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MOTOROLA INC.’S INTENT TO SPLIT into two publicly traded companies should speed the recovery of its mobile devices business by attracting new leadership and developing a fresh focus on a …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly 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. …

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration released a comprehensive report on federal government frequency usage, setting in motion initiatives to help agencies better exploit the airwaves – federal and private …

Palm Inc.’s fiscal third quarter yielded revenue of $312 million but a loss in net income of $31.5 million, despite a 13% rise in handset unit sales. Revenue was down …

Mobile content vendor Handango Inc. announced it landed a major distribution deal with The Carphone Warehouse, the largest independent mobile-phone dealer in Europe.Calling the partnership the first of its kind …

If you add up a number of factors, the new LG Glimmer at Alltel Corp. makes a lot of sense for the two companies. Touchscreens are hot. The Glimmer offers …

Four days after Apple Inc. released its iPhone software development kit (SDK), the company announced that more than 100,000 developers had already downloaded the set of application programming interfaces (APIs) …

So let us get this straight. 100,000 developers paid $100 a piece to download Apple’s new SDK for the iPhone. We are no math majors, but doesn’t that translate to …

Research In Motion Ltd. has known since January 2007 that Apple Inc.’s iPhone could threaten its bread-and-butter business in the mobile enterprise space. Indeed, last week, Apple entered the enterprise …

Aloft Media L.L.C. has sued several wireless handset giants over alleged infringement of a patent for transferring contact information using a mobile phone. Aloft Media, based in Longview, Texas, names …

CUPERTINO, Calif. — Business has formally been introduced to Apple Inc.’s iPhone. The company invited about 350 analysts, developers and press to its headquarters today to announce a suite of …

Wireless e-mail vendor Visto Corp. said it reached a settlement with software giant Microsoft Corp. over patent licensing, an announcement that appears to indicate another legal victory for Visto.Although the …

After years of only minor price plan tweaks and occasional promotional offers, the nation’s four largest carriers have ignited a new pricing war centered around unlimited voice calling minutes for …

The New York Times Co. announced the beta launch of an application designed to help move content between computers and mobile phones.ShifD updates information to users’ accounts using any Web …

Research In Motion Ltd. said today that its subscriber growth will be stronger than previously forecast for its fiscal quarter ending March 1. But the BlackBerry maker did not raise …

One popular handset does not a successful vendor make. But in Palm Inc.’s case, the launch of its popular, $100 Centro smartphone at AT&T Mobility in a GSM, quad-band world …

One of the typically opaque aspects of the cellular handset industry erupted into view over the weekend as Motorola Inc. and Research In Motion Ltd. sued each other. The familiar …

Don’t be fooled by the flow of VC funding or the fact that Google Inc. and MySpace are in on it. The truth is, mobile social networking is not as …

Smartphones will come of age as the primary venue for mobile Internet content in the U.S. this year. The proliferation of these devices will reshape the sector and force content …

BARCELONA, Spain – Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. announced plans at the Mobile World Congress trade show to launch an Internet-services strategy for its handsets, a move that could put the …

Alcatel-Lucent came out swinging at the Mobile World Congress event this week. The company added to the pile of news it’s made by announcing a deal with AT&T Mobility to …

Alcatel-Lucent announced that it’s developing an application for Research In Motion Ltd.’s BlackBerry platform that will allow prepaid users to track voice and data usage against the amount remaining in …

When you turn on the tap, water simply flows out, right? Nothing to it. The same assumption holds true for many if not most BlackBerry users, who tend to rely …

Microsoft Corp. kick-started its effort to grab a piece of the hot, youth-oriented messaging and social networking market by acquiring Danger Inc., the software driver behind the popular Sidekick devices …

Hello! And welcome to our Thursday column, Worst of the Week. There’s a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so this column is a chance for …