Analysis: Wi-Fi aside, iPod Touch not built for communications
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 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 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 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 Ed Gubbins
Motorola prevailed today in a lawsuit filed by creditors of satellite provider Iridium...
MetroPCS makes bid for Leap
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 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....
Nokia launches music, games store
By Kevin Fitchard
Nokia is back in retail services, but this time it’s tackling much more than ringtones and wallpaper. ...
EarthLink scaling back, not leaving muni Wi-Fi
By Carol Wilson
EarthLink is not exiting the municipal Wi-Fi business, but it will no longer invest in building out Wi-Fi networks on its own, in hopes of signing up consumer customers, the company’s CEO, Rolla Huff, said today. ...
Nokia opens door to mobile Web services
By Rich Karpinski
Almost lost among the slew of devices Nokia launched this week was word of a new portal platform, dubbed Ovi, that the vendor will use to launch mobile Web services, including gaming, social networking and more....
Moto sues Aruba
By Kevin Fitchard
The wireless industry’s appetite for patent litigation has spread into the wireless local area network switch sector. ...
Yahoo! first Web mail service to add SMS
By Rich Karpinski
Yahoo! went live today with new Yahoo! Mail Web service, most notably adding free, real-time text messaging built right into the e-mail Web interface....
Sprint rewards Samsung with NYC WiMAX build
By Kevin Fitchard
Samsung revealed today that Sprint has awarded it the coveted New York City WiMAX contract — a market Sprint officials said it would give to the vendor with the best network performance....
Nokia, Samsung gain handset share from Motorola
By Kevin Fitchard
The second quarter saw a definite shift in handset sales as phone makers continued to gain ground at rival No. 2 manufacturer Motorola’s expense, according to research from Gartner...
Nokia teams with Microsoft for Live apps
By Kevin Fitchard
In a pairing of the world’s two biggest smartphone rivals, Nokia and Microsoft today said they are cooperating to build a suite of specially designed Windows Live services for Nokia phones...
Virgin launches social networking
By Kevin Fitchard
Virgin Mobile is launching an array of social networking portals, targeting specific communities and interest, over its mobile Internet service using technology from Intercasting...
VZW to revamp VCast music with MTV, Real
By Kevin Fitchard
Verizon Wireless, Viacom’s MTV and RealNetworks are partnering to create a digital music service that will span three major media: television, the Internet and the mobile network...
Rethinking WiMAX
By Kevin Fitchard
Sprint's partnership with Clearwire for WiMAX will create an expansive network, blanketing almost every populated area of the country if all goes according to plan. But in exchange for those economies of scale, its speed to market and the optimization of spectrum assets, Sprint is changing up its original business plan...
Muni Wi-Fi market hits turbulence
By Carol Wilson
Cities are advised to set more realistic expectations for wireless access...
Wi-Fi fills cracks
By Carol Wilson
The successful use of the Minneapolis Wi-Fi network to aid rescue workers following the collapse of the I-35 bridge is a textbook case of how this technology can aid public safety efforts, according to those involved...
The third way
By Kevin Fitchard
While carriers decide between multicast and unicast mobile TV networks, MBMS may present a way to bridge the two technologies' differences...
Nokia takes Qualcomm to ITC
By Kevin Fitchard
Nokia is taking a page from Broadcom’s book in its ongoing patent dispute with Qualcomm, taking its legal attacks outside of the federal courts and into the chambers of the U.S. International Trade Commission...
Sprint offers first glimpse of WiMAX
By Kevin Fitchard
VIENNA, Va.--Sprint took the wraps off its WiMAX networks today, giving the first live demos of its new mobile broadband technology and revealing a name for the planned service for the first time...
AOL launches mobile search
By Rich Karpinski
America Online this week launched a test version of a revamped AOL Mobile Search (or wap.aol.com on your phone), tapping Google for core search results with a variety of AOL sites playing key content roles...
