Monthly Archives: August, 2007

Mobile entertainment users ‘can’t get no satisfaction’

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...

REVIEW: MyxerTones cuts down barriers between cellphones and content

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...

Samsung snares Big Apple WiMAX contract

Sprint Nextel Corp. awarded the build-out contract of its biggest WiMAX market yet to Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.The carrier confirmed this morning that it...

China firm taps into Nokia’s SNAP platform

China's Sina Corp. launched five mobile games connected to Nokia Corp.'s SNAP Mobile gaming platform.The online media company is distributing the titles 3D Pool...

Yahoo adds e-mail-to-mobile SMS to mail service

Yahoo Inc. updated its e-mail service, adding a feature that enables users to send text messages to mobile phones. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company incorporated...

Analyst Angle: Buying into the ‘real’ mobile Internet

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

Andrew to install TETRA network in Hong Kong

Andrew Corp. won a major upgrade contract to modify the Mass Transit Railway Corp.'s territorywide network in Hong Kong.As part of the project, Andrew...

China wireless to pass 500M

China should surpass 500 million cellular connections during the third quarter, according to Wireless Intelligence, a joint venture of Ovum and the GSM Association.The...

High ARPU customers not feeling love from carriers

High-value customers feel underappreciated by their carrier, according to In-Stat.The study found more than 60% of high ARPU users say they do not feel...

Monday, Aug. 27, 2007

Patent litigation: the art of persuasion: Lay juries often make the call, appeals are common

AS THE 3G MARKET HEATS UP, so has the level of litigation among industry players, exemplified by longrunning headlines involving the Goliaths and the...

Selling numbers: Privacy concerns again raised as companies exploit loopholes

Washington state Attorney General Rob McKenna said he wants legislation to prohibit the marketing of cellphone numbers without consumer consent, responding to privacy concerns...

Health lawsuits thrown out

THE WIRELESS INDUSTRY DODGED one bullet and got tagged by another as the Superior Court of the District of Columbia threw out six brain-cancer...

Subprime woes hit Leap, MetroPCS stock prices

FLAT-RATE WIRELESS carriers serving the sub-prime sector have seen their stocks plunge in recent weeks, reflecting fears about sub-prime customers who could affect the...

What’s in a name?: Wireless companies continue push on naming rights

Battling for brand recognition, or more particularly, connecting a brand with a certain image, is more than apropos in the wireless industry-it very often...

VZW scores partners for new music offering: MTV, RealNetworks to support service

Verizon Wireless is hoping it can make better music as part of a trio than it did singing solo.The carrier last week announced a...

Potential bidders await details of 700 MHz auction

Google Inc. Chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt left the door open to bidding on wireless licenses when the 700 MHz auction begins in mid-January,...

EXTREMELY PERSONAL: Ringbacks, caller tags push personalization to new levels, garner attention from startups

Personalization refers to the way consumers use mobile content as kind of a bumper sticker, telling others who they are and what they think....

Moto’s Q Music 9m at VZW: QWERTY slab morphs for music, messagin

Verizon Wireless needed a refreshed portfolio of converged devices that could deliver revenue-generating services into consumers' hands. Motorola Inc. needed to boost its smartphone...

Wireless pinstripes

Are cellphone carriers becoming the New York Yankees of then wireless world? Or is it worse?● A federal judge last week said it was...

Now NAO

In light of the troubles encountered by telecom carriers and public-safety agencies following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and Hurricane Katrina four years later,...

MMS article inaccurate

Dear Editor,It is with great interest that we read the article, "The MMS disconnect," (RCR Wireless News, Aug. 13). Sybase 365 believes that the...

Satisfaction guaranteed?: CRM seeks to break barriers

If businesses had Ten Commandments, No. 1 would probably be "Know Thy Customer."Easier said than done.Customer information plays a crucial role in customer relationship...

Moto still holding second place in sales, Gartner reports

An aggressive pricing strategy to reduce inventory enabled Motorola Inc. to perform significantly better in global sales to end users in the second quarter...

Etc.

Save the trees In addition to its advanced functionality, Apple's iPhone is also endowed with very detailed billing. AT&T Mobility said it was re-examining...
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