Yearly Archives: 2006

Cingular debuts made-for-mobile music concerts

LOS ANGELES-Cingular Wireless L.L.C. announced a new offering that brings music concerts to wireless devices via the company's Cingular Video on-demand streaming video service....

Vendors unite for common gaming platform

DALLAS-More than a dozen major developers, publishers, handset manufacturers and technology companies are working to streamline the process for developing and delivering mobile games....

Weekly infrastructure awards wrap-up

Welcome to a new weekly feature at RCR Wireless News! Every week we will collect all the important equipment agreements across the cellular, Wi-Fi...

Weekly wireless ratings wrap-up

The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.CarriersPrudential Equity Group lowered its...

MobiTV to offer dedicated Olympics channel

EMERYVILLE, Ca.-MobiTV Inc. and NBC Olympics will offer daily highlights of the XX Olympic Winter Games from Feb. 10 through Feb. 26 on a...

NeoMedia sets plan for $10 million Mobot acquisition

FORT MYERS, Fla.-NeoMedia Technologies Inc. solidified plans to buy Mobot Inc. in a $10 million cash-and-stock transaction expected to close this month. The companies...

Wireless enterprise to hit $22 billion this year, study predicts

BOSTON-The wireless enterprise market is expected to move to the mainstream this year, according to a new report from Strategy Analytics. The market is...

WFI announces $40 million contract extension

SAN DIEGO-Wireless Facilities Inc. announced that its contract for engineering services with a national wireless carrier has been extended for two more years. The...

DoCoMo puts $42.5 million toward TV shows for cell phones

TOKYO-Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo Inc. announced a deal with Nippon Television Network Corp. to develop TV shows and other content for both mobile and...

Palm raises $70 million in land sale

SAN JOSE, Calif.-Palm Inc. announced it expects to raise $70 million by selling 36 acres of land the company owns in San Jose, Calif....

Burns bill would kill wireless USF support

WASHINGTON-Sen. Conrad Burns (R-Mont.), often an advocate for rural America and former chairman of the Senate communications subcommittee, celebrated the tenth anniversary of the...

Newport Media adds $25M to billfold

LAKE FOREST, Calif.-Mobile TV chipmaker Newport Media Inc. said it added $25 million to its funding coffers during a second round of fundraising. The...

Bush signs DTV bill

WASHINGTON-President George W. Bush signed into law budget deficit legislation requiring TV broadcasters to surrender analog spectrum by Feb. 18, 2009, paving the way...

Telecom execs asked to explain cooperation in wiretaps

WASHINGTON-Two powerful Senate Democrats asked executives of three telecom giants with major mobile phone units to turn over information on their alleged participation in...

Toys ‘R’ Us to sell mobile phones to kids

CHICAGO-Firefly Mobile Inc. said its kid-oriented mobile phones are now available at Toys 'R' Us and Justice stores. Justice is a retailer focused on...

Valimo acquires UniqMinds

HELSINKI, Finland-Valimo Wireless announced it acquired UniqMinds, a mobile messaging company. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Valimo sells subscriber identity and authentication...

EPIC says wireless carriers shouldn’t collect data they can’t protect

WASHINGTON-The Electronic Privacy Information Center upped the ante against the wireless industry, saying that if mobile-phone carriers can't protect customer call records, the carriers...

Mobile-specific domain backer releases best practices guidelines

DUBLIN, Ireland-The company behind a mobile-specific Internet domain released guidelines for publishers looking to build wireless Web sites. Top Level Domain Ltd. (mTLD) unveiled...

As expected, 5 GHz Wi-Fi pact becomes official

WASHINGTON-The Bush administration today confirmed an agreement among military, high-tech and wireless firms on criteria for certifying new 5 GHz Wi-Fi devices capable of...

RIM touts NTP workaround, but technology could cause disruptions

WATERLOO, Ontario-Research In Motion Ltd. may have found some leverage in its fight against NTP Inc., unveiling a software "workaround" it says would prevent...

Sprint Nextel to offer scanners at NASCAR events

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.-Sprint Nextel Corp. is continuing the former Nextel Communications Corp.'s support of NASCAR, as it introduces a new hand-held scanner that is...

New MVNO targeting tween market secures $27M in funding

BETHESDA, Md.-Jumping into the tween mobile market, new mobile virtual network operator Kajeet rounded up $27 million in venture capital funding, according to the...

Lucent acquires Riverstone, partners with IBM for IMS

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Lucent Technologies Inc. said it agreed to purchase Ethernet developer Riverstone Networks' assets for $170 million in cash.Most of Riverstone's employees are...

Motorola intros Razr slider, but not for U.S. users

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc. introduced a super-slim sliding-style phone in South Korea, dubbed the Z, which is the latest wafer-thin handset from the maker...

MobiTV, IPWireless partner on TDtv offering

EMERYVILLE, Calif.-MobiTV Inc. and IPWireless Inc. announced they plan to jointly develop mobile TV delivery solutions for mobile operators, combining unicast technologies with TDtv...
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