Mobile gaming growth slows
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...
T-Mobile spurs U.S. wireless growth
By Kevin Fitchard
Once again, T-Mobile USA led its European counterparts in growth, adding 857,000 new subscribers in the third quarter, driven by the continuing success of its MyFaves offering...
AT&T bulks up mobile music with Pandora
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...
MWA: Time for Time Warner Cable to be a Catalyst
By Tim McElligott
DALLAS--Leave it to a cable company to come in and identify a long-standing and growing concern that mobile operators have been too busy growing to address...
Femto Forum gains followers
By Kevin Fitchard
The new industry advocacy group of femtocells is building up its ranks, announcing this week a new roster including heavy hitters from the wireless industry. The Femto Forum’s membership now includes operators such as Telefonica O2, Rogers Wireless and India’s Bharti Airtel as well as infrastructure vendors Motorola, Alcatel-Lucent and Nokia Siemens...
Nokia scores big with first Ovi customer
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...
MWA: CA cracks the BlackBerry management problem
By Tim McElligott
DALLAS--With its business from managed services providers such as Verizon Business, BT Business Services and Sprint nearly doubling over the last year and momentum building from its 2006 acquisition of Wily Technology, CA expanded its managed services portfolio with a new Mobile Device Management solution, which it introduced this week at the TM Forum’s Management World Americas...
RIM targets small businesses
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...
CDMA drives Nortel profit despite deferred sales
By Kevin Fitchard
Nortel Networks is back in the black, posting a third-quarter profit of $27 million after slipping back into a loss at the halfway point of the year...
Updated: Google pursues open OS to penetrate wireless market
By Kevin Fitchard
Google today finally revealed its long-awaited ‘Gphone’ plans, but instead of producing its own handset, the Internet giant is taking a completely different approach: proliferating its software and applications through standards...
VoIP deja vu
By Joan Engebretson
A new crop of start-ups offers bypass calling using unlimited data plans. If the past is prelude, they could be the next Skype or Vonage...
Broadband at low frequencies
By Kevin Fitchard
CTC is using former TV spectrum for broadband and VoIP, and more could follow its lead next year...
Apple comes full circle on iPhone applications
By Rich Karpinski
A month-long spat has led the company to cautiously open its handset...
AT&T'S multifaceted music plans
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...
CTIA: Play it on the phone
By Kevin Fitchard
You'd expect to see Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer at a wireless industry trade event, but Quincy Jones or Master P?...
Nokia experiments in content development
By Kevin Fitchard
Nokia is adding a new kink to the concept of user-generated content for the mobile phone...
Visage grabs opportunity in mobility market
by Tim McElligott
The leading enabler of MVNOs acquires its way into the enterprise space...
The talking phone
By Kevin Fitchard
What if your phone could talk to you? Not just relay the voice communications of others, but really talk to you...
Tellabs, Carrier Access joint backhaul effort stalls
By Ed Gubbins
The wireless backhaul product developed jointly by Carrier Access and Tellabs has been snubbed by the operator for which it was created, Carrier Access revealed this week...
MetroPCS withdraws Leap merger bid
By Kevin Fitchard
MetroPCS today said it is rescinding its offer to merge with Leap Wireless to after failing to bring Leap to the negotiating table...
Sprint still bleeding customers, reduces WiMAX spend
By Kevin Fitchard
Sprint’s attempts to reposition itself in the wireless market and improve customer care hadn’t yet born any fruit in the third quarter, as the company shed another 60,000 subscribers, mainly from its Nextel iDEN network...
VON: Motorola fellow describes WiMAX future
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 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...
VON: New world of unified communications on display
By Sarah Reedy
BOSTON--FirstHand, Allworx and D2 Technologies were among several companies at the VON show in Boston this week touting new technologies that allow users to move between calling networks and reduce their contact numbers to just one...
