Newswires have been buzzing with reports that Apple's 3G iPhones might not be selling as briskly in Poland as they are in the U.S., noting that the company's telecom partner in the country, Orange, has hired people to stand outside stores and create phony...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Yay or Nay. Every week we'll review a new wireless application or service from the user's point of view, with the goal of highlighting what works and what doesn't. If you wish to submit your application or...
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. It feels like every day we are seeing articles about the "operating system wars" and who...
American and European users are using mobile map applications more frequently, with 8 % of U.S. mobile users and 3% of European subscribers accessing maps from the mobile phone between February and May, according to a new study from ComScore Inc.Those figures represent an...
ESPN Inc. unveiled an expansion of its current agreement with Major League Baseball Advanced Media that "covers all new platforms" including online, interactive television and mobile.The Walt Disney Co. subsidiary locked up rights to deliver MLB content through its online and mobile channels, video...
A new report from Informa Telecoms & Media predicts the struggling mobile base station market could be revived by mobile data traffic demands by 2011.The report predicts mobile data traffic will grow nearly 1,100% to 1,925 petabytes by 2012 from 162 PB last year,...
It's no secret that the recording industry is increasingly looking to mobile to offset plummeting revenues from CDs and other physical goods. But sometimes its strategies seem horribly misguided. Word came over the weekend that Pandora, a streaming-music Internet site that draws roughly 1...
Many people aren't leaving home when it comes to accessing the Internet using a wireless data card, according to a new report by Nielsen Mobile.Wireless data cards, gadgets that allow laptop and PC users to connect to the Internet using a cellular network, are...
Just a month and a half after Virgin Mobile USA Inc.'s announcement to acquire Helio L.L.C., all but one of Helio's five retail stores have already closed. The New York location remains open, for now, while stores in San Diego, Santa Monica and Palo...
Virgin Mobile USA Inc. showed more enthusiasm toward its newer, postpaid offerings in its second-quarter report - not the normal behavior for a company that made its name with prepaid. When asked about average revenue per user (ARPU) results related to its recently launched...
Apple Inc. and AT&T Mobility just added nearly another 1,000 retail outlets for the iPhone 3G by hooking up with big-box retailer Best Buy. That's likely to gin up iPhone sales, boost AT&T Mobility's fortunes and probably anger some of AT&T Mobility's other independent...
Google Inc.'s Internet dominance has grown in recent years as the competition - well, what passes for competition - continues to plod along. But for the long list of Web-based players moving to the new platform, wireless is the wild, wild West.The Mountain View,...
Hardware, software, high-speed networks, uptake . it seems all the pieces are in place for mobile commerce to take off. Well, all the pieces except maybe a viable business model or two.That was the takeaway from last week's Mobile Financial Services Summit in Denver,...
Sprint Nextel Corp. plans to begin selling its touchscreen Instinct phone through its retail outlets on June 20, a date that may put the device on store shelves at almost the exact same time as Apple Inc.'s second-generation iPhone.Speculation is that Apple intends to...
A new star is rising in mobile television and it's all premised on the fact that people don't want to pay for video on their cellphones. A few standout companies have blazed a path to free mobile content for consumers, but few, if any...
Verizon Communications Inc. has sued Sprint Nextel Corp. in Delaware federal court, accusing the No. 3 mobile-phone operator of failing pay nearly $10 million in interconnection charges."Verizon has repeatedly attempted to resolve this dispute short of litigation," the suit stated. "Yet these attempts, made...
LAS VEGAS -- Five companies promoting the A-VSB standard for mobile TV broadcasting said they have made progress on the technology, and offered demonstrations during the National Association of Broadcasters Show this week to underscore their efforts.The Advanced Television Systems Committee is expected to...
Reps. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) and Chris Cannon (R-Utah) introduced a bill to impose a five-year freeze on new discriminatory state and local wireless taxes."The wireless sector of the technology industry continues to be an important driver for growth in our nation's economy. Americans don't...
The Federal Communications Commission said the nation's top prepaid wireless company, TracFone Wireless Inc., is now eligible for universal service subsidies in ten states and the District of Columbia, a move aimed at addressing modern-day communications needs of low-income citizens. "For quite some time...
The Federal Communications Commission agreed to allow Globalstar Inc. to make greater use of land-based wireless facilities in mobile satellite service frequencies licensed to the company."This action will allow greater capacity and flexibility for MSS/ATC , and will allow CDMA Big LEO MSS/ATC...
High-end phones with Web-based features will drive explosive growth in the mobile browser market over the next few years, according to new figures from ABI Research.The market research firm predicted the open-Internet browser (OIB) space for mobile will explode from 76 million browsers delivered...
NXP Semiconductors and STMicroelectronics will combine their wireless businesses to compete in a cutthroat environment for chip makers. The two companies said in a statement they would aim to complete the move by the third quarter, subject to regulatory review and "consultations" with labor...
Pepsi-Cola has tapped Hong Kong's MyClick Media to handle the mobile extension of a cross-platform marketing campaign targeting young consumers in China. The contest encourages users to upload photos as well as personal information such as name and mobile number to one of six...
Hello! And welcome to our 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 at RCRWirelessNews.com to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong way. We...
