BROWSING: CNN

Kagan: Thoughts as CNN leaves Atlanta for DC and NYC

The iconic and flamboyant Ted Turner started CNN in 1980, around the same time I first came to Atlanta. Now as CNN departs their huge world headquarters at the CNN Center in downtown Atlanta, it’s a good time to remember this amazing story of...

Cell Tower News: Warrant for tower data; worker injured, but OK

Welcome to this week’s edition of cell tower industry news, created by Jarad Matula and brought to you by Towercrews.net. Tower climber injured, but OK This past week a tower climber was injured while working on a tower in Georgia. The climber was 125 feet up on...

Mother Nature vs. the FCC

Mother Nature might be making a point to the Federal Communications Commission: You can control what you can control, but I will make the final decisions about which networks work and which don't during natural disasters.In light of the recent 5.9 magnitude earthquake that...

Service2Media raises $10M in funding

Application platform provider Service2Media said it received $10 million in round C venture-capital funding from Prime Ventures and the Private Plus Fund. CEO Geert Kolthof said the funding will enable it to expand its partner network, add staff, and increase sales and marketing efforts,...

Texas Venture Week kicks off at UT

The McCombs School of Business’s Texas Venture Labs launched its inaugural Venture Week on Wednesday with a conference at the University of Texas that showcased some of the city’s hottest tech start-ups and showed off some entrepreneurial success stories. The ...

Has Verizon already signed an AT&T-like deal for the iPhone?

Another day, another iPhone-coming-to-Verizon Wireless rumor. It turns out the nation's largest carrier might have already agreed to a deal similar to the one Apple Inc. first offered the carrier more than three years ago.Kaufman Bros. analyst Shaw Wu says Apple got the terms...

How apps impact the network

Editor's Note: This article originally appeared in our September Special Edition, Behind the Scenes, a focus on integrated subscriber and network management systems. To download the complete Special Edition, click here. Wireless subscribers' appetite and demand for richer and more data-intensive content is at...

@ Mobile Future Forward: The ‘second wave' of mobile advertising

SEATTLE — While demand for mobile ads is growing, supply is exploding, Millenial Media CEO Paul Palmieri said here at Mobile Future Forward on Wednesday.In many ways, it's both a blessing and a curse.“Mobile is more in a growth phase than the online world...

Reality Check: Mobile marketing’s rules of engagement

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. Mobile marketing is a fantastic tool for value exchange and consumer engagement; however, if there’s one...

Building platforms for growth in the new wireless era

Editor's Note:This article is an excerpt from RCR Wireless News' March Special Edition, "The Perfect Storm – A Focus on Mobile Messaging, Marketing, Content and Apps." The 80-page special edition is available here. As the smartphone wars heat up and the clarion call for...

FLO to update offering

Qualcomm Inc.’s FLO TV Inc. subsidiary said it plans to expand its mobile television offering later this year with the inclusion of interactive capabilities, pay-per-day and event passes and a time-shifting viewing option.The company said the interactive feature will allow users to “interact with...

Content is king: Delivery, distribution and revenue matter too

Editor's Note:This article is an excerpt from RCR Wireless News' March Special Edition, “The Perfect Storm – A Focus on Mobile Messaging, Marketing, Content and Apps.” The 80-page special edition will be available next week at RCRWireless.com.Mobile content – the stuff that people read,...

Analyst Angle: Handsets are becoming commoditized: An Open OS on a slab with rounded corners

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. As I review the new crop of phones being launched, one thing strikes me about...

CommScope to lay off 110 : Google, Qualcomm, Cisco said to be hiring

CommScope said it plans to lay off 110 people at its Omaha, Neb., facility, beginning in March, as the communications network infrastructure manufacturer considers options for the future of the facility. After the layoffs, fewer than 400 people will be employed at the center.“A...

Analyst Angle: How low can unlimited voice prices go?: The very limited nature of “unlimited” voice

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.Over the past two weeks, RCR Wireless covered the dropping rates of unlimited voice cellular...

Analyst Angle: How low can unlimited voice prices go?: The very limited nature of “unlimited” voice

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.Over the past two weeks, RCR Wireless covered the dropping rates of unlimited voice cellular...

Spotlight on: Maria Brennan, CEO of Women in Cable Telecommunications

Women in Cable Telecommunications is a 30-year-old nonprofit group nearly 8,000 members strong that was borne out of a necessity to ensure that women in cable telecommunications were well educated and empowered to help transform the cable industry.In the traditional wireless space, two women's...

@MMF: The future is now for mobile marketing

LOS ANGELES – What a perfect setup for this week's Mobile Marketing Forum. Barely a week ago, AdMob gets acquired by Google Inc. for $750 million, making it the third-largest acquisition in Google's history."If that's not a validation ... then I don't know what...

Disney.com scurries to iTunes with new mobile app

Disney.com scurried to the iTunes App Store with new content and applications specifically tailored to the Apple iPhone and iTouch. The company is just one of the latest large media brands to design applications specifically for the iPhone. CNN launched an iPhone app...

Opinion: More driver distractions ahead

The federal effort to ban texting/e-mailing and driving is common sense. It's not wise to read or write while driving a car. But it seems a little short-sighted to declare which applications are dangerous and which aren't. As vehicles and devices get smarter, the...

CNN launches iPhone app for $2

CNN has launched a news application for Apple Inc.'s iPhone that the media giant thinks could be a benchmark to measure the success of future mobile applications.The company's iPhone app offers users live breaking news, push notification, can be customized to feature local news,...

Spotlight on: CNN mobile’s Louis Gump

ATLANTA--Louis Gump is a veteran in the mobile content space, having spearheaded The Weather Channel's wireless efforts since 2001. In July, he moved to CNN –the No. 1 mobile news destination -- to steer its mobile efforts. A visionary and all-around nice guy, Gump...

How we watched the Obama inauguration: President’s swearing in by stream, mobile, TV and tweet

By the time final numbers are crunched, President Barack Obama's inauguration likely will have been watched by more people and on more platforms than virtually any other televised event in U.S. history - including the Super Bowl. This year's biggest winner: the web, with...