Editor's Note: Welcome to Yay or Nay, a feature for RCR Wireless News' weekly e-mail service, Mobile Content and Culture. Every week we'll review a new wireless application or service from the user's point of view, with the goal of highlighting what works and...
NMS Communications introduced a division for its mobile personalization services. The Framingham, Mass.-based technology developer said it will target carriers with LiveWire Mobile, which will combine NMS' Infuse Personalization Platform with its marketing services business.NMS, which has gained significant traction in the lucrative ringback-tone...
In anticipation of possible industry-changing outcomes in next year's 700 MHz spectrum auction, Qualcomm Inc. announced its CDMA2000 and W-CDMA product lines would be available for devices that run on the highly-anticipated spectrum band.Qualcomm said that a new chip it developed would support the...
As major media outlets deliver their take on the departure of Motorola Inc.'s CEO Ed Zander, two camps are forming. Anointed CEO-to-be Greg Brown is the right man at the right time. Or he isn't.Since joining Motorola in 2003, Brown has led the company's...
President George W. Bush plans to appoint Democrat Jonathan Adelstein for a second term on the Republican-led Federal Communications Commission."I am deeply honored that the president has announced his intention to nominate me to serve another term as commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission,"...
Remember the disposable phone? If you answer yes, you're showing your age-they popped up and seemed to disappear a decade ago. But Hop-On Inc., "best known as the inventor of the disposable mobile phone," as the company reminds readers its recent press release, is...
In a bid to expand its direct-to-consumer content offerings, Nokia Corp. announced the release of a free-to-download, Internet-based radio service for its cellphones.The application, available to Nokia phone owners, allows users to browse hundreds of online radio stations worldwide based on station name,...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our Monday feature, Analyst Angle. We've collected a group of the industry's leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry. In the coming weeks look for columns from Current Analysis' Avi Greengart, iGR's Iain...
Verizon Wireless' two major announcements this week laid out not only a vision of open access for devices and applications on its current network, but augmented that vision with the carrier's technology choice for its next-generation network. "We see 4G really being the enablement...
Welcome to our Friday feature, Week in Review. Every Friday, RCR Wireless News runs through the major events of the week, outlining what happened and speculating on what to look for in the coming weeks, months and years. Check below for news about carriers,...
Handset distributor Brightpoint Inc. shuffled around some members of its executive team, promoting some veterans within the company to more prominent roles. The moves come as the company continues to integrate operations with Dangaard Telecom, a European handset distributor it recently acquired for $300...
Swapping out a chief executive sends a message of change. In the case of Motorola Inc.'s CEO Ed Zander's long-anticipated departure, announced today, the message-new leadership-will require updates. Investors and market watchers clearly want to know what's next.Motorola's core business in handsets continues to...
LG Electronics Co. Ltd. is creating a chief marketing officer position and the job will go to Dermot Boden, who starts work at the company's headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, in December.Boden, an Irishman, is already working in Asia, where he ran Pfizer's operations...
Google Inc. is in! The Internet search engine giant said it will participate-alone-in the 700 MHz auction set to begin Jan. 24."We believe it's important to put our money where our principles are," said Eric Schmidt, chairman and CEO of Google. "Consumers deserve more...
The third quarter of 2007 saw few changes to the relative positions of the ten largest wireless carriers, but pending acquisitions soon will continue the industry's march toward consolidation.
AT&T Mobility had a particularly strong quarter due to a boost from sales of the Apple...
Hello! And welcome to our Thursday 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 RCRWirelessNews.com to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong way....
The European Commission has taken another major step toward formally adopting DVB-H as a European-wide standard for mobile television services. The commission intends to finalize the adoption by February.The commission initially presented a strategy to accelerate the rollout of services in July, but today's...
Glu Mobile Inc. will step up its efforts in China with the acquisition of fellow mobile game publisher Beijing Zhangzhong MIG Information Technology Co. Ltd. The San Mateo, Calif.-based company will pay $14.7 million in cash and as much as $25 million more in...
The French finally got their chance to embrace another American export last night. Move over McDonalds and EuroDisney. Orange, the iPhone's exclusive French carrier (owned by France Telecom), offered a typically complex French equation for those who wanted the device: the device costs $589...
Verizon Wireless announced it will use Long Term Evolution technology for its fourth generation network. The carrier said that it and parent company Vodafone Group plc will begin testing LTE technology next year with equipment suppliers Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, Motorola Inc., Nokia- Siemens, and Nortel...
A class-action law firm has begun an investigation into mobile virtual network operator Virgin Mobile USA Inc. to determine if it bears any civil liability under federal securities laws to its shareholders.Kahn Gauthier Swick L.L.C. alleges that the MVNO may have withheld actual losses...
Google Inc. apparently got so fed up waiting for more GPS-enabled devices to hit the market that it has taken matters into its own hands. Google Maps for Mobile users can now have their location automatically set, with or without GPS.The search behemoth added...
Is the mobile-phone industry's increasingly reluctant embrace of open access really a concession to consumers, or an inescapable inevitability driven in part by legal developments that have forced carriers to loosen their iron-clad grip on networks and handsets and otherwise delivered a blow to...
A California consumer group has filed a lawsuit in federal court against Sprint Nextel Corp. accusing the No. 3 mobile-phone carrier of improperly assessing taxes and fees on broadband data customers. The San Diego-based Utility Consumers' Action network claims Sprint Nextel was charging taxes...
