Yearly Archives: 2008

Industry Outlook 2008: In-Car Entertainment: Infotainment on the move: The future of in-vehicle consumer infotainment

While not everyone can ride the Google Shuttle to work and enjoy a free Wi-Fi connection, in-vehicle Internet access for all is not far...

Alcatel-Lucent, NEC partner for LTE

BARCELONA, Spain - With the LTE market just starting to develop, Alcatel-Lucent and NEC Corp. believe combining their resources early on will help them...

4G potential set to challenge infrastructure vendors: LTE, WiMAX and Chinese competitors could shape market in 2008

BARCELONA, Spain - The world's largest network providers are jockeying for position in the race to build out fourth-generation networks in an increasingly uneasy...

Industry Outlook 2008: Smartphones: Smartphones will reshape the mobile Web in 2008

Smartphones will come of age as the primary venue for mobile Internet content in the U.S. this year. The proliferation of these devices will...

Industry Outlook 2008: Security: Mobile security more than a solution looking for a problem

Mobile security has been a topic of discussion for many years. Skeptics have always said "mobile security is a solution looking for a problem."...

Industry Outlook 2008: Video: Mobile video and television growing pains

Mobile television and clip-based video content clearly represent an emerging opportunity for mobile network operators, traditional production houses, online portals and community sites like...

Industry Outlook 2008: Mobile Search: Mobile search rife with potential waiting to be found

What is mobile search? A search for "mobile search" on Merriam-Webster's online dictionary returns only paid search terms. I will refrain from comment. Wikipedia...

Industry Outlook 2008: Location-based services: Consumers (still) want location-based services

In 2008, the wireless industry appears poised to continue its move to a model where access is open to qualifying third-party developers and handset...

Industry Outlook 2008: Social Networking: My mobile social networking wish list for 2008

Don't be fooled by the flow of VC funding or the fact that Google Inc. and MySpace are in on it. The truth is,...

WRITERS STRIKE OVER: Sides compromise on new media fees, including mobile

Clear the set. It's back to business as usual in Hollywood.Members of the Writers Guild of America last week voted overwhelmingly to end the...

The unbearable transparency of anonymity

Proponents of blind bidding claim the nearly $20 billion in pledges for 700 MHz licenses as well as the possible addition of a few...

Surely these can’t be growing pains

As I listened to some of the world's largest wireless infrastructure providers talk about their business plans last week at the Mobile World Congress...

Mobile entertainment industry stunted by poor sales reporting

Editor's Note: The following is an excerpt from Reality Check, a feature for RCR Wireless News' weekly e-mail newsletter, Mobile Content and Culture....

Hedgehogging: hedge*hog*ging v. Interrupting conversations in an office environment by poking your head over the top of the cube.

It's odd that at a show where PhDs, MBAs and so many smart people from the telecom space stroll the pavilions, Robert Redford can...

DukeNet to acquire 115 towers from Vangard

DukeNet Communication Services L.L.C., which is owned by Duke Energy Corp., said it signed a definitive agreement to acquire 115 wireless towers from Vangard...

Auction activity slows: Bids slog past $19.4B

THE 700 MHZ AUCTION, continuing to crawl toward an end likely punctuated by a disappointing D Block failure, will not remain totally within the...

462M to subscribe to mobile TV services by 2012

About 462 million people are expected to subscribe to mobile TV services by 2012, according to a new report from ABI Research.The growth will...

700 MHz auction drags on

Bidders in the Federal Communication Commission's 700 MHz spectrum auction continued their squabble over just under 100 licenses that appear to remain in play....

MediaFLO continues to wait for AT&T Mobility debut

AT&T Mobility subscribers are still waiting for the carrier to launch MediaFLO USA Inc.'s broadcast television service, and sources say the wait could be...

Open(ID) says me: Online account management protocol gains big backers

You may have never heard of it, but Google Inc. is behind it. So are AOL, Microsoft Corp., and Yahoo Inc. With that kind...

Hardware, and beyond : Nokia and Samsung race to provide Internet services

BARCELONA, Spain - Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. announced plans at the Mobile World Congress trade show to launch an Internet-services strategy for its handsets,...

Counting mobile advertising effectiveness remains a challenge

Like Britney Spears, mobile advertising is desperately in need of some monitoring.Market research firms seem to be tripping over themselves to offer the most...

Loop partners with Intercasting to expand reach

Mobile social networking startups Loop Mobile Ltd. and Intercasting Corp. said they will partner to make Loop's MOKO communities available to subscribers of Intercasting's...

Sprint Nextel hit with new class action lawsuit: Carrier’s roaming charges at center of action

Sprint Nextel Corp. faces a new class action lawsuit alleging the No. 3 mobile phone carrier misled consumers by improperly charging roaming fees in...

Poaching season in mobile: Vodafone grabs Microsoft’s mobility leader Knook

Pieter Knook, the leader of Microsoft Corp.'s mobile business and an 18-year company veteran, has jumped ship to Vodafone Group plc.Knook will lead the...
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