RIM is showing off yet another sneak peek of its BlackBerry 6 operating system today, releasing a YouTube video monday filled with tons of tweetery and far too much Facebook for a traditionally enterprise phone
July 2010
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A 99 year old lady with glaucoma has just bought her first ever computing device – the iPad- and is telling the world how it has changed her life and become the apple of her eye.
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Adsmobil – The mobile advertising company has expanded its sales division, adding Thomas Anderson, formerly of JumpTap, and Wandrill Pruvot, formerly of Buzzcity. Anderson will serve as sales director, Americas, …
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How often do you hear your friends tell about their can’t-fail app idea? All too often, once someone first gets their hands on a smart phone running on one of …
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Despite claims that the WiMAX market is set for rough waters, one analyst firm noted in a recent report that new specifications for the technology and overall growth in fixed/portable …
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The telecommunications segment continues to lose jobs, declining 2,300 from May to June, and a whopping 47,100 jobs from June 2009 to June 2010. Employment in the wireless subsector was …
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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 for those with something meaningful to …
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Reader Forum: Cell awareness an effective alternative to costly mobile backhaul
by jscarboby jscarboEditor’s Ntoe: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this forum for those with something meaningful to …
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Popping up again like a recurring rash is the rumor that Intel is about to acquire German chip maker Infineon’s mobile chip business, a move which would significantly help the firm in its ARM wrestle for significance in the mobile/wireless space.
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. Smartphones aren’t just changing the way we live, they’re changing the way we shop too. New data from Forrester says almost a third of consumers are using their phones …
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With all this talk of mobile internet being the best-thing-since-sliced-web, Ericsson has decided to throw its two cents into the ring with the proclamation that the internet had reached yet another milestone this week with the five billionth mobile subscription helped largely by emerging markets India and China.
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If there’s one thing NTP Inc. is really good at, it’s protecting patents with a fervor and winning handsome treasure along the way. Just ask BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion Ltd. …
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Microsoft recently announced it would be killing off its Kin devices, and Emblaze declared a while back that its ELSE Intuition smartphone would never see the light of day, but what other innovative devices have been killed off before being given much of a chance?
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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 …
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While nearly six in every 10 American adults are accessing the Internet via wireless technology, only 38% of all adults surveyed are accessing mobile data on a cell phone, according …
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If you were to imagine the type of person you believed was driving the adoption of the mobile web, that person would probably be a young, white yuppie yapping away on his iPhone. The only problem with that image is that new statistics say poorer African-Americans and Hispanics are actually driving the adoption of the mobile web in a much more significant way.
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SHANGHAI, China — The incredible success of Qualcomm Inc. (QCOM) is inextricably linked to the success of CDMA technology. The company has been pushing the technology ever since it refined …
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SHANGHAI, China — With more than 340 people in attendance, Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. gathered a diverse group of partners from around the world here to showcase its work on …
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Bits and Bytes: eAgency offers safety tools; American Tower launches in Chile; and more
by jscarboby jscarboeAgency Mobile Solutions announced the availability of Application and Browser blocking, which is a new feature of its My Mobile Watchdog child safety device. The blocking service is a free …
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SHANGHAI, China — It’s not every day you hear about a European operator using CDMA technology. Even rarer than that would be any mention of CDMA450, which is mostly viewed …
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Nowadays, with smartphones becoming the “must-have” devices for anyone under the age of 40 in the developed world, the distinction between enterprise phone and consumer phone is blurring and so are the distinctions between which operating systems are business focused and which are more for personal use.
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Editor’s Note: This article is an excerpt from RCR Wireless News’ May Special Edition, “Enabling the Mobile Revolution: Mobile Chips, Devices and Accessories.” The 80-page special edition is available here.The …
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FLO TV pinned big hopes on the 2010 FIFA World Cup and now the Qualcomm Inc. (QCOM) subsidiary is backing it up with results.Back in May, FLO TV’s director of …
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The world’s third-largest wireless operator Telefonica SA (TEF) said that despite being rebuffed on its latest proposal, it would stand by its offer to acquire Portugal Telecom’s (PT) 50% control …
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Synchronoss Technologies Inc. has acquired FusionOne Inc. for $40 million in order to expand its business offerings for wireless service providers. Synchronoss provides transaction management software, including order provisioning and …