One species of middleware provider in the enterprise mobility space is essentially delivering mobile access to backend systems long established in the corporate world, from sales-force automation to customer relationship management. That scenario can be characterized as an early phase in the deployment of...
Last week's upheaval in the financial markets certainly will impact the wireless industry, but in what ways and to what extent remains to be seen. Smaller startups may have a more difficult time getting credit or finding backers, and larger players may postpone some...
The big take-away for wireless and other telecom-tech sectors in the wake of the latest Wall Street meltdown might mistakenly be this: By hook or crook, get as big as you can and implicate as many consumers (and their financial assets) to the greatest...
Think Google Inc. has the mobile search space all sewn up? Think again.ChaCha - heard of 'em? - claims to have delivered search results to 1 million users since its launch earlier this year, answering more than 27 million queries via text message. And...
Palm Inc.'s revenue for the first fiscal quarter just ended was flat and the company lost about $40 million, vastly beyond losses in the year-ago quarter. While Palm said it shipped 1 million smartphones in the last quarter, up nearly 50% from the year-ago...
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.--CommProve: TVM Capital and Endeavour led a $14 million round of funding into Ireland-based CommProve, which provides solutions for...
The value of Nortel Networks Corp.'s stock was cut in half after the company announced a restructuring, including plans to sell off its Metro Ethernet Networks business and "mitigate the risks" in its LTE, 4G effort. Market watchers took the language to indicate hopes...
The show got off to a solid start with a well-attended keynote session, anchored by a discussion among the CEOs of Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile and Sprint. ; CTIA; Yahoo Inc. once again took advantage of the trade-show spotlight,...
It's official. The plaintiffs' bar smells blood.The mobile-phone industry suddenly finds itself under siege over rising text messaging prices; there are now five different class-action antitrust lawsuits against the nation's largest wireless carriers over the issue. The growth followed Senate Judiciary antitrust subcommittee Chairman...
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....
T-Mobile USA Inc. said it's adding seven cities to its list of 3G markets in the next few weeks. And the industry's No. 4 player said it plans to offer its UMTS/HSDPA-based service, which uses its recently acquired AWS spectrum, in 27 markets by...
Shares of Shenandoah Telecommunications Co. rose slightly after the company said it plans to sell its Converged Services business unit - which offers video, Internet and voice services to off-campus student housing and other locations - in a bid to refresh its focus on...
The BlackBerry Storm - the first touchscreen device from Research In Motion Ltd. - appears ready for landing at Verizon Wireless, which is both advertising the device and demurring from providing details.The device is called the BlackBerry Storm 9530 Smartphone "with global capabilities," potentially...
In its legal battle with Motorola Inc. and its subsidiaries Symbol Technologies Inc. and Wireless Valley Communications Inc., Aruba Networks Inc. questions whether the patents involved in the case are legal, according to new court documents filed in the case.In a countersuit filed last...
Wireless subscribers in the United States have closed the gap with Western Europe in terms of 3G adoption, according to new research from Comscore.The firm reports the United States has experienced 80% growth in 3G subscribers during the past year and that 28.4% of...
A new survey from ABI Research found the top three 'must-have' features on cellphones today are digital camera functionality, Bluetooth connectivity and music/radio playback.The survey of 1,402 wireless subscribers in seven countries found nearly half of consumers want a camera phone with 2+ megapixels,...
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama won a text message election held during the CTIA Wireless I.T. & Entertainment 2008 trade show held earlier this month in San Francisco.Obama received 56% of the vote to edge out his Republican opponent John McCain, according to a...
A Chinese company is becoming a major player in the mobile infrastructure market, according to a study from ABI Research.Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. is emerging in the market that has been dominated by L.M. Ericsson, Nokia Siemens Networks and Alcatel-Lucent.As of the first quarter...
SanDisk Corp. stuck to its guns in rejecting a $5.8 billion, $26-per-share takeover bid by Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.SanDisk, the Milpitas, Calif.-based maker of NAND Flash memory - included to a degree on nearly all handsets and used in removable memory cards critical to...
The first handset to feature Google's Android operating system - an HTC Corp. model destined for T-Mobile USA Inc. - will debut at a media event in New York next week, on Sept. 23, according to T-Mobile.Google and T-Mobile will provide "details" on the...
Google Inc. has taken its Street View service to mobile.The Mountain View, Calif.-based company launched a new version of Google Maps for mobile that includes the same street-level photo images it offers on desktop computers. Google also added a beta version of walking directions...
Cords are becoming an endangered across America. More than 20 million U.S. households have ditched their landline phones and rely solely on wireless handsets for home telecommunications, according to a new report by The Nielsen Company.The study also predicts one in five U.S. households...
Rove Inc announced the launch its latest version of Mobile Admin, network administration software that allows unified management of all information technology systems from a handheld device or computer.Mobile Admin 4.1 now incorporates Mobile SSH, providing full connectivity via SSH or telnet. This allows...
The mobile-phone industry may be facing a legal texting tsunami in U.S. courts with the filing of two new antitrust class-action lawsuits against the nation's largest wireless carriers - filings that come on top of a separate price-fixing suit in Illinois federal court and...
