The House Energy and Commerce Committee approved legislation that makes at least $1 billion available in wireless broadband grants and keeps intact open-access provisions opposed by the mobile-phone industry.Six billion dollars of the $825 billion economic recovery measure is earmarked to foster deployment of...
Verizon Wireless today announced its new Verizon Hub, a touchscreen device that integrates wired and wireless home communications.The device is meant to replace stand-alone home phones by providing a touchscreen that displays access to all home communications. Running on a broadband connection, Verizon Hub...
Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) said a compromise reached on a bill to delay the digital TV transition to June 12 includes a carve-out for first responders, setting the stage for a floor vote and possibly full congressional passage next week. "This...
There continues to be significant speculation about what wireless and other telecom sectors can expect from the Federal Communications Commission in the Obama era. Billions upon billions of dollars are at stake, not to mention safety of life and property in how telecom regulations...
Barack Obama has won the battle of the BlackBerry. The president will be allowed to use his BlackBerry "to stay in touch with senior staff and a small group of personal friends," White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said. "The use will be limited and...
One of the coolest apps on the iPhone isn't Pandora or Facebook: It's recipes and shopping lists for Kraft singles, Jell-O gelatin and Minute Rice.Yes, enough Kraft Food devotees are actually paying to be marketed to on their beloved iPhones that the company's iFood...
The cellular modem market experienced an upswing in sales last year, with unit shipments reaching 20 million, according to a new study from analyst firm In-Stat.The company said the growth in sales was driven by carriers beefing up their 3G data service offerings.The market...
With new restrictions in place for businesses that use wireless local area networks to process credit card transactions, two rivals are now offering solutions that meet the security guidelines issued by the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council. Aruba Networks Inc. and Motorola Inc....
The following list includes venture capital and other investments into wireless companies announced during the past week. The value of the investment is included when available--4INFO: Peacock Equity and Gannett Inc. led a $20 million round of equity funding into mobile media company 4INFO....
Now here's a recipe for success: Take a brand that your parent company's been on the verge of abandoning for the last four years. Slap it on a new music download store for mobile phones. Encrust all the tracks with DRM, even though the...
Customer reviews have grown in popularity and power to become part of the mainstream of e-commerce. Mobile commerce, however, is still young-but growing. Customer reviews technology vendor Bazaarvoice believes m-commerce to be an important channel and has combined m-commerce and customer reviews in a...
An ambitious campaign has begun to press the new Obama administration and Congress to embrace policies promoting diversity in telecom and media sectors. The effort is geared in part to foster improved opportunities for minorities and women in the wireless space by overturning the...
Sprint Nextel Corp. introduced new rate plans for its Nextel Direct Connect customers, starting at $30 a month. The carrier said it launched two new Direct Connect plans aimed at business customers who were previously forced to bundle voice minutes along with Direct Connect...
The mobile-phone industry called for changes to the $6 billion broadband component of Congress' $825 billion economic stimulus bill, requesting open-access provisions be stripped out and language added to require local action within 75 days on tower siting applications sought by wireless recipients of...
LG Electronics Co. said today that its handset shipments grew year-on-year and sequentially on a day when market leader Nokia Corp. acknowledged declines in both metrics.The Korean vendor credited new models launched in Europe and "timely pricing strategies" for its shipment growth, which stands...
Glu Mobile Inc. limps into 2009 after enduring a brutal year that saw its stock tumble from nearly $5 a share to less than 40 cents. But while the company recently streamlined its operations and slashed jobs, its foot is still firmly down on...
Nokia Corp. confirmed today that the fourth quarter - typically the year's retail high point - was dismal and said the year ahead would far worse than it anticipated just a month ago. The company said the first quarter would reflect more extreme "seasonality"...
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 RCRWireless.com to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong way....
Nokia Siemens Networks reported progress on cutting costs, but charges related to the combination of Nokia's and Siemens' networking businesses continued to drag on the company's bottom line; Nokia Siemens Networks posted $179 million in losses in the final quarter of 2008.Parent company Nokia...
A difficult global economy is not slowing operators' LTE deployment plans.More than 18 operators worldwide have announced plans to deploy LTE networks, and Verizon Wireless has actually accelerated its LTE deployment timetable, according to a new study from ABI Research."ABI Research believes that NTT...
A Canadian company, Mine Clearing Corp ( MCC ) has acquired licensing to the latest in radiometry technology; technology so sensitive it can pick out the tiny electromagnetic reflections emitted by buried objects from as high as 200 feet in the air.
HTC spends a lot of time updating devices with a new feature here and there to get it right and reminds me a lot of what Sony did with the CLIE line several years ago.
Now that the novelty of iPhone applications has worn off a bit, I've been evaluating which apps are useful and which are just sapping resources from my device.
