Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly 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.When Apple launched the iPhone a little over a year ago, they disrupted the industry...
NOKIA CORP. DELIVERED A SOBER WARNING Friday that a "rapid change" in consumer spending over past weeks led the handset giant to cut its estimates for mobile device volumes in the fourth quarter and for 2009.Nokia, with about 40% global share of the handset...
NORTEL NETWORKS CORP. FACES AN UPHILL CLIMB following a third quarter where the company reported losses of $3.4 billion and said it would cut thousands of jobs and say goodbye to a number of high-ranking executives.Analysts said tough times are ahead and one even...
Consumers have embraced Bluetooth-enabled mono headsets for mobile phones, but getting them to accept stereo Bluetooth headsets is another story.A new study from IMS Research predicts sales of mono Bluetooth headsets will increase by 10 to 20 million per year and could quickly reach...
"Virtual" mobile carrier Virgin Mobile USA (VM) will cut 10% of its staff, or about 45 people in New Jersey and California, the company announced today.
Qualcomm has licensed Skyhook Wireless's Wi-Fi Positioning System (WPS), a method of combining massive professional wardriving databases with geographical latitude and longitude.
The technology collaboration may be a boon for Flash developers as it will expand the potential audience to millions of smartphones, set-top boxes, and other Internet-connected devices.
The Federal Communications Commission gave final clearance to Verizon Wireless' $4.7 billion purchase of a nationwide collection of regional licenses at the 700 MHz auction earlier this year, refusing Google Inc.'s request to impose a stronger open-access condition and revising a key component of...
With its enterprise tracking solutions being marketed by Verizon Wireless and Sprint Nextel Corp., Gearworks Inc. is now developing a platform for one the fastest growing fields in the country - home health care.The Minnesota-based company is set to launch OnCare in the first...
The controversy turns on an objective contrary to the inherent purpose of wireless communications, cleanly getting a radio signal from point A to point B. So you might wonder why a religious war continues to rage over stopping a radio signal dead in its...
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.--Convergin: Pitango Venture Capital invested $10 million into Convergin, which provides telecom service mediation and orchestration solutions. The Series...
The troubled economic environment is not stunting the mobile satellite services market, according to a new survey and forecast from research and consulting firm NSR."The next ten years will rival the heydays of the late 1990s for the MSS industry with the launch of...
It sits in the desert as a shimmering star, an example of state-of-the-art technology. From its retractable roof to its grass field that can roll out of the steel and concrete structure, University of Phoenix Stadium was also built with wireless in mind.The $455...
Major fundraisers who previously were highly influential in the wireless space have assumed key roles on the Obama-Biden transition team, a move that comes amid efforts by the Democratic president-elect to limit the clout of lobbyists in putting a new government in place.Thomas Wheeler,...
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....
Microsoft Corp. is close to launching a new Windows Mobile browser that the company's development team touts as an experience that will resemble surfing the Internet on a desktop, according to a blog post on the company's Web site.The move comes as a number...
Amid the macro-economic slowdown that threatens typically brisk sales in the crucial fourth quarter, there's at least one silver lining. Smartphone sales are up (you knew that) and that has increased consumers' satisfaction with their wireless experience. And that satisfaction comes despite the higher...
The new BlackBerry Storm from Research In Motion Ltd. will be available Nov. 21 at Verizon Wireless for $200, with two-year contract and $50 mail-in rebate. The Storm's subsidized price comes in at the same price point as Apple Inc.'s iPhone 3G with 8...
Two companies with lengthy wireless histories have merged into one entity that is geared to tackle the machine-to-machine market.Velocita Wireless L.L.C. and SkyTel are launching their new business plan this week. Velocita was formerly owned by Sprint Nextel Corp. and SkyTel was formed 20...
AT&T Mobility will begin selling Nokia Corp.'s 6650 smartphone on Friday for $70, with two-year contract and a $50 mail-in rebate, a Nokia Corp. executive said. The 3G flip-style phone runs the Symbian platform and offers "industry-leading talk time," an HTML browser, AT&T Mobility's...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The electronics retailer Best Buy said Wednesday that it was sharply cutting its 2009 earnings outlook below analyst estimates amid what the company called the toughest retail environment it has ever seen.
The mobile-phone industry has dropped a legal challenge to the open-access condition imposed on a third of the 700 MHz spectrum auctioned by the Federal Communications Commission earlier this year. Wireless industry trade association CTIA appealed the agency's C-Block open-access rule last year -...
