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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2011
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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.
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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 Asia, recently, Phillip Gr
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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 to realize they’ve lost their wallet …
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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.
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Many of you have probably already heard about the exciting new Google+ service. It seems to be very much an attempt to target Facebook users in the same way that …
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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.
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Do you remember the good old days? Back when you had no responsibilities? Days spent cycling and playing. That summer when you seemed to scrape your knee every other day. …
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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 Technologies in Households” report produced by The National …
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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? How can data be captured and …
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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 developing custom apps for mobile phones …
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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 messaging business, which gave carriers in …
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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 among existing smartphone devices, Google Inc.’s …
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Partnerships: G&D's new SIM card; Sybase wins over Dutch-Bangla Bank; and more
by Sandra Cuyaby Sandra CuyaRed Bend Software, Mobile Software Management (MSM), announced that BYD Electronic Company Limited of China, manufacturer of mobile handset components and modules, has licensed Red Bend’s vRapid Mobile
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LightSquared files with FCC, pushes some interference blame onto GPS device makers
by Dan Meyerby Dan MeyerLightSquared filed a modified spectrum plan with the Federal Communications Commission that the company said would solve interference issues with approximately 99.5% of all commercial GPS devices, including 100% of …
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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) with the U.S. Securities and Exchange …
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DETROIT — Linda Daichendt, a small business consultant, was frustrated a couple years back when she kept coming up empty in her quest for mobile businesses based here in her …
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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 for tomorrow. The TouchPad is similar …
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Three of my favourite things in life are Android, pizza and coffee. Imagine my delight, then, when I discovered that Dominos Pizza has launched an Android app for the UK …
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Vodafone hints at $5.5B in annual Verizon Wireless dividend, increase in India tax bill
by Dan Meyerby Dan MeyerInternational wireless conglomerate Vodafone Group plc (VOD) said it could receive up to $5.5 billion in an annual dividend from its 45% ownership stake in Verizon Wireless (VZ), according to …
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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.
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NFC is going to change how we behave and significantly enhance mobile marketing according to Mohammed Khan President and Founder of Vivotech, an NFC software and systems firm with 70% …
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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, as a local ecosystem was mandatory …
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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).
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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.