Wal-Mart Stores , the world's largest retailer, said Thursday that its December sales miss analysts' expectations and that it was cutting its earnings forecast for the fourth quarter.
Virgin Mobile USA has awarded its media planning and buying account to Havas' MPG North America and Media Contacts after a review, the client has confirmed. The assignment is effective immediately.
The importance of sound creative executions and integrated strategies cannot be overemphasized in today's online ad market. Follow these steps to get on the right track.
The cellphone jamming dispute between the mobile-phone industry and CellAntenna Corp. has dramatically escalated, with a high-profile legal battle playing out in the nation's capital in advance of a planned demonstration tomorrow at a local prison to show how inmates' wireless calls can be...
Virgin Mobile USA Inc. released "selected" - meaning positive and unaudited - metrics today, and suggested that the troubled economy was sending mobile subscribers into its arms.The low-cost wireless provider isn't due to report full financial results until March 3. Today's word on subscriber...
More Americans are pulling the plug on their landline telephone service and opting to live in households with only wireless devices, according to a recent federal report.In a survey conducted during the first six months of 2008, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's...
Global mobile revenues are expected to exceed $1.03 trillion by 2013, generated by more than 5.3 billion subscribers, according to a new study from Informa Telecoms & Media.At the end of 2007, the mobile industry recorded revenues of about $769 billion and served about...
In mobile's brief lifetime, marketers have experimented with the medium both as a brand-building and a direct-response channel, with no major proof points having emerged on either side.The case for using mobile as a direct-response channel, however, could resonate more in the present climate,...
Only 45% of U.S. mobile consumers use their phones for anything more than making calls, according to figures released this week from NPD Group. But nearly lost in the press release is this little tidbit: Verizon Wireless' customers are less likely than those of...
As he fills the CES keynote duties formerly handled by Bill Gates, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer aims to show that Microsoft can tackle a dominant Google, a resurgent Apple and a weak economy.
Strategic investors in Clearwire Corp. posted a flurry of bad news related to their stakes in the wireless services company on Wednesday, drawing attention to one of its other more prominent backers: Google Inc.
The Chinese Government's decision to grant new 3G, or third-generation, wireless licenses should give a boost to network equipment makers Starent Networks Corp. and Qualcomm Inc., as well as cell phone designer Cogo Group Inc., a Piper Jaffray analyst said Wednesday.
Logging onto the Internet for free at many New York City parks has become another casualty of the financial crisis.The vendor, WiFi Salon, which won the contract from the city's Department of Parks and Recreation in 2004 to wire 10 parks in four boroughs,...
Apple Inc. used its final Macworld Expo appearance to tout new iTunes features including long-awaited support for 3G over-the-air song downloads to the company's iPhone device.Phil Schiller, Apple's SVP of marketing, wrapped up his keynote in San Francisco with several iTunes-related announcements, including a...
Clearwire Corp. launched mobile WiMAX service in Portland, Ore., with cheaper prices than previous WiMAX efforts.The "Clear" home Internet service plans start at $20 per month with on-the-go plans starting at $30 per month. The $20 per month home service includes network speeds up...
Looking to turn around its struggling handset division, Motorola Inc. unveiled three new handsets it plans to show off at this week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.The company, which has had to cut its workforce amid a company restructuring, is touting its new...
President-elect Barack Obama has tapped former telecom policymaker Donald Gips as White House director of presidential personnel.Gips, on temporary leave as an executive at Level 3 Communications and a top member of the Obama-Biden transition team, was head of the Federal Communications Commission's...
It looks like MetroPCS Communications Inc. may be cashing in on the current economic downturn. The no-contract, unlimited wireless provider said it added 520,000 customers during the fourth quarter of 2008, its highest quarterly net additions in the company's history. The growth put the...
The holidays are over and that usually calls for a sigh of relief. Unless of course you're a retailer who lost money. Each year, from Black Friday until the end of December, retailers in the wireless industry shove products, rate plans and accessories down...
Plenty of application developers and content owners are spinning their wheels as they try to convince users to shell out for mobile goodies. But a small - and very optimistic - segment is hoping to get consumers to save money with their phones.Mobile coupons...
