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Looking for a few good books for your smartphone? Motricity might be able to help. The content company said that its eBook customers will be able to purchase and receive …

The Mad Ballmer remained out of sight for Tuesday’s keynote address before a standing-room-only crowd.Instead, a calm, determined Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp.’s CEO, offered a new, enterprise-friendly, mobile-device-management suite, touched …

What’s plaguing the mobile gaming market? Pretty much the same headaches that have been there for years.Mobile gaming continues to struggle to move beyond what publishers have dubbed the “golden …

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AT&T Mobility bolstered its mobile music offering with plans to offer over-the-air access to Napster’s 5-million-plus music tracks beginning next month. The deal builds on the carrier’s current side-loading deal …

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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 …

Nokia Corp. stepped up its spending spree last week, agreeing to acquire digital mapping company Navteq in a blockbuster, $8.1 billion deal.The Finnish firm-which in the last year or so …

“And that’s the way it is”The Radio Club of America plans to honor Walter Cronkite and John S. Belrose with its achievement award, the Armstrong Medal, at its November banquet …

The list of mobile device manufacturers is about to get much, much longer.While a handful of “connectable” wireless devices have come to market in recent years-including Sony Corp.’s Play Station …

Wireless carriers should be expected to speak highly of their networks-it’s arguably their greatest asset alongside spectrum holdings-but the No. 3 and No. 4 carriers are now enabling customers to …

In a move that signals the intensifying competition among handset vendors in the United States market, Samsung Telecommunications America today named a chief marketing officer, Bill Ogle, to a newly …

L.M. Ericsson and Endemol International announced plans to develop an interactive TV and user-generated content platform designed to enable any mobile device user to upload, publish and share live or …

Less than six months after its commercial launch, mobile TV vendor MediaFLO USA Inc. is in the midst of an executive shuffle.Dan Novak, who has been the public face of …

WPP Group’s Ogilvy & Mather has helped build some of the world’s highest-profile brands during its 60-year history, and subsidiary Ogilvy Interactive is known as one of the leading advertisers …

Qualcomm Inc. reached a deal with Maxis Communications Berhad and ASTRO All Asia Networks plc to conduct a technical trial of the San Diego-based company’s MediaFLO mobile broadcast TV technology …

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. …

Virgin Mobile USA L.L.C. has partnered with Intercasting to offer its customers direct access from select handsets to a range of social-networking sites. The service is initially available on three …

Movero Technology Inc. is hoping to strike a chord under a new brand name: Maestro.The Austin, Texas-based startup, which offers solutions for businesses looking to deploy and manage mobile devices, …

The inexorable pressure to launch a handset-as scheduled-for maximum impact-has created a growing market for mobile device management (MDM) products, including firmware over the air, or FOTA.As network operators increasingly …

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 our Monday 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 following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.Carrier –Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services revised its outlook on AT&T …

“Serenity now!” yelled the character George Costanza in one episode of the 1990s sitcom, “Seinfeld.”Costanza’s anguished cry underscored the unbridgeable gap between his desperate need for serenity and the angst …

Motorola Inc. warned investors that its sales, earnings and unit shipments would all fall below previous guidance. The company also announced that Stu Reed, current head of the vendor’s supply …