Opinion

While most of the country was busy with last-minute shopping trips, President Bush was retaliating against the latest attack on his presidency-reports of a secret program to spy on Americans. …

Shares of Research In Motion Ltd. jumped Thursday morning after the company reported strong third-quarter sales of its BlackBerry devices. RIM reported $560 million in revenue during the period, up …

This is a somewhat official update on the other war: the war on spam. Like the other war, this one is global and asymmetrical in nature and involves spying. Just …

If life is a journey, 2005 has been a long, strange trip for the wireless industry. Looking back at the events of this year only underscores how quickly this industry …

Some text messages to Santa were sent to my phone by mistake. Someone somewhere is going to get into big trouble. Anyway, here’s a sampling of what wireless executives are …

It is the high-octane caffeine of Wall Street, the financial news media, Internet tip sheets and corporate America: quarterly earnings forecasts. It is the hot, hesitant tango between U.S. companies …

With apologies to the deceased Rodney Dangerfield, the wireless industry can’t get any respect. Whether it’s state agencies attempting to micro-manage the industry or countless health-related lawsuits or studies attempting …

Last week, wireless technology again made it into public remarks by the president. It had nothing to do with U.S. spectrum management reform, though its context may partly explain the …

Consider yourself forewarned: This is a girlie column. But hey, it seems wireless handset designers have forgotten about half of the world’s population, so maybe you men out there should …

While America’s cell-phone bandit may be the best known mobile-phone subscriber in the world, and consumers in Japan and Korea may have a corner on the coolest wireless apps on …

It’s bad enough to be implicated in a Washington scandal, but being reduced to a letter or a number is really a slap in the face in a town that …

The Federal Communications Commission should auction the 24 megahertz of spectrum at 2 GHz that mobile satellite service companies gave back to the government. To do anything else would set …

Of all the celebrities photographed with cell phone in hand, perhaps none will be remembered as well as the cell-phone bandit. This is not the kind of testimonial wireless executives …

Watching Nokia Corp. and Qualcomm Inc. exchange nasty barbs over intellectual property rights smacks of similar bickering between Qualcomm and L.M. Ericsson in 1999 over patents for the CDMA protocol. …

To the Editor, Ms. Ford, I read your opinion piece in the Oct. 17 issue of RCR Wireless News and think you missed the mark on why consumers should purchase …

Former ambassador Joe Wilson may not be the White House’s worst nightmare. But Rep. Curt Weldon (R-Pa.), a public-safety wireless champion, quite possibly is. So it was last week at …

The wireless industry should be applauded for implementing a content classification system well before data applications take off. (Clap. Clap. Atta boy! Way to go big guy!!) Remember all the …

DULLES, Va.-Wireless instant messaging continues to surge, with one-third of all desktop IM users sending instant or text messages from cell phones at least once a week, according to a …

If all Congress does before leaving town for the year is approve fiscal 2006 funding for the Federal Communications Commission and other government agencies it will be a victory. Partisan …

What constitutes a wireless carrier? Years ago, I used to have an annual fight with an MCI spokesman because RCR Wireless News listed MCI as the nation’s largest reseller in …

It is hard to believe that I have sat in the second chair at RCR for 10 1/2 years. This time spent following the wireless marathon has gone by in …

WASHINGTON-The District of Columbia Superior Court judge overseeing a cellular industry motion to dismiss six brain cancer lawsuits could be swayed by a Supreme Court ruling expected today. That ruling …

Welcome to the new age of response politics. Not necessarily responsive politics, but response politics. It permeates everything from government procurement guidelines to telecom policy. It is not just the …

There is a great future in ethnography. Indeed, this interdisciplinary approach to studying social and cultural nuances of small groups of people in natural, day-to-day settings could hold the key …

Just when I’m convinced that consumer groups are unnecessarily worried that wireless digital technologies will track our every move, something comes along to cause me to look over my shoulder. …