Mobile Phones

Chicago has been tagged with a lawsuit alleging the city violated state law by not posting signs on the prohibition against talking on mobile phones while driving.The suit, filed by …

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

Atrium Wireless Partners L.L.C. announced it acquired the wireless assets of GTC Telecom Corp. in a deal that closed early last month. Terms of the sale were not disclosed.Atrium Wireless …

AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands-Nokia Corp.’s strategy hasn’t wavered much in the past few years and the message for 2008 is essentially more of the same. While at one end of the …

Further proof that numbers are fun: According to the National Center for Health Statistics, cellphone-only users are Hispanic males between 25 and 29 years old, live with people they are …

Mountain highTrango Systems Inc. said it is supplying the Mount Washington Observatory with highspeed fixed wireless point-to-point wireless backhaul and point-to-multipoint broadband access equipment. Mount Washington Observatory is a scientific …

AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands-There’s always a first shot at everything; first to the moon, first to summit Mount Everest, first to end homelessness. It may not be as altruistic as the …

For spectators at the iPhone circus, two basic questions seem prevalent. Will Apple Inc. sustain the brisk sales of its signature handset at AT&T Mobility here in the United States?And, …

The federal government estimates that one of every eight American homes uses only mobile phones for communications.The data comes from the National Health Interview Survey, which was conducted between January …

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. …

Ad-subsidized mobile content appears to be gaining steam even as the paid gaming segment treads water.MobileRated, a Canadian ad-subsidized gaming subsidiary of Kalador Entertainment Inc., said it has seen downloads …

The identities of likely 700 MHz bidders continue to emerge little by little as the Federal Communications Commission gears up to release a complete list of applicants in advance of …

Cox Communications Inc. said it will bid on wireless licenses when the 700 MHz auction kicks off Jan. 24, but two other cable TV giants in a wireless joint venture …

Alltel’s ‘Best Holiday’Alltel is running a series of animated holiday television advertisements that feature Chad, the Alltel Wireless salesman, as he squares off against the four “Sales Guys” who are …

The mobile phone industry urged the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a lower court ruling in which a California state law trumped the Federal Arbitration Act.The high court, which agreed …

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 …

In this era of genius hackers and malware that can bring an entire corporation to its knees, the scariest threat to mobile security is. the users themselves.Software developers generally have …

The holiday season can be stressful enough. But combine it with fears of high-tech/telecom domination by Microsoft Corp. or Google Inc. or Apple Inc. or the parent companies of the …

Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum sued Buongiorno S.p.A, accusing the Italian mobile content giant of blatantly deceptive practices and cramming charges onto consumers’ cellphone bills. “For too long, not enough …

This week marks the beginning of the holiday season, of course, when most of us focus less on business and more on the reasons we work so hard. So in …

Most people would assume cellphones get in the way of learning. David Droga is betting they can help. The creative big and founder of the start-up Droga5, who previously launched …

LOS ANGELES-The mobile phone ain’t what it used to be, even a few short months ago. With hopes of a big boom dashed and a lot of the euphoria evaporated, …

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. …

Flash memory will continue to dominate in mobile phones during the next few years, despite inroads being made by new hard disk drive (HDD) solutions in handheld devices, according to …