The former Motorola engineer Marty Cooper, in fact, made the first-ever wireless phone call in 1973.
In 1996 he went off on his own as a retailer of wireless phone products and services.
The apple of the option market's eye was Canadian wireless phone provider Research in Motion following surging earnings.
Lucent is also one of the world's largest builders of wireless phone systems, with nearly half the U.S. market.
Ignoring MetroPCS could mean letting the upstart seize the emerging area of wireless phone service minus those pesky contracts.
Reactions at India's wireless phone phenom ranged from deep dismay to mounting excitement.
No one is surfing this giant wave like Yasumitsu Shigeta, 34-year-old president of Hikari Tsushin, Japan's hottest wireless phone vendor.
But some people say the new devices create confusion because add-on services make their wireless phone bills bigger and more complex.
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Qualcomm ( QCOM) generates 70% to 80% of its profits from collecting royalties on each 3G or 4G wireless phone sold.
When not using a BlackBerry, people often pick up a wireless phone.
Apple will likely sell more than 10 million of the pricey gadgets this year, which combines a wireless phone, iPod and a mobile Web browser.
The shootout involves tim Hellas, formerly Greece's third-largest wireless phone company.
The company also scored its first wireless handset design win and continued to gain complimentary reviews on system performance and features from major wireless phone manufacturers.
UTStarcom (nasdaq: UTSI - news - people ) is a California company that's in the business of providing wireless phone service in China.
Back in 1994, the wireless phone market was a duopoly, with two firms including the local Bell company owning the only available spectrum in each market.
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The apple of the option market's eye was Canadian wireless phone provider Research in Motion (nasdaq: RIMM - news - people ) following surging earnings.
The Indian-American chief executive of Vodafone announced Tuesday that he was stepping down from the world's second-biggest wireless phone services company, after leading it for five eventful years.
This is a fact of life for every wireless phone.
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The other problem is the wireless phone industry, which has vigorously argued that it owns the wireless spectrum and should have final say in who gets to use it.
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The announced plan to shut down underperforming stores follows a late-2005 effort to jump start wireless phone sales by dumping Verizon Communications and signing with Sprint Nextel and Cingular .
In case you've missed it, wireless phone manufacturers are suddenly crazy about embedding small digital cameras into the bodies of their latest models to get consumers interested in buying phones again.
Next up, an ambitious effort to inaugurate a low-cost fixed wireless phone service in Mexico early next year (the technology is wireless, but the range of use will be about 2 kilometers).
Next up, an ambitious effort to inaugurate a low-cost fixed wireless phone service in Mexico early next year (the technology is wireless, but the range of use will be about 1 mile).
In 2000 only a single-digit percentage of kids had a wireless phone, but that changed by 2003, when some estimate one-third of U.S. kids aged 11 to 17 had one (see: " Wee Wireless Warriors").
And if you're into Bluetooth, the Address Book application can use the wireless technology to display the caller-ID information from a Bluetooth-ready wireless phone, provided you also have a Bluetooth device attached to your computer.
Cooper's plans for the company call for it to look a lot like Qualcomm (nasdaq: QCOM - news - people ), which licenses its CDMA wireless phone technology to phone and telecom gear manufacturers.
In this week's letter, his sapling of the week is wireless phone company Sprint PCS (nyse: PCS - news - people ), which is showing five consecutive quarters of positive and growing operating cash flow.
The Android platform, which is the operating system provided by Google ( GOOG), now accounts for more than 40% of all wireless phone sales in the United States, and Motorola is well positioned to continue to take advantage of this.
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That plan proved more costly than expected, and the jury is still out on whether the decision to partner with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to provide free AMBER alerts on missing children will drive wireless phone subscriptions.
Nokia (nyse: NOK - news - people ) has a wireless phone on the way called the N-Gage, which we noted here in February, that is being aimed at the same grownup gamer that Tapwave wants to reach.
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