Monthly Archives: July, 2008

Google Moves to Reinvent Transportation

On a sunny afternoon back in June 2007, members of the media, academia, and the tech industry gathered to watch Google co-founders Larry Page...

Text Messages Rule Mobile Ads

Simple ad formats reaching the widest audience

Wireless should go for gold during Olympics

Once again, the Olympics will be seen as a kind of barometer for mobile data. But for wireless to perform alchemy at this year's...

N2 recall throws Neonode off balance

Neonode Inc. needs patience from investors, the company's interim CEO wrote yesterday in an open letter.The fledgling, Swedish public company, known to many for...

Leap shuffles execs

Leap Wireless International Inc. played musical chairs with a few of its senior executives. Al Moschner, formerly VP and chief marketing officer, has been...

Alcatel-Lucent CEO, chairman set to step down

Alcatel-Lucent's troubles are likely to continue in the third quarter, as the network vendor struggles with structural problems, according to one research company. As...

Growing the mobile video advertising market

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their...

REVIEW: Watch out for buggy WatchMyCell

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Yay or Nay. Every week we'll review a new wireless application or service from the user's point...

Infrastructure awards wrap-up: 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...

Adult content remains lukewarm in U.S.: International markets continue to drive adoption

Things move quickly in the U.S. mobile entertainment ecosystem - unless you're an adult content vendor.From sex texts to moantones to bikini-clad models to...

Far East, China to lead mobile ticketing growth

Transport-based mobile ticketing will grow from 37.4 million transactions last year to more than 1.8 billion by 2011, according to new research from Juniper...

Making Mobile Search Work

Web users have gotten very good at finding what they're seeking online. But with today's proliferation of mobile phones, PDAs, and palmtop computers that...

Tracfone’s Net10 dives into unlimited fray

Tracfone Wireless Inc. subsidiary Net10 has jumped into the increasingly popular unlimited-service-plan play with its new Net10 Unlimited Plan, which offers unlimited calling and...

VIDEO: CDG’s Perry LaForge outlines future of CDMA

In this week's RCR Wireless Newscast, the CDMA Development Group's executive director Perry LaForge discusses the current and...

7-Eleven’s MVNO arrives in Singapore

While some mobile virtual network operators are switching off the lights, others seem to be thriving - and globally at that. After seeing success...

IPR detente: Nokia, Qcom both claim vindication in settlement

WITH A LARGELY CONFIDENTIAL SETTLEMENT signed, sealed and delivered by Nokia Corp. and Qualcomm Inc. last week, arguably the most significant stand-off in the...

VZW posts $12.1B in Q2 revenue: Data ARPU grows, customer churn drops

VERIZON WIRELESS MAY LAG BEHIND larger rival AT&T Mobility in total customers, but the industry's No. 2 players continues to hold a financial lead.Verizon...

Sprint Nextel updates mobile Web home page

Sprint Nextel Corp. overhauled its mobile Web service in an effort to deliver customized Internet content to subscribers.Sprint Web offers an adaptive home page...

Nokia winning by two lengths: Samsung takes second, rest in pack

Nokia Corp. hit the second-quarter finish line (pun intended) with strong year-over-year growth in handset shipment volumes, a key metric for Wall Street and...

Tower industry remains open for business: Sprint Nextel sells 3,300 towers for $670M, SBA picks up competitors

The tower industry was busy last week with Sprint Nextel Corp. announcing the sale of 3,300 towers to TowerCo L.L.C. for $670 million and...

Analyst Angle: Mobile content providers beware, the iPhone is a Trojan iHorse

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We've collected a group of the industry's leading analysts to give their outlook on the...

Wireless firm says news must go mobile

SAN FRANCISCO - The thud of the morning newspaper landing on the front porch may one day be replaced with the beep of download...

Motorola to reorganize home and networks unit

PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Motorola Inc (MOT.N: Quote , Profile , Research , Stock Buzz ) will create three businesses within its home and networks...

Mobile Map Usage Growing Rapidly

The iPhone and Nokia handsets are the most-used handsets for accessing mobile maps, according to ComScore.

Nokia Axes BlackBerry Connections

Starting with its upcoming E71 and E66 smartphones, Nokia said it wants to offer the option of connecting to other e-mail services.
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