Groove Mobile is going directly to consumers with a new track from indie hip-hop artist Aceyalone. Users can send a message to a short code to receive a link enabling …
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Virgin Mobile USA Inc. is offering its subscribers the chance to create their own wallpapers and ringtones-and reap the benefits if someone else downloads their handiwork. The new service, called …
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The direct-to-consumer mobile content space is being shackled by inadequate billing systems and an overall lack of traffic, content providers and mobile software developers said Monday.The market for off-deck mobile …
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Microsoft’s vision: common platform for work and play: Ballmer offers new services, devices, insights
by jscarboby jscarboThe 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 …
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Sling Media CEO Blake Krikorian might think all of the content that wireless subscribers can get on their cellphones is pretty neat, but not if mobile operators and content providers …
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If you own the platform, you control the message.That’s not some esoteric, technological mumbo-jumbo-though you’ll hear plenty of that this week-but one take on Symbian Ltd.’s position as sponsor of …
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Data is a damnable thing. It is what it is, but the devil’s in the interpretation.The same could be said for the Apple Inc. iPhone, hailed as a disruptive force …
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AT&T Mobility’s data traffic is “growing like crazy,” according to Mark Collins, the carrier’s VP of consumer data. But whether users will actually pay for this stuff is still far …
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Just in time for the holiday shopping season, tween-focused mobile virtual network operator kajeet Inc. announced a new line-up of handsets as well as an expanded retail effort. The MVNO’s …
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Hedgehogging: hedge*hog*ging v. Interrupting conversations in an office environment by poking your head over the top of the cube.
by jscarboby jscarboA true sign that wireless has finally made it-that is if the more than 1 billion cellphones in use around the world was not enough proof for you. The New …
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T-Mobile USA, Leap move closer to AWS launches: T-Mobile USA gearing up for New York launch, Leap begins to hire in Las Vegas
by jscarboby jscarboSigns are popping up that carriers are getting closer to making use of the spectrum they acquired in the advanced wireless services auction last year. T-Mobile USA Inc. confirmed that …
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The worldwide mobile music market will more than double in the next few years, exploding from $13.7 billion this year to more than $32 billion by 2010, according to Gartner …
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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 …
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AT&T Mobility digs deep for spectrum: Carrier writes $2.5B check for Aloha’s 700 MHz portfolio
by jscarboby jscarboAT&T Mobility left nothing to chance in its quest for 700 MHz spectrum. The nation’s No. 1 carrier agreed last week to shell out $2.5 billion in cash for 700 …
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MVNO model not dead, just adapting: Players in beleaguered space sharpening aim
by jscarboby jscarboWith the content-centered, postpaid mobile virtual network operator market in decline, analysts have already begun talking about the next evolution of the MVNO model. Apple Inc.’s iPhone is one example. …
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Mobile ads hitting target: Mobile advertising effective at attracting prime demographics
by jscarboby jscarboMobile advertising recently got a boost from two announcements: the launch of advertising-subsidized mobile access to MySpace.com, and the advent of a U.K. mobile virtual network operator offering free wireless …
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Tween-focused mobile virtual network operator kajeet Inc. is trying to snap up customers who must leave lame-duck MVNO Disney Mobile, which is slated to be shut down at the end …
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AT&T Mobility acquires Aloha’s 700 MHz spectrum for $2.5B: MediaFLO deal unaffected
by jscarboby jscarboAT&T Mobility said it will pay $2.5 billion in cash for all of Aloha Partners L.P.’s 700 MHz spectrum, apparently signaling Aloha’s exit from the mobile broadcast space.AT&T, which said …
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Mobile virtual network operator Helio L.L.C. isn’t losing track of its core market. The MVNO announced a new deal with KushTV to bring the multiplatform network’s original made-for-mobile episodic series …
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Sprint Nextel’s Forsee presses special-access issue: FCC’s Martin under pressure to re-regulate
by jscarboby jscarboFederal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin is facing increased congressional pressure to re-regulate the special-access market dominated by AT&T Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc., with Sprint Nextel Corp. Chairman Gary …
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So the big mouse has left the wireless house.Just over a year after unveiling its mobile virtual network operator plans in a fireworks-studded event at the CTIA show in the …
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THE MOBILE-PHONE INDUSTRY FINDS ITSELF ADRIFT in a sea of uncertainty as the 2008 election year approaches, with litigation, legislation and other factors casting a collective cloud over spectrum auctions …
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit rejected Verizon Wireless’ emergency motion for fast-track treatment of its challenge to the Federal Communication Commission’s open-access rule, increasing …
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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 …
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Adobe Systems Inc. released a new version of its Flash software for mobile phones.The company released Flash Lite 3, which is designed to allow wireless users to view Flash-enabled Web …
