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Teens and young adults dominate the console gaming space, but mobile publishers are hoping their parents can help take wireless gaming into the mainstream.Gameloft this week plan to announce a …

Sprint Nextel Corp. is hoping to push its new location-based offerings by adding them to some of its high-end data plans.The carrier added a host of GPS-enabled navigation services to …

Online mobile phone retailer Wirefly, a site operated by InPhonic Inc., released a report on the sharp growth in smartphone sales of late. The company said smartphone sales have increased …

Sprint Nextel Corp. this past week made increased efforts to work its online retail handset angle. The carrier added at least four new handsets in the entry- and low-tiers, cut …

Sprint Nextel Corp. this past week made increased efforts to work its online retail handset angle. The carrier added at least four new handsets in the entry- and low-tiers, cut …

Wireless e-mail company Visto Corp. announced it raised another $35 million in venture-capital funding, this time scoring money from Altitude Capital Partners L.L.C. The news means that Visto has now …

Research In Motion Ltd. introduced its latest device, the BlackBerry 8800, at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. Touted as the thinnest BlackBerry handset yet, the device is equipped …

As with many legal settlements, the terms are undisclosed and it’s back to business as usual, but probably with subtle changes. Research In Motion Ltd. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. …

Cingular Wireless L.L.C. customers who have push-to-talk phones now have the ability to use the service on an a la carte basis for 15 cents per minute. The carrier said …

Palm Inc. finally made good on its vow to offer push e-mail service similar to Research In Motion Ltd.’s BlackBerry service.The company announced an upgrade to its VersaMail service for …

T-Mobile USA Inc. offered data this week purporting to demonstrate the consumer appeal of the Research In Motion Ltd. BlackBerry Pearl. The tidbits suggest that the Pearl-designed to appeal to …

Internet behemoths and pure-play startups are hastily inking deals and positioning themselves for a long, hard slog on the mobile search battlefield. Yahoo Inc. continued its aggressive move into wireless …

Yahoo Inc. is using the Consumer Electronics Show to tout a host of new partnerships supporting its Go 2.0 service.The Internet giant announced pacts to preload an updated version of …

Kodiak Networks announced a global licensing agreement with Research In Motion Ltd. to include mobile applications-including push-to-talk functionality-on BlackBerry handsets. Kodiak’s applications already are available on the BlackBerry Pearl at …

Changes in online handset prices keep raising questions for observers: Is the post-holiday retail model one of continued discounting to milk any lingering consumer desires to shop and spend money? …

Research In Motion Ltd. said that new product launches helped fill its sails as the company reported robust revenue and earnings in its fiscal third quarter, despite an ongoing, internal …

Wirefly, the online retailer, is offering mobile handsets at prices that defy gravity.Tis the season, apparently, for free or low-cost offers on the market’s leading handsets to erode the last …

The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms. Carrier Lehman Brothers raised its estimates on Dobson Communications on …

One well-worn mantra has it that long-awaited growth in data-driven revenue depends on smart phone uptake, a notion that keeps this market segment under the microscope. Thus, when NPD Group …

The oft-repeated statement-“thin is in”-like many obvious axioms, tends to mask nuance. What exactly is this quality that appears to rule the current landscape for fashion phones? Ask a variety …

When two women in distinctive but identical designer dresses are seated side-by-side in a trendy restaurant, there may be mutual if mortified acknowledgement of the other’s good taste, rapidly followed …

While Research In Motion’s lawsuit against Samsung over the similarity of the Samsung BlackJack to the RIM BlackBerry is a pretty amusing story, the fact that RIM asked for all …

LOS ANGELES-Research In Motion Ltd. is suing Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and the Korean handset vendor’s American subsidiary over the use of the name “BlackJack” for the latter’s new smart …

Mobile production service provider Mobile Streams said it signed an exclusive worldwide mobile content deal with the famous Mexican wrestler El Hijo Del Santo. He and his late father, El …

Under the banner, “Simpler and Slimmer,” Consumer Reports’ January 2007 issue weighed in on a handset category that has even the experts scratching their heads. At CTIA I.T. in September, …