It appears there's room for plenty of winners in the booming segment of mobile social networking sites. But it's still unclear how lucrative the space will be.Virtual, on-the-go communities are a driving force as the wireless Web rapidly expands from a curiosity into a...
Struggling cellphone maker Motorola Inc. said it will cut an additional 400 jobs beyond those announced in late October. The latest round of cuts will come from all of the company's segments; the previous actions primarily affected the company's mobile devices business.Motorola's stock was...
Research In Motion Ltd. and Motorola Inc. continue to squabble in court regarding the future of employees that Motorola has already terminated or plans to fire, according to court records.RIM, maker of the popular BlackBerry smartphone line, filed a complaint Tuesday in state...
Mozilla is targeting developers with an upgraded alpha version of its mobile browser.Fennec - which takes its name from a small desert fox - is a zooming browser that features bookmarks, a smart URL bar, popup blocker and tabbed browsing. The Mountain View, Calif.-based...
There's a chill in the air, the malls are packed and my daughters are taking Christmas ornaments off the tree and breaking them like there's money inside. So in the spirit of the season - and in light of the predictable, holiday-related news vacuum...
The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.Handset and infrastructure vendors--Oppenheimer increased its estimates on Research In Motion after the company reported results in line with its pre-announcement. The new estimates are...
Research In Motion Ltd. gave an upbeat report on holiday sales yesterday and said that the current quarter would set a company record for device shipments.RIM co-CEO Jim Balsillie said in a statement that BlackBerry products were selling faster than anticipated and that the...
A Georgia company that provides wireless connectivity solutions plans to enter the in-flight Internet market for airlines and business aircraft owners by buying a defense contract company for $55 million.EMS Technologies announced today that it has agreed to acquire New Jersey-based Formation Inc. for...
The Advertising Standards Authority in the United Kingdom has ruled that a particular Apple commercial touting the iPhone 3G as "really fast" to be misleading and has pulled the plug on the advertisement.The authority rendered its decision after receiving 17 complaints of the commercial...
The mobile information superhighway is in need of some serious maintenance. That's the take-away from a new Yankee Group evaluation of 32 consumer-facing mobile Web sites. The market research firm scored the sites on a scale of one to 100, grading them on 25...
More shakeup continues at the senior executive level for Alcatel-Lucent, as the company has brought in a new CFO.The French-U.S. company announced today that Hubert de Pesquidoux has decided to leave his post as CFO to pursue other opportunities. Pesquidoux was also president of...
A company that manages wireless accounts for some of the largest corporations in the United States has teamed up with a firm that is well known for recycling handsets.Rivermine Inc. struck a deal with ReCellular Inc. to provide its enterprise customers as a way...
The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.Carrier--Barclays Capital lowered its price target on Sprint Nextel to $5 from $10 an lowered its 2009 EPS estimate to a loss of 13 cents...
Financial news in just the past few weeks has led Qualcomm Inc. to forecast "meaningfully less" growth in CDMA-based handset markets for calendar year 2009. The chip and IP-licensing firm cited slower consumer purchasing than previously anticipated and a purposeful contraction in channel inventory...
The Department of Justice approved Verizon Wireless' $28 billion purchase of Alltel Communications L.L.C., subject to required divestitures of wireless assets in 100 markets encompassing 22 states."The divestitures required are necessary to protect wireless customers and are among the most extensive required by the...
Editor's Note: RCR Wireless News Washington Bureau Chief Jeffrey Silva asked the presidential campaigns of Sens. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.) to respond to e-mailed questions covering a wide range of policy matters confronting the wireless industry and the telecom/high-tech sectors generally.
McCain's...
Editor's Note: The following lists ranks the 10 most popular handsets in the United States for the month of September. Rankings were provided by AvianResearch L.L.C.
The firm derives its ranking via its Monthly Retail Store Survey, which polls 100 service representatives at retail stores...
RCR Wireless News is planning to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the first cellular phone call in its Oct. 13 edition. As such, we want your memories of the last 25 years of wireless. Through the years, the RCR Wireless News editorial staff has...
Nearly three million mobile users received Barack Obama's SMS about his new running mate, but many of those who signed up may have gotten the text late - or not at all - according to new figures from Keynote Systems.The mobile and Internet test...
Cricket Communications Inc. said it is giving customers all the video their eyes can take, for $5 a month. The subsidiary of Leap Wireless International Inc., Cricket is offering unlimited mobile video service, allowing customers to view a selection of video clips, one-to-four minutes...
DENVER - It's a glitzy, ostentatious spectacle that has drawn hundreds of powerful politicians, thousands of TV cameras, tens of thousands of convention-goers and an audience that stretches across the globe. And it has coaxed out all corners of the wireless industry, too.
The Democratic...
Triple-tapping continues to explode, according to new figures from VeriSign Inc.The Mountain View, Calif.-based company said it delivered 95.4 billion inter-carrier text messages in the first half of 2008, establishing a new record for text messaging activity during the period. VeriSign also reported a...
Klausner Technologies Inc. has filed a lawsuit against Verizon Wireless and LG Electronics Co. Ltd., claiming the carrier's recently launched visual voicemail service for the LG Voyager handset infringes on its voicemail patents. Anticipating the lawsuit, Verizon Wireless filed a lawsuit of its own...
T-Mobile USA Inc. has been hit with a new class-action lawsuit over early termination fees, the complaint coming amid costly, high-stakes litigation in California and a fierce debate over whether federal regulators should set a national policy that pre-empts state oversight of wireless providers."Through...
