You know that dusty smell you experience when you open a book that hasn't been picked up in decades? That's the feeling I get lately when I think of Microsoft's Windows Mobile.Smartphones - and the applications that run on them - are at the...
Despite some financial hiccups, Alltel Communications L.L.C. managed to acquire more than 1 million gross customer additions during the third quarter, a 28% increase from a year ago. The carrier recorded 335,152 net customer adds, with 255,299 of those signing up for postpaid plans.Alltel's...
Editor's Note: In this monthly feature, RCR Wireless News talks to retail managers across the country to get a first-hand view of what's hot in wireless.Alltel Communications L.L.C stepped on the scene in the early 1990s and quickly established itself as a regional carrier....
NEWS LAST WEEK THAT MOTOROLA INC. HAD SETTLED ON Windows Mobile and Android as handset platforms in an effort to simplify, focus on innovation and manage costs underscored the unknowns involved in such choices. Because leading OSs come with "patrons and politics," with unknown...
Nokia Corp. said today that it would cut as many as 615 jobs in an ongoing corporate reorganization.The bulk, 450 jobs, will be eliminated in the global handset leader's markets unit to "strengthen the customer interface" and "ensure that resources are well allocated," according...
The "OS wars," as some would have it, are alive and well - at least in the data on the various contenders' shifting market share."Symbian is still by far the most popular operating system for smartphones, with about 50% global market share," said analyst...
Gameloft offered a surprisingly upbeat outlook for mobile gaming as it posted $34.1 million in third-quarter revenues.The Paris-based game maker reported an 8% increase from last year's revenues during the same period, and generated $99.6 million during the first nine months of 2008 -...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Yay or Nay. 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 what doesn't. If you wish to submit your application or...
ICO Global Communications said a Los Angeles Superior Court jury verdict could force Boeing Co. to pay up to $707 million in damages in a lawsuit brought by the mobile satellite service company."We appreciate the sacrifices made by the jury in performing their civic...
A class-action lawsuit asserts T-Mobile USA Inc. charged consumers for wireless content they did not ask for, another in a long line of legal challenges against the wireless industry that raise questions about the relationship between cellular operators and third-party content providers. The...
The Wi-Fi Alliance said 5,000 consumer and enterprise products have now been Wi-Fi certified since the testing program started in 2000.The group said more than 1,000 of those certifications have been issued since September, 2007. Growth is being driven by the introduction of the...
The following list details this week's infrastructure awards for the cellular, Wi-Fi, and WiMAX industries. The contracts are broken down by transmission technology, country and vendor. The value of the contract is included when available.Cellular--Italy: Telecom Italia has chosen Nokia Siemens Networks as one...
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.Having just returned from the Rutberg Wireless Influencers conference this past week, the top question on everyone's...
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin has scratched a planned Nov. 4 vote on reforming the universal service fund and intercarrier compensation regimes. The move is a temporary reprieve for small- and mid-size mobile-phone operators that oppose a plan to phase out hundreds of...
LG Electronics Co. said today it will work more closely with Microsoft Corp. on converged devices, likely smartphones the Korean vendor is pursuing. The two parties announced the signing of a "memo of understanding" for "strategic collaboration in mobile convergence" on the occasion of...
Sprint Nextel Corp. has been hit with a $1 billion federal class-action lawsuit over early-termination fees, the complaint filed by the same lawyers pursuing relief for consumers in a California state court and just days before the No. 3 wireless provider announced a date...
German giant Deutsche Telekom AG's $30 billion purchase of what is now T-Mobile USA Inc. is not at issue in the Federal Communications Commission's re-examination of a narrow foreign-ownership issue involving a small wireless carrier jointly owned by the No. 4 cellular operator and...
A mobile device management software company has filed a lawsuit against Research in Motion Ltd. alleging infringement of two patents.Mformation Technologies Inc. filed the lawsuit against the Canadian maker of the popular BlackBerry smartphones in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California....
This year's presidential election is significant in more ways than one: It marks the year that text messaging and the mobile Web became political battlegrounds, and serves as a benchmark in the amount of money spent on wireless efforts.Not surprisingly, the juggernaut that is...
Wondering whether the ripples from the Wall Street implosion will rock the wireless world? They already are, according to Laura Marriott., outgoing president of the Mobile Marketing Association.; MMA; mms; Mobile Markeing Assocition; Mobile Marketing Forum; Wondering...
The presidential contest that will - almost certainly - be decided this week may be remembered as the point where politics collided with mobile. And I'm not talking just about Barack Obama's text-message campaign.A small army of wireless players is hoping to exploit the...
These are interesting times for WiMAX. One might even say the moment of truth has arrived. Indeed, Nov. 4 is also decision day for WiMAX in the United States. If a high-powered Sprint Nextel Corp.-Clearwire Corp. union cannot launch WiMAX in America, what can?...
