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CHARLOTTE, N.C.—SunCom Wireless Holdings Inc. became the latest carrier to step onto the full-track download playground, teaming with digital music provider Napster L.L.C. to offer a relatively vast library of …

   SAN DIEGO—Hey, it’s all about my life, not your network. That’s the disruptive thinking that Sony Electronics—not Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications L.P., the wireless handset maker—is following in launching …

If the growth in handset sales in mature markets such as the United States slowed somewhat at mid-year, as some market and financial analysts have suggested, one explanation may be …

A well-worn maxim has it that “politics make strange bedfellows,” which might be tweaked to reflect the wireless industry’s sometimes odd match-ups. Companies that compete also cooperate, often at the …

Location-based services seem to encompass consumer applications that generate plenty of excitement among consumers, yet somehow, uptake of LBS applications is not exactly booming-except in cars. Cell-phone users in the …

The Symbian operating system, championed by Nokia Corp. in its smart phones, currently has a majority of OS market share, a state of affairs likely to continue for the foreseeable …

MARSHALL, Texas—L.M. Ericsson, the Swedish wireless telecommunications firm, has sued South Korea-based Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. for allegedly infringing on 11 of Ericsson’s patents, according to a complaint filed July …

BOSTON—The Khronos Group continued to gain steam as high-profile players including Apple Computer Inc., Dell Computer Corp. and Google Inc. joined the association’s effort to develop open standards for mobile …

PLANO, Texas—L.M. Ericsson named Robert Pajos to head its Cingular Wireless L.L.C. North American market account, saying his years of experience managing several key accounts in Latin America, Eastern Europe …

As news of Motorola Inc.’s joint venture with Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. sinks in, analysts offered insights as to what the partnership means to the two companies as well as …

The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms. Click here for wireless ratings from past weeks from RCR …

When discussing the disappointing results for the second quarter by South Korean vendors Samsung Electronics Co. or LG Electronics Co. Ltd., one has to begin by noting the robust performances …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Shares of L.M. Ericsson dipped after the infrastructure provider posted a slight decline in second-quarter net profit due to its recent acquisition of Marconi Corp. Ericsson said its profit …

Amid speculation that some CDMA operators are turning to GSM technology, GSM proponents have stepped up lobbying efforts to tout the technology’s global success. Meanwhile, CDMA backers say the moves …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Shares of L.M. Ericsson dipped after the infrastructure provider posted a slight decline in second-quarter net profit due to its recent acquisition of Marconi Corp. Ericsson said its profit …

   CUPERTINO, Calif.—Rumors of an “iPod phone” gained further traction after an Apple Computer Inc. executive hinted at an iTunes-friendly handset during a conference call with analysts Wednesday. Chief Financial …

Business forecasts are integral to industry, wireless or otherwise. Vendors crunch them, analysts parse them, investors fret over them, bloggers disparage them and reporters write about them. Early in the …

The competitive landscape for the world’s top five mobile-phone vendors at mid-year has come into clearer focus with second-quarter earnings already reported or expected this week. The plot has thickened …

LONDON—Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications L.P. announced that its earnings for the second quarter—$181 million—nearly doubled its earnings from the year-ago quarter, while revenue increased more than 40 percent and handset …

A recent report from Lehman Brothers Equity Research suggests that Cingular Wireless L.L.C. plans to cut its capital expenditures next year by $1.5 billion, a 20-percent drop from the $7.5 …

The following list details this week’s infrastructure awards for the cellular, Wi-Fi and WiMAX industries. The contracts are broken down by transmission technology, country and vendor. The value of the …

As the idea of a combined Alcatel Inc. and Lucent Technologies Inc. settles in, Nokia Corp. and Siemens AG skated into the wireless infrastructure marketplace with plans to combine Nokia’s …

The good news is that about 80 percent of the world’s population is covered by wireless networks, and only about one-quarter of those actually subscribe to a wireless service, which …

SINGAPORE—Lucent Technologies Inc., L.M. Ericsson, Motorola Inc. and other wireless vendors announced a range of contract wins at the CommunicAsia trade show taking place this week in Singapore. First up, …

Touting brand and pursuing differentiation is in vogue with nearly every original equipment manufacturer now chasing Nokia Corp. and Motorola Inc. over the rainbow, looking for the proverbial pot of …