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Editor’s Note: Welcome to Reality Check, a feature for RCR Wireless News’ new weekly e-mail service, Mobile Content and Culture. We’ve gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to On the Margins, a feature for RCR Wireless News’ new weekly e-mail service, Mobile Content and Culture. Every week, the RCR Wireless News staff considers events …

The Federal Communications Commission said it will conduct further testing on the viability of Wi-Fi and other low-power wireless applications in unoccupied TV broadcast spectrum known as white spaces.The agency’s …

Burger King Corp. is hoping to extend its surprisingly successful gaming effort to mobile.The Miami-based fast-food giant has tapped Seattle’s Mobliss Inc. to develop wireless games that will be promoted …

The term “win-win” rightly makes sober people sick, but it might be applied to AT&T Mobility’s news that it will carry HTC Americas’ Tilt device, beginning Friday, at $300 with …

The field of mobile marketing startups continued to winnow as Atlanta’s Air2Web and Germany’s MindMatics agreed to merge.Terms of the deal were not disclosed.Air2Web launched years ago as a wireless …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to On the Margins, a feature for RCR Wireless News’ new weekly e-mail service, Mobile Content and Culture. Every week, the RCR Wireless News staff considers events …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to Yay or Nay, a feature for RCR Wireless News’ new weekly e-mail service, Mobile Content and Culture. Every week we’ll review a new wireless application or …

Here’s one of those pop quizzes you dread:Quickly, what do PepsiCo, Kraft Foods, Nike Inc., Heinz, Procter & Gamble, Nintendo, Pizza Hut, Mars Inc. and Sara Lee Corp. have to …

If you’re wondering what shape WiMAX-enabled devices will take, you can hop a plane to South Korea and see Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.’s two models in action on SK Telecom’s …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to On the Margins, a feature for RCR Wireless News’ new weekly e-mail service, Mobile Content and Culture. Every week, the RCR Wireless News staff considers events …

All that cash being poured into voice-activated search is beginning to look like a good bet.A recent study from Usable Products Co. indicates speechrecognition technology finally may have become user-friendly. …

Patent reform is often billed as a battle between high-tech and pharmaceutical heavyweights, but in reality sharp divisions exist such that Motorola Inc., Qualcomm Inc., InterDigital Communications Corp., Texas Instruments …

Todd Achilles, the face of HTC Americas in the United States and throughout the Americas, resigned about a month ago, Achilles confirmed today. The smartphone vendor is actively pursuing candidates …

Nokia Corp. announced with little fanfare the impending launch of its E51 smartphone at BT, an operator in the United Kingdom and rival to O2 UK. But the Finnish company’s …

Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Inc., held forth from London this morning to orchestrate consumer frenzy over the iPhone’s arrival in the United Kingdom, the first in as many as …

Broadcasters-having invested hundreds of millions of dollars transitioning to digital technology and now bracing for a government ruling on whether to allow Wi-Fi service in unoccupied television guardbands known as …

According to a popular if crass bumper sticker, “stuff” happens.In the case of outages or slowdowns for Research In Motion Ltd.’s BlackBerry service, stuff happens pretty rarely.But a days-long outage …

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 …

Hewlett-Packard Co. unleashed a wave of products yesterday, including two HSDPA-capable, iPAQ-branded smartphones running Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Mobile 6 Professional operating system.The offerings are notable as HP used to sell …

Verizon Wireless needed a refreshed portfolio of converged devices that could deliver revenue-generating services into consumers’ hands. Motorola Inc. needed to boost its smartphone offerings, its margins and its overall …

Welcome to our Friday feature, Week in Review. Every Friday, RCR Wireless News will run through the major events of the past week, outlining what happened and speculating on what …

The phrase, “strange bedfellows,” when applied to the business of making money, may as well be retired.Nokia Corp. may see Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Mobile as a challenge to its stake …

Looking to recoup its fortunes, in part, with a high-tier smartphone, Motorola Inc. launched its updated Q-the Q Music 9m-at Verizon Wireless. For Verizon Wireless, the launch updates its single …

Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications L.P. has tapped Mobile Complete to power a remote testing service of Java applications on mobile phones.The handset maker launched a “Virtual Lab” that allows application …