Motricity Rolls Out Ad-Supported Smartphone App For Carriers
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Motricity is hard at work churning out smartphone offerings that their carrier customers may potentially like to adopt. The latest announced… Read more »
Samsung’s Response To iTunes Is Coming Soon
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Samsung is getting ready to combine both state-of-the-art mobile phone design with an entire content strategy in recognition that in order t… Read more »
Clearwire Doesn’t Need Sprint’s Permission To Partner With Arch Enemy
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Sprint’s board of directors is reportedly debating whether to let rival U.S. carrier T-Mobile USA invest in Clearwire (NSDQ: CLWR), accordin… Read more »
Hedge Fund Manager Falcone’s Big Bet On Wireless Broadband
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Investors in the Harbinger’s hedge fund are increasingly uncomfortable with Philip Facone’s obsession with building a high-speed wireless br… Read more »
BlackBerry Takes Larger Cut Of Developer Revenues In Updated App World
Research In Motion is quickly working to improve the app-shopping experience on BlackBerry devices, but in updates being sent out to consume… Read more »
RIM’s Stock Falls On Downgrades And Weak Sales Of iPhone Challenger
Fears are mounting that the Torch, RIM’s latest BlackBerry, may not hold a candle to the iPhone. The realization has led an analyst to downg… Read more »
A Look At How Fiercely Competitive The Wireless Industry Has Become
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Over the history of the wireless industry in the U.S., the question has repeatedly been, “How many national carriers can there be?” At one p… Read more »
AT&T Lets U-Verse Customers Download TV Episodes To The iPhone
One of the visions of tomorrow’s connected world is that people will be able to call up the TV show they missed from the night before and wa… Read more »
Reviews Are In For BlackBerry Torch: RIM Is Hardly Dead Or Dying
The critics are quick to call the death of the BlackBerry, but many reviewers are saying that the BlackBerry Torch — running the latest sof… Read more »
RIM’s Fire Still Burning With BlackBerry Torch, Or Is It?
In advance of an Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) event, anyone with a website takes the time to pontificate about the smallest of details — the camera,… Read more »
Three U.S. Carriers Team Up On Developing Credit Card Competitor
There’s no shortage of hype in the mobile payments space, where everyone from online leaders like PayPal to a host of well-funded startups,… Read more »
DoCoMo Acquires Remaining Share Of PacketVideo For $111.6 Million
Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo (NYSE: DCM) has agreed to pay $111.6 million for the remaining 65 percent interest in PacketVideo that it did no… Read more »
It Doesn’t Take An iPhone To Consume A Lot Of Data, Study Finds
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AT&T (NYSE: T) typically gets all the attention for having the most data running over its network because of its iPhone exclusivity. However… Read more »
AT&T Says 73 Percent Of iPhone Purchases Were Upgrades
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AT&T has set another record: It sold 3.2 million iPhones during the quarter, but the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) exclusivity that it has enjoyed for… Read more »
Apple Promises iPhone 4 Reception Fix; Well, Not Really
Folks who’ve been griping about signal problems with the iPhone 4 might be thrilled to know Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is planning a software fix in… Read more »
Apple Not Too Sorry It Sold 1.7 Million iPhones, But Apologizes For Delays
Apple’s iPhone 4, which went on pre-order June 15 worldwide, represents “the most successful product launch in Apple Read more »
Analysts Raise iPhone 4 Sales Estimates
Analysts have raised their estimates for iPhone 4 sales, following the unprecedented demand for the device on its first day of pre-orders. O… Read more »
Apple, AT&T, Other Partners Swamped By 600,000-Plus iPhone 4 Pre-Orders
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Demand For iPhone 4 Knocks Out Apple And AT&T Sites
It looks like the incident over the lost iPhone 4 prototype hasn Read more »
Sprint Says It Won’t Limit Data Use By Smartphone Customers
AT&T (NYSE: T) and T-Mobile USA have both promised to limit the Read more »
AT&T Shoots Messenger; Blames Goatse For Exposing Security Breach
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Goatse Security, the group that hacked into AT&T’s iPad subscriber data, may have thought it was doing a “public service” by revealing a sec… Read more »
The Top Five Reasons Why iPhone Has Become Apple’s Most Prized Business
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) normally talks about a range of products during its annual Worldwide Developer Conference in San Francisco, but not this… Read more »
Is The End Of All-You-Can Eat Data Plans Coming?
