Samsung releases first Google phone
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Samsung today unveiled the Ultra Edition 13.8, an HSDPA slider handset that incorporates Google’s mobile search and Gmail applications...
Short message mania snares new demographic
By: By Joan Engebretson
Just when short message codes appeared destined to be the exclusive province of the cellular industry’s youngest customers, along came the hit television show “Deal or No Deal.” Read more about how a new demographic is poised to use SMS...
Cingular takes MySpace mobile
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Cingular has ended Helio’s lock on popular lifestyle portal MySpace, announcing today a deal to include MySpace content on its data-enabled mobile phones...
Sprint completes 2006 scheduled Rev. A rollout
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Sprint today said it has completed the Revision A upgrade to its EV-DO networks in ten more markets, reaching the 20-cities rollout plan it scheduled for the end of the year...
Your phone’s top model
By: By Kevin Fitchard
CBS Interactive is launching an ambitious artificial reality game based on the CW’s hit show America’s Top Model, wherein subscribers can control their favorite models rise to the top of the modeling elite and pit their models against one another...
Sprint, Cingular target consumer e-mail
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Sprint and Cingular today signaled more aggressive moves into the consumer e-mail market with Sprint releasing a new Java e-mail application powered by Seven and Cingular announcing plans to begin selling the BlackBerry Pearl on Friday...
VZW bulks up user-generated video portal
By: By Kevin Fitchard
A day after announcing its breakthrough content deal with YouTube, Verizon Wireless has bulked up its fledgling user-generated video portal with a similar agreement with Revver, a viral video site that not only allows customers to post their own video files, but also shares any revenue they generate...
VZW snags YouTube deal
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Verizon Wireless has secured a deal with media portal YouTube to air the Web site’s infectiously popular user-generated video content over its V Cast 3G service...
Nokia says mobile gaming a growing habit
By: By Carol Wilson
Nokia today released research that shows mobile gamers are playing longer and looking for higher quality in game graphics...
Juniper, NEC bringing IMS FMC gear to U.S.
By: By Ed Gubbins
Juniper Networks is jointly developing fixed/mobile convergence (FMC) products with NEC that it will bring to North America next year...
Push e-mail competition heats up
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The consolidation wave among mobile e-mail providers is late, but it's finally made its way to shore. Last year, Nokia bought Intellisync, which many...
Sprint, Microsoft search for common interests
By: By Dan O'Shea
Sprint and Microsoft this week jointly announced availability of Windows Live Search on most of Sprint’s mobile phones, as part of a new strategic alliance between the two companies...
AT&T launches first U.S. Mobile WiMAX network
By: By Kevin Fitchard
AT&T said today it has been running an under-the-radar commercial Mobile WiMAX network in Pahrump, Nev., since this summer, using the technology to offer fixed broadband services in a market where it current does not offer DSL...
Clearwire launches first major market
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Clearwire has entered its first major metro market, announcing today it has rolled out services in the greater Seattle-Puget Sound area. The metropolitan region covers Seattle, Tacoma and Everett, Wash., and contains roughly 2 million people...
Microsoft to support metro Wi-Fi
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Microsoft is getting into the municipal Wi-Fi business, announcing this week a partnership with MetroFi to bring content and advertising to the service provider’s free Wi-Fi public access network in Portland, Ore...
Samsung launches BlackJack with Cingular
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Samsung today introduced its BlackJack business smartphone in the U.S., adding to Cingular’s growing portfolio of enterprise devices...
Gmail goes mobile
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Google is taking its highly popular Gmail service to mobile phones, announcing a partnership with Sprint for a new handset version of its multi-functional e-mail and messaging client...
Cingular launches music service
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Cingular today announced the launch of its long-awaited 3G downloadable music service, but instead of running its own branded music store, Cingular is keeping with its open-platform approach and opening up music capabilities to several third-party content providers, including Napster, Yahoo Music, eMusic and XM Satellite Radio...
Amp’d to open content portal in Japan
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Amp’d Mobile is moving overseas to Japan, but it’s not starting a virtual carrier like it has done in the U.S. Instead it plans to open a mobile content portal on the deck of Japanese CDMA provider KDDI...
Embarq ushers in true FMC
By: By Tim McElligott
Embarq delivered on its strategy today to bring fixed/mobile convergence to the marketplace. The company announced the launch of Smart Connect, a service that allows the seamless transfer of calls between a business’ wireless and wireline networks...
GSM operators seek global 3G phone
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Global GSM operators are looking to kick-start demand for 3G services by jointly promoting a UMTS phone that will target the mass market...
Boston launches muni Wi-Fi project
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The city of Boston became the latest municipality to give citywide Wi-Fi a try, announcing today the launch of a pilot project covering 5000 homes in the south Boston neighborhood of Roxbury...
WiMAX World: Sprint targets Chicago, D.C.
By: By Kevin Fitchard
BOSTON--Sprint is pitting its two initial vendors against one another in a two-city market deployment, assigning Motorola to build the Mobile WiMAX network in its hometown of Chicago and Samsung to the nation’s capitol...
T-Mobile takes cues from MySpace, Apple
By: By Dan O'Shea
As the newly spectrum-rich T-Mobile USA migrates its network to 3G, there will be no mistaking from where the carrier will be taking its inspiration for devices, applications and marketing...
Comptel: Nextlink opens wireless channel
By: By Carol Wilson
ORLANDO--Nextlink, the broadband wireless arm of XO Holdings, today announced a reseller program to make wireless connections for both backhaul and last-mile connections easier to access...
