Wireless Internet

The iPhone. The BlackBerry Storm. The Android. The Palm Pre. When we think about these phones, we think AT&T, Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile and Sprint, respectively. Phone exclusivity is a major …

Always-online Internet junkies might seem to be the most likely users to lead the charge in adopting the mobile Web, but a recent ComScore study has found that assumption is …

The world’s top mobile phone maker Nokia is eyeing entering the laptop business, its Chief Executive Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo said in an interview to Finnish national broadcaster YLE on Wednesday.

Sometimes it seems that netbooks are everywhere . I’ve spotted them at airports, coffee shops and on commuter trains. No wonder that ABI Research forecasts sales of 35 million netbooks …

The billions of dollars set aside in the government’s stimulus bill to promote broadband access across the country may help create thousands of new jobs – and wireless firms are …

Verizon Wireless launched a new Web site capability that allows its customers to access the Web from their mobile phones using its Mobile Web service and get the same sites …

Google Inc. launched a version of its mobile search application for Windows Mobile devices.Google Mobile App allows users to search without separately opening a browser and offers a search history …

Dell’Oro Group Inc. analyst Ben Kwan forecast in December that various factors will drive growth in the wireless local are network (WLAN) market for enterprise this year.“While a slowdown in …

Since the settlement last year that ended the industry’s highest-profile cross-licensing battle, Nokia Corp. and Qualcomm Inc. have been expected to cozy up. Now it’s official. Nokia, the world’s largest …

Cricket Communications Inc. continues its nationwide rollout with its Chicago launch today, bringing its total covered pops to 77.5 million. The carrier, parented by Leap Wireless International Inc., is scheduled …

Sprint Nextel Corp., which continues to wedge itself in as the cheaper wireless solution, has put two of its popular plans together and taken $10 off the total price.The carrier …

The GSM Association and five European carriers are hoping to spur mobile marketing with a common system for measuring activity on the wireless Web.Orange, T-Mobile International, Telefonica, Vodafone and 3 …

Yahoo Inc. unveiled an overhauled mobile portal that it hopes will become “your starting point to the Internet.”The company launched a beta version of Yahoo Mobile, a wireless Web destination …

Nokia Corp. begged for forgiveness from consumers after its new cloud-based service broke down.The Finnish manufacturer – which is striving to evolve into a mobile Internet services company – said …

Some Southwest Airlines customers will now be free to move around the Web.The Dallas-based airline said on Tuesday it will offer in-flight Internet access to customers, but is using different …

Microsoft Corp. is the latest company to jump on the cloud-computing craze with a free new service for Windows Mobile users.The software giant unveiled My Phone, a Web-based service that …

Google Inc. launched a mobile version of its book search offering, enabling users with devices such as Apple Inc.’s iPhone and T-Mobile USA Inc.’s G1 to access more than 1.5 …

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. eked out a slim lead in market share over Motorola Inc. in the United States last year, in part due to the latter’s fading fortunes, according …

“The time for talk is over,” Obama bellowed. “The time for action is now. Because we know if we do not act, a bad situation will become dramatically worse. Crisis …

VeriSign Inc. continued to streamline its business by jettisoning part of its European mobile messaging division.The Mountain View, Calif.-based company had established a mobile foothold in Europe with the 2006 …

Mobile application retailer Handmark announced a deal to acquire FreeRange Communications, a Portland, Ore.-based mobile technology firm, for an undisclosed amount.FreeRange offers a publishing platform designed to help media companies …

Motorola has begun testing 4G Long-Term Evolution (LTE) broadband in the UK. The firm said the trial kicked off at a testing lab in Swindon with a “live, over-the-air, standards-compliant …

The land rush is on for the new .tel domain. The question is, why?The U.K.-based firm Telnic is hoping to create a “phone book for the Internet” with the new …

With three of the four largest wireless providers in the United States selling femtocells to boost indoor coverage, and the fourth expected to join the party, a Massachusetts company is …

The highly touted LTE technology is expected to make great strides this year as wireless providers launch trials and get ready for commercial deployments in 2010.Although the standards for the …