ORLANDO, Fla.-The mantra of profitability remains the guiding principle at Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications L.P., even as it invests in development efforts in the United States and moves ahead in emerging markets. "Without profit, you're nothing," said Miles Flint, president of Sony Ericsson, in...
ORLANDO, Fla.-The intriguing thing about the mobile handset business is that competition and ambition can help a vendor thread the eye of a needle. To some, that's the slim opening for vendors not counted among the top-tier, whose five companies claim more than 80...
ORLANDO, Fla.-Six short films were screened at CTIA Wireless 2007 for the debut of the Mobile Movie Fest. Each of the films ranged in length, graphic appeal and storyline.Three films in a live-action category, two in animation and one "green" film were shown before...
ORLANDO, Fla.-In a ballroom filled with tech-savvy players in the wireless industry, audio and video problems kept cropping up for each of the five panelists on the "Producing Mobile Content" session at the Mobile Entertainment Live session as CTIA Wireless 2007. It served as...
MediaFLO USA launched its broadcast mobile television service with Verizon Wireless earlier this month. Virtually everyone in the industry is wondering if the service will take off, and questions run the field as to the profitability of the service and where architects of the...
Welcome to a special CTIA edition of Hedgehogging by RCRNews.com Online Editor Mike Dano. To read more of Dano's columns, visit RCRNews.com and click on "Worst of the Week."
So as far as I can tell, one of the big issues at this year's...
A group that tracks political money found that while the previous Congress didn't pass much major legislation-such as telecom reform-last year, companies in high-tech and other sectors were spending big time on lobbying official Washington. Sound counter-intuitive? Not really. Lobbying is as much about...
ORLANDO, Fla.-What would a CTIA Wireless event be without lots of carrier news. Sure, the big operators typically garner the limelight, but smaller players were also in the house and making news of their own.Virgin Mobile USAVirgin Mobile USA L.L.C. said it plans to...
ORLANDO, Fla.-A quick evaluation of the comments and announcements streaming from the world's largest infrastructure providers offers evidence that the market is getting wider and more complicated-and that the field may belong to only the largest contenders."This is exciting times," said L.M. Ericsson CEO...
ORLANDO, Fla.-Mobile television is still in its infancy-mostly gaining traction among early adopters and primarily young men-but the subscriber base has more than doubled from 3 million to about 7 million users in the past year, Kanishka Agarwal, vice president of mobile media at...
Editor's Note: Lowell McAdam took over as president and CEO of Verizon Wireless in December, as Denny Strigl moved on to head Verizon Communications Inc.
Crashing the party can be risky business in the wireless industry. Just ask Cyren Call Communications Corp., which dared to be audacious by asking policy-makers to take a valuable chunk of 700 MHz frequencies off the auction block so they could be deployed for...
The wireless Web is strewn with potholes and speed bumps, but John SanGiovanni hopes that widgets can pave the way.SanGiovanni is the founder of ZenZui, a spinoff of Microsoft Corp. that will emerge from stealth mode last week at CTIA Wireless 2007. The company...
The Food and Drug Administration said the National Academy of Science will conduct a symposium and issue a report on future research requirements regarding possible health effects from radio frequency radiation emitted by mobile phones and other wireless devices, marking the final phase of...
ORLANDO, Fla.-The Mobile Marketing Association announced an effort to boost the mobile urban content market-and to help entrepreneurs looking to provide the stuff.The MMA unveiled a special-interest group charged with "creating networking, education and policy opportunities" among content owners, carriers and technology developers. The...
Wireless data revenues rose to $15.2 billion last year, a 77-percent jump from 2005, according to CTIA. The wireless trade group estimates carriers data revenues today total about 13 percent of all wireless revenues."Wireless broadband is providing mobile subscribers with the ability to access...
ORLANDO, Fla.-The day two keynotes at CTIA Wireless 2007 were all about collaboration. And, of course, money.From music to video to m-commerce, Wednesday's speakers hammered home the need for content providers and financial institutions to partner with carriers to push mobile data services and...
ORLANDO, Fla.-The competitive cauldron that is the domestic Chinese handset market has produced a few winners. And that has fueled a desire among those winners to enter the U.S. market.The prize? Prestige, profits and brand-building that could serve long-term, global growth, according to analysts.At...
Editor's Note: Welcome to a special CTIA Show Daily edition of our weekly online feature, Analyst Angle. Every Monday at www.RCRNews.com you can find columns from the industry's leading analysts, including Current Analysis' Avi Greengart, Compete's Miro Kazakoff and Jupiter Research's Julie Ask. Visit...
Location-based services, like so many emerging technologies in the wireless space, for years have been on the cusp of widespread use among mobile-phone users. With more global positioning system-enabled handsets coming to market and more tech companies launching LBS applications that exploit previously untapped...
Gemalto plans to introduce two new products this week at CTIA Wireless 2007.The company said it will introduce its Smart Dongle product that allows subscriber to securely access mobile carrier services such as voice over IP, instant messaging, multimedia content and online authentication with...
BlueAnt Wireless said it is launching four new products at CTIA Wireless 2007. The Australian-based firm is introducing an entry-level T8 micro Bluetooth headset and the advanced V12 LCD headset with called I.D., according to the company. "CTIA will provide the platform upon which...
ORLANDO, Fla.-Six short films were screened here at CTIA Wireless 2007 for the debut of the Mobile Movie Fest. Each of the films ranged in length, graphic appeal and storyline.Three films in a live action category, two in animation and one "green" film were...
ORLANDO, Fla.-A packed hall heard evangelism, exhortation and ebullience from a trio of industry speakers yesterday morning, as the CTIA Wireless 2007 trade show got underway. Attendees also got a surfeit of commercialism as each keynote speaker extolled their partners and their progress. "The...
