Yearly Archives: 2011

Worst of the Week: Intergalactic space battle!

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...

Worst of the Week: Intergalactic space battle!

I have to admit, it has taken nearly all of my willpower to remain neutral on the subject of LightSquared and how the company is managing to remain a viable option in launching a wholesale LTE network. Here is a company that is using satellite’s as part of their network coverage for a wholesale mobile broadband network using spectrum that seems to be nothing but a headache and a network that it seems the company lacks the financial resources to build.

Apps and web don't have to fight it out to the death, says Opera

Norwegian software firm Opera believes apps and the browser can live comfortably side by side without necessarily encroaching on each other.Speaking to RCR in...

Mobile payments puts the customer back in control of their cash

It takes the average American six to eight minutes to realize they’ve lost their phone whereas it takes them some six to eight hours...

Developers, feast your eyes on Qualcomm’s Dragonboard

Recently, RCR caught up with Qualcomm in Taipei to take a look at the firm’s latest developer offerings and tasty treats to lure mobile engineers into the Qualcomm ecosystem.

Review: First impressions of Google+ on Android

Many of you have probably already heard about the exciting new Google+ service. It seems to be very much an attempt to target Facebook...

RIM gets reamed in anonymous letter from company exec

As if RIM didn't have a tough enough to worry about at the moment, with falling handset sales and a middling response to their inaugural tablet launch, it seems the Canadian handset manufacturer now has to worry about rogue execs penning scathing letters expressing disillusionment with company management.

Classic Frogger fun on Android

Do you remember the good old days? Back when you had no responsibilities? Days spent cycling and playing. That summer when you seemed to...

Numbers of households with mobile phone have increased in Peru

Nearly three-fourths of Peru’s households had a mobile phone at the end of the first quarter, according to the “The Information and Communication...

Streamlining Telecommunications Infrastructure Operations: Issues & Best Practices

For telecomm infrastructure companies, operations questions abound: How are companies to manage the vast amounts of information they need to track their ever-expanding networks?...

Catapult Systems, Seed Labs launch new mobile app division

Austin-based technology consultancy Catapult Systems announced a partnership with Seed Labs to create a new division known as Mobile Alchemy to focus exclusively on...

Nokia sells off messaging unit to Synchronica

Nokia Corp. (NOK) continues to shed business interests as it shifts its strategy on many fronts. The latest to go is the company’s operator-branded...

Smartphones now lead the pack in U.S. device sales

From the it-was-only-a-matter-of-time department, smartphones now comprise the majority of all new handset purchases in the United States. In addition to leading the pack...

Partnerships: G&D's new SIM card; Sybase wins over Dutch-Bangla Bank; and more

Red Bend Software, Mobile Software Management (MSM), announced that BYD Electronic Company Limited of China, manufacturer of mobile handset components and modules, has licensed...

LightSquared files with FCC, pushes some interference blame onto GPS device makers

LightSquared filed a modified spectrum plan with the Federal Communications Commission that the company said would solve interference issues with approximately 99.5% of all...

Zynga valued up to $20B, IPO rumored soon

San Francisco-based Zynga Inc., which creates online games for mobile devices and sites such as Facebook, plans to file an initial public offering (IPO)...

MTAM aims to equalize talent vacuum in mobile and create jobs

DETROIT — Linda Daichendt, a small business consultant, was frustrated a couple years back when she kept coming up empty in her quest for...

HP TouchPad tablet premieres tomorrow after mixed reviews

About one year following Hewlett-Packard Co. buying out the dwindling Palm, HP is launching the inaugural tablet to use Palm’s webOS operating system scheduled...

Dominos on Android for UK pizza lovers

Three of my favourite things in life are Android, pizza and coffee. Imagine my delight, then, when I discovered that Dominos Pizza has launched...

Vodafone hints at $5.5B in annual Verizon Wireless dividend, increase in India tax bill

International wireless conglomerate Vodafone Group plc (VOD) said it could receive up to $5.5 billion in an annual dividend from its 45% ownership stake...

MySpace offloaded to advertising group for $30 million

Oh how the mighty have fallen. One-time king of the social networks, MySpace, has finally been sold by owner News Corp for a rather paltry (rumoured) $30 million to advertising firm Specific Media. The amount is less than a third of the $100 million News Corp were hoping to recoup with the sale of the iconic social network, which paved the way for current social supremo Facebook.

NFC payments will change human behavior

NFC is going to change how we behave and significantly enhance mobile marketing according to Mohammed Khan President and Founder of Vivotech, an NFC...

Interoperability crucial for NFC to take off

Speaking at the GSMA’s mobile payment conference in Singapore, Barba said it was important that the industry work together to make NFC take off,...

RCR climbs Malaysia’s tallest telecom tower

Let it not be said that the RCR team is not dare deviling and adventurous, dear readers! This past week our team climbed the world's fourth largest telecom tower - and the second tallest freestanding tower in the world - in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to get some good shots of the structure, whose antenna reaches up to a whopping 421 m (1,381 ft).

Cartoon of the day: Google+ vs. Facebook

With all the buzz (pun intended) around Google+ and people vying for invites left right and center, Google has had to close the flood gates, for one night at least, as it attempts to keep up with the "insane" demand for the new social networking service.
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