Devices

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 …

There’s nothing easy about being smallest national mobile-phone carrier. Competing day to day for customers against AT&T Mobility, Verizon Wireless and Sprint Next Corp. is brutal enough. But it’s also …

September, it’s a month that starts with a three-day weekend, marks the end of summer and puts kids across the country back in school. There’s a lot to be done …

AOL L.L.C.’s Platform-A debuted a mobile platform and network specifically for serving ads to Apple Inc.’s iPhone.The new offering, which is available through AOL’s Third Screen Media subsidiary, delivers targeted, …

Nokia Corp. is teaming with The Carphone Warehouse to bring its all-you-can-eat mobile music service to U.K. users next month.Comes With Music, as the effort is branded, packages one year …

My teen daughter complains that I treat her like my own private marketing lab. Over the years, when a new cellphone comes in with apps to review, I learned to …

Motorola Inc.’s co-CEO Gregory Brown has plenty of incentive to see the company’s phone business spun of as a public company. According to a new three-year employment agreement signed Wednesday, …

Roaming – until recently a backburner, stand-alone issue – suddenly has emerged as a potential pivot point in the Federal Communications Commission’s consideration of two major transactions and competition policy …

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 …

DENVER – It’s a glitzy, ostentatious spectacle that has drawn hundreds of powerful politicians, thousands of TV cameras, tens of thousands of convention-goers and an audience that stretches across the …

Barack Obama has added one more record to his historic bid for the White House.Nielsen Mobile estimates that 2.9 million mobile subscribers received the Democratic Illinois senator’s text message announcing …

This morning Nokia officially announced the N85 and N79 handsets, which are targeted at the North American market. Both run S60 3rd Edition with Feature Pack 2 and house tri-band …

The design of HTC’s latest slider handset may hark back to early smartphone formats, but the S740 still packs in all the technology necessary to make it a leading contender …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We’ve gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace. It feels …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We’ve collected a group of the industry’s leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry.There …

The bad news continued for IXI Mobile Inc. as the Ogo-maker slashed 25% of its workforce and abandoned the U.S. market.The Belmont, Calif.-based outfit cut its second-quarter loss to $11.4 …

Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications took a baby step toward improving its position in the United States today by announcing its first handset for T-Mobile USA Inc.The TM506, a 3G clamshell …

Alltel Communications L.L.C. is teaming up with Pacific DataVision to offer a voice messaging system targeted at the business sector.SkyMail will be available across Alltel’s wireless network that includes more …

Rob Shaddock, leader of Motorola Inc.’s mobile devices consumer products group, since April, is leaving the company, Motorola confirmed today. In April, Shaddock had been given charge of the company’s …

Passengers on coast-to-coast American Airlines flights can now sit back and surf the Web.The world’s largest airline said it has teamed up with Aircell to provide Internet access to passengers …

The pressures of the mobile chip business, plus a fit in products and customers, has driven Ericsson Mobile Platforms and ST Microelectronics-NXP Wireless to join forces, the two companies said …

Divergent strategies for handset vendors are reflected in two launches announced today. Palm Inc. will sell its Treo Pro device unlocked and unsubsidized through its online stores and resellers in …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We’ve gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace. The mobile …

Privacy advocates’ concern over what Apple will do with iPhone user data may be overblown, industry experts say

After much waiting and wondering, Android developers finally got a real response to their gripes about the mobile phone OS’s lack of direction: Google released an Android SDK beta update …