March 2008

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 it is seeking local candidates for …

More mobile users are seeing — and responding to — ads on their mobile phones, according to new figures from Nielsen Mobile.The division of The Nielsen Company found that 23% …

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 application programming interface (API) available for …

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 target on MetroPCS to $25 from …

Sprint Nextel Corp. affiliate iPCS Inc. provided further insight into its fourth quarter and full year 2007 operations. The carrier, which previously reported a steep drop in net customer additions …

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 a package designed to insert five- …

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 a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for rich …

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 link to news feeds, Web sites, …

INDIAN WELLS, Calif. — “There is no such thing as absolute security,” former White House Cyber Security Adviser Howard Schmidt told an audience of mobile security businesspeople and analysts yesterday.But …

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 Corp., which has seen its stock …

The Federal Communications Commission announced it moved the 700 MHz spectrum auction into “stage three” in an effort to speed the proceedings along. Now, bidders must be active on at …

Motricity Inc. finally made it official, announcing that it will slash 250 jobs over the next nine months and move its headquarters from Durham, N.C. to the Seattle area.The moves, …

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 words after all, from a user’s …

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 Wireless News staff considers events in …

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 a new wireless application or service …

Motorola Inc. is on the lookout for an executive to lead its troubled handset division to the promised land, according to CEO Greg Brown, who said yesterday he is currently …

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 and vendor. The value of the …

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 of visionaries and veterans in the …

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 to reflect the reality that the …

Despite an attempt to speed the end of its 700 MHz spectrum auction, the Federal Communications Commission still counted around two dozen bids in each of this morning’s rounds. Thus, …

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 as free.The state’s CyberFraud Task Force …

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, in a case filed two years …

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 another legal victory for Visto.Although the …

Mitsubishi Electric Co. will shutter its mobile handset business, according to Nikkei, a Japanese business newspaper. The move would leave Mitsubishi’s main customer – network operator NTT DoCoMo Inc. – …

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 for the year, to push its …