SCHAUMBURG, Ill. — Seven months after spinning off as a separate company, Motorola Solutions Inc. (MSI) is doubling down on its services portfolio and making other moves to reach deeper into the public safety and enterprise sectors.“Out of the gate we’re performing pretty...
Businesses increasingly are using wireless technology to communicate internally among employees and externally with potential and existing customers. The trend is only going to continue as more people drop landline telephone services. While traditional media companies were early adopters of mobile technology to communicate,...
SCHAUMBURG, Ill. — Motorola Solutions Inc. (MSI) is expanding its portfolio of services and applications for the enterprise and government sectors. Around $2 billion, or 25% of the company’s total revenue, comes from services and it expects to see more growth in that area...
I just finished reading The Littlest Green Beret on Self-Reliant Leadership, by Jan R. Rutherford, Jr.* recently published by Pylon Publishing, LLC www.pylonpublishing.com. I have had the pleasure of working with Jan, and know him as a great self-starter and a natural leader in...
The mobile local ad market got more crowded and competitive today with AT&T Interactive announcing that in-app ads will be coming to its own network soon. Billed as yet another extension of the AT&T Inc. (T) subsidiary's local Yellow Pages business, the company is...
With more than half of 2011 behind us, Chetan Sharma Consulting is projecting the mobile industry to drive $1.3 trillion in activity by year's end. Mobile data is expected to comprise 24% of that market with revenues cresting above $300 billion worldwide for the...
eBay Inc. (EBAY) has reached a deal to acquire Zong for $240 million in cash. The Menlo Park, Calif.-based company provides mobile payments through carrier billing channels and has deals with more than 250 operators around the world.eBay plans to combine bring Zong’s...
Enterprise Fleet Management is working with Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) to bring the carrier’s wireless connectivity and new features to its Mobile Resource Manager (MRM). The Web-based machine-to-machine offering provides its mid-size business customers with real-time visibility into the whereabouts of their fleet...
RCR Wireless News has named Roberta Prescott editor in chief of RCR Wireless News Latin America, as the news group expands its global coverage of the mobile and wireless industry.Prescott will be responsible for reporting news and analysis coming out the region, interviewing key...
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.
Recently, Google Inc. announced Google Wallet, a virtual wallet and set of services to allow...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this forum for those with something meaningful to say to the wireless industry. We want to keep this as open as possible,...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this forum for those with something meaningful to say to the wireless industry. We want to keep this as open as possible,...
AT&T Inc. (T) has launched a pilot to help employees manage diabetes. In partnership with WellDoc Inc., AT&T mHealth Solutions is going to pilot DiabetesManager for up to six months among a select group of employees at AT&T and Health Care Services Corp.,...
Two published reports claim that the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is investigating communications between Twitter and Ubermedia, a company that develops applications to help users commiserate and follow each other using the online messaging service. The question at hand is whether or not...
It takes the average American six to eight minutes to realize they’ve lost their phone whereas it takes them some six to eight hours to realize they’ve lost their wallet according to Citibank’s head of global new product development and alliances. Speaking at a...
Nokia Corp. (NOK) continues to shed business interests as it shifts its strategy on many fronts. The latest to go is the company’s operator-branded messaging business, which gave carriers in North America the opportunity to sell white label email and instant messaging services to...
DETROIT — Linda Daichendt, a small business consultant, was frustrated a couple years back when she kept coming up empty in her quest for mobile businesses based here in her home state of Michigan. With large, national associations barely touching the state or local...
Hytera Communications China, the parent company of Miramar-based Hytera Communications Co., Ltd., has announced the successful Initial Public Offering on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange of 70 million shares at an initial price of $3.06/share. Total authorized capital is 278 million shares. The...
A new fixed wireless access service from Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) is being targeted at the enterprise. If successful, Sprint 4G Enterprise WAN (wide area network) could replace traditional wired options by connecting businesses to the carrier’s multiprotocol label switching network in any...
Editor's Note: John Williams is a human resource consultant to RCR Wireless News and TelecomCareers who is blogging on HR matters that impact the wireless industry, including hiring and retaining employees as the economy improves. This week he attended the SHRM conference in Las...
GUANGZHOU, China – China Telecom is revamping its enterprise-focused practice to better help those vertical-market customers conduct their business more efficiently, said Liang Zhiping, director of VIP Customer Department at China Telecom Group.Zhiping, speaking at the Global CDMA Operation and Development Forum 2001, sponsored...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this forum for those with something meaningful to say to the wireless industry. We want to keep this as open as possible,...
Antitrust regulators in the United States have given Apple Inc. (AAPL) the go-ahead to bid on Nortel Networks Corp.'s (NRTLQ) patent portfolio comprised of at least 6,000 patents. The company got the green light following a review at the Justice Department, Bloomberg reports.Though Apple...
AT&T Inc. (T) is embracing the cloud one step further with a new content delivery network set to launch by late September. The cloud-based AT&T Content Delivery Network is aimed at improving the delivery and speed of media-rich content like videos and graphics.AT&T...
