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NEW YORK-Crisp Wireless will offer video clips, images and other content based on NBC’s fall show line-up, the company announced Monday. A Crisp Wireless spokeswoman said the content will be …

OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-Sprint Corp. has signed on as the official communications service provider to the Academy of Television Arts & Science’s 56th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards, which airs Sunday night. …

MobiTV creator Idetic Inc. will provide content and operations for one of the new channels available through Sprint PCS Vision Multimedia Services, which the carrier launched late last Friday. Sprint …

European content provider Acotel is going to Athens to target American consumers. The 12-year-old Italian company is taking the Olympic Games wireless, delivering updates and images to U.S. handsets via …

BERKELEY, Calif.-MobiTV continued to add content offerings to its video streaming service Tuesday, signing agreements with NBC Universal, FOX Interactive Media and Comedy Time. With the latest announcement, MobiTV offers …

Fans of “The West Wing” TV series with Sprint wireless service will be able to participate in text messaging polls due to a new offering from cable channel Bravo and …

RESTON, Va.-Nextel Communications Inc. said it will launch its NASCAR Nextel Cup Series advertising campaign beginning Jan. 18 with the first phase introducing the wireless carrier to NASCAR fans. Nextel …

WASHINGTON-Ten years after Congress authorized auctions to award wireless permits, the market-based licensing scheme continues be a magnet for those needing funding for pet projects, but the Federal Communications Commission’s …

SEATTLE-Fans of the TV show “Fear Factor” will be able to download music, images and sounds-including screams from the show’s contestants-to their mobile phones, thanks to a deal among NBC …

A hue and cry went up among Clinton-Gore Democratics and political pundits when it surfaced that NBC and Fox would not carry the first debate between GOP and Democratic presidential …

VERNON HILLS, Ill.-Telular Corp. will provide its digital Phonecell Fixed Wireless Terminals to NBC Olympics Inc. for the 2000 Summer Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia, allowing NBC to provide voice …

Aether Systems Inc. launched a $15 million national television and print advertising and branding campaign last week in support of its growing wireless data systems and services business. The “Wireless …

NEW YORK-At first glance, a bearded journalist in business-casual attire may seem an unlikely arbiter of good taste for minding your manners when using mobile telephony. But just as a …

Embattled Clinton Democrats, like FCC Chairman Bill Kennard and the First Family itself, know they’ve got a friend in Cape Cod and the islands, where I just returned from vacation …

JACKSON, Miss.-SkyTel Communications Inc. announced it will deliver news from MSNBC to its subscribers at no additional cost. Subscribers will receive MSNBC headlines twice a day at 11: 30 a.m. …

WASHINGTON-The Justice Department is investigating the Federal Communications Commission’s planned Portals move, the second probe to examine whether lobbyist and former Clinton-Gore campaign manager Peter Knight got an illegal $1 …

Wouldn’t it be nice to know if people are actually going to like the holiday gifts you so thoughtfully picked out especially for them? You ponder, prepare and then pray …

WASHINGTON-Formulating future spectrum policy not only is a hot topic for those who must handle the regulatory and legislative aspects of parceling out channels, those that need more frequencies and …

I hereby nominate NBC President Robert Wright official spokesman of the cellular telephone industry. That’s right, the same Bob Wright who warned lawmakers on the Senate Commerce Committee last week …