Monthly Archives: April, 2008

Court favors iPCS in Nextel scuffle

An appellate court in Illinois has confirmed a lower court's decision that would force Sprint Nextel Corp. to divest its Nextel operations in the...

AT&T fixes in on branded LBS service

AT&T Mobility has seen the signs -- or at least, followed the voice prompts -- and launched a branded GPS navigation service for consumers....

Financial ratings wrap-up: AT&T, Motorola, RIM 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--Standard & Poor's Ratings Services...

Top 10 requests for the CTIA show

Spring has arrived, Opening Day is in the rear-view, and once again we found ourselves at the annual hyperbolic chamber that is CTIA's Big...

The Q&A: Steve Chambers

Perhaps no other player has invested as much in the speech-recognition market as Nuance Communications Inc. The Burlington, Mass.-based company has spent more than...

The Q&A: Daniel Moloney

Daniel Moloney is executive VP of Motorola Inc. and president of the company's Home & Networks Mobility business, which provides digital video set-tops and...

The Q&A: Arun Bhikshesvaran

Arun Bhikshesvaran is VP of Strategy and CTO for Ericsson North America. He has been with Ericsson since 1995 and has more than 15...

The Q&A: Jim Orr

Jim Orr is a principal network architect in the wireless market development group at Fujitsu Network Communications.Q: It seems the infrastructure market has experienced...

Infrastructure awards wrap-up: Ericsson, Nokia Siemens and Nortel

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...

Wireless policy, public-interest group forms

A new, pro-market advocacy group has formed to focus on business, technological and social aspects of mobile communications.The Mobile Future Coalition debuted yesterday at...

Viva Las Vegas

Not sure if it's the desert air or some form of dementia brought on by a lack of food and a surplus of drink,...

Product placement 101: The keynote: Hesse brandishes Samsung touchscreen device

If you can get Dan Hesse, CEO of Sprint Nextel Corp., to extoll the virtues of your jointly developed handset during the opening day's...

Apple’s iPhone a carrot for game developers

Mobile gaming continues to languish, plagued by a lack of innovation, overpriced titles and the constraints of tiny screens and 12-key pads. But game...

Worst of the Day

Well, April Fool's Day came and went without much notice during the CTIA Wireless 2008 show. I find this disheartening; the CTIA show presents...

The Q&A: Perry LaForge

Perry LaForge is the founder, executive director and chairman of the CDMA Development Group (CDG). The CDG is a trade association comprised of...

The Q&A: Patricia Russo

Patricia Russo is chief executive officer of Alcatel-Lucent. Before helping to spearhead Alcatel's tie-up with Lucent, Russo was chairman and CEO of Lucent....

Open access: Paradigm shift or an open question

Change has never been easy for the cell-phone industry. And it's perfectly understandable. With the kind of wild success and wealth creation during its...

Standards, content falling into place for mobile TV

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...

Small carriers: ‘Keep running so they can’t catch you’

Like a series of dominos, several of the largest regional carriers fell to consolidation pressures within the past year. The announcements came within a...

Analyst Angle: Anticipating the birth of the super smartphone or ‘Global’

Editor's Note: Welcome to a special CTIA Show Daily edition of our weekly online feature, Analyst Angle. Every Monday at www.RCRWirelessNews.com you can find...

Margins Check: YouTube’s tools, recession scares 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...

Frieden to FCC: Just do it

One academic says stop the debate already. He argues a wireless Carterfone rule is long overdue."This reticence to act has generated regulatory uncertainty...

Enterprise devices: The next big thing awaits the next iconic customer

Remember the "soccer mom"? First, she was avidly courted as a voter, later as a consumer.If you believe the handset marketers -- admittedly, a...

AT&T Mobility offers iPhone to enterprise

Forget the careful process of considering business cases, IT policies and other nit-picky consideration.Apple Inc.'s iPhone is the new must-have device -- even though...

The Q&A: Marco Boerries

Marco Boerries is the executive VP of Yahoo Inc.'s Connected Life Division, which encompasses the company's mobile, digital home, PC client and broadband teams...
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