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 insights into the marketplace.The wireless industry is at a critical inflection point for smartphones. According to Gartner Inc., smartphone sales...
Big box retailers have made comparing cellphone plans and pricing much quicker by putting most of the options under one roof. So the real question is who has what?Best Buy Co. Inc. sells more than 90 different handsets across nine prepaid/postpaid carriers through its...
Ericsson’s growing presence in the North American market is set for further expansion in the coming months as the infrastructure and technology giant this week announced that its current CTO Hakan Eriksson would begin heading up the company’s IP business based in San Jose,...
Wireless chip supplier Qualcomm Inc. on Wednesday forecast weaker than expected full-year results, but its extension of a key deal with Korea's Samsung Electronics helped offset the disappointment for some investors.Reuters
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 us at RCRWireless.com to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong way....
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 insights into the marketplace.High-speed wireless data applications are exploding in popularity. The Wireless Federation noted in late 2008 that “mobile...
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 us atRCRWireless.com to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong way. We...
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 insights into the marketplace.As 2010 and the first launches of Long-Term Evolution (LTE) networks approach, the global mobile industry is...
From boarding passes to checking in luggage, airlines are testing wireless technology in efforts to speed travelers through to their destinations.Delta Air Lines, American Airlines and Continental Airlines are all offering mobile ticketing programs at some airports. And United Airlines is testing radio frequency...
What a strange paradoxical digital world this is, with its seemingly endless supply of free content gushing through broadband pipes amid the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. How can this be? Is there such a thing as a free lunch after all,...
With WiMAX being deployed all around the world, Intel Corp. officials are satisfied with the progress the technology has made in the United States and are hopeful federal stimulus funds can help accelerate the technology's deployment. Sean Maloney, Intel EVP, said this week that...
The difficult economy has had an effect on the Ultra Wideband market, with 2008 marking the exit of four UWB chip makers from the market, according to a report from research firm In-Stat.The company noted Focus Semiconductor declared bankruptcy, WiQuest went out of business,...
With three of the four largest wireless providers in the United States selling femtocells to boost indoor coverage, and the fourth expected to join the party, a Massachusetts company is banking millions that the technology will take off.Verizon Wireless was the most recent to...
An inventory buildup, slowing demand and lack of visibility into how to weigh those two factors is hanging over the wireless chip industry as companies search for a way ahead. As most handset vendors posted volume shipment decreases for the typically hot fourth quarter,...
Fiscal first-quarter revenue for Qualcomm Inc. reached $2.52 billion, up 3% year-on-year - the high-end of the company's prior guidance - and net income reached $341 million, down 56% from the year-ago quarter. One reason for the fall in income: losses in the chipmaker's...
Texas Instruments, Inc. yesterday posted a 30% year-on-year drop in revenue and a 95% drop in operating profit. About one-quarter of T.I.'s revenue in the fourth quarter was derived from wireless work. As a result, the company announced it would cut 12% of its...
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. today delivered a mixed bag of results - strong handset shipments and net profit loss - but it had already taken steps to deal with strength in handsets and weakness in its memory chip and flat-screen TV businesses.The company announced...
Mobile handsets bolstered sales and profits at Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. in the fourth quarter, as the Korean handset vendor cemented its No. 2 global position.The company shipped 53 million handsets in the quarter and garnered 18% global market share, its highest ever. That...
Qualcomm Inc. agreed to pay about $65 million today for certain assets from chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices Inc., including intellectual property and the right to hire key technology personnel to enhance its mobile multimedia play.The move appeared designed to gain ownership over key IP...
As goes the handset market, so goes the chip market - with a few notable variations on the theme.The slackening demand for handsets has caused an inventory buildup among chip suppliers' channels, will dampen those suppliers' revenue in the new year and may lead...
Research indicates that 2010 will be the year that femtocell technology will boom, and the major carriers are positioning themselves to take advantage by selling a product that boosts wireless signals in homes and offices that have spotty coverage.Sprint Nextel Corp. was the first...
You could see it coming. Once President Bush signed the $700 billion Wall Street bailout bill into law, most certainly it was not going to end there. With clouds of economic turmoil darkening by the day, the auto industry jetted into town with tin...
