You would think that questions about linking to a website, or more specifically, what you’re allowed to say when linking, would have been put to rest. But that’s not true for Cingular or for Verizon Wireless, who think they have a right to control your hyperlink anchor text and where you link on their public sites.

Last week, the blogosphere erupted with screams of protest and condemnation following the revelation of death threats and personal attacks against blogger Kathy Sierra. In a show of support for Sierra, and in protest of the threats, popular blogger Robert Scoble vowed to not write any posts for a solid week.

NBC Universal and Cingular announced yesterday that legendary sketch comedy program Saturday Night Live will now be available on Cingular mobile handsets.

In a partnership that was announced earlier today, social networking site MySpace and wireless industry leader Cingular have collaborated to offer customers enhanced MySpace functionality.

Soon Cingular Wireless will introduce mobile phone banking to its customers. The features will include funds transfers, paying bills and other online banking transactions.
The mobile banking launch is expected to take place in early 2007.

YouTube announced its plans to branch out into the mobile marketplace at the OgivlyOne Digital Media Summit. But with no clear monetization strategy and pending copyright issues, the endeavor could be met with several snares and pitfalls along the way.

Reports this week of a deal between Apple Computer and Cingular, coupled with Apple’s new speech-recognition patent, have rekindled rumors of the company developing the much talked about iPhone. Would the advent of such a device herald a subsequent launch of wireless podcasting?

I got VERY close to plunking down $2,000 for one of those new MacBooks that Apple came out with.

For those of you who are buying the new Cingular 2125 phone (the one I have)…

Yesterday Dave Winer, Patrick, and I were at the Metreon and said “let’s go see a movie.”

Cingular Wireless announced the addition of mobile email and mobile instant messaging for the first time in the US market, allowing access to accounts from AOL, MSN, and Yahoo!.

An agreement with the biggest US wireless provider will see video streams to cellphones provided by RealNetworks.

An agreement between the two firms will see Cingular sell Motorola’s E790 iTunes phone.

A letter from the nation’s largest wireless provider to the FAA advises it to keep the ban in place.

A deal with Good Technologies will provide that service’s push e-mail alongside Cingular’s existing BlackBerry offering.

In an effort to grab some market share from Research In Motion’s BlackBerry service, Good Technologies Inc. has stopped producing mobile devices and has started making software for Cingular Wireless.

The Sony Vaio T350 includes built-in WWAN technology enabling high-speed Internet access via Cingular’s network.

Sony is the first on board for the impending wires-free world. The first mass-market, cellular teched out, wireless Internet ready laptop, Vaio T350 notebook comes in at a mere (cough) $2,199.

Once disdaining the high turnover prepaid market, Cingular turns 180 degrees and plans a big marketing push.

Cingular Wireless reported a loss of $240 million for the first quarter even though the company has experienced solid revenue and subscriber growth.

Cingular Wireless said today it has changed its accounting for operating leases — primarily on cell sites — to conform to generally accepted accounting principles.

Cingular Wireless experienced loss in the fourth-quarter due to expenses from buying AT&T Wireless.