Yearly Archives: 2008

Apple drags its heels on iPhone security patches

Apple has failed to keep software for the iPhone up to date with patches available for its desktop PCs. The latest version of the...

Venture capital financing wrap-up: Apprion and mFoundry

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

MetroPCS’ stock stunned by Q2 results

The one-two punch of a typically slow quarter and overall economic challenges dazed regional wireless provider MetroPCS Communications Inc., which posted customer growth results...

Worst of the Week: Motorola, why not me?

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...

4G migration paths: WiMAX vs. LTE

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

IMS continues struggle for adoption: Complex architecture befuddles carriers and customers

The blueprints for the much-hyped IP Multimedia Subsystems architecture have been drawn, plans have been made, dreams have hatched; nearly everything needed to be...

Nokia, Telenor sign Internet services deal

HELSINKI (Reuters) - The world's top cellphone maker Nokia said on Thursday it had signed a cooperation agreement with Norwegian telcom group Telenor for...

Pay-by-phone commerce coming closer

Whipping out your mobile phone to pay for a sandwich at lunchtime could soon become a reality. The global trade body for the mobile...

Hackers crack cash machine PIN codes to steal millions

Citibank machines in 7-Eleven stores targetted in most effective remote PIN code theft scam in US banking history. Millions of bank customers face a...

Blockbuster may do Circuit deal later: report

(Reuters) - Blockbuster Inc (BBI.N: Quote , Profile , Research , Stock Buzz ), which abandoned its offer to buy Circuit City Stores Inc...

Huawei seeking capital and foothold in U.S.

Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., the Chinese vendor of entry-tier phones, is seeking a capital infusion for its handset division to fuel international expansion of...

A conversation with Nokia’s Mary McDowell, chief development officer

Won't it take time to develop an open-source version of Symbian, giving competing open-source groups time to get their products out? One of the...

Consolidation presses roaming issues: Congress, smaller carriers fear unreasonable requirements

While wireless providers - large and small - differ on such hot-button issues as universal service support, exclusive handset arrangements and special access, the...

Huawei’s handset biz draws desire, and capital, of private equity: Moto apparently left out in cold

Huawei Technologies Co. has five interested suitors seeking a stake in the Chinese telecom company's handset division, according to today's Wall Street Journal. The...

T-Mobile USA balks at FCC’s plans for AWS-3 auction

T-Mobile USA Inc. asked the Federal Communications Commission to extend up to three months the public comment cycle for a controversial free wireless Internet...

Lawsuits target alleged government cellphone tracking

The American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Frontier Foundation sued the Bush administration in federal court to obtain records on allegedly unchecked cellphone...

VIDEO: Vlingo elbows for room on speech-recognition field : Firm uses D2C to ‘talk’ on BlackBerries

Speech recognition technology wins the "the most over-promised and under-delivered of all time award," according to vlingo Corp. CEO Dave Grannan. But the space...

Motorola Survey Reveals Significant Savings From Mobile Worker Use of GPS-Enabled Technologies

North American Information Technology (IT) decision makers within the transportation, manufacturing and trucking/warehousing industries stated that global positioning system (GPS) technologies are an essential...

Calif. motorists drop cell phones, pick up hands-free devices

LOS ANGELES---- Millions of California motorists have had to put down their cell phones or risk a ticket as a new law takes effect...

Yahoo signs U.K. mobile-advertising deal

Under the deal, the Internet company will supply ads for network operator 3 UK's mobile-Internet portal, starting later this month. It already has partnership...

EU Approves Nokia’s $8.1 Billion Acquisition Of Navteq

The addition of Navteq's location services creates an online maps powerhouse that will compete with Tom Tom and potentially the Google Android set.

Mobile Software Blends Wi-Fi/GPS Signal for Accuracy

Skyhook Wireless upgrades mobile wireless package.Skyhook Wireless has released the latest version of its positioning software , adding new algorithms to blend Wi-Fi and...

EU opens bidding for Galileo satnav network

BRUSSELS - The European Commission invited bids on Tuesday for contractors to participate in the construction of the European Union's much delayed Galileo satellite...

TV ad spending to set record in presidential race

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - The 2008 presidential race, which has already drawn a record number of dollars and voters, is poised to shatter another...

Financial ratings wrap-up: Rogers, Ericsson, Syniverse 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--Standard & Poor's Ratings Services...
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