The stock market is poised for a disastrous week, following previously disastrous weeks and a first-ever downgrade of America's debt by Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC last Friday.In the last month, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has declined 11.83% and in the last...
After two long years of negotiations with record companies, Spotify, a Swedish streaming music service, is finally launching today in the U.S. after hammering out deals with the big four labels of Universal, Sony, EMI and Warner Music to stream around 15 million tracks.
The Atlantic compiled and released the 19 most hated companies in America, gleaning information from the American Customer Satisfaction Index, which rates companies based on thousands of surveys. The latest index showed that the unfavorable amongst American firms include large banks, airlines, power concerns...
DALLAS – “Telecom is buzzing again,” said Windstream Communications President and CEO Jeff Gardner and Genband President and CEO Charlie Vogt during a keynote address today at the Telecommunications Industry Association's annual show, TIA2011: Inside the Network.Windstream, which was spun off from Alltel Communications...
Business Wire | January 17, 2011 | News Wire
DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/b7c4e6/cloud_computing_en) has announced the addition of Frost & Sullivan's new report "Cloud Computing End-user Analysis - Mexico" to...
While many analysts thought the CES Internet TV battle would be a strictly Apple/Google affair, dark horse Cisco crashed the party early with CEO John Chambers announcing the firm's new VideoScape offering.Videoscape, which purports to mesh tv content from broadcast, cable and Internet companies,...
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. Although the National Venture Capital Association says it expects to see...
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.
Following years of promises, and highlighted by the annual claim that...
Atlantic Tele-Network Inc. completed its purchase of certain Alltel wireless assets from Verizon Wireless. The purchase price was $223 million and the deal was completed through ATN’s subsidiary, Allied Wireless Communications Corp. The company said it also has acquired a license to continue using...
Editor's Note: This story originally appeared in RCR Wireless News' January Special Edition, Wireless Infrastructure: The Engine for Economic Recovery. Look for our March Special Edition coming soon.Green wireless infrastructure is going mainstream, with vendors competing to offer energy-efficient equipment and outfitting some sites...
The Federal Communications Commission is considering implementing a law that would make cellphone boosters illegal unless they are deployed by a wireless operator or with the consent of a wireless operator, a move that could impact thousands of end users already owning such devices....
Vodafone, Verizon Wireless and nPhase formed an initiative to make it easier for global businesses to integrate machine-to-machine communications into their enterprises. Specifically, the alliance will make remote monitoring and managing of devices in the United States and Europe easier.“The alliance is designed to...
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.Kelly Tedesco is easy to reach on her phone- as long as you send a...
With the holiday, it was a relatively quiet week for the stocks of the RCR Wireless Index. Gainers did outpace losers by a roughly 5 to 2 margin. Notable gainers for the week were Sierra Wireless, Brightpoint and Apple. Our losers...
Tarpon Towers completes tower acquisitions – Now owns 75 towersFrom: Tarpon TowersBRADENTON, FL- December 1, 2009 – Tarpon Towers, an acquirer and developer of wireless communications sites, today announced it had completed a 37 tower acquisition and now owns over 75 towers. With the...
Innovation Works, a business creation platform focused on establishing the next wave of Chinese high-technology companies founded by Dr. Kai-Fu Lee, has launched and will be funded by $115 million in venture capital. This announcement follows news of Dr. Lee's resignation as Google Vice...
Yes, it is good to be back. Thanks for asking.OK so maybe technically you didn’t ask, but I’ll tell you just the same; it is good to be back. We’ve missed you.Even though the wireless industry has been one of America’s great success stories...
The Federal Communications Commission is facing a gathering legal storm over its emergency back-up power rule, with the mobile-phone industry asking a federal appeals court to put its legal challenge on a fast track and Sprint Nextel Corp. seeking to stay the effective date...
QUALCOMM INC. IS NO STRANGER to the Federal Communications Commission and its auction process for spectrum. The company has successfully bid on and won spectrum before, and it appears ready to strike again with the 700 MHz auction, which is scheduled to begin Jan....
This "openness" thing is contagious.Yahoo Inc. is the latest to court third-party developers, announcing its intention to "enable and lead a mobile ecosystem" to spur the creation of mobile applications. The company unveiled a developer platform and said it will support "mobile-optimized applications" such...
NAVTEQ subsidiary Traffic.com is teaming with mobile developer Skyward Mobile on a direct-to-consumer mobile traffic application.The companies launched Traffic.com2GO, a downloadable, J2ME-based offering that delivers real-time traffic updates, congestion information, travel times and construction news on the roadways of U.S. cities. The application, which...
The 700 MHz auction - spectrum the wireless industry has coveted for more than 10 years - is set to start this month.At times it didn't seem like the wireless industry was ever going to get its hands on this valuable resource because the...
Cartoon Network New Media sounds like a fun place to work. Take Ross Cox's word for it. The network's senior director of entertainment products said it often feels like he's working at a toy store. That analogy came through when RCR Wireless News had...
Online search provider ChaCha last week sashayed onto a very crowded mobile dance floor.The Indianapolis startup unveiled a short-code based version of its search offering, which uses paid human "guides" instead of computer-generated algorithms to deliver information. Users can send questions to 242242 (ChaCha)...
