Texting

During Tuesday night’s presidential election, millions of Americans used their handsets to communicate via text message.Between 7 p.m. and 12 a.m. EST, more than 1.2 billion text messages were sent …

Motorola Inc., struggling to return to sustainable profitability, will bring the Aura handset to market this quarter, the company said. With “state-of-the-art handcraftsmanship,” the device will set you back two …

I got another text message from Barack Obama’s campaign this week. The latest missive mentioned that Joe Biden was coming to town. “Doors: 10:30 a.m.,” it read succinctly. “Free & …

Once considered the red-headed stepchild of wireless, prepaid services are finally gaining mainstream appeal helped by the need for carriers to target broader demographics and consumer desires for more ways …

FOR NOW, AT LEAST, Verizon Wireless has stepped away from plans to tack on a drastic 3-cent fee to each vendor-generated message on its network. But there’s little doubt that …

Financial institutions must now monitor and archive text and instant messages sent by employees through company-issued handsets much like they do with corporate e-mail. However, only a handful of companies …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our coverage of 25 years in wireless. RCR Wireless News is celebrating with a package of stories detailing the advances of the past three decades. For …

National mobile-phone carriers denied any wrongdoing in reaction to a key Senate lawmaker’s probe into industry-wide text message price increases, pointing out competitive bulk texting plans have actually reduced costs …

PUBLIC-INTEREST GROUPS ACCUSED WIRELESS CARRIERS of conjuring up misleading excuses to avoid federal regulation of short-code text messaging, pointing to content restrictions in industry documents that they say underscore the …

The off-deck content world reacted with shock to Verizon Wireless’ plan to impose a drastic new fee for vendor-generated text messages. However, it’s unclear whether the carrier will actually follow …

The amount of innovation currently under way in the wireless industry is almost breathtaking to behold.Just in the past month we got to witness the birth of a completely new …

Federal courts on opposite sides of the country came to different conclusions in billing litigation against Verizon Wireless and AT&T Mobility, while the number of antitrust class-action texting lawsuits against …

“Oh no, where’s my phone?” That has to be one of the scariest questions these days. And we’ve all done it; left our cellphone in a taxi-cab, on the counter …

CHICAGO – Welcome to the beginning of a couple of days of technology, turmoil and transition, as various players of the wireless ecosystem dissect WiMAX technology and its role in …

If this keeps up, “Can you hear me now?” may just become, “Have you gotten this text yet?” And network operators are scrambling to make sure the answer is yes.The …

The typical U.S. mobile subscriber sends and receives more text messages than phone calls. In a finding that might benefit mobile marketing, Nielsen Mobile found that during the second quarter …

A $7 million settlement has been reached in a class-action lawsuit accusing Timberland Co. and others of illegally sending unsolicited advertising text messages to cellular subscribers. The development represents but …

It’s official. The plaintiffs’ bar smells blood.The mobile-phone industry suddenly finds itself under siege over rising text messaging prices; there are now five different class-action antitrust lawsuits against the nation’s …

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama won a text message election held during the CTIA Wireless I.T. & Entertainment 2008 trade show held earlier this month in San Francisco.Obama received 56% …

The mobile-phone industry may be facing a legal texting tsunami in U.S. courts with the filing of two new antitrust class-action lawsuits against the nation’s largest wireless carriers – filings …

A class-action antitrust lawsuit accuses AT&T Mobility, Verizon Wireless, Sprint Nextel Corp. and T-Mobile USA Inc. of acting together to hike the price of wireless text messages. The new litigation …

SAN FRANCISCO — Wireless industry association CTIA and Harris Interactive think they have found the answer to one of history’s most elusive mysteries: what teenagers want. In a report dubbed …

SAN FRANCISCO — CTIA announced yesterday the beginnings of an effort to implement 2D bar-code scanning via camera phones. To succeed, the service will require cooperation among a wide swath …

SAN FRANCISCO — Leap Wireless International Inc. has its sights set on expansion. Nestled in its cozy booth at the CTIA Wireless I.T. and Entertainment 2008 event, Leap representatives, including …

A key Senate Judiciary Committee member directed AT&T Mobility, Verizon Wireless, Sprint Nextel Corp. and T-Mobile USA Inc. to explain why text message rates are increasing, suggesting price hikes are …