HOLLYWOOD, Calif. - Like all things wireless these days, most of this week's more poignant exchanges at Digital Hollywood have been anchored around the idea of open-- opening up carrier networks, devices, content and the Internet gateway where all these things must connect without...
Vodafone Group plc said it will roll out Apple Inc.'s iPhone later this year in 10 markets, after its CEO Arun Sarin disparaged the EDGE speeds delivered on the first iPhone and shunned a deal with Apple last year. A Vodafone...
The Associated Press is targeting iPhone users with a new multimedia portal for wireless devices.The Mobile News Network, which is optimized for Apple Inc.'s device, but is accessible with other phones, culls content from more than 100 newspapers including The Miami Herald, the San...
"TBA" - to be announced - is a classic, buzz-building tool for Apple Inc.'s iPhone rollout, as in last week's word that the device will launch in Canada at Rogers Communications Inc. Apple's expansion from AT&T Mobility to a truly global presence, however, appears...
AT&T Mobility plans to subsidize the price for the 3G version of Apple Inc.'s iPhone by as much as $200, according to a report from Fortune. The wireless service provider believes it can attract more customers away from nationwide competitors Verizon Wireless, Sprint Nextel...
Rogers Communications Inc., the largest carrier in Canada with 7.3 million subscribers, said today it will offer Apple Inc.'s iPhone to its customers later this year. Rogers has about 37% of Canada's approximately 20 million wireless subscribers and just reported robust profits, lower churn...
The once-monolithic handset market is becoming a lot more interesting.As growth slows in developed markets, players with strong presence in emerging markets may see more dependable gains. But macro-economic uncertainty has analysts and handset vendors forecasting anywhere from 4% to 10% overall growth for...
AT&T Mobility continued its steady growth during the first quarter of the year, reporting customer additions on par with the previous year and gains in customer revenue that helped push the carrier's revenues up more than 17%.For the quarter, the industry's No. 1 carrier...
Apple Inc. posted impressive gains in revenue (43%) and profit (36%) in its fiscal second quarter, but analysts said the iPhone's sales momentum has stalled more than what can be attributed to the post-holiday quarter effect.Apple also delivered a forecast that fell below analysts'...
Motorola Inc. continued to lose traction in the handset market as first-quarter revenue was down nearly 40%, its operating losses nearly doubled and handset shipments were down drastically over the year-ago quarter.Wall Street hammered the company's stock, sending it down nearly 5% today to...
Apple Inc. reported revenue of $7.5 billion and net profit over $1 billion in its second fiscal quarter, with revenue beating expectations. That's up from revenue of $5.3 billion and net profit of $770 million in the year-ago quarter.The company's iPhone sales for the...
AT&T Mobility continued its steady growth during the first quarter of the year, reporting customer additions on par with the previous year and gains in customer revenue that helped push the carrier's revenues up more than 17%.For the quarter, the industry's No. 1 carrier...
Editor's Note: Welcome to Yay or Nay, a feature for RCR Wireless News' weekly e-mail service, Mobile Content and Culture. 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...
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. In the coming weeks look for columns from Current Analysis' Peter Jarich, NPD Group's...
Mowser is dead. But forensics has yet to indicate whether the business's demise is a sign of an epidemic or simply a predictable casualty of the tumultuous wireless Web space.Russell Beattie, a former mobile developer for Yahoo Inc., launched Mowser just a year ago...
Nokia Corp. posted strong results for the typically tepid first quarter, but its stock dipped 14% in midday trading after the company said that the handset market's overall value, in Euro terms, would decline from last year.Nokia reported revenue of $20.2 billion in the...
With the Apple iPhone seemingly dominating the mobile-phone conversation, you would have to forgive LG Electronics Co. Ltd. for backing a superheroic push to earn some buzz. LG is turning to comic-book character Iron Man to launch one of its most aggressive U.S. pushes,...
One year after launching Mowser, Russell Beattie has pulled the plug on his transcoding business.Beattie, a former mobile developer for Yahoo Inc., had hoped to compete with Google Inc., Greenlight Wireless's Skweezer and other developers that customize Internet content for mobile phones. But "active...
OK, Mark Twain's "mysterious stranger" was actually Satan's nephew, and we're certainly not deriding the devilish Steve Jobs or his wonderful company - but the theme of unwanted intrusion is apt.That is, if you consider the perspective of incumbent handset vendors and all network...
Hello! And welcome to our 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 RCRWirelessNews.com to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong way. We...
My dad was in the market for a new cellphone and had come under the spell of Apple's impressive marketing campaign."You can browse the Web on it!" he said excitedly before expounding on the iPhone's other eye-catching capabilities, including an impressive media player and...
In Apple Inc.'s secretive world, facts are scarce -- and speculation is the coin of the realm. Thus, over the past week, as analysts reported that major Apple stores' iPhones were out-of-stock in the United States and online shipments delayed by a week, speculation...
LAS VEGAS-Flashback to CTIA Wireless 2006: As former Nokia Corp. CEO Jorma Ollila gave his farewell address to the industry two years ago this spring, he exhorted his audience to keep working on the basics. "There's more to be done with voice," Ollila said...
Starting April 7, T-Mobile Germany will drop the price of its lower-tier iPhone to $156, from $628. The newer, 16 GB version retains its $784, price tag. The move to discount the cheaper iPhone may be driven by two factors. Apple Inc. is widely...
