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.--BillShrink.com: Trinity Ventures and Bessemer Venture Partners led an $8 million Series B funding round into BillShrink.com, a service...
Editor's Note: The following lists ranks the 10 most popular handsets in the United States for the month of September. Rankings were provided by AvianResearch L.L.C.
The firm derives its ranking via its Monthly Retail Store Survey, which polls 100 service representatives at retail stores...
Editor's Note: RCR Wireless News teamed with the Yankee Group to conduct a series of market surveys of RCR Wireless News subscribers to gauge their thoughts on various technology issues. More than 2,600 readers responded to the second wave of surveys. Congrats to Ron...
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....
Verizon Wireless is rolling out a new enterprise solution geared to increase worker productivity and decrease operational costs for its business customers.The country's second largest carrier announced today its Field Force Manager offering that Verizon Wireless said provides businesses the ability to manage workers...
Nokia Corp. posted a 5% drop in revenue and a 21% drop in operating profit over the year-ago quarter, but its profit margin remained strong and the company stuck with its industry projection for 10% annual growth for the global handset market.Profit margins in...
With the launch of Apple Inc.'s 3G-capable iPhone earlier this summer, along with a slew of other Web-ready smartphones topping consumers' wish lists, the mobile search market stands as one of the most rapidly expanding avenues of digital marketing.There is no shortage of outfits...
Wireless industry professionals always seem to be wearing hard hats. Whether building new phones, constructing monthly plans or remodeling ever-faulty customer service options, carriers put their construction tools to use daily. But without a good network, there would be nothing else to build upon....
An uproar erupted when iPhone users discovered a so-called remote kill switch on their phones -- will it spur the same reaction in users of the G1, the first Android phone?
Can import EclipseME and NetBeans projects. Seeking to establish Eclipse as the standard mobile development platform, the Eclipse Foundation on Wednesday offered the first major release of its Eclipse Mobile Tools for Java Project (MTJ).
Thanks to a new executive position, AT&T Mobility is attempting to expand the range of gadgets its network interacts with - and counter similar efforts by its rivals.The carrier announced the appointment of Glen Lurie to president of AT&T's newly created Emerging Devices, National...
Sprint Nextel Corp.'s luck may be changing, at least in terms of customer service. According to recent survey results conducted by Pali Research, Sprint Nextel ranked first in response time - a significant statement for a carrier that has been raked over the coals...
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...
Like gold bullion, Treasury bonds and the booze industry, the new mobile application stores that are beginning to surface may actually benefit from Wall Street's implosion.Like many of the rest of us, application developers are gnawing fingernails as they watch the financial meltdown and...
Election Day 2008 is shaping up as monumental for the wireless industry.The Federal Communications Commission is poised to vote Nov. 4 on the Sprint Nextel Corp.-Clearwire Corp. and the Verizon Wireless-Alltel Communications L.L.C. tie-ups as well as on wireless operations in TV white spaces,...
The Cannes Silver Lion-winning iPint application for beer brand Carling is the target of a $12.5 million lawsuit against parent Molson Coors Brewing Co. by Hottrix, the developer of the iBeer application. London agency Beattie McGuinness Bungay created iPint.
Wired's Gadget Lab blog broke the...
Spending on mobile broadcast TV services is expected to reach only $2.7 billion by 2013, less than previous forecasts indicated, according to Juniper Research. The success of pay TV services will be hampered by free-to-air services and the increasing availability of mobile handsets that...
Shipments of consumer electronics devices embedded with Wi-Fi technology could reach nearly 1 billion by 2012, according to new research from In-Stat.More than 294 million devices with Wi-Fi shipped last year, said In-Stat.Wi-Fi is a valued technology for the CE market due to its...
The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.Carrier--Barclays Capital lowered its price target on Centennial Communications to $8 from $14 and cut its estimates to 37 cents from 45 cents for the...
The third quarter has been busy: AT&T Mobility Inc. released the 3G iPhone; Sprint Nextel Corp. said that its iDEN network may be on the market and the economy fell apart. This last issue has pushed speculation that carriers may see impacted earnings...
The company is facing a battle getting its Web plug-in on Apple's handsets, but the open nature of Android makes it an attractive platform for Silverlight.
