Monthly Archives: February, 2010

Reality Check: 4G is the wireless NASDAQ

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...

Reality Check: Evolution of the mobile touch ecosystem

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...

RCR Exclusive: GTP secures funding for growth plans : $250M in notes, $155M in credit facility

Global Tower Partners closed on two separate financing agreements last week that will allow it to pursue growth opportunities in the tower sector, as...

Movers and Shakers

ChaCha – Steven Goldstein has been appointed chief revenue officer. Previously, Goldstein acted as Latino Interactive Network's executive vice president of global advertising sales.TerreStar...

Mobile developers a hot job category

Demand for mobile development grew 180% in 2009, fueled by the successes of the Apple and Android operating systems, according to Elance, an online...

Reader Forum: Google phones, iPhones and cloud phones: Where is the (operator’s) beef?

Traditional smartphones – such as BlackBerry’s – or “bypass phones” such as Google’s Nexus One and Apple’s iPhone, leverage the intelligence on the device,...

Startup firm has ambitious augmented reality plans

Augmented reality is the ethereal name given to the newest set of mobile content applications. But once you get past the description, the application...

@MWC: Worst of the Week: Nerds! Nerds! Nerds!

Hello! And welcome to our Friday column, Worst of the Week. There's a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so...

@MWC: Kyocera goes small for LTE infrastructure equipment play

BARCELONA – One advantage of the wireless industry’s move to the LTE technology standard is the plethora of new equipment that will be required...

Vodafone, VZW, nPhase form M2M alliance focused on multinational businesses

Vodafone, Verizon Wireless and nPhase formed an initiative to make it easier for global businesses to integrate machine-to-machine communications into their enterprises. Specifically, the...

@MWC: Brands, ad agencies suspicious of mobile marketing hype

BARCELONA -- "No doubt about it, to some extent we're selling change," Tim Sefton, customer director of Telefonica O2 UK, said today on a...

Alliances: VeriSign, nonprofit partner for health IT solution

VeriSign Inc. said it partnered with CAQH, a nonprofit alliance of health plans and trade associations, to conduct a pilot program to demonstrate secure...

Case Study: Hilbert Communications upgrades wireless capacity and reliability while slashing costs with Exalt

Hilbert Communications is a network operator with a wireless subsidiary focused on delivering voice and data services to rural areas in Wisconsin and Michigan....

@MWC: BBC lays out plan for increased mobile play

BARCELONA – As BBC’s director of future media and technology announced the broadcaster’s latest plans for the mobile platform he did, frankly, what more...

@MWC: Making music simple and profitable on mobile

BARCELONA – “Any piece of content should be playable within five seconds.” That’s the goal Spotify is after with its hugely popular music service...

RCR Stock Watch: Weekly Gainers and Losers

The RCR Wireless Stock Index had a good week with gainers outnumbering losers by almost a 3:1 margin. Wireless equipment company Superconductor Technologies, Inc....

Nextel, Televisa partner for upcoming Mexican spectrum auction

Armed with its new equity stake partner, Nextel Mexico officially entered its name into the list of bidders for new spectrum in Mexico.The iDEN...

Capital Markets: Glu, Nuance results, DoCoMo invests

Comarco, which makes mobile power solutions, said it expects to report revenues from its ChargeSource product line of between $8.9 million and $9.2 million...

@MWC: Bharti Airtel proves value of media in emerging markets

BARCELONA – In India today there are 500 million wireless subscribers spanning across 14 operators. Bharti Airtel, the third largest single-country operator in the...

Analyst Angle: 10 Israeli companies to watch in 2010

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...

@MWC: Mobile as an artistic outlet

BARCELONA – For Nick Rhodes, the keyboardist in Duran Duran, technology has never been an afterthought, but rather something he’s tried to leverage every...

@MWC: Carriers demand relevance in new mobile climate

BARCELONA – With all the talk at this year's Mobile World Congress event seemingly centered on the industry-altering properties of mobile applications, the players...

@MWC: VC firms see potential in mobile apps, offer advice

BARCELONA – Venture capital firms are finding the current rush of mobile application developers a solid segue for shaking off the past 18 months...

Analyst Angle: Good news at World Mobile Congress means quicker growth

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...

2010 could be "vintage" year for VC

The wireless industry has always had a tight relationship with venture capital firms that have in many cases funded the initial development and expansion...
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