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TORONTO-Bell Canada launched a full track music download service powered by Groove Mobile, which also enables a similar service recently launched by Sprint Nextel Corp. Bell Canada said consumers are …

MILAN, Italy-Telecom Italia Mobile announced plans to trial WiBro handsets with Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. during the upcoming 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, according to reports. The move is notable …

WASHINGTON-The activities of cellular trade group CTIA under former president Thomas Wheeler are highlighted in a re-filed class-action lawsuit alleging wireless carriers, vendors and industry lobbyists failed to disclose to …

Cingular Wireless L.L.C. announced plans to launch a streaming video service, CingularVideo, in January, featuring two channels of content from premium cable channel HBO. HBO Mobile and HBO Family Mobile …

BOSTON-Motorola Inc.’s Razr phone and Danger Inc.’s Sidekick II will find their way into more Christmas stockings this year than other devices. The Razr and the Sidekick II top holiday …

Cingular unveils CingularVideo with HBO shows NEW YORK-Cingular Wireless L.L.C. announced today that it will launch a streaming video service, CingularVideo, in January, and that the service will feature two …

AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands-Royal Philips Electronics, Europe’s largest consumer-electronics producer and its third-largest chipmaker, said it plans to sell or spin off its semiconductor unit into a separate company. The company …

Wireless carriers struck out once again in Consumer Reports’ annual survey of cellular phones and service. Cingular Wireless L.L.C.’s acquisition of AT&T Wireless Services Inc. came in for particularly harsh …

YONKERS, N.Y.-Wireless carriers struck out for a fourth straight year in the annual survey of cellular service and phones conducted by independent evaluator Consumer Reports. Cingular Wireless L.L.C. acquisition of …

SAN JOSE, Calif.-Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. will use ArrayComm L.L.C.’s smart antenna technology in its wireless base stations, the companies announced. ArrayComm said its antenna technology is designed to help …

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 …

Cingular Wireless L.L.C. infused some new blood into the languishing push-to-talk market with the launch of its PTT service. The carrier joins a market dominated by Sprint Nextel Corp.’s iDEN-based …

Cingular Wireless L.L.C. infused some new blood into the languishing push-to-talk market with the launch of its PTT service. The carrier joins a market dominated by Sprint Nextel Corp.’s iDEN-based …

PISCATAWAY, N.J.-The Mobile Industry Processor Interface Alliance released two new specifications to accelerate the development of camera phones. The specifications include a physical layer, D-PHY, which is designed to act …

COSTA MESA, Calif.-The CDMA Development Group announced that Indian CDMA operators Reliance Infocomm and Tata Teleservices Ltd. are set to offer data-enabled CDMA2000 phones to their most price-sensitive customers by …

In these early days of wireless entertainment, it appears content providers have effectively deployed a variety of Digital Rights Management solutions to protect their wares. But many believe all those …

Qualcomm Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. tightened their ties with a new deal that calls for Samsung to build Qualcomm’s chips for CDMA and W-CDMA phones. The agreement further …

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-Swiss carrier Swisscom announced it will sell IXI Mobile Inc.’s Ogo messaging device. The carrier plans to sell the GPRS gadget-which features a QWERTY keyboard and no voice …

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. tightened their ties with a new deal that calls for Samsung to build Qualcomm’s chips for CDMA and W-CDMA phones. The agreement …

BUSAN, Korea-KT Corp. demonstrated new wireless broadband technology it hopes to deliver to millions of subscribers by 2010. Korea’s largest fixed-line operator unveiled mobile WiMAX technology for delegates from the …

After years of hype and billions of dollars in network upgrades, the time has come for the worldwide W-CDMA market to take off. Perhaps the best indication that W-CDMA technology …

LONDON-Symbian Ltd. said shipments of Symbian OS phones increased 131 percent during the third quarter to 8.54 million units compared with 3.7 million units during the same quarter last year. …

RESTON, Va.-Sprint Nextel Corp. plans to take a swipe at the success of Motorola Inc.’s super-slim Razr device by selling a similar slender gadget from rival Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. …

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-Swiss carrier Swisscom announced it will sell IXI Mobile Inc.’s Ogo messaging device. The carrier plans to sell the GPRS gadget-which features a QWERTY keyboard and no voice …

BUSAN, Korea-KT Corp. demonstrated new wireless broadband technology it hopes to deliver to millions of subscribers by 2010. Korea’s largest fixed-line operator unveiled mobile WiMAX technology for delegates from the …