Wireless Internet

LiveTV L.L.C. said it will buy Verizon Communications Inc.’s Airfone business, a move the JetBlue Airways subsidiary said will anchor its in-flight e-mail and messaging platform. “Airfone was the pioneer …

Leap Wireless International Inc. is set to turn on its Cricket service tomorrow in St. Louis, Mo. Leap said the service will be available at nine St. Louis area retail …

Wide area WiMax wireless networks will usher in a new era of “full internet” connectivity on mobile devices, a senior Intel executive claimed today..

After months of waiting, AT&T’s free Wi-Fi has come to Starbucks throughout the U.S.

Mobile content provider go2 Media Inc. notched its third tier-one carrier win, announcing an agreement to deliver information through T-Mobile USA Inc.’s t-zones service.The Boston-based firm said T-Mobile wireless Web …

Maybe John McCain should take up singingMore than 78 million text messages were sent to vote for the winner of this year’s American Idol show, shattering the previous record of …

It turns out that the Samsung L870 handset that was reported to be the first phone other than the iPhone to use Apple’s Safari browser, well, isn’t.

Network equipment maker Cisco has unveiled a new mobility appliance, which it claims will ease businesses’ path to unified collaboration. The Cisco 3350 Mobility Services Engine helps users unify fixed …

Search giant shows off Android at its Google I/O conference, including its touch-screen interface and ability to shift a Street View as the user turns around.

For U.S. consumers, the smartphone is the clear the winner for mobile Web access, according to an In-Stat survey released Wednesday.

Mobile experts have argued that application developers are vital to the future success of the mobile web, but some warned that content must be presented simply in order to avoid …

In Korea where broadband Internet speed is one of the world’s fastest, downloading a two-hour movie file may not take more than five minutes.

The mobile Internet industry very much resembles the fixed Internet industry of the mid-1990s: lots of promise, but the business models have yet to evolve.

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We’ve gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile content industry to give their insights into the marketplace. In …

Application: ZumobiRunning on: Samsung ACE running Windows Mobile 6 on Sprint Nextel’s EV-DO network.Yay: Zumobi usually runs in the background and updates content regularly, allowing us to call up the …

Trango Broadband Wireless said it won a five-year contract with the U.S. General Services Administration. Being awarded a GSA contract streamlines the process for various government agencies that use Trango …

Could the wireless industry have new legal exposure as a result of the caustic combination of Web-enabled phones, the Internet and sexual predators?A lawsuit filed in federal court against Verizon …

T-Mobile International and Nokia Corp. announced a “collaboration agreement” to package the German carrier’s web’n’walk mobile Internet service with Nokia’s Ovi offering.Nokia said it will develop customized devices that combine …

Memo to all you network operators: the race to zero is heating up.That’s the takeaway from a recent (but little-noticed) survey of 2,000 mobile users from comScore Inc. The market …

Ted Rogers, President and Chief Executive Officer of Rogers Communications Inc. today issued the following statement: We’re thrilled to announce that we have a deal with Apple to bring the …

The market for broadband services is a large space, one that’s driven steady innovation, competition and various levels of service. While wireless carriers clamor to make technology roadmap choices for …

Does the world really need a wireless Web?It’s a question that has come up repeatedly in the years following the introduction of WAP, the standard used to display Internet content …

Reps. Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.) and Christopher Cannon (R-Utah) introduced a bill to foster deployment of a national, family-friendly wireless broadband network with open access, an initiative the mobile-phone industry was …

Federal Communications Commission member Deborah Taylor Tate urged the cellphone industry to tackle emerging challenges – such as protecting children from mobile adult content and battling wireless spam – as …