Monthly Archives: January, 2007

Career builder

While nothing new for the inside-the-Beltway crowd, it may be noteworthy to the great consuming masses just how incestuously intertwined telecom policy-making and lobbying...

MOBILE AD HYPE: BELIEVE IT OR NOT: Inventory not sold out, but progress trends upward

Like an Angelina Jolie adoptee, mobile advertising has come under a glaring spotlight in its early days. Sprint Nextel Corp. attracted attention last fall...

Teardown analysis: peeling the onion for fun, profit

Competitive intelligence in the handset business is, in a sense, an open secret. Everyone is engaged in it to some degree, yet it is...

Game porting help goes virtual

Content providers and application developers often cite fragmentation as their most difficult and costly challenge. But like a handful of other startups, Mobile Complete...

Watchdog group doubts gov’t numbers on broadband users

As Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin pushes for a wireless alternative to the telephone-cable TV broadband duopoly, and the Bush administration predicts it...

High-tech interests against increased spectrum for public safety

Mobile-phone and high-tech sectors urged the new Democratic-led Congress to oppose any effort to dilute the pool of auction-bound 700 MHz spectrum, a major...

Pricing changes slow following smartphone buzz

A week after Verizon Wireless tried to under cut the iPhone buzz at Cingular by slashing prices on a handful of smartphones, Cingular bounced...

NextG tries to get jump on AWS rollout

It's only been a few months since the close of the Federal Communications Commission's advanced wireless services auction, and carriers aren't expected to begin...

Hedgehogging

Hedge*hog*ing v. Interrupting conversations in an office environment by poking your head over the top of the cube.Further proof that technology is surpassing people's...

Pair of health studies show mixed results

Two newly publicized health studies on cellphone and base-station radiation have produced mixed results, likely keeping alive the long-running scientific debate over whether handsets...

CHALLIS: PAY ATTENTION TO HISTORY

Prof. Lawrie Challis laid out for RCR Wireless News the path forward for the next phase of scientific investigation by the independent Mobile Telecommunications...

TI sees slower growth, Qualcomm bullish on 3G

Texas Instruments Inc. last week reported modest gains in the fourth quarter-revenue up 4 percent, profit up 2 percent from the year-ago quarter-but said...

Weather forecast calls for 4,800 mobile clips a day

When wireless first came into the picture at The Weather Channel in 1999, it was little more than a couple people working in a...

Weekly infrastructure awards wrap-up

The following list details this week's infrastructure awards for the cellular, Wi-Fi and WiMAX industries. The contracts are broken down by transmission technology, country...

Frost & Sullivan gets behind DVB-H

The DVB-H market is set to explode from $60 million in revenues last year to more than $2 billion in 2010, according to new...

Raymond James smiles on troubled Sprint Nextel

While Sprint Nextel Corp. has faced downgrades in recent weeks from various investment companies, the carrier still is feeling the love from investment-banking firm...

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.CarrierMorgan Stanley raised its industry...

Palm adds Direct Push to e-mail technology

Palm Inc. finally made good on its vow to offer push e-mail service similar to Research In Motion Ltd.'s BlackBerry service.The company announced an...

Openwave promises to rein in losses

Openwave Systems Inc., which makes Internet browsers for cellphones as well as software for carriers, reported a 20-percent drop in revenue during its most...

Sprint Nextel turns to Azcar for spectrum-relocation help

Sprint Nextel Corp. tapped Toronto-based Azcar Technologies Inc. to help it implement its government-mandated spectrum relocation plan. Azcar will provide specialized training services to...

3G Razr hits Cingular’s virtual shelves

The Motorola Inc. Razr v3xx-equipped to run on Cingular Wireless' next-gen network-is "finally here," Cingular's Web site announced breathlessly to the hordes who apparently...

Access replaces Palm OS brand with ‘Garnet’ tag

PalmSource Inc. is getting another makeover. Access Co. Ltd., which owns the operating system vendor, is now in the beginning stages of renaming all...

IPCS begins search for COO replacement

Sprint Nextel Corp. CDMA affiliate iPCS Inc. said its chief operating officer, Alan G. Morse, has left the company by "mutual agreement."Tim Yager, the...

Linux forces merge and accelerate

The promise of an open-source platform for mobile phones-and, undoubtedly, competitive pressures-has led a group of competitors and allies to formally found the LiMo...

New bill aims to speed $1 billion toward public-safety communications

The Senate Commerce Committee has decided President Bush's top telecom policy adviser could use some help with his agency's $1 billion public-safety communications interoperability...
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