WIRELESS INDUSTRY EFFORTS to derail a federal-state panel's recommendation to cap universal service fund support for wireless carriers in rural areas could be undermined by a new report that found billions of dollars in subsidies have been largely ineffective in bringing cellular service to...
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.--Adaptive Mobile: Doughty Hanson, an early-stage venture-capital fund, led AdaptiveMobile's $14 million second-round financing. Other investors included Noor Financial...
A couple of online casual gaming heavyweights lumbered into the mobile sphere. Oberon Media bought a big chunk of the wireless gaming playground last week, picking up London-based publisher I-play for an undisclosed sum. The New York-based firm-which powers storefronts for customers such as...
RCR Wireless News has inducted Jay Kitchen and Arlene Harris into its Wireless Hall of Fame for 2007.Jay Kitchen led industry trade group Personal Communications Industry Association for 10 years, joining the group in 1994 after it merged with the National Association of Business...
PopCap Games announced it hired Andrew Stein, who most recently served as the senior marketing manager of games for AT&T Mobility's Media Mall. The move is the latest in the ongoing executive shuffle at the nation's largest carriers.PopCap said Stein would take over the...
Yet another executive is exiting through Sprint Nextel Corp.'s revolving front-office door.The carrier said last week that Mark Schweitzer will step down from his post as chief marketing officer at the end of the month. Tim Kelly, who currently oversees the operator's Customer Management...
Like a kid futilely looking for a sugar fix, mobile advertising companies are struggling to cope with an empty cookie jar.Online advertisers and publishers have long used cookies to make surfing the Web easier. Simple text files that are planted on consumers' hard drives,...
There's no shortage of companies looking to cash in by placing billboards on the mobile information superhighway. But a few of them are also working to smooth the surface of the road itself.Quattro Wireless is the latest player in the wireless advertising game, coming...
Two former executives from m-Qube are joining the crowded mobile advertising field with startup Quattro Wireless.The new company, which was founded late last year but came out of stealth mode this week, hopes to help publishers create mobile Web sites that offer compelling content...
Despite a $2 million net loss in its most recent quarter, Andrew Corp. announced steady growth in sales. The news appeared to please investors, which sent the company's stock up 10% on the news.The communications systems and products manufacturer blamed its loss on the...
If the cellular phone continues to mimic the Internet, then social networking will be the next big application on wireless phones. In fact, a number of new media research firms predict that social media is likely to be the tipping point for mobile video...
Andrew Corp. plans to launch this week its Invex3G Autonomous drive test product, which allows carriers to measure network performance and improve service by installing equipment on taxis, buses and other fleet vehicles.The product is an extension of Andrew's Invex3G product. Equipment runs unattended...
The wireless industry cheered the Federal Communications Commission's decision to classify wireless broadband as an information service, while Commissioner Michael Copps said the agency needs to delve further into the policy implications of Internet-enabled wireless devices and in particular to examine whether the ...
Palm Inc. posted a solid quarter, showing gains in its Treo smartphone sales, and its stock rose slightly on the news to $18.01 per share. However, the company declined to comment on rumors of a potential merger or sale that, according to some media...
The wireless industry cheered the Federal Communications Commission's decision to classify wireless broadband as an information service, while Commissioner Michael Copps said the agency needs to delve further into the policy implications of Internet-enabled wireless devices and in particular to examine whether the ...
Sierra Wireless Inc. announced that it will acquire M2M vendor AirLink Communications Inc. for $10 million in cash and 1.3 million in shares. Under the agreement, AirLink shareholders will end up with around 4.8 percent of the combined company.The deal is notable as it...
Wireless infrastructure company WPCS International Inc. announced that it will acquire ATC International Holdings Inc. for $2.45 million in cash plus additional unspecified payouts if the company meets earnings targets over the two-year period following the deal's closing.Miami-based ATC specializes in the design and...
The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.Handset and infrastructure vendors Robert W. Baird upgraded Nortel Networks to outperform from neutral and raised its price target to $34 from $27, saying the...
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin is pushing a plan to treat wireless broadband service as an information service, a classification that would enable wireless Internet access providers to escape cumbersome common carrier rules imposed on wireless operators that are increasingly turning to Web-based...
Cingular Wireless L.L.C. is one of three companies that has settled disputes surrounding online advertising practices in the state of New York. The wireless carrier agreed to pay $35,000 under terms of the settlement, according to media reports.New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said...
Mobile virtual network operators have definite target demographics that they're trying to lure away from mainstream wireless operators with a unique approach to service and handsets. A recent study by Yankee Group and Compete Inc. shows, however, that some of the MVNOs are generating...
The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.CarrierMorgan Stanley raised its industry view on the telecom services business to in-line from cautious based partially on positive expectations for AT&T. The company increased...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-The potential for mobile WiMAX is as big as the Internet itself, if you trust the true believers gathered last week in San Jose, Calif., for the Wireless Communications Alliance International's 13th annual symposium. Mobile WiMAX technology will create a new category...
Time was when the wireless industry's major, marketshaping impact in the telecom sphere was defined by the number of mobile phones that became substitutes for landline telephones, which historically consumers have relied on for day-to-day communications.Just as Ma Bell back in the day grossly...
