AT&T expands U-verse, Homezone 

By: By Carol Wilson and Kevin Fitchard

AT&T advanced its video initiatives on two fronts, launching its U-verse IPTV service in Dallas-Fort Worth and adding new functions to Homezone, its integrated voice-data-satellite TV bundle...

ZTE penetrates further into European handset market 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

ZTE has followed up its budget handset deal with Vodafone with another global carrier, announcing an agreement with Telefonica to jointly develop low-cost 3G phones for Movistar in the Spanish market...

Mobile cinema debuts 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

The stars came out to the 3GSM World Congress this year. Former Miss Universe and Indian film megastar Lara Dutta was in attendance, and although...

3GSM: ZTE lands Vodafone handset deal  

By: By Kevin Fitchard

BARCELONA--Vodafone’s handset portfolio is taking on a distinctly Chinese flavor...

CBS launches mobile portals 

CBS is launching three new mobile portals, one offering direct sales of CBS content and the other two offering ad-supported news and sports content engines...

Mobile ESPN returns, launches on VZW deck 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Mobile ESPN is back, this time as a third-party content partner rather than an MVNO. The Disney-owned sports giant today announced an exclusive partnership with Verizon Wireless that will deliver the content engine and portal it developed for its MVNO to VZW handsets as well as launch an ESPN channel over MediaFLO’s new mobile TV service...

Turner, Ericsson launching CNN Mobile 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Turner Broadcasting is launching a mobile entertainment and news content platform, powered by Ericsson, which it plans to use as a launching point for its TV brands into the wireless world...

Small screen for rent 

By: By Dan O'Shea

The phrase mobile advertising is so equally fraught with controversy and brimming with revenue potential that the mere mention of it sends the mobile...

The tiniest screen 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

MediaFLO and Verizon Wireless are determined to make the mobile TV experience match the home TV experience—at least for now...

Mobile TV & Entertainment 

Mobile TV is just one pixel in a larger mobile entertainment picture—OK, maybe it’s a lot of pixels, but music, games, gambling and other types of content are also part of that evolving picture. Industry observers have great expectations for all of the above. Here’s some of what we’ve overheard recently about mobile TV and entertainment...

Mobile advertising in motion 

By: By Dan O'Shea

It’s no secret that Superbowl Sunday means as much to the advertising market as it does to the teams that will be playing, but TV is no longer the only medium capable of delivering their messages...

Towerstream expands into Seattle 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Broadband wireless access provider Towerstream today said it has expanded into Seattle through the acquisition of broadband ISP Speakeasy’s wireless assets...

Apple breaks the rules 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

When Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone earlier this month at MacWorld, he projected 10 million sales of the sleek new device in 2008 an extremely...

Verizon Wireless tests the mobile TV waters 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Cingular (now AT&T) may have the iPhone, but Verizon Wireless managed to wring its own victory at the Consumer Electronics Show this month. It's first...

Sprint releases iDEN-CDMA phones 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Sprint today released its first dual-mode phones for the Sprint and Nextel networks, giving it for the first time since its acquisition of Nextel a voice solution that bridges its two separate networks...

AT&T to launch Cingular re-branding 

By: By Dan O'Shea

AT&T announced that it will begin a marketing and advertising campaign Monday to fold the Cingular Wireless brand, and market the company's wireless services under the AT&T name...

iPhone update: The decisions are all Apple’s  

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Though Cingular and Apple are billing their new exclusive partnership to sell the iPhone as a relationship of equals, the iPhone is clearly Apple’s baby...

CES: Sprint, cable providers synch TV, e-mail 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

LAS VEGAS--Sprint is taking the first steps to offer converged data multimedia services to its cable partners, announcing at CES that it is extending the partnership with two of its applications providers, MobiTV and Seven, to its joint venture with the country’s largest cable providers...

Updated: Apple, Cingular tout iPhone 

By: By Kevin Fitchard and Dan O'Shea

LAS VEGAS--Apple CEO Steve Jobs formally announced the long-anticipated iPhone at the MacWorld Conference and Expo in San Francisco today, sending reverberations throughout the consumer electronics and mobile industries, most notably here in Las Vegas where the Consumer Electronics Showcase was in full swing...

CES: Yahoo revamps mobile strategy 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

LAS VEGAS--Yahoo today at CES kicked off a new mobile content strategy revealing a new mobile content application combining, in one downloadable Java engine, elements of its search, news, finance, entertainment, weather and photo sharing applications, all of which have been tweaked for mobile use...

CES: Modeo goes live in New York 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

LAS VEGAS--Though overshadowed by Verizon Wireless and Qualcomm’s large-scale unveiling of mobile TV service, Modeo today finally delivered on its promise of a live multicast wireless video network covering all of New York City...

BT goes Wi-Fi on Fusion offering 

By: By Tim McElligott

BT announced today a new version of its Fusion fixed/mobile convergence product that incorporates Wi-Fi and new handsets from Nokia, Motorola and Samsung...

CES: Mobile TV makes it mark 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

LAS VEGAS--The biggest gadget show in the world, the Consumer Electronics Showcase, is a citywide show floor for gigantic LCD TVs, the newest concepts in computers and even the latest generation of cellphones. But this year it was also about mobile TV...

GCI closes Alaska DigiTel investment 

By: By Tim McElligott

General Communication Inc. announced late yesterday the close of an agreement to invest $29.5 million in wireless provider Alaska DigiTel on Jan 1. The investment could help AKD meet the needs of Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich, who said last month he wants to blanket his city with wireless Internet...

Report: AT&T to sell ads over Cingular 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

AT&T’s acquisition of BellSouth gives it full control over the nation’s largest wireless carrier, and AT&T CEO Ed Whitacre has big plans for its new wholly owned mobile subsidiary...