Monthly Archives: May, 2008

Nokia’s XpressMusic phone lands at T-Mobile USA

Nokia Corp. took another baby step to pry open the U.S. market with an announcement that its 5310 XpressMusic phone would sell at T-Mobile...

Sprint Nextel sets June 20 as release date for Instinct: Carrier’s flagship phone may run up against 3G iPhone hype

Sprint Nextel Corp. plans to begin selling its touchscreen Instinct phone through its retail outlets on June 20, a date that may put the...

M2M provider picks Blueslice to aid roaming efforts

Wireless Maingate, a machine-to-machine company in Europe, has chosen Blueslice Networks to provide its ngHLR 3000T to help Maingate with roaming and other applications.Blueslice...

Study: M2M market to see 80M module shipments by 2013

The market for cellular machine-to-machine communications modules is expected to grow to nearly 80 million shipments in 2013, according to a new study from...

FCC, Verizon Wireless proposal on ETFs may be DOA: Wireless industry hopes for federal preemption of state regulation

An initial effort spearheaded by Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin and Verizon Wireless to secure support from leading consumer groups to give subscribers...

Health lawsuit charging consumer fraud linked to brain-cancer litigation

Despite being less of a target in recent years, the cellphone industry remains entangled in health-related litigation that could turn on how the District...

Qualcomm backs mobile giving foundation

Qualcomm Inc. is backing an industry association that aims to create a "mobile giving channel" for nonprofits looking to raise money via text messaging.The...

Verizon Wireless ranks No. 1 with enterprises in J.D. Power survey

Verizon Wireless continues to please its business customers, both big and small. According to the J. D Power and Associates 2008 Business Wireless Satisfaction...

Google exec claims lobbying conspiracy against white spaces: Device challenges continue to plague initiative

Google Inc. co-founder Larry Page said there are not technical impediments to making vacant television channels - white spaces - available for unlicensed wireless...

Visage offloads to Convergys in wake of MVNO fallout

Mobile virtual network enabler Visage Mobile announced plans to sell its Subscriber Management business to billing giant Convergys Corp. Terms of the deal were...

Worst of the Week: Mobile video explained (but not endorsed)

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...

Winter joins RCR Wireless News staff

Allie Winter has joined RCR Wireless News as a reporter covering the wireless carrier beat. Winter, a Minnesota native, graduated from the University of...

Industry bullish on nontraditional devices: RCR Wireless News, Yankee Group announce new research effort

Editor's Note: RCR Wireless News has teamed up with Yankee Group to conduct a series of market surveys of RCR Wireless News' subscribers to...

Samsung announces reorganization plan

Samsung Electronics said Thursday it was consolidating some of its key businesses a week after announcing a new executive lineup.

New Specifications for Security Layers in Mobile Phones Published

The UK's Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has welcomed the release of the Advanced Trusted Environment recommendations document from the mobile industry's device requirements body,...

Google carves an Android path through open-source world

Google is committed to many open-source tenets with its Android mobile phone software--but it's willing to step on a few open-source toes, too.

A Social Network On Your Phone

You've already got a phonebook on your cellphone. What about turning that list into a social network?

GPS devices are getting smarter

The Global Positioning System that helps us navigate the highways was a brilliant idea. So brilliant that industry watchers at ABI Research Inc. in...

Mobile ads years away from breakthrough: execs

PARIS - Advertising on mobile phones has enormous potential to become a significant platform for marketers, but any breakthrough is years away and major...

KT to WiBro It in Gyeonggi

In Korea where broadband Internet speed is one of the world's fastest, downloading a two-hour movie file may not take more than five minutes.

Philly legislator: Don’t let Wi-Fi network die

Exactly one week after EarthLink Inc. said it would be shutting down its nearly citywide municipal Wi-Fi network in Philadelphia, one of the city's...

Virgin Mobile, Microsoft add momentum to mobile ads

Virgin Mobile USA has tapped AOL's Platform-A to handle its WAP banner inventory.Platform-A will serve as the "exclusive display advertising and sales partner" for...

Qualcomm invests in GSM-based femtocell firm

Qualcomm Inc. will buy a stake in ip.access Ltd., a U.K.-based femtocell vendor. The dollar amount of the investment and Qualcomm's relative share in...

AT&T Mobility nearly finished with HSUPA upgrade

AT&T Mobility is set to put the icing on its 3G network cake. The industry's No. 1 carrier said that by the end of...

Still fighting, NTP sues Alltel over patents

Alltel Communications L.L.C. is the latest major mobile-phone carrier to be tagged with a patent infringement suit by NTP Inc., the Virginia-based patent holding...
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