Aug 31 2006 - 01:57 PM ET | Nokia
Nokia has made another content acquisition, this time it's Germany-based gate5. Earlier this month Nokia bought out Loudeye to help build a Nokia music store. Nokia is predicting rapid growth in the personal navigation vertical and hopes to jump on...
Aug 30 2006 - 03:40 PM ET | Data, MVNO
Mobile ESPN has announced live video of up to 25 college football games per month during the upcoming season. Starting next month the upstart mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) will have an exclusive on the top market college games. The...
Sony Ericsson may be working on its own music download service to compliment its Walkman line of phones. Company spokesman Aldo Liguri noted that Sony Ericsson is, "Developing the PlayNow service further. It is part of our bigger music strategy."...
Motorola has posted a software update for the Q, which is currently available in the US exclusively through Verizon Wireless. The update includes both security fixes and new features. Most welcome will be the addition of dial-up-networking (DUN) support through...
Aug 30 2006 - 01:12 PM ET | Unique
European discount airline Ryanair has announced it will offer an in-flight mobile network for its passengers. Upgrades to its 737 jets will start in mid-2007 and continue through 2008. The company plans to provide Mobile OnAir service in all of...
Aug 30 2006 - 12:07 PM ET | Backpage
Yahoo! has released a Windows Mobile version of its Go For Mobile application. The application first debuted for S60 smartphones at CES earlier this year. It offers a direct connection to many popular Yahoo web services: Mail Search (local, web...
Aug 29 2006 - 02:41 PM ET | T-Mobile
Over a year and a half after pleading guilty to stealing customer information from T-Mobile USA, Nicholas Lee Jacobsen has been sentenced to one year of house arrest. Jacobsen stole information on about 400 T-Mobile customers who used the popular...
Sprint Nextel has launched the country's first EV-DO Rev A mobile broadband card, the Novatel Wireless S720. While it conforms to the new speedy Rev A technology, don't expect faster speeds quite yet. Sprint doesn't expect to activate its Rev...
Not waiting to be scooped by rumor sites, T-Mobile has posted a coming soon message for the Samsung t719. The t719 was one of the most unique handsets shown off at CTIA thanks to its hybrid-QWERTY keyboard inside of a...
Aug 23 2006 - 04:13 PM ET | SMS
Mobile search provider 4INFO has added TV Guide data to its service. Accessible through both WAP and SMS, 4INFO covers several consumer search verticals such as sports scores, weather, flight tracking and more. USA Today's parent company, Gannett, invested in...
Aug 23 2006 - 04:05 PM ET | Backpage
Bidding in the Advanced Wireless Services auction has started to slow down, but the total has reached nearly $13 billion. Original estimates for the auction put the high estimate at $15 billion. Overall bidding has slowed, but there is still...
Verizon Wireless has launched the Nokia 6215i. Despite the Nokia branding, the 6215i is actually made by Pantech and originally went by the moniker PN-315. Nokia's CDMA strategy has been up in the air after Nokia called off a proposed...
Verizon Wireless has launched the Samsung A870, an mid-level clamshell. Disappointingly, the handset doesn't feature EV-DO which puts it on the low-end side of Verizon's mid-tier. Features of the Samsung A870 include: Bluetooth (including DUN support, but not OBEX) Speakerphone...
NTP's successful patent infringement lawsuit against Research In Motion (maker of BlackBerry) was given a lot of attention. Not much has been heard since the $612 million settlement was made, but the Wall Street Journal is reporting that the largest...
Aug 23 2006 - 01:44 PM ET | Samsung
Samung has upped the ante with the launch of its SCH-B570 which was announced earlier this year. The phone comes with a built-in 8GB hard drive, making it one of the highest capacity music phone on the market. In comparison,...
Cingular has launched its second HSDPA capable handset, the Samsung ZX20. We first saw this handset at CES. Cingular began shipping its first HSDPA handset, LG's CU500, back in July. The ZX20 is an an update to the ZX10, adding...
