Yearly Archives: 2008

Judge ruling on Sprint fees is blow to industry

The fees that cell phone carriers charge customers who break service contracts took a big hit in a California courtroom when a judge said...

How to configure and deploy the iPhone 3G for business, part 1

If it's going to be used at work, IT needs to know what to do. One of biggest stories behind the release of the...

Text Messages Rule Mobile Ads

Simple ad formats reaching the widest audience

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...

Financial ratings wrap-up: Verizon, Palm, Qualcomm and more

The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.Carrier--RBC Capital Markets lowered its...

Firms look to tame the wireless wild for enterprise

How much do we really know about our phones or - even more complex - our smartphones? We know they turn on, make calls...

Carrier partnership good business for The Wireless Zone

Editor's Note: In this monthly feature, RCR Wireless News talks to retailers across the country to get a first-hand view of what's hot in...

Mobile video phone sales set for strong growth

Mobile video phone sales reached nearly $99 million in 2007 and should experience strong growth during the next five years despite worries about profitability...

Teen growth in mobile slowing

Wireless penetration rates for teens are reaching saturation and growth in the segment is stagnating, according to a new report from research firm MultiMedia...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...
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