Yearly Archives: 2007

AT&T Mobility embraces ‘Cyber Monday’: Carrier’s deep online discounts led its December push

Conventional wisdom has American shoppers descending like locusts on brick-and-mortar retail stores on the Friday after Thanksgiving-presumably working off the turkey-and-gravy by lightening their...

Executive Interview: Tripp Rackley

Firethorn Holdings L.L.C. has been a driving force behind many of the major mobile banking announcements within the past year. Recent news that chip...

Etc.

Alltel's 'Best Holiday'Alltel is running a series of animated holiday television advertisements that feature Chad, the Alltel Wireless salesman, as he squares off against...

Developers applaud open-access plans

Verizon Wireless's plans to take a wrecking ball to its garden walls got plenty of attention. What the move means for developers, though, is...

Tapping into packets: Wireless operators resist DOJ wiretap efforts

The mobile-phone industry suddenly finds itself on opposite sides of Bush administration wiretapping efforts, as the White House attempts to overcome congressional opposition to...

Shifts and earthquakes

Verizon Wireless' announcements that it would open its network to certified devices and apps-and further, that it has selected LTE for its fourth-generation technology-kept...

Yes, FCC, there is an ordering clause

There's an interesting legal argument whose resolution by the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals could impact small-business bidding rules, last year's wireless auction...

Employment law ruling may impact wireless operators: Case calls into question legality of arbitration clauses

The mobile phone industry urged the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a lower court ruling in which a California state law trumped the Federal...

Place your bets: Trio of standards vie for 4G supremacy

A world of overlapping fourth-generation wireless technologies is still years in the offing even by the most optimistic observers, yet there's already a growing...

Qualcomm buffeted by tech market

News broke last week that Verizon Wireless would pursue Long Term Evolution technology as its next-generation play, which hurts Qualcomm Inc.'s prospects. Qualcomm is...

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

Word has it that German mobile virtual network operator Debitel is offering to rebate almost $900 to people who want to buy an unlocked...

GAME ON: Vollee looks to leverage networks to enhance games

It seems the entire mobile gaming industry is scampering to churn out pick-up-and-play, made-for-mobile titles that emphasize simplicity and downplay rich graphics and other...

Qualcomm gets breathing room: Procedural victories precede extensive legal slate

Some sense that fortune has finally broken in its favor has Qualcomm Inc. glad for "small victories," though the company acknowledges it has a...

Business apps to drive mobile data

A recent report from ABI Research says mobile line of business services revenues could reach nearly $5 billion by 2012.The firm noted enterprise data...

Femtocells look promising, but care is needed

Carriers should be careful when developing a plan to deploy femtocells, according to a new report from Analysis.The firm said widespread deployment of the...

Verizon Wireless: Two announcements, one vision: Operator’s open-access, LTE plans point to consumer-electronic future

Verizon Wireless' two major announcements this week laid out not only a vision of open access for devices and applications on its current network,...

The Week in Review

Welcome to our Friday feature, Week in Review. Every Friday, RCR Wireless News runs through the major events of the week, outlining what happened...

Brightpoint reorders executive lineup

Handset distributor Brightpoint Inc. shuffled around some members of its executive team, promoting some veterans within the company to more prominent roles. The moves...

Zander out at Motorola: Investors exhale, then gird for long haul

Swapping out a chief executive sends a message of change. In the case of Motorola Inc.'s CEO Ed Zander's long-anticipated departure, announced today, the...

LG’s first CMO is a non-Korean

LG Electronics Co. Ltd. is creating a chief marketing officer position and the job will go to Dermot Boden, who starts work at the...

Google puts ‘money where principles are,’ says it will bid in 700 MHz auction: Search giant looks at open-access C Block

Google Inc. is in! The Internet search engine giant said it will participate-alone-in the 700 MHz auction set to begin Jan. 24."We believe it's...

By the Numbers: Top Ten U.S. Wireless Service Providers

The third quarter of 2007 saw few changes to the relative positions of the ten largest wireless carriers, but pending acquisitions soon will continue...

Worst of the Week: The junk I’m going to run on Verizon Wireless’ network

Hello! And welcome to our Thursday column, Worst of the Week. There's a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so...

Amid objections, Euro-commission closes in on DVB-H standard

The European Commission has taken another major step toward formally adopting DVB-H as a European-wide standard for mobile television services. The commission intends to...

Glu scoops up Chinese game publisher

Glu Mobile Inc. will step up its efforts in China with the acquisition of fellow mobile game publisher Beijing Zhangzhong MIG Information Technology Co....
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