There has been no shortage of news affecting the telecom and wireless industries. First, as many expected, a three-way merger among Charter, Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks was announced last Tuesday. Many, if not most, of you are versed on the details of...
Can PayPal compete against Apple, Google, Android and other mobile commerce platforms?
The online and wireless payment space is growing, changing and maturing and that is threatening existing leaders like PayPal. How will new competition from entrants like Apple Pay, Google Wallet, Android Pay, Google...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWNWIaxCBmA
The Internet of Things has become part of the vocabulary of not just the wireless and tech sector, but now also the C Suite of any large company. Connecting devices and people to the internet all the time has huge implications on society, for...
iOS text bug crashes iPhones, iPads and more
Imagine receiving an innocent enough text message from a friend, only to have your iPhone screen go black and the white apple logo appears, indicating that it has restarted. That’s what some Reddit users discovered earlier this...
Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the past. Fire up the time machine, put on the sepia-tinted shades, set the date for #TBT and enjoy the memories!
Sprint Nextel...
Uber's plan to develop self-driving cars may include Nokia's Here mapping unit. The New York Times is reporting that Uber will bid up to $3 billion for the unit in an effort to outbid a consortium of automakers that includes BMW, Audi and Mercedes-Benz....
Apple under pressure
Apple's iTunes may face some legal challenges. The Federal Trade Commission is reportedly trying to find out whether iTunes is using its marketplace muscle to get songs into its paid services instead of free-streaming services. Apple of course is working on its...
This week on Coders I speak with Brian Mueller, the developer behind the Carrot line of apps for iPhone and Apple Watch. His line of apps are named Carrot from "carrot and stick," and the humorous content in the fitness, to-do and weather apps...
Apple smartphones continue surge in China; Samsung sees decrease
Analysts with United Kingdom-based Juniper Research tracked 350.9 million smartphones shipping in the first quarter of 2015; that’s a 23% increase from the same time period last year.
Juniper found that Samsung is the leading smartphone seller,...
Sprint, Boingo Wi-Fi deal to provide seamless connections at 35 locations
Sprint continues to push its Wi-Fi agenda, announcing a deal to offer customers access to Boingo Wireless’ cadre of hot spots at 35 airport locations across the country.
The multiyear partnership will see Wi-Fi-equipped Sprint...
Apple's latest earnings report showed that the iPhone is winning over Android users and first-time smartphone buyers, as well as current iPhone users who cannot resist the urge to upgrade. The company sold a record 61.2 million iPhones in the quarter ending March 28,...
Sprint subscribers like HTC smartphones, AT&T Mobility customers lean toward Samsung
A new J.D. Power survey found Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile US customers express the most satisfaction with Apple smartphones while Sprint customers prefer HTC and AT&T Mobility customers are most satisfied with Samsung smartphones.
This...
FM chip on smartphone is usually not active but could be valuable in an emergency
Remember FM radio? The National Association of Broadcasters certainly does and, because many mobile manufacturers disable FM on smartphones, there’s tension brewing.
Samsung, Apple and LG phones, for example, could function...
The company that once dominated the mobile phone industry may be plotting a comeback. Less than a week after Nokia announced plans to buy Alcatel-Lucent, a Re/code report claims that Nokia Technologies hopes to launch a new phone.
Nokia sold its mobile device business to...
Many have been passionately choosing sides on the Apple vs. Android front for years. Two men in Tulsa, Okla., took the argument to a whole new level.
Instead of having an intelligent debate about what operating system has better specs and more capabilities, the two men...
The Securities and Exchange Commission and the FBI are both investigating the ambitious plan to provide an iPad to every child in the Los Angeles Unified School District. Meanwhile the school district is asking Apple to refund millions of dollars that the district paid for curriculum software...
"Game of Thrones" is creating some unexpected winners and losers. The season premiere of the popular series was meant to coincide with the debut of HBO's new streaming service, HBONow, available on iOS devices as well as Sling TV. Turns out lots of people...
Pushing its new Watson Health business unit, IBM on April 13 announced that its cloud-computing platform will store health data using iOS apps like Apple’s ResearchKit and HealthKit.
Doctors, researchers and other medical professionals can access the data through IBM’s Health Cloud and use the...
Will the Apple Watch wow Wall Street? Analysts are not in agreement, with some expecting the watch to give the stock an iPhone-like boost and others worrying that investors will dump the stock if big watch sales don't materialize in a timely manner.
William Power...
What a difference one night can make. After a week of mixed reviews and an intense ad campaign, the Apple Watch finally became available online during the wee hours of Friday morning.
It sold out by daybreak. Shipping dates slipped from April 24 to May...
Select Sprint Apple models inline for software update to support Wi-Fi calling
Sprint said it plans to rollout Wi-Fi calling to select iPhone devices over the coming weeks through a software update. The move will allow customers to make calls from their current Sprint phone...
Two of mobile's highest-profile 'frenemies' are reportedly teaming up again. Bloomberg reports that Samsung will win the contract to manufacture Apple's A9 chips for the next iPhone. Samsung made Apple's chips for years until the two companies found themselves at war in the smartphone...
Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the past. Fire up the time machine, put on the sepia-tinted shades, set the date for #TBT and enjoy the memories!
Disney Mobile offers...
ITC to look into Ericsson vs. Apple patent infringement
The Ericsson vs. Apple battle escalated again with the agreement by the U.S. International Trade Commission to investigate Ericsson's claims that the iPhone maker infringed on its LTE technology patents.
The companies have been at odds since the...
