Yearly Archives: 2008

Tests show troubles with Obama’s SMS play

Nearly 3 million mobile users received Barack Obama's SMS about his new running mate, but many of those who signed up may have gotten...

Obama tech policy team borrows from Clinton years

Editor's Note: Following the Democratic National Convention, RCR Wireless News Bureau Chief Jeffrey Silva looked at the Obama tech and telecom policy team. Next...

MetroPCS signs distribution deal with Best Buy Mobile

MetroPCS Communications Inc. expanded the distribution of its phones and services with an agreement with Best Buy Mobile. The deal covers locations in 14...

Nokia to launch music service in the U.K. next month

Nokia Corp. is teaming with The Carphone Warehouse to bring its all-you-can-eat mobile music service to U.K. users next month.Comes With Music, as the...

Acton named CIO/CTO at VMU

Fresh on the heels of closing the Helio L.L.C acquisition, Virgin Mobile USA Inc. has named a new chief information and technology officer.Daniel Acton...

Two Russian carriers to offer iPhone

Vimpelcom and MegaFon - two of Russia's three largest wireless carriers - will offer Apple Inc.'s iPhone "later this year," according to company statements...

ADC tapped for GOP convention

As the nation's eyes shift from Denver to the Twin Cities for this week's Republican National Convention, a Minnesota-based company's technology is once again...

A kid in the candy App Store

My teen daughter complains that I treat her like my own private marketing lab. Over the years, when a new cellphone comes in with...

Infrastructure awards wrap-up: Motorola and Nokia Siemens Networks

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...

Analyst Angle: Counter-arguments for evaluating next-gen network rollout strategies: The glass is half empty

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...

Moto’s Brown has millions of reasons to see cell phone spinoff

Motorola Inc.'s co-CEO Gregory Brown has plenty of incentive to see the company's phone business spun of as a public company.According to a new...

Peering into the crystal ball: the handset in 2010

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

One flu over the cuckoo’s nest

Not that the upcoming event would have commanded greater urgency and import had it been announced sometime other than in the lazy summer season...

Mix and match strategies

Remember the good old days of wireless regulations? The analog sunset date was February 2008. E911 rules initially required carriers to supply public safety...

Action heats up in white-spaces debate: Mobile players urge licensed approach to contested airwaves

Just as the Federal Communications Commission appears ready to settle the great white-spaces debate - one predominantly framed to date by a powerful broadcast...

Google outlines Android answer to Apple App Store: Search engine giant boasts of ‘open and unobstructed environment’

Google Inc. unveiled its answer to Apple Inc.'s App Store, outlining a distribution system for applications built on its Android platform.Android Market will serve...

Federal judge finds Qualcomm violated aspects of injunction

Like squabbling politicians, Broadcom Corp. and Qualcomm Inc. issued dueling press releases yesterday on a federal judge's ruling that Qualcomm had violated certain conditions...

Venture capital financing wrap-up: BuzzCity, JumpTap and RadioFrame

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

Tests show troubles with Obama’s SMS play

Nearly three million mobile users received Barack Obama's SMS about his new running mate, but many of those who signed up may have gotten...

In-market roaming debate hangs over wireless mergers

Roaming - until recently a backburner, stand-alone issue - suddenly has emerged as a potential pivot point in the Federal Communications Commission's consideration of...

Worst of the Week: Gunslingers

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...

Leap launches video-viewing features

Cricket Communications Inc. said it is giving customers all the video their eyes can take, for $5 a month. The subsidiary of Leap Wireless...

VIDEO: DNC provides big stage for wireless: Pepsi Center essentially one big cell site

DENVER - It's a glitzy, ostentatious spectacle that has drawn hundreds of powerful politicians, thousands of TV cameras, tens of thousands of convention-goers and...

GPS a route to conviction

Like millions of motorists, Eric Hanson used a Global Positioning System unit in his Chevrolet TrailBlazer to find his way around. He probably didn't...
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