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AT&T’s change in data plan prices today may mark the beginning of the end for unlimited data plans.
Quite literally, the U.S. might be at… Read more »
AT&T Drops Unlimited Data Plans; Preps For iPhone Tethering
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AT&T (NYSE: T) is getting out of the unlimited data business for smartphones, pitching it as a way for most users to save money. They are re… Read more »
AT&T Raises Fee To $325 For Those Who Break Contracts
AT&T (NYSE: T) is almost doubling the amount of money it is charging consumers who leave before their contract officially expires.
The WSJ… Read more »
AT&T’s iPhone Exclusive Ends In 2012 — Or Maybe Not
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Engadget has discovered that AT&T’s initial contract with Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) indeed gave the carrier exclusive dibs on the iPhone for five y… Read more »
AT&T Renames Video Portal ‘U-verse Online’ Ahead of TV Everywhere Launch
AT&T (NYSE: T) rechristened its eight-month-old video entertainment site as “U-verse Online,” setting the stage for the telco’s plans to off… Read more »
AT&T Beats Estimates, But Revenues Remained Flat
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A day after Apple’s earnings were catapulted by iPhone sales, the device did pretty much the same for carrier AT&T (NYSE: T). The telco’s ad… Read more »
AT&T Ends Marketing Spat With Verizon; No More Luke Wilson Ads
AT&T (NYSE: T) is walking away from an advertising battle with Verizon Wireless that ignited last year when Verizon created the clever tagli… Read more »
AT&T To iPhone Users: Our Network Is Good Now, Please Don’t Sign Up With Verizon
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This time the rumors that the iPhone will be sold by Verizon Wireless sometime around the end of the year must be true.
On Monday, anonymo… Read more »
Verizon Wireless’ Wait May Be Over; New iPhones Coming This Summer
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Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is developing two new iPhones that will debut this year, and one of them is reportedly slated for the Verizon Wireless ne… Read more »
CTIA 2010: Review In Photos
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At the annual CTIA event in Las Vegas last week, more than 40,000 people turned out to listen to the keynotes, walk the show floor and see s… Read more »
AT&T Solves 3G Coverage Gaps One House At A Time
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Frustrated iPhone users, who can’t access the AT&T (NYSE: T) network reliably from home, look no further: AT&T has announced a “microcell,”… Read more »
@ CTIA: U.S. Leads In Mobile Broadband Subscribers And Investments
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The theme at CTIA in Las Vegas is mobile broadband and the shift to 4G. In this morning’s keynote, AT&T’s CEO Ralph de la Vega said that the… Read more »
Motricity Plays Catch-Up: Rolls Out App Stores For Carriers
At CTIA last year, Motricity’s Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer Jim Ryan grabbed headlines when he said, “Shame on us…My hope is that… Read more »
Quick Hits: CTIA Edition 3.22.2010
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CTIA Energizes This Year’s Show With Focus On Developers
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Wireless carriers typically take center stage at CTIA, but this week in Las Vegas expect it to be a bit more balanced: Event organizers are… Read more »
Wireless Carriers Bicker Over Size Of Spectrum Holdings
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Clearwire (NSDQ: CLWR) frequently brags about how much spectrum it has at its disposal, and how easy it will be to deliver a ton of video an… Read more »
FCC May Open Public-Safety Spectrum Block For Commercial Purposes
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The FCC is working on a plan that would sell a chunk of spectrum in the first half of 2011 that failed to be sold in 2008 because of the str… Read more »
Google’s Trademark Application for ‘Nexus One’ Is Denied; Launches On Sprint Next
Just as Google (NSDQ: GOOG) starts being more aggressive at rolling out the Nexus One to more carriers, it was socked in the gut with this b… Read more »
