AT&T to launch Cingular re-branding 

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 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 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...

Sprint loses more customers, 5000 employees 

By Dan O'Shea

After a week full of fourth-quarter financial warning from vendors, Sprint may have provided the culminating piece of negative news with a revised fourth-quarter outlook in which Sprint CEO Gary Forsee said the company lost 306,000 of its post-paid customers during the quarter...

Updated: Apple, Cingular tout iPhone 

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 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 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 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 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...

CES: Verizon launches Vcast TV, FiOS 2.0 

By Carol Wilson

In a major press event at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas and in a Webcast, Verizon today announced the first live TV broadcast service for mobile phones as well as the next generation of its FiOS TV service – promising to leave cable “in the dust” with its new video prowess....

Motorola joins chorus of 4Q warnings 

By Dan O'Shea

Earlier this week, many telecom stocks landed on the lists of what investment and mutual fund managers were eyeing has hot buys for 2007, but after Carrier Access, Redback Networks and now Motorola issued fourth-quarter financial warnings, they may want to check those lists twice...

GCI closes Alaska DigiTel investment 

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...

Sprint taps Nokia as third WiMAX vendor 

By Kevin Fitchard

Sprint today named Nokia as the third infrastructure vendor for its new ‘4G’ mobile broadband network rollout, selecting the WiMAX latecomer from a crowded vendor field all vying for a piece of Sprint’s lucrative multibillion-dollar deployment...

Redback cuts expected fourth-quarter revenue 18% 

By Ed Gubbins

Redback Networks cut its fourth-quarter revenue expectations by 18% late Thursday, citing lower than expected sales of its legacy gear and disruption caused by a proposed acquisition by Ericsson....

RIM Pearl using Kodiak PTT for Cingular launch 

By Kevin Fitchard

With a lock on push e-mail, Research in Motion is now looking into wireless’ other successful business application, push-to-talk, but the company is doing it with other vendors’ technologies...

Bluetooth gadget vendors sued over patents 

By Kevin Fitchard

A Washington state foundation has sued the three of the largest manufacturers of Bluetooth devices—Nokia, Samsung and Matsushita—claiming the long-commercial technology violates patents it holds in trust for the University of Washington...

Report: AT&T to sell ads over Cingular 

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...

Samsung releases first Google phone 

By Kevin Fitchard

Samsung today unveiled the Ultra Edition 13.8, an HSDPA slider handset that incorporates Google’s mobile search and Gmail applications...

Report: Vodafone makes India bid 

Vodafone has made a bid on Indian wireless operator Hutchison Essar that values the company at $17 billion to $18 billion, according to the Financial Times...

Short message mania snares new demographic 

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...

Vodafone targets India 

By Kevin Fitchard

Vodafone is bidding to take over Hutchison Essar in India, giving it access to one the largest, yet still relatively untapped, mobile markets in the world....

Adtran lowers 2006 expectations a third time 

By Ed Gubbins

Adtran lowered revenue expectations for the third time this year late Thursday. Adtran now expects to report fourth-quarter revenue between $108 million and $112 million, roughly 14% less than its previous expectation of $125 million to $130 million. ...

HP buys Bitfone 

By Kevin Fitchard

HP today said it has agreed to buy over-the-air update firm BitFone for an undisclosed sum, adding the small Orange County-based company’s handset software management solution to its growing mobile portfolio....

Damages doubled in Visto’s Seven case 

By Kevin Fitchard

A federal judge on Monday doubled the damages awarded to Visto in its patent suit against push e-mail competitor Seven and issued a permanent injunction against Seven to stop selling its infringing messaging software...

Ericsson, Redback CEOs exchange vows 

By Ed Gubbins

In a press conference this morning, Redback Networks Chief Executive Officer Kevin DeNuccio described the proposed acquisition of his company by Swedish wireless giant Ericsson as a marriage of the two most important technologies of future networks: Internet protocol and mobile networks...