Monthly Archives: September, 2010

Crown Castle closes on $115M purchase of NewPath Networks

Crown Castle International Corp. (CCI) closed on its previously announced acquisition of NewPath Networks Inc. Crown paid $115 million for the Distributed Antenna Systems...

ChaCha answers MMS call

ChaCha, the increasingly popular service that provides free answers to questions asked by users via text messages, today announced it has expanded its capabilities...

Contracts: CalAmp wins public safety deal; Huawei installs network for Mobyland

Following are infrastructure contracts announced during the past week:CalAmpUnited States: With the City of Plano, Texas, to install a mobile data network for the...

Reality Check: For QoS, carriers – not regulators – need to make network management decisions

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...

Flipboard CEO shows off app and answers questions

. A month and a half ago, RCR Unplugged covered slick social magazine app Flipboard when it launched to much public accolade and acclaim. Today...

San Francisco Mayor requests a campaign app

. San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom told the audience at AppNation today that the proliferation of mobile apps coupled with open city data would make...

Intel Wireless Display demoed on a tablet

. Wowing the crowd on the first day of its developer conference in San Francisco, chipmaker Intel showed off its WiDi technology, beaming content back...

Wal-Mart to offer branded mobile service: No-contract offering to use T-Mobile USA's network

UPDATED: Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT) is set to further its wireless ambitions next week with the launch of a branded mobile offering that will...

FCC to detail white-spaces spectrum use this month?

The Federal Communications Commission soon could approve rules to open up white-spaces spectrum to commercial use, according to an article in the New...

Gartner reads the OS tea leaves

Predicting the future in any aspect of technology is mostly a fool's errand, but that doesn't stop virtually every major research firm and analyst...

Nokia set to lose another executive

The executive shuffle continued at Nokia Corp. (NOK) today as the world’s largest mobile handset maker said Anssi Vanjoki, EVP and a member of...

Movers and Shakers: Verizon taps Davies as CFO; Hunt joins Kelley Drye & Warren; and more

Verizon Wireless named Andrew Davies vice president and chief financial officer. He replaces John Townsend, who has been named regional chief financial officer –...

Reader Forum: The consumer benefits of tiered pricing

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: Parting the skies for cloud music

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...

Games continue to dominate app downloads

. Americans continue to hunger for mobile phone apps, according to the latest edition of The Nielsen Company’s Apps Playbook, a new white paper on...

Unplugged @AppNation

. Today everything mobile seems to revolve around the concept of apps. Development, monetization, distribution, fragmentation – all terms the mobile world has become increasingly...

Tecore platform solves contraband cellphone access in prison

Contraband cellphones are the top problem today at prisons. Yet, attempts to block cellphone usage by prisoners has been a controversial topic – wireless...

Nokia replaces CEO: Kallasvuo out, Microsoft exec Elop in

Nokia Corp. (NOK), the world’s largest mobile device maker, said current CEO and President Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo will leave the company on Sept. 20 and...

Adobe revives iPhone developer tool

That sure didn't take long. Almost immediately after Apple Inc. eased a series of restrictions on developers and opened a path for Flash-based creations...

Worst of the Week: Keep the change

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...

ClearSky buys Preferred Voice

ClearSky Mobile Media Inc., which provides managed mobile data services and content for regional wireless carriers, said it has acquired the assets and clients...

Bits and Bytes: Sybase, Syniverse reach milestones; ActiveTrak updates security product; and more

Sybase 365 said it had processed more than 1 trillion interoperator messages since it launched the first SMS interoperability messaging hub in 2001. The...

@ Mobile Future Forward: The ‘second wave' of mobile advertising

SEATTLE — While demand for mobile ads is growing, supply is exploding, Millenial Media CEO Paul Palmieri said here at Mobile Future Forward on...

@ Mobile Future Forward: Mobile social media ‘still in the dark ages': Almost one-third of Facebook users access the site via mobile

SEATTLE — If you ask the head of mobile at Facebook Inc., he'll tell you we still have a long way to go before...

TV broadcasters form Mobile500 Alliance for mobile TV

Mobile digital television has been a long time coming and broadcasters have taken another step to push their dreams for a nationwide broadcast mobile...
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