Monthly Archives: December, 2008

Nokia cuts quarterly forecast, again: Vendor’s visibility is poor heading into next year

Nokia Corp. said last week that holiday-related handset sales will likely fall short of the company's last estimate, issued in mid-November. Three weeks ago,...

Consumer groups set to ratchet-up pressure on driving while dialing: Group files lawsuit for withholding records on deaths associated with cellphone use

A leading watchdog group accused the Bush administration in a lawsuit of withholding records on traffic deaths associated with cellphone use by operators of...

Analyst Angle: Enterprise WLAN market expected to defy macroeconomic weakness

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...

RCR Wireless News’ Mobile Movers & Shakers 2008: PART 1

In a scant 25 years, wireless technology has revolutionized the world. The cellphone is now a necessity; the network is now a conduit to...

Alcatel-Lucent CEO: We will remain in wireless, will have LTE products

Next week Alcatel-Lucent CEO Ben Verwaayen will unveil a plan that is geared to turn around the fortunes of the world's largest telecommunications equipment...

Online interest: iPhone ‘still king’: Storm launch: well-timed at VZW

Various metrics for how the handset market is faring at this juncture are swirling like the snow in a paperweight designed to be shaken...

Flickr shares upgraded mobile Web site

Flickr is targeting smartphone users with an upgraded mobile site.The popular photo-sharing destination - which claims it has seen a 50% increase in mobile...

Going home: Are rural residents second-class citizens in the digital divide?

I just got back from a long weekend in a place that is defying the economic downturn, where there is a housing shortage because...

Traffic studies via GPS

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, are hoping to use GPS-enabled wireless phones to help them study traffic data. Participants in the study...

AT&T hopes for single smart-phone OS

AT&T hopes to standardize on a single operating system for AT&T-branded smartphones as part of a "dramatic consolidation" of its mobile platforms over the...

US broadband Internet satellite scheduled for launch in 2011

A California satellite technology provider has signed a deal to put a planned broadband Internet satellite into orbit above the US in the first...

Venture capitalists place bets on start-ups to boost economy

Ever the glowing optimists, venture capitalists here vowed this week that a backlog of healthy young companies - with $100 million-plus in annual revenue...

Apple up to 16% of smartphone market, driving market growth

The economy has apparently been heading south for about a year now, but the iPhone's sales numbers haven't taken a nosedive just yet. The...

Sports fans make great mobile targets

Sports fans jump at the chance to keep up with teams via mobile.

Blazin! Ericsson, Telstra Debut 21mbps Mobile Broadband

Talk about blazing trails: Ericsson has taken its uber-fast HSPA+ gear commercial in Telstra’s network in Australia, which is now capable of delivering the...

Another holiday sales hitch: Fewer jobs

Rapidly deteriorating employment picture bodes ill for merchants trying to salvage their key season.

‘Sprint 4G’ on tap: CDMA/WiMAX modems to hit store shelves this year: Nation’s No. 3 carrier to be an MVNO of Clearwire

Goodbye Xohm, hello Sprint 4G.Just over a year after inventing a new word for its WiMAX plans, Sprint Nextel Corp. has decided on a...

Venture capital financing wrap-up: Awarepoint, MoboVivo, Pocket and more

The following list includes venture capital and other investments into wireless companies announced during the past week. The value of the investment is included...

Nokia cuts quarterly forecast, again: Leading handset vendor can’t forecast 2009

Nokia Corp. executives told analysts and press today that holiday-quarter handset sales will likely fall short of the company's last estimate, given less than...

Worst of the Week: And now, some extras

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...

FCC demurs in backup-power fight: Commission to look at rule changes

The Federal Communications Commission will avoid a direct confrontation with the Bush administration over the backup-power rule, informing a federal appeals court it will...

AT&T to cut 12,000 jobs, wireless not impacted

Citing ongoing economic concerns AT&T Inc. announced in an 8-K filing that it will cut 12,000 jobs, or roughly 4% of the company's total...

AT&T to cut 12,000 jobs, wireless not impacted

Citing ongoing economic concerns AT&T Inc. announced in an 8-K filing that it will cut 12,000 jobs, or roughly 4% of the company's total...

Location-based services finally on the map: Third-party providers find acceptance in mobile

Text messaging aggregators such as mBlox, OpenMarket and VeriSign Inc. have built lucrative businesses by serving as middlemen between carriers and companies (or political...
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