CTIA Wireless I.T 2008 is in the rear-view, and the industry is performing the typical post-show analyses. My two cents:1) Sprint's Dan Hesse is my new favorite CEO. Because anybody with a fondness for Vans can't be too far removed from this guy. Which...
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...
AT&T Mobility announced it will halve the monthly cost of its push-to-talk service - from $10 per month to $5 - likely a defensive response to Verizon Wireless' recent PTT price drop from $10 to $5 a month. The activity could indicate a PTT...
Following its $25 million investment in Virgin Mobile USA Inc., SK Telecom landed two spots on the company's board. The mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) has appointed Richard Chin, president of SK Telecom Americas, and Sungwon Suh, executive VP and head of global strategy...
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.Cuban-American mommy-to-be Gloria Dobal "loved everything" about online pregnancy site Baby Center. However, she had difficulty sharing...
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a previous ruling to give San Diego County a victory over Sprint Nextel Corp. in a long-running dispute between the parties over a 2003 ordinance governing visibility and location of wireless facilities."The ordinance does not effectively...
Best Buy Co. Inc. moved more aggressively into the content-distribution arena, agreeing to pay $121 million to pick up the subscription-based online and mobile music company Napster.The big-box retailer said it will pay $2.65 per share in cash for Napster and its 700,000 subscribers....
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 any of the last 25 years of wireless.Through the years, the RCR Wireless News editorial staff...
A class-action antitrust lawsuit accuses AT&T Mobility, Verizon Wireless, Sprint Nextel Corp. and T-Mobile USA Inc. of acting together to hike the price of wireless text messages. The new litigation comes on the heels of a Senate lawmaker's probe into rising text charges and...
Electronic Arts Inc. announced a pact to bring "Tomb Raider Underworld" and other Eidos Interactive Ltd. titles to mobile.EA Mobile won wireless rights to "Just Cause 2," "California Games X" and "Minesweeper" in addition to the eighth Tomb Raider game, which is slated for...
SAN FRANCISCO - The CTIA I.T. show always brings together the best of the enterprise market and the best of the entertainment space to push mobile deployments in both arenas. Data continues to produce a bigger piece of carriers' revenues, but mostly due of...
T-Mobile USA Inc. officially took the reigns from SunCom Wireless Holdings Inc. The nation's No. 4 carrier launched its branded service in former SunCom markets across North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands last week. T-Mobile USA announced...
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin unveiled a new plan to auction valuable airwaves to foster interoperable public-safety/commercial communications around the country. The proposal takes nationwide and regional licensing approaches, and retains a public-private partnership approach and advances other reforms sought in the aftermath...
San Francisco - Full-track downloads are spinning their wheels and subscription services are falling on deaf ears. So Nokia Corp. and its music-industry partners are hoping music lovers will shell out for devices that come with music.The Finnish manufacturer-cum-Internet services provider last week offered...
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.To adapt the words of famed chaos theorist Edward Lorenz who coined the term "butterfly...
The mobile Internet has officially gone to the dogs.Nestle Purina PetCare Company with the help of go2 Media has launched two mobile Web sites for pet owners. With the launch of Purina.mobi and go2pets, the home computer no longer has pet owners on a...
Next time you are having trouble standing on a street trying to flag down a taxi, get out your mobile device and send #TAXI.Customers of AT&T Mobility, Verizon Wireless and Alltel Wireless can now punch in the code to connect to the first available...
SAN FRANCISCO -- There is no shortage of challenges in getting m-commerce off the ground in the United States. But maybe the most important factor is time.That was the takeaway from yesterday's afternoon session on all facets of mobile commerce, from contactless payments to...
SAN FRANCISCO -- Barry Cottle is pimping his ride with eye-catching rims, fancy hood art and those cool hydraulic things that can bounce a car like a basketball at red lights. And he's doing it all with one finger.The SVP and GM of EA...
SAN FRANCISCO -- A relatively new display technology that offers vast power savings, is viewable in direct sunlight and offers longer device use between charges has hit the market with a barely detectable splash.Those first ripples could become a tsunami, if Qualcomm Inc. has...
SAN FRANCISCO -- There are success stories in how wireless technology is helping the enterprise sector save money and improve employee productivity, but some in the industry say more can be done.When it comes to wireless services, the need of every business is different....
SAN FRANCISCO -- Wireless industry association CTIA and Harris Interactive think they have found the answer to one of history's most elusive mysteries: what teenagers want. In a report dubbed "Teenagers: A Generation Unplugged," Harris surveyed 2,000 teens across the nation to find out...
Zed said it will work with Lionsgate to develop mobile entertainment projects based on the studio's films.The Spanish content titan will help create and distribute mobile video as well as ringtones, wallpaper and games from Lionsgate properties, and will develop wireless interactive communities centered...
