Yearly Archives: 2008

VZW quietly rolls out Rev. A PTT service : Pair of phones target business users

Verizon Wireless has re-placed itself in the push-to-talk arena. As promised earlier this year, Verizon Wireless has released two new PTT phones, running on...

VIDEO: Olympics to provide vast opportunity for mobile content

Welcome to our weekly RCR Wireless Newscast. This week it's all about the Olympics, which are set to...

Moto raids Qualcomm for handset leadership: Sanja Jha to lead firm’s handset biz

Sanjay Jha, formerly COO at Qualcomm Inc., will lead efforts at Motorola Inc. to turn around the beleaguered company's handset division, the companies said...

Sweden’s IKEA Offers Cheap Phone Calls

The furniture retailer claims that its new pay-as-you-go mobile service for loyal customers is Britain's cheapest by 25%

Gartner: ‘Caveats apply’ for enterprise iPhone use

Battery life, security issues could affect custom business apps. After three weeks of testing and reviewing Apple Inc. 's new iPhone 2 .0 firmware...

Centennial looks to 3G deployments, higher ARPU users

Centennial Communications Corp. put out results for its fiscal fourth-quarter and full-year that ended May 31, with a consolidated annual revenue exceeding $1 billion.Consolidated...

Commscope Q2 results get boost from Andrew buy

CommScope Inc. released second-quarter results, reporting revenue of $1.09 billion, net income of $40.2 million and strong international sales. CommScope said sales more than...

Sprint Nextel dinged $73M for ETF policy: California court decision seen as harbinger for other ETF cases

A California Superior Court judge ordered Sprint Nextel Corp. to pay $73 million after finding its early termination fee policy violated California law.Alameda County...

Analyst Angle: Be mindful of the legal restrictions on mobile ads: Cellphone advertising may be the next frontier, but proceed with caution

For years, mobile advertising has been touted as the next frontier. Its day may finally have arrived. Recent reports suggest that almost 60 million...

Linux group adds more members, embedded handsets hit markets

The LiMo Foundation announced nine new members today and said that more handsets with its operating system are launching in North America and Japan....

What you need to know about imaging solutions for camera phones

Today's camera phones will give way to 'intelligent' phones that use their image camera subsystems in ways beyond simple still image or video capture.

Rumor Mill: iPhone nano in time for Christmas

About this time a year ago rumors began circulating about a smaller nano-sized iPhone. The UK’s Daily Mail has resurrected the rumor again, just...

Update: Apple resurrects iPhone tethering app, then kills it yet again

Apple yanks connection-sharing software from App Store a second time. The on-again, off-again saga of NetShare, an iPhone tethering application, continued over the weekend...

AT&T All But Confirms iPhone Exclusivity Extended Until 2010 [IPhone]

In an overlooked USA Today article from Friday, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson and "insider sources" quietly all but confirmed that the company has retained...

TerreStar signs roaming agreement with AT&T

Satellite communications company TerreStar Networks Inc. said it signed a nationwide reciprocal roaming agreement with AT&T Inc.TerreStar is developing an all-IP integrated satellite-terrestrial communications...

Verizon Wireless upgrades to visual voicemail: LG Voyager first to offer service

Verizon Wireless quietly launched visual voicemail, allowing customers to view caller and voicemail information and listen to voicemail messages in any order on their...

Sagem, world’s No. 8 handset maker, to go to venture capital firm: Owner Safran to take $343M hit as part of deal

Safran said it will swallow $343 million to spin off its troubled Sagem Mobiles division to venture capital firm Sofinnova.Sofinnova plans to rebrand the...

Nortel stock plunges on outlook

Nortel Networks Corp.'s stock plunged nearly 15% after the infrastructure provider released relatively flat second quarter results, but warned of future instability in the...

Toshiba shuts down Japanese mobile TV effort

Toshiba Corp. said it will shut down its four-year-old, satellite-based digital multimedia broadcasting service, which it offers via its Mobile Broadcasting Corp. business unit.The...

Nokia, D&G see 10% clickthrough on viral effort

Luxury brand Dolce&Gabbana said it ran a successful mobile advertising campaign on the Nokia Media Network.The company's youth-oriented brand, D&G, used a viral campaign...

Fall gal

I guess if you lose a few billion dollars, someone has to take the blame. Or at least that was the case last week...

Moto CEO: iPhone knockoff in the works

Motorola Inc. says its troubled handset business is improving and will be stronger by the end of the year, but CEO Gregory Brown isn't...

Verizon Wireless pulls controversal pit-bull ad

Verizon Wireless is the latest marketer to yank an ad deemed offensive, in what has become a minor trend of marketers caving to pressure...
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