Monthly Archives: February, 2011

Movers & Shakers: WAC announces new members; Cellcrypt appoints president; and more

Cellcrypt, provider of encrypted cell phone voice calling, announced the appointment of Matthew Cochran to the position of president of Cellcrypt FZE. He will...

Features Editor: Matt Kapko

 Matt Kapko Matt Kapko specializes in the converged space of mobile, digital media and entertainment. Matt is a tenacious journalist with more than nine years...

Reader Forum: M2M network resilience; are users under-estimating its importance?

The machine-to-machine sector is fast becoming a victim of its own success. As the world wakes up to the infinite possibilities of empowering machines...

Unplugged Editor: Sylvie Barak

Sylvie Barak is editor of RCR Unplugged. Having started her journalism career working for well known British tech news site, The Inquirer, Sylvie has...

Globe Telecom (GLO) in trouble?

Benzinga | February 17, 2011 |Ron Acoba Now, Ayala Corporation (AC) – led Globe Telecom, Inc. or GLO in the Philippine Stock Exchange looks to...

HP helps telecom operators in Korea expand app stores for mobile users

Business Wire | February 2011 | Press Release Korea Telecom, SK Telecom, LG U+ to use apps created in unified global ...

Compal, Chunghwa picture tubes set up joint venture in China

CENS | February 18, 2011 | Steve Chuang Taipei, Feb. 18, 2011 (CENS)--Compal Electronics Inc., one of the world`s top two notebook PC makers, and...

ZTE to bid on Nortel patents, Ericsson “watching”

Reuters | February 16, 2011 | Huang Yuntao and Leila Abboud (Reuters) - A major Chinese telcoms-network equipment maker said on Wednesday it will bid...

ZTE to bid on Nortel patents, Ericsson "watching"

Reuters | February 16, 2011 | Huang Yuntao and Leila Abboud (Reuters) - A major Chinese telcoms-network equipment maker said on Wednesday it will bid...

Dassault Systemes promising cloud offering, Colombia offices by year’s end

Business News Americas | February 18, 2011 | Matthew Malinowski Rolling out both a cloud-based offering and opening Colombia offices are among French software provider...

Dassault Systemes promising cloud offering, Colombia offices by year's end

Business News Americas | February 18, 2011 | Matthew Malinowski Rolling out both a cloud-based offering and opening Colombia offices are among French software provider...

Telefonica looking to buy Vivo common shares

Bloomberg | February 16, 2011 | The Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Spain's Telefonica plans to hold a public tender to pay up to...

Televisa faces loss of advertising

Wall Street Journal | February 18, 2011 | Jose De Cordoba MEXICO CITY—Companies controlled by Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim have decided to stop advertising through...

America Movil Unit To Invest $180 Million in Ecuador In 2011

Wall Street Journal | February 17, 2011 | Mercedes Alvaro Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES QUITO (Dow Jones)--Ecuador's largest cellphone company, Porta Celular, the local unit of...

Peru challenging Colombia’s IT service rise, analyst says

Business News Americas | February 18, 2011 | Matthew Malinowski Government support has given a shot in the arm to Colombia's nascent position as an...

Peru challenging Colombia's IT service rise, analyst says

Business News Americas | February 18, 2011 | Matthew Malinowski Government support has given a shot in the arm to Colombia's nascent position as an...

Twitter suspends UberMedia mobile clients

Well here's something to annoy all those Blackberry users out there - Twitter has today suspended the platform's most popular Twitter client, UberTwitter, as well as Android client Twidroyd and iPhone App UberCurrent.

Bits & Bytes: Skype's mobile partner program; The Weather Channel app; and more

Skype announced a mobile partner program for operators in markets with low 3G broadband penetration. The program aims to bring the Skype experience to...

Bits & Bytes: Skype's mobile partner program; The Weather Channel app; and more

Skype announced a mobile partner program for operators in markets with low 3G broadband penetration. The program aims to bring the Skype experience to...

Sprint Nextel adds to mobile payment options

Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) has expanded its mobile payment billing options signing an agreement with BilltoMobile to allow Sprint Nextel customers to charge online...

Worst of the Week: Welcome to our robot rulers

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...

MetroPCS joins RCA

The Rural Cellular Association gained its largest member today as regional operator MetroPCS Communications Inc. (PCS) has joined the trade association. The move provides...

@ MWC: Qualcomm looking to make investments in proximity based tech

BARCELONA, Spain – Location, location, location was the message sent out by Qualcom Inc.'s Paul Jacobs this week at the Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona, Spain. The firm's CEO said the new wave of mobile was all about proximity based peer to peer, and that Qualcomm would be making significant efforts to invest in firms and technologies which took advantage of that vision.

@ MWC: RIM’s co-founder cozies up to carriers

BARCELONA, Spain – It’s not often operators get the cheerleader treatment from mobile phone makers, but Jim Basille of Research In Motion Ltd. was certainly waving his pom-poms for them this week during his keynote at the Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona, Spain.

@ MWC: Elop lays the cheese on thick

BARCELONA, Spain – Stephen Elop delivered what can only be described as a cheese-fest during his appearances during MWC at the Barcelona Fira this week. Laying it on thick, the Microsoft Corp. transfer refused to talk about the new MicroKia partnership, instead opting for the same old spiel about how Nokia Corp. was saving the world.
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