Monthly Archives: June, 2010

Starbucks’ Wi-Fi Goes “Venti”

Starbucks to offer unlimited free Wi-Fi at 6700 US locations starting July 1st announced CEO Howard Schultz today in New York at Wired’s Business Conference “Disruptive by Design.”

Analyst Angle (Special Edition): BWA spectrum auction leaves a changed telecom landscape in India: Mukesh Ambani re-enters sector, WiMAX sees its signal begin to...

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...

Android shines in latest mobile Web report from Quantcast

Android's share of mobile Web consumption has hit overdrive in the past few months, according to a new report from Quantcast Corp. While...

Smaato: Symbian Still Reigns in US

Despite the well-publicized spat between Apple and Google, mobile advertising company Smaato’s monthly metrics shows that Symbian devices continue to dominate the US mobile advertising market.

RCR Wireless News May Special Edition: Enabling the Mobile Revolution, Chips, Devices and Accessories

A revolution is afoot in the mobile industry. A revolution being led by device makers that finally appear to have all of the tools...

RIL Makes Bold Play for India’s Wireless Future

Mukesh Ambani led Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) purchased 95% of Infotel Broadband Services Private Ltd for 48,000 crore ($1 billion) on Friday. Earlier that same day, Infotel was announced as the sole winner of a pan-India broadband wireless access (BWA) license for 12,848 crore ($3 billion).

Matt Kapko joins RCR Wireless News editorial team: Former RCR Wireless News journalist re-joins RCR Wireless News as feature editor

RCR Wireless News and parent company Arden Media Co. are pleased to announce that Matt Kapko has joined the staff as feature editor. In...

RCR Local Reston highlights and interviews

Highlight reel from RCR Local Reston, May 27, 2010 at the Sprint Executive Briefing Center in Reston, Va. RCR Wireless publisher Jeff Mucci interviews...

Reader Forum: High traffic networks need a congestion solution, not a congestion charge

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this forum...

Reader Forum: Second-gen political strategies need updating for 4G realities: Think 'Bat phone'

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this forum...

RCR Unplugged: Friday mobile shortbread: Headlines in brief

Buy Your iPhone at WalmartWant an iPhone 4G come June 24th? No problem, just head on down to your local Walmart, the coolest hipster...

Friday mobile shortbread: Headlines in brief

We bring you the roundup of all the important news before the weekend begins

Fuji-Shiba? Merger Between Fujitsu and Toshiba Rumored

Japanese Nikkei Business Daily reported Friday that Fujitsu Ltd and Toshiba Corp are in the final stages of talks to merge their mobile phone businesses. The combined operation would become Japan’s second largest handset maker after Sharp Corp.

Future Droid to Hit 2GHz by Christmas

In remarks to Chicago’s Executives Club on Wednesday, CEO of Motorola’s Mobile Devices and home business division Sanjay Jha announced another monster iPhone killer to be available by Christmas.

India's BWA concludes, raising $5.5 B : Infotel wins in all 22 circles

India’s Broadband Wireless Auction ended after 117 rounds, raking in nearly $5.5 billion for the government. Infotel Broadband Services Ltd. was the big winner,...

Motorola, Research In Motion settle patent dispute

Motorola Inc. and Research In Motion Ltd. said they have settled a more than two-year-old patent dispute that had each claiming the other was...

Worst of the Week: Do it for the children

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...

Bits and Bytes: InnerWireless equips CityCenter; InMobi launches in U.S.; and more

InnerWireless deployed a distributed antenna system for CityCenter, a 13.5 million square foot facility in Las Vegas that includes residential and hotel buildings, a...

India’s Reliance Communications to Sell 26% Stake

Short on cash after the latest 3G spectrum auction in India, second place Reliance Communications is looking to shore up assets by approving the sale of a minority stake of up to 26% to investors. Unnamed sources suggest Dubai’s Emirates Telecommunications Corp (known as Etisalat) may buy the shares for $4 billion.

China and Taiwan Unite…Over Telecom Standards

Telecommunications leaders from China and Taiwan met in Beijing on Wednesday and agreed to jointly standardize on Android, WiMax, and TD-LTE (Time-Division Long Term Evolution) among other accords.

Telmap navigates the road to mobile success

Satnav software maker Telmap is a company that clearly knows which direction it’s going in. The privately held white label mapping and navigation firm has recently been undergoing a strategy shift, transforming itself from a subscription company into one offering LBS (location-based services) to operators like the Orange FT Group, Vodafone, Vodacom, SFR, O2, Telefonica, AOL, Pelephone, Carphone Warehouse and more.

One device to rule them all says Movius

Separating work from personal life is certainly something most people would advocate, but when it comes to one’s mobile phone, it isn’t always easy to make the break.

Mobile marketing on the up-and-up

Mobile marketing and advertising outfit Velti has announced the launch of its mobile developer program while simultaneously releasing its software developer kits (SDK) for Android, Symbian, Windows, Blackberry and Apple’s iPhone and iPad.

Intel's tablet offerings on display

Intel certainly doesn’t want to be left sitting on the bench when it comes to the tablet game, and used the recent Computex expo in Taiwan to show what skills it brought to the table.

Rhetoric, lobbying dollars high ahead of next week's FCC meeting

While it's clear that regulatory changes are coming to broadband services and perhaps their mobile counterparts, trying to navigate which ones will spur investment...
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