Reuters - Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) surpassed Motorola in third quarter to became the largest mobile phone vendor in the United States, research firm Strategy Analytics said on Friday. -- read full article
Fri, 07 Nov 2008 05:33:31 GMT - Yahoo! News: Wireless and Mobile Technology
Reuters - Microsoft Corp , capitalizing on Google Inc's regulatory snarl, is working to steal a deal with Verizon Wireless away from its rival, the Wall Street Journal said.
AFP - Mobile phone giant Vodafone said Thursday it had taken control of South African peer Vodacom after increasing its stake to 65 percent from 50 in a cash deal costing 1.4 billion pounds.
AP - Vodafone Group PLC, the world's biggest mobile phone provider by sales, announced Thursday it is planning to take majority control of South Africa's largest mobile phone company, Vodacom. -- read full article
Thu, 06 Nov 2008 13:31:39 GMT - Yahoo! News: Wireless and Mobile Technology
AP - Digital picture frames were a big item last Christmas. This holiday season, there will be an innovation on store shelves: a frame that can receive and display pictures straight from cell phones, (almost) no matter where they are.
AP - T-Mobile USA, the fourth-largest cellular carrier in country, said Thursday that most of the customers it added in the third quarter were on prepaid plans, a unique situation for a major U.S. carrier. -- read full article
Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:22:38 GMT - Yahoo! News: Wireless and Mobile Technology
AP - AT&T Inc. said Thursday it will buy Wayport Inc., a privately held company that operates more than 10,000 Wi-Fi hot spots in McDonald's restaurants and hotels, for $275 million in cash. -- read full article
Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:31:57 GMT - Yahoo! News: Wireless and Mobile Technology
Reuters - Subscriber growth for U.S. service providers could be about 30 percent weaker next year than in 2008 due to weakening consumer spending, according to a research report from UBS. -- read full article
Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:28:57 GMT - Yahoo! News: Wireless and Mobile Technology
AP - Digital picture frames were a big item last Christmas. This holiday season, there will be an innovation on store shelves: a frame that can receive and display pictures straight from cell phones, (almost) no matter where they are.
AFP - The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Tuesday unanimously approved opening up unused frequencies on the broadcast television spectrum for wireless use.
NewsFactor - The Federal Communications Commission voted unanimously Tuesday to allow long-range Wi-Fi service using white space, the unused portions of the electromagnetic spectrum between television signals. -- read full article
Wed, 05 Nov 2008 16:54:04 GMT - Yahoo! News: Wireless and Mobile Technology
AP - Federal regulators are giving Sprint Nextel Corp. the green light to spin off and merge its new WiMax wireless broadband network with that of Clearwire Corp. -- read full article
Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:32:36 GMT - Yahoo! News: Wireless and Mobile Technology
NewsFactor - RIM on Tuesday introduced the BlackBerry Bold smartphone through its carrier partner, AT&T. Analysts say the device is poised to become the mobile-phone maker's flagship corporate product. -- read full article
Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:53:25 GMT - Yahoo! News: Wireless and Mobile Technology
AP - Federal regulators are signing off on Verizon Wireless' planned $28 billion purchase of Alltel Corp. The deal will create the nation's largest wireless carrier. -- read full article
Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:09:20 GMT - Yahoo! News: Wireless and Mobile Technology
