One of the great debates of the day in official Washington is over Internet freedom, a notion that wireline, cable TV and, yes, wireless carriers should be neutral on the speed and substance of content on their fat pipes. To be sure, net neutrality...
SAN FRANCISCO-TRIP HAWKINS last week sounded more like an exasperated coach than a mobile gaming executive. And he wasn't alone. "We just keep selling to the same customers," the CEO of Digital Chocolate told software developers during his keynote address at GDC Mobile. "Clearly,...
IF NOKIA CORP. HAS TO REFRESH its efforts in the United States to solidify carrier relationships, as it said last week, two Chinese handset vendors entering the market may similarly have to gird for the long haul-though ambition is a good place to start.The...
According to market-research firm iSuppli Corp., the number of handsets purchased as replacements this year will be double the number of first-time cellphone purchases, a statistic that could have significant implications for the market's players.iSuppli's figures show that upgrade handsets sales-where a shopper is...
Online mobile phone retailer Wirefly, a site operated by InPhonic Inc., released a report on the sharp growth in smartphone sales of late. The company said smartphone sales have increased 70 percent in less than six months from the third quarter of 2006 to...
World Wrestling Entertainment will provide about 100 video clips each month to AT&T Inc.'s Cingular Wireless customers under a new content deal between the two parties.The partnerships calls for WWE to provide an Internet portal to mobile phones for WWE content that will include...
Yahoo Inc. inked a deal to deploy its Go for Mobile 2.0 offering on Microsoft Corp. Windows Mobile devices.The Internet giant is partnering with Taiwan's High Tech Computer Corp., the world's leading provider of Windows-enabled smartphones, to embed the technology on "millions" of HTC...
A robust economy in China may be fueling robust ambitions. Two domestic Chinese handset makers will use the upcoming CTIA Wireless 2007 show to launch handsets in the United States, one under its own brand and the other under a well-recognized name, if not...
The opening day of the 2007 Game Developers Conference was all about 5 percent.While U.S. consumers increasingly use their phones to send photos and experiment with the wireless Web, mobile gaming continues to lag. Less than 5 percent of all wireless users download a...
The cellphone industry, the Bush administration and others are urging the Supreme Court to abandon a century-old antitrust standard in favor of one that would give carriers, vendors and others in the wireless supply chain greater protection against price-fixing lawsuits.The high court set oral...
Mobile marketing startup Mozes Inc. picked up $5 million in a first round of funding from Norwest Venture Partners and North Bridge Venture Partners.Mozes' service, which is in beta testing, allows brands and other potential advertisers to build targeted, interactive mobile marketing campaigns through...
Wireless carriers providing government-subsidized service to high-cost rural areas have become the villains in the debate over how to rein in the ballooning universal service fund, a situation that could help explain why the Federal Communications Commission is sitting on a slew of wireless...
French media-telecom conglomerate Vivendi S.A. sharpened its charges against T-Mobile USA Inc. and its global affiliate, alleging corporate corruption helped the No. 4 U.S. mobile phone operator bid successfully on $4 billion worth of advanced wireless services licenses to support the build-out of...
Glu Mobile said it will publish games for Nokia Corp.'s N-Gage platform, which is set for a public unveiling next week.The handset maker is preparing to dust off the familiar-but tarnished-brand next week at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, expanding the N-Gage...
A bipartisan group of House lawmakers introduce legislation to kill the 3-percent federal excise tax on wireless and wireline phone service.The Department of Treasury, following a series of legal defeats, announced last May it would cease collecting the tax and that consumers would be...
The U.S. House of Representatives said it canceled MobileAccess Networks' in-building wireless license and add-on business to improve cellphone coverage in the House because of concerns about the bidding process being tainted by the lobbying scandal that resulted in guilty pleas by disgraced lobbyist...
Sprint Nextel Corp. and T-Mobile USA Inc. asked the Supreme Court to review a lower court ruling that reversed a Federal Communications Commission decision pre-empting states from regulating line-item charges on wireless bills.With the Democratic-led Congress unlikely to move on highly controversial legislation that...
A trio of wireless veterans unveiled a new plan for a national public-safety broadband network that would use auctioned 700 MHz spectrum to supplement first-responder frequencies in the same band.Frontline Wireless L.L.C. will file its proposal with the Federal Communications Commission later today. The...
A survey of American online shoppers suggests that Apple Inc.'s yet-to-be-launched iPhone has penetrated consumer awareness, unlike other handsets before their launch. At a price between $200 and $300, the device could lead consumers to switch carriers, according to the survey. Moreover, once these...
Mobile Melo shoots, scoresCarmelo Anthony, star of the Denver Nuggets basketball team, has launched a mobile portal called Melo Mobile. The portal is powered by Konami Corp.'s mobile division. The Melo Mobile application will set users back $2 per month for news, statistics, updates...
After months of rampant speculation, the nation's only two satellite radio companies, XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. and Sirius Satellite Radio Inc., announced plans to merge as each aims to fend off mounting losses through an expanded blend of music, talk and sports. Predictions...
Palm Inc. has released a software update that addresses the extension of daylight-saving time that begins this year.Users can download the Palm software update to their PC or Mac from Palm's Web site and sync it to their Palm device, said Palm. Alternatively, users...
Disruptive Voice over Internet Protocol phone company Skype asked the Federal Communications Commission to rule that consumers have the right to use Internet communications software and that they can attach whatever devices they want to mobile phone networks."As the wireless market has matured and...
Mobile marketing startup Mozes Inc. picked up $5 million in a first round of funding from Norwest Venture Partners and North Bridge Venture Partners.Mozes' service, which is currently in beta, allows brands and other potential advertisers to build targeted, interactive mobile marketing campaigns through...
