April 2010

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 this column is a chance for …

In Google’s first quarter earnings call today, Jeff Huber, Google’s senior vice president of engineering discussed a number of mobile specific tools his firm had rolled out over the past …

One of the highlights of Google’s first quarter earnings call today was the revelation about the amazing growth Android has seen over the past few months. Jeff Huber, Google’s senior …

Mobile advertising is “doing very well” for Google, according to the firm’s vice president of product management, Susan Wojcicki, speaking on the company’s earnings call Thursday about the search giant’s …

Mobile TV content got another boost this week as 12 major broadcast groups announced they’d be teaming up to form a national service for beaming programs to mobile devices live …

Having the whole family crowd around one screen in the living room is rapidly becoming a thing of the past, as a plethora of options have begun to pop up …

Computer maker, Toshiba, has confirmed it will be bringing out tablets of its own to try and capture some of Apple’s market share pie. Feeling confident after seeing sales skyrocket …

Walmart is launching a TV advertising campaign touting its Straight Talk prepaid wireless service, promising savings of up to $850 per year. The advertising effort likely will bring even more …

Nokia Siemens Networks scored a service contract to expand Telefonica O2 Germany’s network. Financial details of the contract were not released.The contract calls for Nokia Siemens to provide network implementation, …

With not one bit of modesty, Verizon Wireless today announced launch plans for the latest model in its Droid handset lineup, the HTC Corp. Droid Incredible. Like the other devices …

Verizon Communications Inc. said it has broken ground on its Technology Innovation Center in Waltham, Mass., that is to be central to the company’s ongoing deployment of LTE technology.The center, …

Novatel Wireless said a2Network Corp., an MVNO for NTT DoCoMo in Japan, is launching its MiFi 2372 Intelligent Mobile Hotspot.Sprint Nextel Corp. and Samsung Telecommunications America have teamed up in …

Sioux Falls is the largest city in South Dakota, with a population of more than 150,000 according to a 2008 U.S. Census Bureau estimate. Like most American cities, Sioux Falls …

RCR Unplugged recently told readers of Intel Corp.’s efforts to port Google Inc.’s Android operating system to its Atom chip, in the hope that the ever-popular Google operating system might …

It was early in the morning and the hordes of people were already pushing and shoving, twitching and elbowing, preparing themselves for the instant the shop would open and they …

Android development is certainly moving at break-neck speed, but even as Google released new statistics on the version breakdown for the mobile operating system, concerns over platform fragmentation continued to …

In its marketing campaign for the iPhone, Apple and AT&T relentlessly repeat the well known mantra “There’s an app for that,” showcasing just how easy it is to find points …

Speaking as an iPhone user and enthusiast, I was thrilled when Opera for the iPhone finally got accepted into the App Store fold. It seems, however, that my early excitement …

Speaking as an iPhone user and enthusiast, I was thrilled when Opera for the iPhone finally got accepted into the App Store fold. It seems, however, that my early excitement …

Leap Wireless International Inc. is using 2010 to catch its breath, or at least that was the sentiment from its CFO Walter Berger who spoke this morning at Goldman Sachs’ …

Jeff Mucci with Robert Elliott, Chief Marketing Officer for Smith Micro

The cold war between Apple and Adobe over the former’s near maniacal desire to keep Flash off the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad has been heating up in what could …

The German government this week took the lead on the deployment of so-called “4G” technologies with the launch of a spectrum auction involving 360 megahertz of spectrum spread across four …

The German government this week took the lead on the deployment of so-called “4G” technologies with the launch of a spectrum auction involving 360 megahertz of spectrum spread across four …

Even though the wireless handset market will rebound this year, the world’s top 10 contract manufacturers will continue to struggle as they try to recover from a disastrous 2009, according …