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The wireless industry simply won’t shut up about mobile marketing. And the biggest brands in the United States are listening. Mega-corporations across the country are scrambling to approach Americans on …

By Jeremy Mullman and T.L. Stanley CHICAGO—Cue the clydesdales: Anheuser-Busch is getting into the content business. The country’s largest brewer is launching its own in-house film and TV production company …

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-Google Inc. quietly snapped up mobile photo-recognition software developer Neven Vision for an undisclosed sum. Neven Vision’s technology automatically extracts information from photos, allowing users to categorize images …

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—Google Inc. quietly snapped up mobile photo-recognition software developer Neven Vision for an undisclosed sum. Neven Vision’s technology automatically extracts information from photos, allowing users to categorize images …

Each of about 2 billion phone calls made each day in the United States—wireline, wireless, voice over Internet protocol, regardless of carrier—touch a company that until recently flew mostly below …

WASHINGTON-As the battle for network neutrality heats up on Capitol Hill, wireless largely has been ignored, even though the nation’s two largest carriers prohibit customers from using bandwidth-hogging services and …

LAS VEGAS-PayPal Inc. officially went mobile, launching a service that allows users to make purchases and send or receive funds  via wireless phones. Wireless subscribers can use the offering-which the …

Sprint Nextel Corp. closed on its $287.5 million acquisition of network affiliate Gulf Coast Wireless Ltd. Partnership. The closing resolves litigation Gulf Coast filed against Sprint Nextel in connection with …

BONN, Germany-T-Mobile International AG said it expanded its agreement with Starbucks Corp. to Austria, allowing T-Mobile Austria to provide its HotSpot Wi-Fi service in eight of the nine Austrian Starbucks …

With the second hurricane in the past several weeks set to hit Florida in the next 24 hours, a number of wireless carriers announced initiatives designed to lessen the possible …

Starbucks Corp. said it has added T-Mobile USA Inc.’s Wi-Fi HotSpot service to more than 110 coffee houses in Indiana, Kansas, Missouri, New Mexico and Wisconsin, and it now offers …

The terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and the subsequent creation of a still-evolving homeland security regime in the United States probably did more for the wireless industry than all …

The segregated world of wireless local area networks took a giant step toward integration as the nation’s largest Wi-Fi hot spot provider T-Mobile USA Inc. reported a deal with software-enabled …

It’s an application that drove an entire segment of the wireless industry. Now, it’s a joke. Imagine: You’re walking down the street with your trusty mobile phone when you pass …

SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif.-SurfControl announced Project Nomad, a pilot program that will allow SurfControl’s enterprise customers to field test the company’s new Follow Me Filtering technology for wireless Web access. “For …

DENVER-Consumer-friendly pervasive telephony technologies were the focus of last week’s Zelos Group’s Pervasive 2003 show here. Directory assistance and speech-recognition technologies, both hot topics in the wireless industry, took center …

BONN, Germany-Two German companies have made further commitments to the Wi-Fi market, with T-Mobile International AG announcing it will expand its Starbucks Coffee Co. partnership into Germany and German airline …

LONDON-European mobile data users are set to enjoy greater competition on tariffs and devices following the decision by T-Mobile to more than halve its mobile data charges and push the …

NEW YORK-T-Mobile USA has cut the price of its Wi-Fi Internet access service at 1,200 retail locations, including Starbucks coffee shops, to $30 for a monthly pass and $6 for …

BONN, Germany-T-Mobile has expanded its U.S.-originated wireless local area network strategy to Europe, rolling out the service in hot spots in Germany and Austria. The service is currently available in …

BELLEVUE, Wash.-Expanding the coverage of its Wi-Fi-based HotSpot service, T-Mobile USA Inc. announced a partnership with Borders Group Inc. to provide wireless Internet access in Borders Books and Music locations …

While U.S. wireless carriers have often strayed from the international model when it comes to delivering service, most industry watchers anticipated the U.S.-based GSM carriers would follow a similar path …

SAN FRANCISCO-Starbucks Coffee Co., Hewlett-Packard Co. and T-Mobile International have combined to launch a hot spot service in Starbucks coffee houses, allowing customers to connect to Internet applications using 802.11b …

Boingo Wireless Inc. launched with plans to provide wireless Internet access at speeds up to 11 Megabits per second in major hotels, airports and coffee shops. Founded by Sky Dayton, …

BELLEVUE, Wash.-VoiceStream Wireless said it will acquire the majority of bankrupt MobileStar Network Corp.’s equipment and contracts for an undisclosed sum, although the mobile service provider is not yet saying …