Monthly Archives: April, 2008

Qualcomm reports strong sales, profits, outlook

Qualcomm Inc. is riding a wave of demand for W-CDMA-enabled handsets, which drove its strong revenue and profits in the fiscal second quarter, the...

Cable companies quit ‘Pivot’ : Customers offered free month of service to move to Sprint Nextel

Sprint Nextel Corp.'s wireless resale relationship with three of the nation's largest cable companies has come to an end. According to media reports, Comcast...

Court maintains fine on 2002 auction bidder

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld a fine assessed against Star Wireless L.L.C. for violating the anti-collusion rule...

Frontline’s Hundt: D-Block rules were too vague: Public safety: Let’s re-auction this year

A former executive of now-defunct Frontline Wireless L.L.C. said rules for the national commercial/public-safety license that went unclaimed in the recently completed 700 MHz...

Verizon Wireless, Alltel defy class-action suit over credit privacy

Plaintiffs' lawyers have found a new weapon to pursue class-action consumer litigation against the mobile-phone industry: the Fair Credit Reporting Act.Verizon Wireless and Alltel...

Sony Ericsson losing ground: Revenue and profit down, as expected

Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications said it lost a point of market share in the first quarter, following a warning it gave last month.The Japanese-Swedish...

Sprint Nextel: Drop Voice Command: Carrier gives users until July 1 to retrieve contacts

Sprint Nextel Corp. is quietly dropping its Voice Command service in July.The carrier is informing customers via its Web site that it will discontinue...

Voice-search space gathers speed: TellMe, FreeMobile411 making noise

Microsoft Corp. subsidiary TellMe said it added a GPS location feature to its voice portal to give BlackBerry users information about businesses, movies, traffic,...

Sony strikes a chord with Gracenote purchase: Music technology firm powers apps from industry heavy hitters

Sony Corp. of America said it will pay roughly $260 million for Gracenote, a music metadata and technology firm. Gracenote's database of artists, songs...

System eases rail testing

IWT4 uses mathematical processing and the latest in radio telemetry and signal conditioning to accurately measure forces at the wheel-rail interface

Financial ratings wrap-up: Adtran, Nokia, Texas Instruments 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...

Penguins sell tickets via cellphone alerts: Team scores with effort to sell empty seats

Several major marketers have found themselves stonewalled when it comes to measurable and effective uses for mobile technology, but a National Hockey League team...

GoldSpot shows off platform for mobile TV ad tests

There's a lot of debate these days about what might push mobile television into its next growth spurt, but most seem to agree that...

Tellabs posts rough Q1: Company’s stock continues to sink

Tellabs Inc. reported $16.6 million in earnings in the first quarter, down nearly 35% from the $25.5 million it brought in during the year-ago...

Sunrise launches network monitoring tool

Sunrise Telecom Inc. introduced a monitoring and analysis platform designed to help operators better manage their mobile data services. Mobile X-Ray correlates information from...

TI curtails expectations: Chip giant’s Q1 results meet forecasts

Shares of Texas Instruments Inc. tumbled after the company ratcheted down expectations about the short-term market for high-end phones.The Dallas-based chipmaker reported $3.27 billion...

Nokia snares Sony BMG for music offering

Nokia Corp. bulked up its music offerings, inking a deal with Sony BMG and adding two new handsets to its XpressMusic line.The Finnish company...

Isn’t it time to dabble in the steamy stuff?

Nearly lost in all post-mortems following the death of Mowser last week was this little tidbit: 80% of the traffic to the site was...

AT&T Mobility continues iPhone-fueled growth: No. 1 carrier adds 1.3M customers, boosts ARPU

AT&T Mobility continued its steady growth during the first quarter of the year, reporting customer additions on par with the previous year and gains...

Margins Check: Google’s brand, TV on the Internet, 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: Mobispine’s mobile RSS reader calls up deficient results

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...

What the horse racing industry can teach us about the future structure of wireless: With a Special Bonus Mortal Lock Kentucky Derby Pick* (Maybe)

Editor's Note: Welcome to Reality Check, a feature for RCR Wireless News' weekly e-mail service, Mobile Content and Culture. We've gathered a group of...

Infrastructure awards wrap-up: Ericsson

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...

Hispanic-focused MVNO sells to APC: We’ll ‘cut the fat’ from Movida, says exec

APC Wireless announced it closed a deal late last week to purchase the recently bankrupt MVNO Movida Communications Inc. for an undisclosed sum.Movida, which...

Report: Linux to capture handset market share

Nearly one-fifth of mid- and high-end handsets will run Linux by 2013, according to a new forecast from ABI Research.High-profile backers such as Google...
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