June 2007

The following list includes venture capital and other investments into wireless companies announced this week. –4Info: Gannett Co. Inc. led a $10 million series D funding round into 4Info, a …

T-Mobile USA Inc. expanded its fixed-mobile converged service from its test market in Seattle to the national stage, leveraging its hotspot network as well as in-home routers to enhance its …

Less than a year after rejecting the company, infrastructure vendor Andrew Corp. announced a deal to be acquired by former suitor CommScope Inc. in a $2.6 billion transaction-substantially more than …

The European Commission in a draft statement yesterday apparently favored the DVB-H standard for mobile television in its member countries, according to media reports today. The draft document reportedly said …

Madrid, Spain-based “social router” company FON announced it has given away 7,000 routers in its Fonbucks campaign designed to encourage people living next to a Starbucks Coffee Co. location to …

Sprint Nextel Corp. unveiled, though didn’t launch, a new, music-friendly handset that includes support for larger memory cards as well as an FM transmitter that allows users to listen to …

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 and vendor. The value of the …

Leap Wireless International Inc. rolled out service in the Research Triangle area of North Carolina, expanding its coverage to about 1.3 million potential customers in the region.Cities in the area …

Mobile television and video subscription revenues grew 198% year-over-year to $146 million in the first quarter of 2007, according to the latest data from Telephia Inc. Approximately 8.4 million wireless …

WPCS International Inc. said it will spend $800,000 in cash and stock to acquire Houston’s Max Engineering.Max Engineering, which was founded in 2000, provides engineering services for infrastructure in the …

AT&T Mobility unveiled price plans exclusively for the much-hyped Apple Inc. iPhone, which will be unleashed on the world later this week. (Perhaps showing who wears the pants in this …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to Yay or Nay, a feature for RCR Wireless News’ new weekly e-mail service, Mobile Content and Culture. Every week we’ll review a new wireless application or …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to On the Margins, a feature for RCR Wireless News’ new weekly e-mail service, Mobile Content and Culture. Every week, the RCR Wireless News staff considers events …

I spent much of the past week on my phone, browsing mobile content storefronts, accessing local business listings and checking out the latest baseball scores. Surprisingly, though, my thumbs are …

Google Inc.’s search supremacy online continues to be handsomely carried over to mobile, according to the latest rankings of mobile Web companies from research and analysis firm M:Metrics.Google was visited …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to Reality Check, a feature for RCR Wireless News’ new weekly e-mail service, Mobile Content and Culture. We’ve gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the …

Michael Eisner, the former head of Walt Disney Co., has given the green light on a new summer spin-off series of his independent media studio’s Emmy-nominated show “Prom Queen.” Vuguru, …

Rural wireless service provider Dobson Communications Corp. is reportedly considering a sale and has hired Morgan Stanley to help the company explore its options, according to the Wall Street Journal. …

Nokia Corp.’s plans for re-approaching the U.S. market-at least in the enterprise space-will include “complementary” channels the handset vendor will pursue in addition to working with the top domestic carriers, …

ROK Entertainment Group announced it acquired Blubox Software, a data optimization and compression developer. The mobile technology and software developer views the deal as a logical path toward allowing users …

For a few seasons, it looked like TV producers had tapped into the mobile mint of premium text messaging as they encouraged viewers to win money by voting for their …

WiMAX technology appears to be gaining a foothold in a handful of European markets with a number of trials already underway, and the ITU agreeing to include OFDM-based technologies in …

China has a significant opportunity with its home-grown TD-SCDMA technology to establish a global communication standard, according to a new report from In-Stat.The firm said TD-SCDMA technology could allow the …

WiMAX subscribers could grow to 54 million by 2012 driven by growth in emerging markets, according to a new report from Senza Fili Consulting.The firm said the WiMAX’s best growth …

Motorola Good Technology Group this week plans to take its first serious swipe at Research In Motion Ltd’s dominance of the mobile e-mail space.The Motorola Inc. subsidiary is expected to …