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Verizon Wireless looks to tempt BYOD crowd
The carrier said that beginning April 17, customers could bring their own compatible smartphone – “bring-your-own-device” – to a More Everything plan ... Read More
Motorola Solutions to sell enterprise unit to Zebra Technologies
The breakup of the former...
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The jury in the latest Apple/Samsung patent lawsuit has heard from an economist who says Samsung should pay Apple $2.2 billion for infringing the iPhone maker's patents. That economist was of course hired by Apple to testify. He says he came up with...
The world's largest smartphone maker continues to feel the squeeze as Apple keeps the pressure on the high end, and Chinese competitors push from the low end. The Korean giant says it expects to report operating profit of $8 billion on sales of $50...
BlackBerry’s long-standing relationship with T-Mobile US looks set to come to an end as the Canadian smartphone maker announced it would not extend a license for the U.S.-based carrier to continue selling its devices past April 25.
“BlackBerry has had a positive relationship with T-Mobile...
Apple is opening its iAd Workbench to anyone with an Apple ID, and plans to allow users who create mobile ads to start including video. These video ads are expected to behave like "interstitial" online ads, meaning that they will play full-screen without a...
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Apple is reportedly ordering displays for the iPhone 6, expected to launch this fall with a 4.7-inch screen. That would be a major change for the iPhone, which has stuck with its 4-inch screen even as...
Microsoft is abandoning its exclusive commitment to Windows, making its ubiquitous Office software available for the iPad. iPad users can now download Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint, and those who subscribe to Office 365 can save their iPad-for-Windows documents in the cloud through Microsoft...
DENVER – Net neutrality has been a hot topic among telecommunication providers for years, increasing in importance in the Internet age. A recent court decision on the matter that found the Federal Communications Commission needed to adjust its angle if it wanted to regulate...
Apple suffered a setback today in its ongoing patent dispute with Samsung. Judge Lucy Koh, who has been presiding over most of the patent litigation between the two leading smartphone makers, denied Apple's motion for a permanent injunction against Samsung. Apple was seeking an...
T-Mobile US has been harvesting BlackBerries with an aggressive trade-in program that ended this week. The agile "un-carrier" offered customers $200 to trade in an old BlackBerry for a new device, and $250 if they wanted to trade it in for a BlackBerry Z10...
Editor’s Note: The RCR Wireless News Time Machine is a way to take advantage of our extensive history in covering the wireless space to fire up the DeLorean and take a trip back in time to re-visit some of the more interesting headlines from...
Regional wireless operator Ntelos fleshed out its fourth quarter financial results, with customer retention efforts impacting its bottom line.
Despite posting a solid 3.7% year-over-year increase in revenues during the fourth quarter to $121.8 million in 2013, increased expenses related to “increased equipment subsidy, retention...
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Telecom Capital Market News: Facebook causes waves
Facebook reportedly plans to add voice calls to WhatsApp after the acquisition is complete. ... Read More
Merger of equals: Triquint to merge with RF Micro Devices
RCR Wireless News interviewed the CEOs of these two smartphone component...
Samsung finally unpacked its long-awaited Galaxy S5 yesterday, launching a flagship that is perhaps the inverse of Apple's iPhone 5S in more ways than one. While Apple has stubbornly refused (so far) to enlarge the iPhone screen size, Samsung is boosting the display dimension...
Motorola Mobility's red ink will soon be history, according to China's Lenovo Group, which recently agreed to buy the struggling smartphone maker from Google for $2.9 billion. Today the company's CEO told Bloomberg that it expects to achieve what Google could not, turning the...
In this note, we focus on handsets, operating systems and the networks that support them. As we consider handsets, OS and networks, a few bottom line conclusions spring to the fore.
Apple and Google are usually archrivals, but they agree wholeheartedly that patent lawsuits can be a waste of time and money. The two Silicon Valley leaders are joining forces in asking the Supreme Court to consider the impact of frivolous lawsuits as the chief...
American consumers continue to buck the global trend, passing over popular Chinese brands in favor of handsets made by Apple and Motorola. The latest report from ComScore found that of the estimated 156 million Americans who own a smartphone, 41.8% own an iPhone. The...
Hon Hai Precision Industry, more commonly known as Foxconn, is reportedly buying a Taiwanese chipmaker that specializes in ARM-based SoCs, the applications processors most commonly used in smartphones and tablets. Socle Technology Corporation licenses the ARM Cortex MPCore processors, ARM Mali (GPUs), ARM11MP-S, ARM1176-S,...
By staying on top of current and emerging trends, businesses can avoid getting blindsided by an unforeseen change in the market. Here's what's happening in mobile chip development news this week.
