AT&T Mobility announced that its Cingular 8525 Pocket PC (made by HTC Corp.) will henceforth be known as the AT&T 8525 Pocket PC. The operator said that the device has been upgraded, retaining the functionality it originally offered, while adding software upgrades to enable...
Research In Motion Ltd. today announced its BlackBerry Mobile Voice System, which offers BlackBerry enterprise users a secure connection to their desk phone. The solution includes enhancements to BlackBerry device software, the BlackBerry Enterprise Server and the Ascendent Voice Mobility Suite from Ascendent Systems....
Where the days of yesteryear may have seen executives working business deals and networking on the golf course, the poker table has become the new venue for some.Bplay Inc. and Hands on Mobile Inc. have invited 150 guests to the World Poker Tour BlackBerry...
Congress and the courts are getting serious about intervening in the thriving American business known as patent litigation. While critics claim the U.S. patent system is a sordid mess that desperately needs fixing, all the confusion and controversy could get worse before it gets...
The word last week that Nokia Corp.'s new N75 device would debut soon at AT&T Mobility drew its share of attention, for good reason. Though Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, Nokia's CEO, has made a point to extol the value of the U.S. market-declaring it a hotbed...
Research In Motion Ltd. is following up its pursuit of the consumer market with a device dubbed the "Curve," which will sell exclusively at AT&T Mobility "later this spring," according to the carrier. No pricing or more precise release date is available.Vagueness, however, did...
AT&T Mobility slashed prices last week on its two BlackBerry Pearl models to $100, down from $150 for the red model and $200 on the regular model. Research In Motion Ltd. credited its strong earnings last quarter to the popularity of the Pearl.AT&T Mobility...
Research In Motion Ltd. announced a "World Edition" BlackBerry for international travelers that combines CDMA and GSM technology and will be sold by Verizon Wireless and Sprint Nextel Corp.The two-carrier deal covers the two CDMA operators in the United States, an arrangement that may...
Sprint Nextel Corp. is upstaging with the Upstage.Perhaps taking advantage of a lull in pricing changes by its larger rivals, Sprint Nextel this week slashed its price on the latest and greatest from Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.; the Upstage music phone, a Sprint Nextel...
Research In Motion Ltd. said it would provide software later this year to expand BlackBerry software applications to third-party devices running Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Mobile and, eventually, other operating systems. The move is aimed at extending BlackBerry applications to a broader range of devices,...
When the Blackberries went silent last Tuesday, so did their marketer. It's not the sort of response you'd expect from a company that makes its living on instant communication-and industry pundits took note of Research in Motion Ltd.'s failure to clue in its 8...
One measure of the established use of wireless e-mail in general and Research In Motion Ltd.'s BlackBerry devices in the United States in particular: an overnight outage of RIM's service in the U.S. made news.BlackBerry users' level of dependence on their devices and e-mail...
Alltel Corp., the nation's fifth-largest carrier, discounted two smartphones over the past week, dropping prices on the Palm Inc. Treo 650 to $150 (from $200) and the UTStarcom PPC6700 to $200 (from $250). T-Mobile USA Inc., fourth-largest in the nation, also lowered the price...
Both companies' stock has been bid up, though for opposite reasons, and both companies seek to expand their traditional markets by intruding on the others' turf. They both make smartphones for a dedicated cadre of end users in North America, and they're expanding to...
The perversity of Wall Street came into focus after Research In Motion Ltd. delivered solid fourth-quarter fiscal 2006 earnings yesterday that were still below some expectations. It's all about emotion and overblown expectations, it seems.Investors apparently had already driven up the price of RIM's...
Palm Inc.'s management told analysts in New York yesterday that it will exploit growth in the smartphone sector to thrive, yet ducked questions about whether the company would be acquired, according to various media reports. Analyst Maynard Um of UBS wrote in a note...
ORLANDO, Fla.-If smartphones aren't the proverbial "overnight success" that results from years of toil, they've acquired added cachet in the industry because the players are focused on growth. Operators seek to sell more data, handset vendors seek healthier margins, operating-system providers seek market share....
ORLANDO, Fla.-A packed hall heard evangelism, exhortation and ebullience from a trio of industry speakers yesterday morning, as the CTIA Wireless 2007 trade show got underway. Attendees also got a surfeit of commercialism as each keynote speaker extolled their partners and their progress. "The...
Teens and young adults dominate the console gaming space, but mobile publishers are hoping their parents can help take wireless gaming into the mainstream.Gameloft this week plan to announce a deal with Research in Motion Ltd. to develop, market and distribute games for BlackBerry...
The battle of the titans continued last week as the industry's No. 1 and No. 2 carriers rolled out dueling promotional efforts centered on popular handsets. AT&T Inc.'s Cingular division, the No. 1 operator, cut the price of the LG Electronics Co. Ltd. CU400,...
CTIA announced that Research In Motion Ltd.'s Mike Lazaridis will replace Motorola's Ed Zander as one of the kickoff keynoters at the association's trade show next week. Lazaridis, RIM's president and co-CEO, will join executives from AT&T Inc. and Microsoft Corp. during the keynote...
Sprint Nextel Corp. is hoping to push its new location-based offerings by adding them to some of its high-end data plans.The carrier added a host of GPS-enabled navigation services to its Power Vision Ultimate Pack and Business Pack, both of which are offered at...
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...
Research in Motion Ltd. has announced that it will adjust its earnings by $250 million due to the results of an internal review of its stock-option grants, and that several corporate officers will change positions as a result of the review.In September, RIM announced...
