user interfaces and new types of display.
Market research firm iSuppli has taken apart the BlackBerry Storm and discovered that the sum of its parts is worth more than those of Apple's iPhone 3G .
A California state judge ordered a new trial to determine damages in a class-action early termination fee lawsuit, putting the struggling No. 3 mobile phone carrier on the hook for nearly $300 million sought by plaintiffs' lawyers.The Sprint Nextel Corp. ETF case has been...
Despite all the multimedia bells and whistles available to customers on their wireless phones today, nearly half of cellphone users still prefer to use their mobile phone only to make calls.A new report from the NPD Group said 45% of U.S. mobile-phone users prefer...
AT&T Mobility easily bested rival Verizon Wireless in adding fourth-quarter subscribers, showing there is still wireless growth to be had. The industry's No. 2 operator said it added 2.1 million new customers during the final three months of last year, easily outpacing the 1.4...
There's a new player on the wide-open mobile search playground. And it's bigger than you think.Kgb, a New York-based firm with roots in fixed-line directory assistance, launched service earlier this month with a premium service that uses human "special agents" - a wry nod...
Shares of Openwave Systems Inc. jumped after the struggling company posted a slight increase in quarterly revenues.The Redwood City, Calif.-based firm generated $48.1 million in revenues during the quarter ended Dec. 31, up from $47.4 million during the year-ago period. Bookings for the quarter...
The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.Carriers--Morgan Stanley reinstated its equal-weight rating on Verizon Communications after the company's stock recently outperformed both the market and the telecom sector. Barclays Capital lowered...
"Super Bowl XLIII uses 21st century technology to insure (sic) that fans have a positive experience on February 1, 2009," the press release from InStadiumSolutions (ISS) exclaimed. "Fans will be able to text issues right from their cell phone directly to the security command...
A New York congressman has introduced a bill that would force US phone manufacturers to program an audible tone that plays every time the cellphone's camera is used, in an effort to stem the voyeuristic tide of revealing, unauthorized photography.
The writing was probably on the wall, but no one's paying close enough attention to what Boost Mobile's doing to even notice. phonescoop has it that the company famous for pushing its services with giant sized humans uttering one liners such as "yo" and...
Barclays has become the first UK high street bank to offer free security software to its mobile banking customers, in a deal with anti-malware vendor Kaspersky Lab.
The Senate Finance Committee later today is expected to make tax credits available to wireless carriers and others in the telecom industry that expand broadband networks to rural and low-income urban areas with little or no high-speed Internet access.Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.), a senior...
AdMob unveiled a new ad network designed to help developers to monetize their applications on the Android platform.The San Mateo, Calif.,-based mobile ad startup said it already serves ads on mobile sites on Android, receiving more than 27 million ad requests last month. The...
Texas Instruments, Inc. yesterday posted a 30% year-on-year drop in revenue and a 95% drop in operating profit. About one-quarter of T.I.'s revenue in the fourth quarter was derived from wireless work. As a result, the company announced it would cut 12% of its...
The disgruntled economy finally hit Verizon Wireless where it hurts, in its customer growth during the fourth quarter. The carrier posted 1.4 million net adds during its fourth quarter, but that's the fewest subscribers the No. 1 wireless provider added since the second quarter...
Congress is poised to approve legislation postponing the digital TV transition from Feb. 17 to June 12, with the public safety and mobile-phone sectors unable to win many concessions they sought. The Senate last night approved the DTV delay bill after satisfying Republican concerns....
Mike Wehrs took over the reins at the Mobile Marketing Association a few weeks ago and was immediately greeted with two fresh controversies.
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Weakening sales and restructuring charges kept Tellabs Inc.'s earnings under pressure in the fourth quarter, the Naperville maker of telecommunications products said Tuesday, but an income-tax benefit helped the company report a profit increase.For the quarter ended Jan. 2, Tellabs had net income of...
