Nokia acquires mobile advertising company Enpocket
By: By Sarah Reedy
Nokia today announced it has acquired Enpocket, the Boston-based mobile advertising company, for an undisclosed sum, marking its entrance into the still-nascent mobile ad space...
Sprint strikes back at T-Mobile with femtocells
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Sprint unveiled its much-anticipated femtocell service today, rolling out the fixed/mobile convergence technology in two markets: Indianapolis and Denver...
Leap rejects MetroPCS offer with a few parting shots
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Leap Wireless has turned down MetroPCS’ merger proposal, saying the operator is offering too little, but the Leap board hinted it was definitely interested in the deal of MetroPCS if the company would reach a little further into its pocketbook...
Global Tower acquires AT&T cellsites
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Global Tower Partners today said it has bought 549 cellsites in urban areas across 27 states from AT&T, though it did not disclose their specific locations or cost...
Qualcomm gets chip-ban reprieve
By: By Kevin Fitchard
A U.S. appeals court stayed the U.S. International Trade Commission’s ban on Qualcomm technology imported into the U.S., but only lifted the prohibition on third-party devices not Qualcomm’s own chipsets...
Verizon Wireless challenges 700 MHz rules in court
By: By Carol Wilson
In what could be the opening salvo in a long legal battle, Verizon Wireless has asked a federal court to set aside the Federal Communications Commission’s rules requiring open-access rules for one portion of the 700 MHz spectrum being auctioned beginning in January...
Google integrates mobile, Web text ads
By: By Rich Karpinski
Ad buyers who purchase Google text ads will soon start seeing their ads show up on mobile devices in addition to the Web...
VTap takes Web video browsing mobile
By: By Sarah Reedy
A new service from Veveo aims to make it easy for mobile users to browse the Web’s videos on their handsets...
NTP takes carriers to court
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Fresh off its record win over Research in Motion, push-messaging patent-holder NTP is setting its sights on bigger fish, or whales rather. This time it’s taking on the giants of the telecom industry, suing AT&T, Verizon Wireless and Sprint...
New AT&T campaign one step forward
By: By Carol Wlison
AT&T’s new marketing initiatives are one step forward toward creating a more mobile identity for a brand once considered the stodgy bastion of the telecom establishment, said one of the advertising executives charged with creating that identity...
Apple sells 1M iPhones
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Apple’s price slashing of the iPhone last week sent sales of the smartphone over the 1 million-unit mark on Sunday, allowing Apple to claim a highly successful launch for its first wireless product...
The need for speed
By: By Kevin Fitchard
It may not have involved a desolate strip in the desert. There were no ambulances standing by. No one was wearing a crash helmet. But Beceem Communications...
The climb on uncertain ground
By: By Carol Wilson
The competitive landscape is still shifting, even as bandwidth demand grows and consolidation continues...
Nokia looks beyond hardware
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Nokia's launch of the Ovi mobile Internet services portal has prompted questions such as "Will Nokia kill the service provider?" from IMS Research, and statements such as "Nokia is placing a very large bet in a very high-profile way" from Ovum...
Adderton vows return
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Peter Adderton isn't done with the mobile industry not just yet. The founder of Amp'd Mobile and Boost Mobile is aiming to take up where he left off...
Multiplay offerings go wireless
By: By Joan Engebretson
A cellular component is showing up in more and more service bundles -- and should help telcos make inroads against the cable companies that now dominate the multiplay arena...
Moto cell phone chief promises improvements
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Motorola’s new head of the handset business Stu Reed today said that Motorola will be making significant changes in its terminals business in an effort to regain lost market share, streamline production and return to profitability...
Nokia under ITC investigation
By: By Kevin Fitchard
In what may well be rehash of the heated intellectual property battle between Qualcomm and Broadcom, Nokia has found itself the target of a U.S. International Trade Commission investigation into the technology used in its 3G handsets...
Analysis: Wi-Fi aside, iPod Touch not built for communications
By: By Rich Karpinski
Every new device launch these days brings with it at least some anticipation over whether it will be the device to route around traditional carrier networks using Wi-Fi, VoIP or other “bypass” technologies. The latest candidate: the new Touch version of the Apple iPod...
Apple cuts iPhone prices, unveils new iPods
By: By Sarah Reedy
Apple today announced it is cutting prices on the 8-gigabyte iPhone by $200 and discontinuing the 4-gigabyte model...
Palm cans Foleo tablet
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Palm is canceling the launch of the Foleo companion, a tablet computer designed to synch with Palm smartphones, right before its expected launch...
iPhone leads U.S. smart phone sales for July
By: By Sarah Reedy
Apple’s iPhone outsold all “smart” phones in the United States during July -- its first month of sales -- and equaled the sales of the most popular feature phone, LG’s Chocolate, according to research from iSuppli...
Motorola wins Iridium court fight
By: By Ed Gubbins
Motorola prevailed today in a lawsuit filed by creditors of satellite provider Iridium...
MetroPCS makes bid for Leap
By: By Kevin Fitchard
MetroPCS today said it is proposing a merger with Leap Wireless, forming what it claims will be the fifth nationwide cellular operator...
Alltel shareholders approve buyout
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Alltel shareholders on Wednesday overwhelming approved the private equity buyout of the country’s fifth-largest wireless operator, leaving only FCC approval as the final hurdle for Alltel to go private....
