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.There are two embedded myths in your company that must be shattered to emerge from this recession...
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 atRCRWireless.com to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong way. We...
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.Today, while the U.S. mobile adult content market remains in a very early stage as...
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,...
Across corporations large and small, directly competing or related industries across the telecosm, CEOs are being asked one question by their primary investors and their boards: How will Google affect our business model? Are they a friend today, and a foe tomorrow...
Nero today released a mobile synching application that will be bundled initially on Motorola Inc.'s Cliq and MotoDext handsets. Called Nero MobileSync, the platform allows mobile users to manage, share and create content between the desktop, the handset and the Web, regardless of the...
AT&T Inc. and Google Inc. ratcheted up the volume in an ongoing war of words over net neutrality and the Google Voice application. In documents filed Friday, AT&T went on the offensive, saying that Google Voice fails to comply with the government's open Internet...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The nation's top tower company executives are optimistic on the outlook for their industry, in part because they survived late 2008 and early 2009 intact despite tight credit markets, but more so because mobile broadband services are taking off.Speaking at PCIA's...
If the Federal Communications Commission puts any teeth into net neutrality rules, look for the issue to land on the front doorsteps of the United States Supreme Court.The FCC, with three new members and a Democratic bent, is proposing to add two new regulations...
There has been a surge in attention on the subject of the mobile data tsunami – the increasing burden on mobile networks from the explosion in data usage and the ‘I can't do without wonderful mobile web experience' it has unleashed in consumers. ...
The Federal Communications Commission unveiled its view of an open Internet with Chief Julius Genachowski explaining the new administration’s plans to keep access to the Internet free and open, regardless of access mechanism. However, the plan includes some wiggle room that could prove valuable...
SAN JOSE, Calif. – JIL, the Joint Innovation Lab, is an effort by four of the world's largest wireless operators to put carriers back into the revenue-sharing equation as consumers move from voice-based applications to content. Speaking at The Telecom Council's TC3 meeting late...
Cable telecom giant Cox Communications Inc. is set to enter the highly competitive wireless space in a big way. The company is in the midst of building out its own CDMA wireless network to support customers as well as launch services as a mobile...
SAN JOSE, Calif. – Silicon Valley companies that are debating whether it's beneficial to work with telecom carriers should recalibrate their expectations in the time it will take to get the service to market, but hold onto the fact that the benefits of scale...
LOS ANGELES--FLO TV President Bill Stone is moving beyond carrier agreements with Verizon Wireless and AT&T Mobility to try to drive awareness to the mobile TV space and increase consumer adoption of the nascent TV service. Stone, who took over the reins of FLO...
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...
SEATTLE--Since taking over as head of the Mobile Marketing Association in January, Mike Wehrs has juggled international expansion, carrier cooperation and the more boring, but essential work of fine-tuning the business processes needed to successfully run a trade association that counts more than 700...
Cellular phones are, as you well know, ubiquitous these days. And for the past decade, the dominant players in the industry have been well distributed around the globe. There is strong representation from Korea, Japan, Scandinavia, Germany, the U.S., China, Taiwan, and lots of...
VeriSign Inc.’s mobile messaging unit said it won a contract to offer text-messaging-based mobile banking services to Wilmington Trust. Customers can access banking information, such as ATM and branch locations, personal account information, and recent transaction history by text message. Wilmington Trust offers regional...
EBay Inc. (NASDAQ:EBAY) today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to sell its Skype communications unit in a deal valuing the business at $2.75 billion. The buyer, who will control an approximately 65 percent stake, is an investor group led by Silver Lake...
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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 converging telecom and IT space is set to become a $5 trillion global business, fueled by relentless demand from individuals and businesses to be able to access information across any device at any time. The wireless/telecom/media/IT sector is growing two to five...
The role of mobile devices is rapidly evolving - converged products like the iPhone are shaping consumer behavior and creating unprecedented expectation for video, web browsing, gaming, and GPS. As our handsets transform from primarily voice-driven devices to highly visual platforms for multimedia, the...
