Yearly Archives: 2008

Police use texting for crime tips

Anonymous crime tips, long a staple of police investigations, are increasingly coming in by text message.

Mobile Search Has Promise, Pitfalls

Will the Google of mobile search arise?

AT&T Discusses 3G iPhone Upgrade Policy

Current iPhone users are automatically eligible to buy the 3G iPhone, but potential new users might have to prove they are worthy.

Runcom to Present the First WiMAX-TV Set Top Box at WiMAX Forum

Runcom Technologies Ltd , disclosed today at the WiMAX Forum Global Congress 2008, the first Internet TV Set Top Box (STB).

Skype’s latest puts focus on watching who you call

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Web communications leader Skype begins public testing on Wednesday of a new version of its software for making free or low-cost...

Infrastructure awards wrap-up: Alvarion, Ericsson 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...

Retail Snapshot: Independent retailer sees trends toward ‘capped-rate’ plans

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

Velocita nabs SkyTel’s paging service for $7.5M

Bell Industries Inc. has finally gotten SkyTel off its plate. Velocita Wireless L.L.C. bought the division for $7.5 million, paying $3 million in closing,...

LG hides Bluetooth headset inside phone

Verizon Wireless unveiled what it said is the first mobile phone with a built-in detachable Bluetooth headset.The Decoy, from LG Electronics Co. Ltd., features...

Cox papers go mobile

Cox Newspapers has tapped Quattro Wireless to power 19 new wireless Web sites.The subsidiary of Atlanta's Cox Enterprises Inc. launched mobile destinations for newspapers...

VIDEO: RCR Wireless Newscast for Monday, June 16, 2008

The FCC held a hearing last week on how to regulate early termination fees, which are charges wireless...

iPhone on the cheap: Apple seizes the day to pursue content revenue

APPLE INC. IS THE NAME and, now, sheer volume is the game.Before the "wow" factor for his much-hyped handset fades or is eclipsed by...

AT&T Mobility turns up heat on competition: 3G iPhone pricing set to impact all carriers

While Apple Inc.'s 3G iPhone includes a number of new technologies to excite tech-savvy phone users, it's the device's price and enterprise focus that...

Interoperability concerns plague mobile ad space: Third Screen Media singled out for not cooperating

NEW YORK - Turns out all those "open vs. closed" debates aren't limited just to mobile networks and software platforms. Wireless advertising is joining...

Mobile marketing lacks simplicity needed to take off

NEW YORK - Here's something you probably haven't heard before: this is not the year of mobile advertising. And next year may not be...

Motorola’s Tricky Reality

Motorola Inc. and its mobile-devices division have amicably agreed to separate. But working out the financial details may be tough.

DoCoMo Confirms Bangladesh Investment

Japan's DoCoMo has finally confirmed that it is buying a 30 percent stake in TM International (Bangladesh) Limited (TMIB), a mobile phone operator based...

Tiny text messages can pack a wallop

Are marketing and transactional text messages right for e-retailers? They're being used by a handful of merchants and garnering success as consumers are growing...

Mozilla Girds for Mobile Browser Warfare

When Mozilla releases its Firefox 3 browser update June 17, it hopes to set the first-ever Guinness world record for number of Internet software...

T-Mobile to sell 3G iPhone from 1 euro in Germany

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Deutsche Telekom AG's (DTEGn.DE: Quote , Profile , Research , Stock Buzz ) T-Mobile will sell Apple Inc's (AAPL.O: Quote ,...

Telstra’s media ambitions pay off

TELSTRA'S bid to turn itself into a media company is paying dividends, according to BigPond chief Justin Milne, who yesterday told the Cannes Advertising...

Analyst Angle: Apple’s possible iPhone miss

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...

Hell to pay

An emerging subplot in the escalating early termination fee controversy is the harsh criticism that's surfacing in federal lawsuits over the impact on consumer...

Teens ignore cellphone driving restrictions, study finds: Yet 31 states have considered some form of cellphone driving legislation

Teens love cellphones every bit as much as the mobile-phone industry embraces this critical demographic. And teens - being teens - can resist and...

Bank of America counts 1 million mobile bankers

Bank of America said it has topped the 1 million mark for its unique active mobile banking customers after one year of service.The company...
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