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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—Drivers in 30 cities can check traffic conditions on their handsets through a new offering from Google Inc. The developer upgraded its Google Maps offering for wireless Web …

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—Shares of VeriSign Inc. lost ground despite a rebound in the company’s mobile content business during the second quarter. The network infrastructure and wireless content company said its …

WASHINGTON—A confluence of legal, technological and political forces could slow or significantly alter mega-merger mania that has raged largely unabated in the wireless and wireline telecom sectors in recent years, …

SUNNYVALE, Calif.—Yahoo Inc. took yet another step onto the wireless playground, inking a deal to preload its Go for Mobile service on “tens of millions” of handsets from Motorola Inc. …

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—Shares of VeriSign Inc. lost ground despite a rebound in the company’s mobile content business during the second quarter. The network infrastructure and wireless content company said its …

SUNNYVALE, Calif.—Yahoo Inc. took yet another step onto the wireless playground, inking a deal to preload its Go for Mobile service on “tens of millions” of handsets from Motorola Inc. …

The nation’s wireless carriers are caught between a rock and a hard place when it comes to net neutrality. When net-neutrality proponents make passionate cries for a “free and open” …

WASHINGTON-Next month’s advanced wireless services auction, anticipated for years due to the infusion of an additional 90 megahertz of spectrum into the U.S. wireless industry, may come to be remembered …

The company working to establish a mobile-exclusive Internet domain is hoping to lure customers by extending its initial registration period. DotMobi-also known as mTLD, or mobile Top Level Domain Ltd.-said …

Finally, EarthLink Inc. did it. Last Thursday, the company launched its first municipal Wi-Fi network in Anaheim, Calif., offering the city’s 328,000 residents, as well as local businesses and visitors …

LONDON—Yahoo Inc. scored a major wireless win with an agreement to provide mobile Internet services for Hutchison’s 3 Group carriers in Europe and Asia. The 3 Group tapped Yahoo to …

Companies looking to monetize surfers on the wireless Web should consider giving stuff away. That was the consensus of the three speakers featured last week in RCR Wireless News’ first …

WASHINGTON-The wireless industry continued to press for pre-emption as telecom reform plods along in the Senate. But the industry could be making some headway on universal service provisions that are …

WASHINGTON—The wireless industry continued to push for pre-emption, Sprint Nextel Corp. urged inclusion of special-access reform and Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, floated a network-neutrality …

WASHINGTON-EarthLink Inc. is set this week to respond to privacy concerns raised about its bid with Google Inc. to build a municipal Wi-Fi system in San Francisco. The American Civil …

The upcoming AWS auction of 1700 MHz and 2100 MHz spectrum, now slated for August, raises the question of how many frequency bands might be jammed onto a handset and …

“News of my death has been greatly exaggerated,” Mark Twain is said to have written in 1897, when he remained hale and hearty. Qualcomm Inc. has taken a page from …

REDMOND, Wash.—Microsoft Corp.’s MSN is hoping to move onto the mobile marketing playground with the acquisition of Third Screen Media. MSN is negotiating to buy out the Boston-based company, according …

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—Google Inc. took yet another step into wireless, introducing a mobile version of its RSS aggregator service. The new mobile-friendly interface for Google Reader allows registered users with …

Sun Microsystems Inc. is hoping to boost sagging revenues by making its Java programming language available as free open-source software. Jonathan Schwartz, who took over as Sun’s chief executive officer …

TOKYO—KDDI Corp. announced a deal allowing subscribers of its “au” service to access Google Inc.’s Internet search engine on their mobile phones. Japan’s second-largest carrier said the service, which is …

Remember the old adage about the weather? Everyone’s talking about it, but nobody’s doing anything about it. Well, the opposite is true of handset or even wireless service clones: Few …

News continued to churn out of the various municipal Wi-Fi projects gaining steam across the country, as one city’s Wi-Fi contract made its way to a politically charged city council …

WASHINGTON-A dispute among Democrats during a House panel debate on telecom reform underscored how lawmakers’ views of network neutrality often corresponds to whether they think telephone companies should be allowed …

Google Inc. was finally awarded a patent for speech-recognition technology that allows users to search the Internet by uttering a few words. But whether that’s good news or bad news …