Monthly Archives: June, 2007

Venture capital financing wrap-up: 4Info, Cequint, ERF Wireless and more

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...

T-Mobile USA goes nationwide with FMC service

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...

CommScope again goes for Andrew in $2.6B deal

Less than a year after rejecting the company, infrastructure vendor Andrew Corp. announced a deal to be acquired by former suitor CommScope Inc. in...

Reports: EU favors DVB-H for mobile TV

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...

FON claims 7,000 routers in use as part of Fonbucks campaign

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...

Sprint Nextel unveils Fusic 2.0: Muziq

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...

Infrastructure awards wrap-up: Ericsson, Alcatel-Lucent, Motorola and more

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...

Leap goes into Research Triangle

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...

Mobile video surging; viewers open to ads, Telephia says

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...

WPCS to acquire Max Engineering, bolster infrastructure business

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...

AT&T Mobility unveils iPhone plans

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...

REVIEW: Opera’s Mini 4 Beta delivers full Internet, but could do more

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...

Margin check: MySpace, social networking, ‘Manhunt 2’ and more

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...

Talking to mobile content

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

Google tops mobile site rankings

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...

Participation TV: beyond ‘American Idol’

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...

‘Prom Queen’ set for summer

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...

Report: Dobson on the block?

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

Nokia flexes, adds ‘complementary’ enterprise channel in U.S.

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...

ROK set to expand online pic service through Blubox acquisition

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

Suits allege texting games on ‘Apprentice,’ other TV shows violate lottery rule

For a few seasons, it looked like TV producers had tapped into the mobile mint of premium text messaging as they encouraged viewers to...

Regulatory plans could bolster WiMAX’s future in Europe

WiMAX technology appears to be gaining a foothold in a handful of European markets with a number of trials already underway, and the...

China could leverage TD-SCDMA standard

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...

Emerging markets expected to drive WiMAX growth

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...

Motorola set to leverage Good in competitive e-mail market

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...
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