mobile internet

The carrier deck is still the most valuable real estate in mobile content, but the future of downloadable wireless goodies may just lie in third-party storefronts. And for now, at …

Sprint Nextel Corp. added Photobucket to its photo-messaging service, allowing users to send pictures to the popular online site with just two clicks.The option was added to “Post to Service,” …

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. …

Google Inc.’s Internet dominance has grown in recent years as the competition – well, what passes for competition – continues to plod along. But for the long list of Web-based …

Luxury brand Dolce&Gabbana said it ran a successful mobile advertising campaign on the Nokia Media Network.The company’s youth-oriented brand, D&G, used a viral campaign on mobile handsets to raise awareness …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We’ve gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace. A race …

Netflix just may be the most annoying entity in online advertising.As you’ve probably noticed, the movies-by-mail company has mined the Internet with pop-ups, resulting in an unpleasant game of Whac-a-Mole …

Faster networks, flat-rate data plans and improved marketing from carriers have combined to nearly double the number of mobile Internet users in the United States in less than two years …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We’ve gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace. Mobile penetration …

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 …

If desperation is the mother of innovation, Yahoo may just be the future of mobile.A pioneer in the Internet’s youngest days, Yahoo may now be seriously wounded. Shares of the …

Google Inc. is still the player to beat in mobile search, according to new figures from Nielsen Mobile.The Internet giant accounted for a dominating 61% of all mobile Internet searches …

Overnight, it seems, mobile Internet devices, or MIDs, are the topic du jour.But like many overnight sensations, the MID category is constructed of a fragile combination of long-term toil in …

TD-SCDMA WORKS. That’s the view of one analyst who participated in trials in Baoding, China, as long ago as December 2006.A very modest supply of subsidized handsets and data cards …

As its BREW developer conference kicks into high gear today, Qualcomm Inc. announced a handful of efforts designed to entice a broader array of players into the mobile content field.–Qualcomm …

Less than a year after The Nielsen Co. acquired mobile research and measurement firm Telephia, digital measurement company comScore Inc. made its own move into mobile. The firm announced it …

Samsung has diversified its suppliers of UMTS baseband chips to include Infineon Technologies AG, leaving the world’s second-largest handset vendor less dependent on Qualcomm Inc., Samsung confirmed.“This is no surprise,” …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Yay or Nay. Every week we’ll review a new wireless application or service from the user’s point of view, with the goal of …

AOL L.L.C. continues to lose ground online as Google Inc’s dominance grows, but the venerable Internet company is gaining impressive traction in mobile.Virgin Mobile USA Inc. last week unveiled a …

Virgin Mobile USA has tapped AOL’s Platform-A to handle its WAP banner inventory.Platform-A will serve as the “exclusive display advertising and sales partner” for the mobile virtual network operator’s mobile …

While mobile content is expected to contribute increasingly to wireless carrier revenue growth in coming years, it is also attracting increased scrutiny by the Federal Trade Commission, plaintiffs’ lawyers and …

Traditional Web sites are often lost in translation on mobile phones. So developers are hoping to bridge the disconnect between wireless phones and the Internet by building a “middle Web.”The …

The mobile analytics space continued to heat up last week as AdMob released a free tool allowing advertisers and publishers to track traffic and measure the effectiveness of ad campaigns.The …

T-Mobile International and Nokia Corp. announced a “collaboration agreement” to package the German carrier’s web’n’walk mobile Internet service with Nokia’s Ovi offering.Nokia said it will develop customized devices that combine …

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. …