Research In Motion and suitor NTP will appear [paid subscription req] in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia February 24th to decide a shutdown of US sales and service of BlackBerry. A shutdown has been possible for quite some time, but a decision could finally be reached on or shortly after this […]

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T-Mobile USA announced its fourth quarter 2005 customer results today. The company experienced record growth and lowered churn to make for a total of 21.7 million customers. That still puts them well behind the top three carriers (Cingular, Verizon Wireless and Sprint Nextel) who each have more than 40 million customers.
Important figures from the […]

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Cingular announced its fourth quarter earnings results this morning. This is the final release that will show confusing numbers thanks to the AT&T Wireless merger, it happened in October 2004 which affects the year ago numbers.
Important figures in the release:

Cingular had 54.1 million total subscribers at the end of the year
Average revenue per user […]

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Opera Software today released its mass market mobile browser, Opera Mini. Until now the software was only available in Norway and other select European countries. Unlike Opera Mobile, Opera Mini is designed to be used on the vast majority of phones that ship in the US–any modern phone with Java. In the US that means […]

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Several of Vodafone’s ten largest shareholders are demanding the company sells its 45% stake in Verizon Wireless and use the cash to improve the balance sheet. The Times Online reports that investors are frustrated that Verizon Wireless is independent of Vodafone’s management, doesn’t pay dividends and uses a different network technology (CDMA instead of GSM). […]

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A group of industry leaders today announced an alliance to promote Digital Video Broadcasting - Handheld. The DVB-H standard is a method of getting live TV content on mobile phones. The Mobile DTV Alliance is made up of: Intel, Motorola, Nokia, Modeo and Texas Instruments.
Using mobile devices capable of decoding DVB-H signals, users will […]

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The US Supreme Court officially refused to hear Research In Motion’s patent infringement case with NTP. While RIM has won every part of the case with the patent office (the USPTO has denied every claim by NTP after preliminary review of the patents), the company has had little luck in the court room.
There is […]

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T-Mobile USA has filed suit against Locatecell.com, accusing the company of illegaly selling private cell phone calling records. The business practice was covered extensively in main stream media earlier this month and has spawned both federal legislation propositions and civil legal action.
“To further safeguard the privacy of our customers, T-Mobile is taking action […]

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Symantec has issued an alert over three new trojan horse applications for Symbian powered phones. These will affect Nokia’s S60 line of smartphones. The trojans are being called: SymbOS.Bootton.E, SymbOS.Pbstealer.D and SymbOS.Sendtool.A. To be affected you will have to install an application, so use general precautions before installing software on your phone (e.g. know who […]

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According to a report in Red Herring, Verizon Wireless plans to launch a child tracking service this May. The service will debut on the LG Migo, a kid-friendly phone that the carrier launched late last year. Privacy concerns have stalled the launch of a GPS based tracking service so far, but Verizon Wireless has apparently […]

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