Monthly Archives: March, 2008

Leap heads into St. Louis market

Leap Wireless International Inc. announced plans to hire 100 new employees as it expands its Cricket service into the St. Louis market.The carrier said...

Survey: Mobile ads catching eyes

More mobile users are seeing -- and responding to -- ads on their mobile phones, according to new figures from Nielsen Mobile.The division of...

Google’s new Gears grind away at mobile app development

Google Inc. is hoping to help answer the question: WAP or app?The Internet behemoth this week brought its Google Gears to mobile, making the...

Financial ratings wrap-up: Sprint Nextel, MetroPCS, Nortel and more

The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.Carrier--R.W. Baird lowered its price...

iPCS posts greater Q4 loss, inks new affiliate agreement with Sprint Nextel

Sprint Nextel Corp. affiliate iPCS Inc. provided further insight into its fourth quarter and full year 2007 operations. The carrier, which previously reported a...

Transpera offers video platform for iPhone

Mobile video technology Transpera is targeting Apple Inc.'s iPhone with a platform for distributing Web videos and targeted ads.The Santa Monica, Calif.-based startup launched...

Nokia to embed Microsoft Silverlight technology: Service seen as a competitor to Adobe’s Flash

Nokia Corp. announced plans to embed Microsoft Corp.'s Silverlight technology on its handsets.Similar to Flash, a rival technology from Adobe Systems Inc., Silverlight is...

Yahoo centralizes mobile content management

Yahoo Inc. bulked up its mobile portfolio, unveiling a tool designed to allow users to manage content across the wireless Web.OnePlace uses bookmarks to...

Securing the future: Cyber security expert outlines the challenges in keeping wireless protected

INDIAN WELLS, Calif. -- "There is no such thing as absolute security," former White House Cyber Security Adviser Howard Schmidt told an audience of...

Clearwire stock gyrates on results, speculation

Expectations of a future re-partnership with Sprint Nextel Corp. to deploy a nationwide WiMAX network appears to have overshadowed mixed financial results for Clearwire...

700 MHz auction moves into ‘stage three’: Bids continue to trickle in

The Federal Communications Commission announced it moved the 700 MHz spectrum auction into "stage three" in an effort to speed the proceedings along. Now,...

Motricity makes it official: job cuts and reorganization: Firm works to integrate InfoSpace acquisition

Motricity Inc. finally made it official, announcing that it will slash 250 jobs over the next nine months and move its headquarters from Durham,...

SMS: The little engine that could

I've always found it odd that carriers charge for voice, charge for data and then charge separately for text messages. Isn't text data? It's...

Margins Check: end of Quarterlife, Google’s Sites, ad recession, and more

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

REVIEW: Mobile iTunes? No problem, thanks to Nutsie

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

Moto CEO: head-hunting exec for device business: No new details on possible spin-off

Motorola Inc. is on the lookout for an executive to lead its troubled handset division to the promised land, according to CEO Greg Brown,...

Infrastructure awards wrap-up: Motorola and Alvarion

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...

Keep it simple

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...

Federal legislation would overhaul taxes on cellphones for business

Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and John Ensign (R-Nev.) introduced legislation to simplify tax treatment of business cellphone use."We need to modernize the law now...

700 MHz bidding continues despite FCC’s attempt to speed things up

Despite an attempt to speed the end of its 700 MHz spectrum auction, the Federal Communications Commission still counted around two dozen bids in...

AT&T Mobility to pay $2.6M settlement for deceptive billing: Carrier reaches agreement with Florida AG

Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum said a $2.6 million settlement was reached with AT&T Mobility in connection with consumers billed for wireless content advertised...

Nokia wins another round on GSM patents

A United Kingdom court has ruled in Nokia Corp.'s favor and rejected Qualcomm Inc.'s claims that the handset maker infringed on its GSM patents,...

Visto settles with Microsoft

Wireless e-mail vendor Visto Corp. said it reached a settlement with software giant Microsoft Corp. over patent licensing, an announcement that appears to indicate...

Report: Mitsubishi Electric drops handsets

Mitsubishi Electric Co. will shutter its mobile handset business, according to Nikkei, a Japanese business newspaper. The move would leave Mitsubishi's main customer -...

U.S. Cellular reports delayed Q4 results: Net adds down, ARPU up

U.S. Cellular Corp. reported late Friday that it added 55,000 customers to its network during the final three months of 2007, and 301,000 customers...
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