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Motorola Inc. is revamping the Razr cell phone that has defined the company's seesaw fortunes, jamming more technological and user-friendly substance into a handset best known for its looks.
This is the story of Goldie the mobile malcontent and the three BlackBerries. The first BlackBerry, the 8800, though slender by most standards, was too big. The next BlackBerry, the Pearl, with its odd little keyboard, was too small. For these hard-to-please types, the company behind BlackBerry is hoping the Curve will be just right.
BlackBerry maker Research in Motion Ltd. is introducing its third new model in less than a year, a mid-sized device geared toward consumers who might prefer a full keyboard for typing text rather than the abridged one on the popular Pearl.
After two days of silence about a lengthy outage in its BlackBerry e-mail service, the company that makes the addictive mobile device issued a jargon-laden update indicating that a minor software upgrade had crashed the system.
Most of it happened outside "work" hours, but the nature of mobile e-mail meant plenty of dismay as BlackBerry service went down across North America from Tuesday evening to Wednesday morning.
Vonage, navigating its darkest hours in a grim first year as a public company, handed the reins back to founder Jeffrey A. Citron at least temporarily on Thursday as the Internet phone provider tried to shine a positive light on its plights in business and in court.
Philips Electronics is introducing a mobile phone with a built-in compartment for an ordinary AAA battery to power the device when the main battery runs low.
Even the FCC chairman appears to have iPhone fever.
AT&T Inc. has sued two rural telephone companies and a provider of group chat-line services, alleging it's being charged exorbitant fees for calls that are made to a small Iowa town.
Internet phone company Vonage Holdings Corp. narrowed its fourth-quarter loss to $65 million as revenue nearly doubled with the addition of nearly 1 million customers during 2006.
BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd. on Monday will unveil a new version of its top-end e-mail phone for business users, replacing the signature side navigation wheel with a front trackball that first appeared last year on the consumer-oriented BlackBerry Pearl.
The jockeying to bring the most popular names from TV and the Web to cell phones produced another exclusive deal Thursday with Verizon Wireless nabbing a multiyear agreement to offer ESPN's flashy feed of sports scores, newscasts and video highlights on the tiny screen.
Verizon Wireless is raising the text messaging rate for customers without a monthly texting plan to 15 cents per message sent or received, an increase of 5 cents.
Cell phone makers shipped more than 1 billion handsets for the first time in 2006, driven by a strong holiday season in which shipments rose nearly 20 percent to a record 295 million devices, the technology research firm IDC reported Thursday.
Cingular Wireless is raising the text messaging rate for customers without a monthly texting plan to 15 cents per message sent or received, an increase of 5 cents.
Vonage tanked after its IPO. It's not entirely clear anymore why eBay paid $2.6 billion for Skype. And the long-awaited rollout of advanced TV services based on Internet technologies has resembled the drip of a faucet.
Skype is introducing a $30 annual subscription to make unlimited calls with the Internet-based telephone service to any regular or mobile phone number within the United States and Canada.
No longer is the cellular phone selection limited to the RAZR, a $500 Treo and hundreds of look-alikes and act-alikes. Recent months have brought a wave of new devices that stand apart from the pack in terms of looks and next-generation features.
Embracing a technology that has unnerved media and telecommunications companies, a major European wireless provider will let customers watch their home cable TV on a cell phone if they also have a device called the Slingbox back at the house.
Narus Inc., a maker of network technology to monitor phone and Internet traffic, or even help block certain communications like a Skype call, said Monday it has raised $30 million in new capital to fund development of next-generation products and expand overseas sales.
AT&T Inc. is introducing a home monitoring service that includes live video surveillance on a computer or cell phone, as well as lighting controls and detection sensors for motion, temperature changes and flooding.
Verizon Wireless is deploying a version of the Web media technology known as "Flash" to boost the visual sparkle of graphics, animation and video delivered to its cell phones — and hopefully spur more customers to buy that content.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. plans to limit each customer to two prepaid cell phones per purchase amid complaints that entrepreneurs are buying the subsidized handsets by the hundreds to resell at a profit, according to people familiar with the matter.
It sounded like a can't-miss idea: An ESPN-branded cell phone that brims with scores and video highlights for sports fanatics.
Sprint Nextel Corp. will now charge 15 cents per message — a 5 cent increase — for using text messaging without a monthly package.
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