ATLANTA-Cingular Wireless L.L.C. announced it will sell the new BlackBerry 7100g from Research In Motion Ltd. The quad-band GSM device aligns more closely with a mobile-phone form factor, and is similar to a BlackBerry offered through T-Mobile USA Inc.The BlackBerry 7100g is available through...
Although only two teams will line up on the field Sunday for the grand culmination of the professional football season, multiple players will participate in Super Bowl XXXIX in one wireless capacity or another.Verizon Wireless upgraded cell sites and installed a pair of cell...
A Texas court declined to halt sales of Seven's wireless e-mail products, a move that paves the way for a jury trial in the patent lawsuit between Seven and rival wireless e-mail company Visto Corp. Both companies hailed the ruling as a victory. The...
EL SEGUNDO, Calif.-The mobile-phone market grew at a staggering pace during the critical fourth-quarter shopping season, according to a variety of research reports. Further, that growth stretched from low-end phones to high-end smart devices. Mobile-phone shipments rose to 195 million units in the fourth...
ST. JOHN'S, Antigua-Football fans can make Super Bowl bets on their handsets with an updated application from offshore gaming company BetWWTS.com. The company launched a new version of its wireless sports bookmaking service, which it said is compatible with every wireless network standard. The...
Despite a rash of operational difficulties during the past several years that led to its eventual sale to rival Cingular Wireless L.L.C., Forrester Research Inc. found that AT&T Wireless Services Inc. was the leading wireless provider of next-generation business services, according to a survey...
The twists and turns in Research In Motion Ltd.'s legal battle with NTP Inc. continues with a new, separate lawsuit that pits NTP against a company that claims it actually owns the patents that NTP and RIM are fighting over. The lawsuit further complicates...
Despite a rash of operational difficulties during the past several years that led to its eventual sale to rival Cingular Wireless L.L.C., research firm Forrester Research Inc. found that AT&T Wireless Services Inc. was the leading wireless provider of next-generation business services. The results,...
The twists and turns in Research In Motion Ltd.'s legal battle with NTP Inc. continues with a new, separate lawsuit that pits NTP against a company that claims it actually owns the patents that NTP and RIM are fighting over.The lawsuit further complicates an...
More than 1.5 billion people subscribe to wireless services. The vast majority of those wireless users see their mobile phone as a device that allows them to talk to other people-and nothing more. The wireless industry, however, is spending billions of hours and dollars...
U.S. Cellular Corp. completed the sale of its Daytona Beach, Fla., 20-megahertz C block license to MetroPCS California/Florida Inc. U.S. Cellular said it scored $8.5 million in cash from the previously announced deal. "This sale is another example of our strategy to exit those...
Research In Motion Ltd.'s stock faltered again following the company's third-quarter results, with investors expecting a more bullish fourth-quarter outlook from the company. Some analysts, however, continued to remain relatively positive on the BlackBerry maker and its prospects despite the company's lower-than-expected forecasts and...
Research In Motion Ltd.'s stock faltered again following the company's third-quarter results, with investors expecting a more bullish fourth-quarter outlook from the company. Some analysts, however, continued to remain relatively positive on the BlackBerry maker and its prospects despite the company's lower-than-expected forecasts and...
BONN, Germany-T-Mobile International said it extended the range of devices on which it supports BlackBerry services in Europe through the introduction of BlackBerry Connect and BlackBerry Built-In.Support for BlackBerry services will initially be introduced with T-Mobile's MDA II. Other devices supporting the service, including...
Many in the industry peg iDEN handset vendor Motorola Inc. as a major winner following the merger between Sprint and Nextel Communications Inc. Motorola's position is enviable as the company also has managed to capitalize on the merger between Cingular Wireless L.L.C. and AT&T...
The latest ruling in the closely watched legal battle between BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd. and patent holding company NTP Inc. offered somewhat of a mixed bag. A U.S. federal appeals court affirmed 11 of NTP's 16 claims against RIM-a potentially serious blow...
ATLANTA-Highlighting its growing presence in the enterprise market, Cingular Wireless L.L.C. said it has closed deals with more than 135 business and government customers in the first 45 days since its acquisition of AT&T Wireless Services Inc. was approved Oct. 26. The carrier noted...
BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd. suffered a somewhat mixed ruling in its legal battle with patent holding company NTP Inc. A U.S. federal appeals court ruling affirmed 11 of NTP's 16 claims against RIM-a potentially serious blow for the device maker-but also sent...
MIAMI-Nextel Communications Inc. and Research in Motion Ltd. will offer tools to encourage developers to create location-based services offerings on the BlackBerry platform, the companies announced Thursday.RIM and Nextel will provide global positioning system-enabled devices, networks, services, infrastructure and other resources for software vendors...
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. slipped past Motorola Inc. to become the world's No. 2 mobile-phone manufacturer, according to new numbers from research firm Gartner Inc.According to Gartner, Samsung sold 22.9 million mobile phones in the third quarter, just above the 22.4 million phones Motorola...
Wireless connectivity is coming to the enterprise, either with the enterprise's tacit approval or without it. Research In Motion Ltd. announced earlier this month that more than 2 million people are using its PDAs. Nearly all laptops are designed with built-in 802.11 chips. Savvy...
Colorado Mills is one of Denver's newest suburban malls. The warm, well-lit corridors are lined with like likes of Gap, Target, K-B Toys, Chili's and other clothing, eatery, trinket and curio shops. And in an indication of the growing importance of wireless in American...
BOSTON-E-mail is the most common business application U.S. mobile workers use on a daily basis, but the mobile e-mail market remains relatively untapped, according to a new study from Boston-based consultancy Yankee Group.The group's "2004 Corporate Wireless Survey" urges companies to evaluate all the...
DALLAS-Handset makers opened the floodgates on new phones and carrier deals for the holiday season, with Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Nokia Corp., Research In Motion Ltd. and others making announcements. First up is Samsung, which said it will sell nine new phones in the...
