Monthly Archives: February, 2007

Voce expands handset lineup with Treo, Moto, Nokia

High-end mobile virtual network operator Voce expanded its handset lineup with the inclusion of Palm Inc.'s Treo smartphone, a move that raises the question...

Leap overhauls Cricket Web site

Leap Wireless International Inc. has a new, flashier Web site for its Cricket unlimited wireless service. "We are always looking for ways to make...

Monday, Feb. 5, 2007

Partnership marks Vignette’s foray into cross-platform content

Vignette is partnering with a couple of well-known mobile partners on a framework designed to manage and deliver content to both PCs and mobile...

Analyst Angle: Get the message?

Editor's Note: Welcome to our Monday feature, Analyst Angle. We've collected a group of the industry's leading analysts to give their outlook on the...

Wireless retailing like marriage: Some years are good, some aren’t

Regional wireless retailer Wireless Zone has announced an ambitious plan to expand its 275 locations to a total of 400, in 400 business days....

Texas threatens Sprint Nextel over tax reimbursement

Texas Comptroller Susan Combs warned Sprint Nextel Corp. it could be audited and sued if it continues to collect fees from subscribers to cover...

Verizon Wireless rules retail

Verizon Wireless SAID it captured 2.3 million net new customers in the fourth quarter, numbers that show it continues to dominate other national carriers...

Wireless broadband: information service?

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin is pushing a plan to treat wireless broadband service as an information service, a classification that would enable...

Sony Ericsson in India: small step or giant leap?: Local manufacturing will depend on two EMS partners

FOR THOSE WHO WATCH Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications L.P., sifting for signs that the Japanese-Swedish partnership will accelerate efforts to gain market share, last...

Off-deck revenue chain broken

It was an intimate gathering of sorts last week as dozens gathered at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, Calif., for the Off-Deck Mobile...

More Web traffic, more on-deck friction: Carriers could force smaller content providers to work with ‘official’ marketing firms

Like real estate, mobile advertising is all about location. And carriers are scrambling to cash in on the most desirable territory in wireless data:...

Corrections

c In the Cingular branding story on page 1 of the Jan. 29 issue of RCR Wireless News, the value of Cingular's brand name...

Analyst has high praise for Modeo

Glowing praise for Modeo L.L.C.'s recently launched mobile broadcast television beta trial service in New York City is already rolling in."WOW!" is how Ric...

Hiwire, MediaFLO: head to head in Vegas

While Qualcomm Inc.'s MediaFLO and Crown Castle International Corp.'s Modeo L.L.C. service have been taking up most of the ink on mobile broadcast TV,...

Is there a doctor in the house?

Senate Commerce Committee members last week lamented-one after the other-the many policy ills confronted by the Federal Communications Commission. The universal service regime is...

FBI wants first notice when phone records stolen

WASHINGTON-Privacy groups oppose Bush administration efforts to require wireless carriers and others to delay notifying customers when phone records and other personal data are...

McCain throws support behind Cyren Call spectrum proposal

Cyren Call Communications Corp. and the nation's first responders found a big-time lawmaker to champion legislation that would redirect 30 megahertz of auction-bound spectrum...

NTIA, NHTSA draw ire of lawmakers for not dispensing grants

Senate lawmakers blasted Bush administration policy-makers over the implementation of a $43.5 million matching grant program to upgrade emergency dispatch centers so they can...

Paid to play: Ad-based gaming gaining ground

The world of mobile gaming encompasses roughly a half-dozen genres, from first-person shooters to pick-up-and-play casual titles. And now, finally, the wise money management...

Hedgehogging

Hedge*hog*ing v. Interrupting conversations in an office environment by poking your head over the top of the cube.--If you are one of the 12...

Upstart targets backseat riders with mobile hot spots

For the young social networking addicts of the world, one of the last vestiges of computer-deficient spaces-the moving vehicle-may soon be MySpace-enabled through Wi-Fi....

Squeezing 3G into that 2G dress: Handset’s waistline and costs need to mimic previous generation

Motorola Inc.'s recent, sobering earnings report came with a number of explanations of how the American vendor would turn things around. Motorola executives mentioned,...

Fikl Pikl

As a testament to the fickleness of the wireless industry, Motorola Inc., once the bell of the handset ball, has fallen on hard...
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