December 1, 2004 articles

Cingular raises outlook, touts merger

Dec 01 2004 - 03:43 PM ET | Cingular, Verizon Wireless
Cingular Wireless today increased its earnings outlook because of its buyout of AT&T Wireless. The company now expects positive cash flow in 2005, a full year ahead of schedule. Lately the company has been full of announcements, just yesterday the...

Siemens S66 shipping from Cingular

Dec 01 2004 - 03:11 PM ET | Cingular, Siemens
As expected, Cingular has started to ship the Siemens S66. As of today Cingular is listing it for $249.99 with a 2-year contract. Features of the Siemens S66 include: * VGA camera with 5x zoom and video capture * Bluetooth/IR...

Phone sales up, market share close

Dec 01 2004 - 02:33 PM ET | In The News
A report from research group Gartner shows global handset sales up 26% for Q3 2004. Total sales reached 167 million mobile phones. However, the big news is a change in market share: Samsung edged out Motorola. Despite hot phones like...

ESPN Mobile MVNO planned

Dec 01 2004 - 02:12 PM ET | MVNO
ESPN will team up with Sprint PCS to start a mobile virtual network operator called ESPN Mobile. Disney was widely expected to move in the MNVO space, so the announcemnet today comes at no surprise (Disney owns ESPN). As with...

BlackBerry 7520 now shipping from Nextel

Dec 01 2004 - 12:35 PM ET | Nextel
Nextel today began shipping its second BlackBerry device, the BlackBerry 7520. Nextel has been shipping the BlackBerry 7510 for 11 months. Features of the BlackBerry 7520: * Bluetooth (this is the first Bluetooth device from Nextel) * GPS * 65,000...