Monthly Archives: October, 2006

Basic messaging apps remain mobile data driver

NEW YORK—Mobile music and video may be sexier applications, but carriers looking to cash in on wireless data should focus on messaging applications, according...

Actuate, Webalo to offer mobile spreadsheets

SAN FRANCISCO—Actuate Corp. has teamed with software developer Webalo to launch an Internet-based service that delivers integrated, managed spreadsheets to mobile devices. The service...

Sony Ericsson surges past LG, Samsung retains No. 3 slot

SEOUL, South Korea—As promised, the world’s two tier-one Korean handset vendors rebounded from their second-quarter doldrums. Based on handset shipment volumes—and despite a strong...

Nokia goes direct to consumers with Cartoon Network content

LONDON—Nokia Corp. is teaming with Turner Broadcasting to offer content from the Cartoon Network directly to wireless users. Subscribers will be able to browse...

Motorola names Casey Keller as new marketing chief

By Alice Z. Cuneo and Jack NeffSAN FRANCISCO—Motorola Inc. today named veteran package goods marketer Kenneth "Casey" Keller as chief marketing officer, succeeding the...

MVNO TuYo expands into SoCal

NEWARK, N.J.—Prepaid wireless service provider TuYo Mobile, which focuses on Hispanic and bi-lingual customers, launched service in Los Angeles and Orange County, Calif. TuYo...

PacketVideo expands in Europe with TwonkyVision purchase

SAN DIEGO—PacketVideo Corp. hopes to increase its European presence with the acquisition of Berlin-based software developer TwonkyVision GmbH. Terms of the deal were not...

ITC judge rules against Qualcomm but stops short of taking action

SAN DIEGO-An administrative law judge with the International Trade Commission handed down a split decision in the acrimonious patent dispute between chipmakers Qualcomm Inc....

Hedgehogging

It was a fairly quiet week in the wireless world, but we still managed to share a few observations and kvetches-or as we like...

InfoSpace cuts 250 workers following loss of Cingular’s business

BELLEVUE, Wash.-InfoSpace Inc. said it plans to lay off about 250 employees as part of a restructuring plan. The move follows news late last...

Analyst Angle: Trading Freedom for Security

Editor's Note: Welcome to a new weekly feature at RCRNews.com, Analyst Angle. We’ve collected a group of the industry’s leading analysts to give their...

Asia-Pac mobile music market to explode in 2007, 2008

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.—The mobile music market in Asia/Pacific will top the $9 billion mark by 2010, according to new figures from In-Stat. The market for...

Not how much, but how

Every time someone tries to fix interoperability problems for first responders, it seems the first response is to throw more spectrum at the problem.So...

U.S. Cellular nets $100M from sale of Midwest Wireless

CHICAGO-U.S. Cellular Corp. said it received $95.1 million from the sale of its stake in regional operator Midwest Wireless Holdings L.L.C. to Alltel Corp....

Sprint Nextel ups text messages to 15 cents

OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-Sprint Nextel Corp. raised the price it charges users to send a text message to 15 cents, up from a previous price...

Nokia to outsource handset logistics, repair

Nokia Corp. will shutter a Fort Worth, Texas-based facility next spring that provides handset logistical and repair services for the American market and will...

Sprint Nextel knows what’s good for it, to offer Mr. T content

NEW YORK-In a move showing the true maturation of wireless services, Sprint Nextel Corp. will begin offering access to content based on TV Land's...

Amp’d to sell Razr

LOS ANGELES—Just in time for holiday sales, Amp’d Mobile has added a Motorola Inc. Razr to its handset lineup and designed a $100 promotional...

FCC to put AT&T-BellSouth merger out for public comment

WASHINGTON—AT&T Inc. offered to conduct a series of wireless broadband trials as part of a package of concessions aimed at winning Federal Communications Commission...

Vendors eye ‘belle of the ball’ Sprint Nextel at WiMAX World

BOSTON-There is nothing like a few billion dollars up for grabs to get a trade show buzzing as was the case for this year's...

Firm wins patent for cell-phone alert

LOS ANGELES—Cellular Jewelry Inc. said it won a U.S. patent for its line of products that alert users when a cellular signal is received...

Sprint Nextel to offer new made-for-mobile content

NEW YORK—FremantleMedia has teamed with Mobliss to power a new, made-for-mobile video offering from Sprint Nextel Corp. The companies launched Atomic Wedgie, an offering...

Samsung handset shipments up

NEW YORK—Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. increased its shipment volume in the third quarter to 30.7 million, a 17-percent increase from the previous, disappointing quarter,...

BenQ closing down in South America

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—On the heels of closing its German-based handset business, BenQ has also decided to shutter operations in Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay, according to...

Supreme Court declines to hear Minnesota consumer protection law

WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court today declined to review a federal appeals court ruling that voided a Minnesota wireless consumer protection law. Minnesota Attorney General Mike...
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