Despite joking a while back that it would not pull an Apple and set loose the bloodthirsty legal beagles over the leak of its N8 phone to a Russian website, Nokia seems to have changed its mind, and is indeed legally pursuing Eldar Murtazin, the blogger who laid the phone bare for all to gawp at.
Consumers are increasingly tapping into the advanced features of their mobile devices, according to a new report released by Compete Inc. as part of its Quarterly Smartphone Intelligence Survey.The firm noted that during the first quarter of this year nearly one in three smartphone...
Editor's Note: This article is an excerpt from RCR Wireless News' May Special Edition, "Enabling the Mobile Revolution: Mobile Chips, Devices and Accessories." The 80-page special edition is available here.The wireless industry is a complicated organism that despite serving nearly nine out of every...
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.The U.S mobile data services market is in the midst of a shake-up. In view...
It would seem that the word "Android" pops up everywhere nowadays. It’s the in word when it comes to anything mobile related, a true challenger to the iPhone throne as king of the smartphone heap, so it is perhaps a little surprising that its creator, Google, seems to have been unwittingly holding it back from even greater glory.
Apple is well known for its “hear no evil, see no evil” attitude when it comes to its own products, but the Cupertino company came as close as it probably ever will to admitting a problem when it kicked a hacker out of its App Store this weekend.
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.Greetings from the 4th of July remote location(s) of this week’s Sunday Brief. (Note: if...
Apple PR this morning is claiming that the email exchange between an angry punter and a patronizing Steve Jobs was actually a fake and not written by the CEO himself.
Hello! And welcome to our Friday 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 RCRWireless.com to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong way....
Less than 2 months after being launched at Verizon Wireless and three months after its unveiling at a San Francisco bar at 10 in the morning, Microsoft Corp. has shut down its Kin initiative.Published reports indicated that the computer software giant ditched the Kin...
Rudeness and arrogance are two words oft associated with Apple, and Steve Jobs himself, but a recent email exchange with a customer has taken customer service and care to a whole new low.
SAN DIEGO – Qualcomm Inc. has paid $3 billion to developers using its BREW platform, CEO Paul Jacobs told a crowd of about 3,000 during yesterday's keynote speech at the company's first Uplinq conference. That $3 billion amounts to an average selling price of...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.Most of my blogs are chock full of numbers, trends, analyses. I like it that way. However,...
Cisco has surprised the world yet again, announcing at the company's Cisco Live 2010 conference on Tuesday that it would come out with its own tablet, called “Cius,” aimed at corporate users and singularly-focused on delivering high-quality video conferencing.
Stop me if you have heard this one before: Apple Inc. is set to break free of its AT&T Mobility bonds and begin offering the iPhone through Verizon Wireless. Sounds familiar? Sure it does as varying forms of that prediction have been bouncing around...
Editor's Note:Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.We are quickly approaching the end of the second quarter, and the industry isn’t without some headlines (by...
Driven by an insatiable consumer demand for anything “i” related, and apparently overlooking some slight design flaws, Apple Inc. (AAPL) said it managed to sell more than 1.7 million iPhone 4 devices through its first three days of availability, becoming the “most successful product...
LOS ANGELES — As more services collide on mobile networks, the business models that support the entire wireless ecosystem are being strained like never before.Services and business models are all colliding while the development of a new ecosystem from the likes of Google Inc.,...
We love companies with a sense of humor, and Finnish phone maker Nokia had us chuckling this morning with its amusing little dig at Apple and Steve Jobs’ arrogant statement that reception problems on iPhone 4 were down to the way people held their phones.
Hello! And welcome to our Friday 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 RCRWireless.com to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong way....
CERRITOS, CALIF. — The faithful began lining up earlier this week, according to some overheard chatter, but whether you arrived 24 hours before or right when the doors opened today, you still walked out of Apple Inc.'s newest store with an iPhone 4.The overall...
RCR Wireless News Features Editor Matt Kapko is braving the crowds this morning to report on the public launch of Apple Inc.'s latest iPhone 4, and to satiate his lust for the latest in cellphone technology. Please check back often for Kapko's on-the-scene reports...
