Microsoft eyes mobile music play
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Microsoft may be moving beyond selling portable digital music players to hawking digital music over the airwaves. It said today it is negotiating with Openwave to buy the company’s mobile music platform, Musiwave, in order to integrate it with Microsoft’s consumer entertainment applications and the Zune platform...
Analyst: iPhone goes to Europe
By: By Sarah Reedy
With the much-awaited launch of the iPhone today in Europe, T-Mobile and O2 are set to enjoy the same sales boom as AT&T in the United States...
Mobile gaming growth slows
By: By Sarah Reedy
Despite gaming developers’ and publishers’ high hopes for mobile games, second-quarter earnings indicate a slowdown in the market’s growth as the industry fails to attract new gamers...
AT&T bulks up mobile music with Pandora
By: By Kevin Fitchard
AT&T has joined Sprint in offering the Pandora Internet radio service over its music phones, creating a personalized music channel for subscribers that may lead to discovery of new music and AT&T’s other music services...
Nokia scores big with first Ovi customer
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Nokia’s Ovi content portal may not be the operator bane industry experts first predicted. In fact, the world’s largest operator, Vodafone, may consider it a balm...
RIM targets small businesses
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Research in Motion is launching a scaled-down BlackBerry server architecture it hopes will spread RIM’s appeal from the big enterprise to the small office...
Nokia experiments in content development
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Nokia is adding a new kink to the concept of user-generated content for the mobile phone...
CTIA: Play it on the phone
By: By Kevin Fitchard
You'd expect to see Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer at a wireless industry trade event, but Quincy Jones or Master P?...
The talking phone
By: By Kevin Fitchard
What if your phone could talk to you? Not just relay the voice communications of others, but really talk to you...
AT&T'S multifaceted music plans
By: By Kevin Fitchard
In a few short months, AT&T has gone from having no wireless component for its digital music service to having the largest wireless download platform in the industry...
VON: Motorola fellow describes WiMAX future
By: By Sarah Reedy
BOSTON--WiMAX is like having DSL in the palm of your hands, and it will soon be a widespread reality, Jaime Borras, corporate vice president and senior fellow for Motorola’s WiMAX, iDEN Advanced Development and Technology Specialty Platforms, Mobile Devices, told the crowd at the VON show today...
Analysis: Will Google and VZW strike a content deal?
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Google is reported to be in talks with the country’s largest wireless carriers for content deals to put Google’s bevy of search, messaging and content applications on their mobile phones...
Enter the Skype phone
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Skype today unveiled its long-awaited VoIP phone, a mobile handset that uses the data capabilities of the mobile network to bypass an operator’s circuit-switched network entirely to make free calls over the Internet...
Ringing in the New Year with iPhone 2.0?
By: By Sarah Reedy
With disappointment over the iPhone’s limited EDGE capabilities still hovering, speculation about the release of the long-awaited, third-generation version of the handset is at an all-time high...
CTIA: Ballmer talks device management
By: By Kevin Fitchard
SAN FRANCISCO--Steve Ballmer kicked off the IT portion of CTIA Wireless IT & Entertainment yesterday, but the Microsoft CEO espoused more than an enterprise vision for mobility in his opening keynote...
CTIA: AT&T downloads Napster
By: By Kevin Fitchard
SAN FRANCISCO--AT&T is extending its relationship with online music service Napster to include over-the-air full-track music downloads, adding the final missing piece to AT&T’s comprehensive music strategy...
Apple relents on iPhone third-party apps
By: By Rich Karpinski
After months of worrying that third-party iPhone apps would “take down” AT&T’s network or leave users perplexed as to how to use the device, Apple CEO Steve Jobs said an iPhone software development kit (SDK) would be made available by February...
mSpot develops customizable ringtone tech
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Mobile media company mSpot today said it has created an application that will allow customers to edit music ringtones on their phones, allowing them to pick and choose the elements of a specific song they want to play over their handsets rather than settle for the pre-packaged ringtone sold by the carrier or record company....
IMS apps finally arrive
By: By Kevin Fitchard
With AT&T and Sprint's launches, the first IP multimedia subsystem applications are poking their heads above ground...
The meaning of Xohm
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Barry West, chief technology officer for Sprint, is fond of joking about what people think is the meaning of Xohm, the name of Sprint's new WiMAX network...
HotSpot@Everywhere
By: By Carol Wilson
Although municipal networks have lost their glossy hype, they are still being built and they still present an opportunity for consumers to cut down on...
Building a mobile news engine
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Crisp Wireless takes aim at newspapers and TV stations...
AT&T supplying BlackBerrys to USPS
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The U.S. Postal Service has signed up as a customer of AT&T in initiative to connect 5400 postal workers with BlackBerry push e-mail handsets...
Verizon reveals more handsets as MediaFLO gains traction
By: By Sarah Reedy
Verizon Wireless today revealed its LG Voyager, the second handset announced in the past week to support Qualcomm subsidiary MediaFLO USA’s mobile video technology...
Study: T-Mobile, Verizon Wireless lead in customer service
By: By Sarah Reedy
T-Mobile and Verizon Wireless have held on to their lead in wireless contract regional customer satisfaction rankings for another year, a study by J.D. Powers and Associates indicates...
