Yahoo's group for mobile phones has new leadership--David Ko--and its work is the centerpiece of the Connected Life division's 2009 profitability plan.
We thought he probably would've at least stuck around long enough to see the Tube get announced later this week , but Nokia CTO Bob Iannucci has announced that he's stepping down from the world's number one cellphone maker effective immediately for undisclosed "personal...
You've got to hand it to carriers for at least trying to come clean with consumers, though in some cases those efforts are a day late and a dollar short. Take Verizon Wireless, for instance, which has made waves in the industry by taking...
RCR Wireless News is planning to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the first cellular phone call in its Oct. 13 edition. As such, we want your memories of the last 25 years of wireless.Through the years, the RCR Wireless News editorial staff has been...
In "Eagle Eye," the Dreamworks/Paramount Pictures thriller set for release this weekend, the lead characters are driven to extreme acts by a mysterious woman who contacts them via their mobile phones. So what better way to promote the movie than through a mobile-marketing campaign?...
So it was, according to a new intriguing lawsuit, that Verizon Wireless was approached via e-mail by an Arkansas businessman in early February about "an arbitrage opportunity" that could potentially accomplish the same objective as one announced months later when the No. 2 cellphone...
Investors slammed BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd. for the company's lowered outlook and product delays ahead of the critical fourth-quarter holiday shopping season, raising questions about the company's ultimate ability to play in a smartphone market that - with the arrival of heavyweights...
HELSINKI (Reuters) - The world's top cellphone maker Nokia will unveil its first touch-screen phone at a media and analyst event in London next week, two industry sources told Reuters on Friday.
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. RCR Wireless News will publish the exclusive results from our joint project, with Yankee...
A Texas-based company is using the Internet for businesses and consumers interested in finding out if they are paying too much for their wireless service. Validas Inc. offers a Web site where customers simply upload their bill online. Patent-pending technology used by Validas does...
Ultra-mobile computing devices could outsell desktop and notebook computers in the long term, and semiconductor companies are taking note of that trend, according to a report from In-Stat.The firm noted Intel is preparing to challenge ARM, a company that has cornered the embedded mobile...
North America currently dominates the location-based services market with 81% of LBS revenue in 2007. But the Asia-Pacific region is set to challenge that position, with a share of 27% of the market by 2013, up from 11% last year, according to a new...
The mobile payments market is expected to grow to more than $600 billion worldwide by 2013, according to predictions from Juniper Research's Mobile Payments Study.The market includes purchases made via mobile devices of digital and physical goods, contactless Near Field Communications transactions and money...
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.--Altair: Pacific Technology Fund led a $22 million investment round into Altair Semiconductor, a fabless chip company that is...
Carriers and financial institutions keep announcing mobile-banking and payment services, but so far, U.S. adoption is being dwarfed by that of developing nations, where it's more useful.
MANILA -(Dow Jones)- Philippine Long Distance Telephone Friday said a subsidiary has signed deals with two units of Hutchison Whampoa for a mobile virtual network operator, or MVNO, venture in Italy.
Broadcom Corp. has won what may be the final round in its patent infringement case it filed three years ago against Qualcomm Inc.In a ruling Wednesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld a unanimous jury verdict, from May 2007, that...
The Federal Communications Commission voted to put in play a new 700 MHz auction plan to foster improved public-safety and commercial wireless broadband communications. However, several commissioners raised concerns over whether potential bidders would be able to secure financing in light of Wall Street's...
