Yearly Archives: 2007

MobiTV counts 3M subscribers, Sprint Nextel renewal

Sprint Nextel Corp. and MobiTV Inc. have put together a multi-year agreement to continue offering mobile TV services to the carrier's subscribers. The announcement...

Kajeet expands ahead of holidays

Just in time for the holiday shopping season, tween-focused mobile virtual network operator kajeet Inc. announced a new line-up of handsets as well as...

AT&T goes over the air with Napster song downloads

AT&T Inc. has partnered with digital music provider Napster to offer AT&T customers over-the-air access to more than 5 million full-track songs. The carrier...

Analyst Angle: The emerging mobile worker opportunity in China

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...

Largent stays focused despite setbacks

You might call it industry's summer of discontent. Where to begin?The Federal Communications Commission saw fit to attach conditions-public safety and open access, specifically-to...

Analyst Angle: The aging of mobile video

Editor's Note: Welcome to a special CTIA I.T. Show Daily edition of our weekly online feature, Analyst Angle. Every Monday at www.RCRNews.com you can...

Googling wireless: Internet giant casts broad shadow over wireless

What's Google Inc. up to in mobile? You might as well ask what Rupert Murdoch is doing in media.Because the answer is, just about...

Harmonic centers on services, not devices

Television, like all methods of communication, is adapting to the times. Like the push before it in the online space, the hunger for video...

Moto takes 50% stake in UIQ: Open operating system should save costs, speed to market

Motorola Inc. apparently kickstarted its ongoing efforts to broaden its smartphone offerings and bring Internet-based services to them by buying 50% of UIQ Technology...

Best seat in the house

Here's a question: Is the business of paying someone to wake up obscenely early to secure a place in line for a lobbyist who...

FTC works to quash call list urban legend: Possible Do Not Call Registry purge complicates efforts

The Federal Trade Commission faces a dilemma as it once again attempts to kill a wireless urban legend that just won't die."The Federal Trade...

WiMAX supporters score win ahead of WRC: Technology included in family of advanced wireless technologies

EVEN WHILE WIRELESS BROADBAND DEPLOYMENT is in a relatively early stage in this country, the Bush administration is pressing for changes at an international...

Monday, Oct. 22, 2007

Excess inventory clouds mobile advertising space: Providers both big and small struggle to fill screens

It's no secret that advertising dollars are finally coming to mobile. But for now, at least, it's the high-profile publishers that are bringing in...

Hedgehogging: hedge*hog*ging v. Interrupting conversations in an office environment by poking your head over the top of the cube.

A true sign that wireless has finally made it-that is if the more than 1 billion cellphones in use around the world was not...

iPhone captures Treo users, Alltel, T-Mobile USA subs: EV-DO insulates Verizon Wireless, Sprint Nextel

The first glimmer of quantifiable iPhone impacts is in, courtesy of NPD Group.The news is not-so-good for Palm Inc. and carriers T-Mobile USA Inc....

T-Mobile USA, Leap move closer to AWS launches: T-Mobile USA gearing up for New York launch, Leap begins to hire in Las Vegas

Signs are popping up that carriers are getting closer to making use of the spectrum they acquired in the advanced wireless services auction last...

Cities need to develop wireless biz models: Enterprise, gov’t could anchor WiMAX cities

The municipal wireless market is undergoing a correction, but the re-evaluation of business models eventually will benefit the space and the emergence of WiMAX...

Holiday Buzz: Colors, youth and accessories abound as carriers load up for critical selling season

Wireless carriers are heading into the all-important holiday selling season, flashing new handsets designed to dazzle consumers and riding sales trends which have been...

Tuning Out: Mobile music space facing rash of challenges

The worldwide mobile music market will more than double in the next few years, exploding from $13.7 billion this year to more than $32...

GOING WITH THE FLO: Mobile TV provider’s operations similar to local affiliate

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. spared no expense on its MediaFLO USA Inc. subsidiary. From the outside, MediaFLO's Operations Center looks like any other box-shaped lackluster...

Give ’em prepay

It's happening again. "It" is the overwhelming feeling I occasionally get to defend the wireless industry and the way it treats its customers.But the...

Qualcomm may benefit from infringement ruling in Broadcom case: Investigation into Nokia complaint could be tossed

Qualcomm Inc. apparently got some breathing room-how much, if any, remains to be seen-in its ongoing court battle over patent infringement in a Santa...

WIDENING THE GAP: AT&T Mobility, Verizon expected to soar at Sprint Nextel’s expense

A mixed third quarter is expected for the wireless industry, with weakness at Sprint Nextel Corp. contrasting with solid performances by AT&T Mobility and...

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Virgin Mobile rings the bellFlanked by Virgin Mobile Angels on Wall Street are (l to r): Peter Lurie, chief counsel; Jonathan Marchbank, COO; Howard...
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