ATLANTA-Palm Inc.'s new Treo 680-combining enterprise applications with multimedia to expand Palm's traditional market-will launch via Cingular Wireless L.L.C. on Friday at $200, the two companies announced today. The device is compatible with Cingular's GSM/GPRS/EDGE network. The holiday-season launch is a boon to Palm,...
We recently reported on the effective use of T-Mobile USA Inc.'s Sidekick and Research In Motion Ltd.'s Blackberry devices by Gallaudet University deaf students in a successful protest that derailed Jane K. Fernandes from becoming the next president of the educational institution.Gallaudet students, among...
PALO ALTO, Calif.-Mobile entertainment technology developer mSpot rolled out an upgraded platform for wireless multimedia content. The latest version of the company's wireless music and video platform includes a community feature that allows users to recommend content to friends. The offering also features a...
HOUSTON-A group of European entrepreneurs is hoping to tap the mobile e-mail market with an e-mail and instant messaging service for mobile phones. The company, dubbed Berggi, promises to "transform regular cell phones into smart devices" that are optimized to send and receive non-voice...
RICHMOND, Va.—Patent-holding company NTP Inc. said it filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Treo maker Palm Inc. that claims the company’s mobile e-mail products infringe on NTP’s patents. NTP filed the claim in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. NTP...
Boost Mobile L.L.C. is bringing its pay-as-you-go service to rural areas, after traditionally concentrating on urban strongholds. Boost, which is a division of Sprint Nextel Corp. and runs on the carrier's iDEN network, will begin to offer service in areas that were served by...
Pssst ... if you're looking for that elusive quarry-mobile handset consumers-you'll find them in abundance online. They're not only researching purchases in cyberspace, but increasingly making them over the Internet as well. Carriers take note: your brick-and-mortar stores may serve that now-rare bird, the...
IRVINE, Calif.—Boost Mobile L.L.C. is bringing its pay-as-you-go service to rural areas, after traditionally concentrating on urban strongholds. Boost, which is a division of Sprint Nextel Corp. and runs on the carrier’s iDEN network, will begin to offer service in areas that were served...
The fourth quarter-a seasonally hot quarter for handset sales-is well underway. Time for the crystal ball and a word from a couple of gazers. The outlook remains positive for fourth-quarter shipment volumes, based largely on historical trends and the remarkable volumes of handsets shipped...
OSLO, Norway—Opera Software ASA increased support for its wireless Web browser, making Opera Mini available for Palm OS-powered handsets and Research In Motion Ltd.’s BlackBerry-enabled devices. Opera launched a Java-based version of its PC browser in February and claims the downloadable offering is used...
CHICAGO—Forbes magazine is the latest old-school print publication to go mobile, teaming with wireless developer mdog.com to offer a wireless version of its online content. The company is targeting on-the-go executives with free access to all editorial content from Forbes.com including breaking news, stock...
By Julie Jargon CHICAGO—Motorola Inc. cell phone chief Ron Garriques promised investors in May that the company's new Q smart phone would follow the same trajectory as its smash hit Razr cell phone, selling 750,000 units in the first 90 days and 5 million...
Timing, they say, is everything. And so it goes with mobile handset vendors and their product announcements. There's a natural tension between the need to keep the market informed about one's innovations and product pipeline and the downside of tipping off competitors or setting...
WATERLOO, Ontario—Research In Motion Ltd. said it will delay filing its interim financial statements for the quarter that ended Sept. 2 until the company can complete its internal review of its historical stock-option practices. The quarterly filing is due Oct. 17. The company did...
Under pressure to assure the market that it can expand its traditional, enterprise customer base, Palm Inc. made a high-profile announcement last week in New York at the DigitalLife 2006 conference that it would launch a Treo 680 model for consumers in the United...
Research In Motion Ltd.'s co-chief executive officer, Jim Balsillie, is dabbling in the world of professional sports. Balsillie reportedly has signed an agreement to buy the Pittsburgh Penguins National Hockey League franchise for about $175 million. The team's current owner, Mario Lemieux, put the...
The wireless industry already has MyCircle, Inner Circle, Mobile-to-Anyone, and Sprint-to-Home. Add to that list "myFaves," the new offer from T-Mobile USA Inc. that allows customers to make unlimited calls to a handful of wireless or wireline numbers. The move by T-Mobile USA is...
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 Wireless News.CarrierRBC Capital Markets lowered its rating on Verizon Communications to sector perform from...
OVERLAND PARK, Kan.—Sprint Nextel Corp. announced it will soon begin selling three of Motorola Inc.’s popular slim phones, a move those in the industry had long expected. The announcement boosts Motorola’s position in the United States and gives Sprint Nextel a potential shot in...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-With the quiet addition of its new t719 flip phone, which offers BlackBerry Connect service and an e-mail-friendly keypad, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. now supplies just over one-third of T-Mobile USA Inc.'s handset portfolio. The t719 uses the same SureType keypad-a QWERTY alternative...
HTC Corp. is looking to capitalize on trends?and possibly buck them-as it works to deliver smart phones in the United States and around the world. With 80 percent of the global Windows Mobile business, the Taiwanese smart-phone vendor has grown rapidly by providing third...
Visto Corp. will have no trouble paying its lawyer fees. The mobile e-mail service provider raked in another $51 million this week in a funding round led by Oak Investment Partners. The haul follows a $70 million round that closed last November; Visto is...
Just as the dust settled on ADC Telecommunications Inc.'s failed attempt to merge with Andrew Corp., ADC announced plans to lay off about 225 of its 8,200 employees as part of a restructuring effort. Interestingly, the news came on the heels of Andrew's own...
FRAMINGHAM, Mass.-IDC said there is tremendous growth potential in the market for business-focused phones, and predicted that Microsoft Corp's involvement with Motorola Inc., Palm Inc., and others, as well as Nokia Corp.'s commitment to an end-to-end strategy, threatens to weaken Research in Motion Ltd.'s...
