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Editor’s note: This column by Keith Crain, chairman of Crain Communications Inc., which owns RCR Wireless News, first appeared in Automotive News, a Crain publication that covers the automotive industry. …

With two technologies already jockeying for play on the nation’s digital television airwaves, it was only a matter of time before the TV industry moved to adopt a standard for …

Another technology designed to get people to watch TV beyond the living room is getting ready for its close-up. Mobile-Pedestrian-Handheld technology, or MPH, is an in-band mobile digital television system …

Conventional wisdom has it that since early January, every handset vendor and carrier has scrambled for an answer to the you-know-who phone, due in June. Regardless of the handicapping already …

From its recent partnership with L.M. Ericsson to develop and deliver its suite of news and entertainment content to the handheld to a variety of other collaborative efforts that reflect …

ORLANDO, Fla.-A packed hall heard evangelism, exhortation and ebullience from a trio of industry speakers yesterday morning, as the CTIA Wireless 2007 trade show got underway. Attendees also got a …

FlipswapFlipswap, an outsourced cell phone trade-in solution for retailers, said it has signed integration partnerships with retail management system providers iQmetrix, Work Wireless, TeleTracker and CellSell.Flipswap’s Web-based software allows retailers …

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 …

Cellular SouthCellular South announced it promoted four of its vice presidents to senior vice president positions. Suzy Hays was promoted to senior vice president of customer operations, where she will …

HOLLYWOOD, Calif.-Hollywood is battling for consumers’ eyeballs on more fronts than ever before. As people spend more time on their cellphones and computers, television studios find themselves pursuing viewers on …

HOLLYWOOD, Calif.-Online video is here in a big way. If it wasn’t validated by Google Inc.’s $1.6 billion purchase of YouTube last October, it sure was last week when media …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our Monday 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. …

Hedge*hog*ing v. Interrupting conversations in an office environment by poking your head over the top of the cube. –Evidently, New Yorkers aren’t confident that their citizens have been trained to …

Due to the infinite wisdom of a Congress that, rather than tackle the United States’ real energy issues, decided to futz about the margins with ideas the consistency of overcooked …

Pump up the mobile motivationPeople who made a get-fit new year’s resolution this year can find motivation to stick with their goals on their cellphones. PumpOne, a company that provides …

Thinner, more power, less drain on a handset-no, it’s not a supermodel whose New Year’ resolution is giving up mobile communications. It’s a new mobile memory chip produced by Samsung …

Hewlett-Packard Co. announced it will purchase Bitfone Corp. in a move the company said is part of its plan to grow its mobile enterprise business. Financial details of the transaction …

Like a high-tech runaway bride, Nokia Corp. is readying for another N-Gagement. The handset maker is preparing to dust off the familiar-but tarnished-brand next year, expanding the N-Gage from a …

BURBANK, Calif.-The Walt Disney Co. appears ready and willing to work with Apple Computer Inc. across a number of media devices, if a recently filed patent is any indication.In a …

Unfortunately, it has become commonplace to read press reports about drivers on cell phones whose priorities are terribly-sometimes fatally-misplaced. Everybody knows it’s a big, big problem, owing quite simply to …

Consumers’ tendency to carry duplicate devices-think camera phone and digital camera, or smart phone and PDA-may contain a seed of wireless’ future. That may seem like a bit of a …

AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands-To understand Nokia Corp.’s outlook, one must leave the United States behind. This is somewhat akin to jumping from one fish bowl to another. The view from inside …

WASHINGTON-The National Transportation Safety Board urged federal and state governments to ban motor coach and school bus drivers from using cell phones-except in emergencies-while operating those vehicles, an action that …

WASHINGTON — The National Transportation Safety Board urged federal and state governments to ban motor coach and school bus drivers from using cell phones-except in emergencies-while operating those vehicles, an …

 World Wrestling Entertainment is encouraging its fans to register to vote via an online voter registration campaign that urges young adults to register to vote using their cellular phone. WWE …