Digital Chocolate expands globally 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Silicon Valley game developer Digital Chocolate is expanding internationally, announcing this week acquisitions of design studios in India and Spain...

Device management becomes more critical 

By: By Carol Wilson

As wireless data becomes a more important and widely used business tool, device management becomes a key market opportunity for service providers, according to an independent study of CIOs conducted for Mformation Technologies, a provider of device management capabilities...

Report finds consumer mobile e-mail a good bet 

Mobile messaging growth will shift over the next 18 months with the transition of enterprise mobile e-mail to mobile e-mail on mass-market consumer phones, consulting firm Frost & Sullivan is predicting...

Hiwire, SES Americom announce mobile TV trial lineup 

By: By Mark Donahue

Hiwire and SES Americom announced today the initial group of TV content companies and channels that will contribute to the lineup for their upcoming mobile TV consumer trial in Las Vegas...

XO expands broadband wireless to 36 markets 

By: By Carol Wilson

Partnering with affiliate company Nextlink, XO Communications today announced expansion of its fixed broadband wireless service into 24 new markets, providing alternative last-mile connections to service providers and business customers...

Sprint stands by termination of frequent complainers 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Sprint is defending its service termination of 1000 customers that called customer service frequently, saying that only the most frequent abusers of its free customer service lines were targeted and the volume of calls they generated detracted from other subscribers’ own customer experience...

AT&T turns up first metro Wi-Fi mesh net 

By: By Carol Wilson

AT&T today announced it has turned up its first Metro Wi-Fi service, taking the first segments of the Riverside, Calif., network live with both free and fee-based service...

Sprint hires new strategy head; unveils marketing plans 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Sprint today announced that it has hired former BellSouth veteran Keith Cowan to head up planning and new initiatives for the company as well as plans a new marketing campaign to infuse life back into Sprint’s brand...

AT&T, Apple set iPhone plan pricing 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

AT&T and Apple today revealed they will offer the new iPhone with different pricing plans than its normal phone service. The plan’s monthly rates will start much higher but they will include unlimited browsing and other features not packaged with its standard voice plans...

VZW teams with Obopay 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Verizon Wireless today said it plans to launch Obopay’s point-to-point mobile payment service over its mobile data network, allowing customers to transfer money to other Obopay users and eventually pay for goods at stores directly with their mobile phone...

Alcatel-Lucent launches mobile commerce platform 

By: By Carol Wilson

The latest Alcatel-Lucent product is based as much on the advice of a bunch of teens and twenty-somethings as on the company’s noted engineering expertise...

MMA: Coke takes the Sprite brand mobile 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

NEW YORK--Coca Cola today launched a social networking mobile portal built around its Sprite soft drink line targeted squarely at the popular beverage’s largest customer base, teens...

Preparing for the iPhone onslaught 

By: by Kevin Fitchard

AT&T's competitors gear up for the fierce competition and new opportunities...

Rockstar Prince debuts single on V Cast 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Verizon Wireless and music superstar Prince today announced a partnership, which uses Prince’s new single “Guitar” to promote the V Cast Music service in an innovative arrangement that links TV advertising, music downloads and Verizon Wireless’ Song ID service together...

Palm releases Treo ‘companion’ 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Palm founder Jeff Hawkins today unveiled what he billed as a revolutionary new device in mobile computing. It wasn’t new Treo, though. It was a full-screened tablet computer, designed to be a mobile companion to its Treo line...

MEF sets code for SMS voting 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Hoping to head off any possible scandals that have plagued U.K. operators, the Mobile Entertainment Forum has introduced guidelines for SMS voting that it hopes will prevent fraud and errors in how votes are counted and charged for in participation television shows like American Idol...

Philly OKs Wi-Fi expansion 

By: By Carol Wilson

EarthLink Municipal Networks today got the go-ahead from Philadelphia officials to build out the planned 135-mile Wi-Fi network in that city following approval of its 15-square-mile proof-of-concept trial network...

Fox: Mobile content needs balance of payment models 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

LOS ANGELES--Fox Interactive senior vice president and general manager John Smelzer today said that mobile content will require a variety of revenue streams to be successful. Some will be subscription-based, some will come bundled, others will be supported by ads, and much of it will be just plain free...

AT&T ups branding ante 

By: By Carol Wilson

If you thought the AT&T logo was already ubiquitous, you ain’t seen nothing yet. The telecom giant announced today it is ramping up its branding campaign in anticipation of the late June launch of the Apple iPhone, for which AT&T is the exclusive wireless carrier...

Mobile ESPN re-launches on V Cast 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Mobile ESPN today was reborn as ESPN MVP, a BREW application on Verizon Wireless’ V Cast 3G service, offering all of the same features and capabilities as the ESPN’s former mobile portal but without the accompanying MVNO...

Moto launches new RAZR 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Motorola’s quest for the replacement to the RAZR culminated today in the unveiling of a device called the RAZR2, which improves upon the industrial design and slimness that made the original RAZR a 100 million-strong device...

Sprint to offer on-demand episodes of ABC shows 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Sprint today announced a major content deal with Disney-ABC Television that will bring on-demand full-length episodes of popular TV shows like “Lost” and “Desperate Housewives” to the mobile screen...

Palm targets both Palm, Microsoft users with new Treo 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

With the launch of its new Treo 755p this week, Palm is taking a converged approach to the smartphone, using the Palm OS the company originally built its success upon but incorporating the Microsoft push e-mail technology in a nod toward the fast growing e-mail market...

The hunt for the next RAZR 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

After a long period of resurgence, Motorola has fallen out of favor in the last year. It has seen its seemingly unstoppable climb back to the top of the...

Microsoft buys mobile ad company 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Microsoft today said it has agreed to buy mobile advertising firm ScreenTonic for an undisclosed amount, marking the software giant’s commercial entrance into the infant mobile ad space...