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With music and imaging an increasing aspect of mobile phones’ feature sets-the engines driving network operators’ ARPU growth-more than 50% of this year’s $32 billion in worldwide accessory revenue will …

Delly Tamer, founder and CEO of online retailer LetsTalk.com, doesn’t know if carriers’ increased interest in bundling accessories presents a rival channel to his own, growing business, but he’s pretty …

LG Electronics Co. scored a pair of carrier wins last week spanning the range of wireless offerings. One of the deals was with the industry’s largest player and long-time LG …

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AT&T Mobility is hawking its MobiTV, XM Radio Mobile and music portal services with the launch of LG Electronics Co.’s new trax handset, an HSDPA-enabled, clamshell-style handset. The handset will …

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Aruba Networks Inc. will acquire two mobile security product lines from Network Chemistry to complement its existing offerings, the two companies announced.The deal-terms were not disclosed-transfers Network Chemistry’s RFprotect and …

Retail franchise Yakety Yak Wireless’ location in Huntington Beach, Calif., sells devices and service from Verizon Wireless, Sprint Nextel Corp. (both Sprint and Nextel brands) and soon will offer wares …

Sprint Nextel Corp. unveiled, though didn’t launch, a new, music-friendly handset that includes support for larger memory cards as well as an FM transmitter that allows users to listen to …

Motorola Good Technology Group this week plans to take its first serious swipe at Research In Motion Ltd’s dominance of the mobile e-mail space.The Motorola Inc. subsidiary is expected to …

GPS chipmaker SiRF Technology Holdings Inc. announced it purchased Centrality Communications Inc, which makes processors for “mobile navigation devices,” in a deal worth $283 million in stock and cash.SiRF’s stock …

Finnish handset vendor Nokia Corp. used its annual Nokia Connection event at telecom conference CommunicAsia in Singapore to beef up its mid-range offerings with three handsets, one destined for the …

The Bluetooth Special Interest Group once again made an ally out of a competing technology, agreeing to take the Wibree Forum under its umbrella.Wibree addresses devices with very low battery …

HTC Corp., the nimble, Taiwan-based smartphone maker that is a leading purveyor of Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Mobile operating system, announced its new HTC Touch, a phone that employs touchscreen technology. …

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HTC Corp., the nimble, Taiwan-based smartphone maker that is a leading purveyor of Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Mobile operating system, announced in London its new HTC Touch, a phone that employs …

Whether it’s through a transistor radio, a Walkman or an iPod, on-the-go music has an impressive track record as a business model. But when it comes to revenues from full-track …

Gadgets beget more gadgets, leading to fun, safety and productivity for consumers and profit for all. What’s not to love about that? New figures for the accessory market place its …

In the sudden rush of handset announcements-isn’t June the traditional window for launching handsets?-AT&T Mobility plans tol bring on two new models from Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. The Samsung SGH-a717 …

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 …

You’ve heard that smartphones are the growth area in mobile handsets, with actual numbers to support this development-long-sought by vendors seeking higher average selling prices and carriers seeking improved data …

The handset market in the United States in the first quarter grew 12% over the year-ago quarter, with the sale of about 39 million units valued at nearly $3 billion, …

Carriers measure upA former Yahoo employee has created a new Web site, www.MeasuredUp.com, that is designed to provide a forum for cellular phone subscribers to rate their experience with their …

Editor’s Note: In this monthly feature, RCR Wireless News talks to retail managers across the country to get a first-hand view of what’s hot in wireless. By Kelly Hill Leap …

Motorola Inc. is shifting its marketing strategy away from its mobile devices such as the Razr or Pebl to one more squarely focused on the consumer. Casey Keller, in one …