Handsets

Longer contracts are pushing American consumers to keep their handsets longer, according to a new study by J.D. Power and Associates. The average length of ownership of a particular handset …

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 global trend toward 3G technologies will lift Qualcomm Inc.’s earnings and stock value over the coming years-despite the company’s ongoing dispute with Nokia Corp., according to American Technology Research. …

Growth in the handset market in the United States remains healthy, and recent market-share figures for vendors paint a markedly different picture than the global scene. Handset sales in the …

UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif.-Who is watching mobile TV and video? Whoever holds the answer will find a lot of interest among mobile TV providers, broadcasters, TV networks, film studios and advertisers.Data …

Arlene Harris has been connecting people to one another for a long time-ever since she was a child, helping connect calls for her family’s mobile telephone switchboard in the 1950s. …

Mobile game publishers and their carrier partners are hoping to lure newbies by giving away everything from 30-second game demos to a Volkswagen Beetle. Whether they’re succeeding, though, is far …

The U.S. cellular industry added 18 million connections during 2006, bringing the total number of U.S. wireless connections to 232 million, according to Wireless Intelligence, a joint venture of Ovum …

Helio sought to capture the hearts, minds and wallets of its target market-young, affluent, tech-savvy, Web-browsing and messaging enthusiasts-by designing a handset that would deliver ease-of-use in a stylish package. …

There’s nothing like seeing your closest competitor in a marathon stumble, their footsteps fading as you alone lead with the wind at your back. That, in essence, is Nokia Corp.’s …

If you believe the talk on the street, Google Inc. is eyeing everything wireless from becoming a mobile virtual network operator to building Google-branded handsets. But it’s the company’s recent …

Hedge*hog*ing v. Interrupting conversations in an office environment by poking your head over the top of the cube.From the “we can’t make this up” department, there’s a service provider getting …

The United States International Trade Commission delayed its expected announcement of a remedy in the patent infringement case brought by Broadcom Corp. against Qualcomm Inc. The ITC’s remedy in the …

Nokia Corp. responded to Qualcomm Inc.’s April 2 lawsuit filed in Wisconsin, disputing the latter’s allegation of patent infringement, and charging the chip vendor with violating six Nokia patents. Nokia’s …

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, …

The U.S. cellular industry added 18 million connections during 2006, bringing the total number of U.S. wireless connections to 232 million, according to Wireless Intelligence, a joint venture of Ovum …

AT&T Inc. made a major re-branding push by stripping a number of its company-owned stores of Cingular-related trappings overnight and replacing them with AT&T logo and signage.The company said in …

Funambol plans to push ahead with its open source mobile e-mail strategy this week with an upgraded version of its white-label offering for carriers.The Redwood City, Calif.-based startup is set …

Nuance Communications Inc. continued to thin the speech-recognition herd, snapping up VoiceSignal Technologies Inc. in a deal valued at nearly $300 million.The company said it will fork over 5.8 million …

Say goodbye to the lily-pad carpet. Leap Wireless International Inc. is redesigning its new retail stores, hoping to appeal to an audience beyond its budget-conscious core demographic. The existing stores …

In Hollywood, sequels sometimes do well at the box office. But the record is mixed, leading one to conclude that sequels are typically perceived as safer bets than utterly new, …

U.S. Cellular Corp. had a solid first quarter, with net customer additions in line with its results for the first quarter of 2006 and sequentially stronger than its performance in …

Handset pricing gyrations ran the gamut last week, as all of the nation’s tier-one carriers tinkered with the cost of their handset portfolios.–AT&T Mobility slashed in half the price on …

Promising to “put the ‘wow’ back” into Motorola Inc.’s products, CEO Ed Zander announced a new Razr model that he referred to as the “Razr Two.” (The handset’s printed name, …

There’s a lot of doom and gloom in the predictions being floated around as the dinosaurs of traditional media battle and play catch-up with the rise in new media alternatives. …