Staying up to date with your favorite band, the latest news and online friends should be easier as an Oklahoma company is set to launch a social enterprise platform for mobile users next year.Onesite Inc. is planning to offer its eNotify application for Apple...
Move over YouTube. MySpace lovers can now access video from the social-networking monster on their handsets. MySpace, along with video technology vendor RipCode, announced that MySpace mobile users can view all MySpace video content on compatible phones."Video is a natural next step for us...
The swirl of events last month and their possible implications for the domestic handset industry are several-fold, analyst said last week. First, despite an outlook tempered by drastic economic headlines, the wireless market in the United States may not be the "meltdown" many are...
Similar to its like-named weather phenomenon, the launch of Research In Motion Ltd.'s Storm at Verizon Wireless has left mixed results. Sure, the resulting moisture and strong sales are needed, but the shaken nerves and rattled shoppers are after-effects that may take time to...
Black Friday and Cyber Monday have become retail mainstays, but Mobile Tuesday?Recent economic woes have eliminated many marketers' ability to invest in emerging media. Still, aggressive mobile-marketing firms and major retailers are introducing programs meant to entice wary consumers this holiday season. One such...
By the time you read this, Black Friday will be in the record books. But it will be weeks, perhaps, until the wireless industry knows whether consumers embraced their inner spender on the hottest shopping day of the year, or held back.A variety of...
Editor's Note: The following lists ranks the 10 most popular handsets in the United States for the month of October. Rankings were provided by AvianResearch L.L.C.
The firm derives its ranking via its Monthly Retail Store Survey, which is based on responses from 100 service...
The Advertising Standards Authority in the United Kingdom has ruled that a particular Apple commercial touting the iPhone 3G as "really fast" to be misleading and has pulled the plug on the advertisement.The authority rendered its decision after receiving 17 complaints of the commercial...
The mobile information superhighway is in need of some serious maintenance. That's the take-away from a new Yankee Group evaluation of 32 consumer-facing mobile Web sites. The market research firm scored the sites on a scale of one to 100, grading them on 25...
A Los Angeles real estate developer filed a lawsuit against Apple Inc. claiming the company's iPhone violates a patent he was awarded last month. Elliot Gottfurcht, a land developer and managing director of EMG Technology L.L.C., claims the iPhone's Internet-navigation technology infringes on the...
Verizon Wireless released Research In Motion Ltd.'s BlackBerry Storm this morning. Customers showed up early to get their hands on the device and the device has been selling out quickly. ; blackberry; rim; storm; Verizon Wireless; Verizon Wireless...
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. Try searching the Internet for "WAP is dead" and you will see 328,000 matches. Scroll through...
Hello! And welcome to our Thursday 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....
A unit of LG Electronics, the South Korean-based multinational giant with a major wireless handset business, and other Asian manufacturers agreed to pay $585 million in fines and plead guilty in connection with the Department of Justice and FBI's probe of price-fixing conspiracies in...
The growing consumer embrace of smartphones - and the willingness to pay for heavily subsidized gadgets and data plans that promise fun and functionality - faces uncharted territory this holiday season. But plans for this quarter were hatched a year or more ago, as...
China Mobile, the world's largest network operator, will offer 3G handsets from Nokia Corp. on its homegrown, TD-SCDMA 3G network. It already offers such handsets from Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. The Nokia handsets will be dual mode, GSM/TD-SCDMA. And the operator said it was...
Spansion Inc., a pure-play Flash memory vendor, has filed two patent-infringement lawsuits against Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., one at the U.S. International Trade Commission, the other in a Delaware district court. Spansion seeks an exclusionary order from the ITC that would ban the import...
The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.Carrier--RBC Capital Markets downgraded Clearwire to sector perform from outperform and lowered its price target to $9 from $15 on more conservative valuation.--RBC Capital Markets...
Marketing specialist TNS Compete launched a new service designed to examine the smartphone industry and its trends.In its inaugural report, the firm examined Apple Inc.'s iPhone. TNS Compete plans to update the smartphone survey quarterly."The iPhone has raised the bar for mobile interactivity, 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.When Apple launched the iPhone a little over a year ago, they disrupted the industry...
NOKIA CORP. DELIVERED A SOBER WARNING Friday that a "rapid change" in consumer spending over past weeks led the handset giant to cut its estimates for mobile device volumes in the fourth quarter and for 2009.Nokia, with about 40% global share of the handset...
Consumers have embraced Bluetooth-enabled mono headsets for mobile phones, but getting them to accept stereo Bluetooth headsets is another story.A new study from IMS Research predicts sales of mono Bluetooth headsets will increase by 10 to 20 million per year and could quickly reach...
It sits in the desert as a shimmering star, an example of state-of-the-art technology. From its retractable roof to its grass field that can roll out of the steel and concrete structure, University of Phoenix Stadium was also built with wireless in mind.The $455...
Hello! And welcome to our Thursday 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....
