Editor’s Note: With 2012 nearly over, RCR Wireless News takes a look back at the top 100 stories from the past 12 months. The stories are in chronological order beginning with Jan. 1. The first part of the list runs through the first half...
The race to meet year-end network expansion goals continued this week as Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile USA both announced greater coverage from their respective next-generation networks, just a day after similar announcements from AT&T Mobility and Sprint Nextel.
Verizon Wireless claims that it has added...
Samsung is moving forward with plans to invest $3.9 billion in the Texas chip foundry that makes the processors for the iPhone, despite reports that it may be losing Apple's business in the near future. The Texas government has given the Korean electronics giant...
Three out of four smartphones shipped last quarter were running Google's Android operating system, while just 15% ran
Apple's iOS, and yet Google has a problem: those 15% of smartphone buyers who chose Apple are likely to buy more, download more and engage more...
Brazilian manufacturer Gradiente said this week it has started to sell a new line of smartphones using Google’s Android operating system under the name "G Gradiente Iphone." Yes, that's correct: Gradiente is using Apple's famous smartphone name for a device running Android — and...
Saying that companies should compete in the marketplace rather than in court, Samsung today withdrew its requests for sales bans of some Apple (AAPL) products in Europe. The Korean giant is still suing Apple for damages, saying the iPhone maker infringed some of its...
The leading mobile operating systems, Google Android and Apple iOS, are increasingly taking on the role of financial services platforms. Android and iOS smartphones and tablets host applications
Enterprise adoption of Google’s Android operating system is quickly catching up to Apple’s iOS, according to ThreatLabZ, the research arm of cloud security company Zscaler. The company just released its third quarter "State of the Web" research infographic, which shows that Android accounted for 45.2%...
As we head into the holiday season, I thought it would be good to look back on five key themes that framed a momentous year. These events are really in no particular order, but we grouped them into themes to keep this week’s column true to its name.
The global smart connected device market is growing at a stunning rate, with Samsung leading the vendor market and Apple in second place, according to a new report by IDC.
The market for personal computers, tablets and smartphones grew more than 27% year-over-year in the...
T-Mobile USA's German parent Deutsche Telekom says the carrier will bring Apple products to its customers next year, meaning that all four of the nationwide service providers now have agreements with Apple. Even some regional carriers have gotten the iPhone, but so far T-Mobile...
Apple has turned the tables on service providers, running tests of the iPhone 5 on their 4G/LTE networks before allowing carriers to market the new smartphone. Now some mobile operators, who are used to testing their own networks when launching a new device, may...
While it would seem that T-Mobile USA’s ability to carry the device that has become the Nokia 6000-series/Motorola StarTac/Razr/BlackBerry of the current smartphone craze should be a good thing (iPhones for everyone!), this move could prove to be a telling story.
The iPhone 5 and the latest versions of the iPad will soon be available legally in China. Apple (AAPL) said today that the iPad mini and the newest full-size iPad will go on sale in China December 7. The iPhone 5 will hit the...
Citing a Merrill Lynch financial analyst, Fortune is reporting that T-Mobile USA could be in the verge of announcing plans to carry Apple’s iPhone as early as next week.
The Fortune story cites a report from Merrill Lynch’s Scott Craig that “speculation is heightening” that...
Wireless and mobile stocks are underperforming the major market indices for the year so far. With just one month left in 2012, the RCR Composite is up 7.8% year to date, while the S&P 500 is up 12.6% year to date and the NASDAQ...
Apple announced that it will open its first store in Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro. It will also be the first Apple store in the Latin American region, where up until now, the company only had agreements with local retailers, such as A2U, iPlace and...
Samsung increased its leadership in the mobile phone market even as worldwide mobile phone sales decreased. According to Gartner's latest numbers, mobile phone sales to end users were down 3.1% in 3Q12 compared to 3Q11 with approximately 428 million units sold. Currently, Samsung has...
Apple and HTC are finished fighting in court. The two companies say they have a confidential settlement that will allow each of them to license current and future patents from the other for the next ten years. They are also dropping all current lawsuits...
President Obama probably used his iPad to post the most popular tweet in history Tuesday night. The fact that the President is stepping out with an iPad instead of his BlackBerry is a coup for Apple, but like the President the Cupertino company has...
Apple had historically taken a similar approach to the automotive industry in terms of rolling out new models: introduce a new model every year with enough enhancements to entice, but not revolutionary
On the heels of announcing plans to offer Apple’s slate of iPad products, Sprint Nextel released no-contract data plans catering to those devices that undercut similar offerings from larger rivals.
Sprint Nextel said beginning Nov. 11 it will offer tablet-specific data plans beginning at $15...
Apple’s release today of a smaller iPad, quaintly called the iPad Mini, along with updates to its “regular” iPad model, is expected to have a dramatic impact on the still developing tablet market, which Apple continues to dominate. More pressing for Apple’s wireless carrier...
To the surprise of no one that has consumed any form of media over the past week, Apple today unveiled a smaller iPad device, along with updates to a handful of the company’s core computing devices. The announcements follow the release of Apple’s iPhone...
