Similar to its like-named weather phenomenon, the launch of Research In Motion Ltd.'s Storm at Verizon Wireless has left mixed results. Sure, the resulting moisture and strong sales are needed, but the shaken nerves and rattled shoppers are after-effects that may take time to...
Verizon Wireless released Research In Motion Ltd.'s BlackBerry Storm this morning. Customers showed up early to get their hands on the device and the device has been selling out quickly. ; blackberry; rim; storm; Verizon Wireless; Verizon Wireless...
Hello! And welcome to our Thursday 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 RCRWireless.com to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong way....
The growing consumer embrace of smartphones - and the willingness to pay for heavily subsidized gadgets and data plans that promise fun and functionality - faces uncharted territory this holiday season. But plans for this quarter were hatched a year or more ago, as...
Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications announced its high-end, touchscreen smartphone, the Xperia X1, will be available to U.S. shoppers in time for the holiday season - but the device will carry the staggering price tag of $800. The announcement appears to reflect Sony Ericsson's inability...
TO OBSERVERS, MOTOROLA INC.'S GLASS is either half-full or half-empty. "Ringing Start for Motorola Chief," declared Barron's last week after the ailing American vendor reported steep losses.Barron's had chosen to hail the straight talk and frank acknowledgements by the company's new co-CEO, Sanjay Jha,...
Motorola Inc. lost $397 million on $7.5 billion in revenue across all its businesses in the third quarter and said today it would delay its plan to spinoff its handset division until sometime after 2009.And in a move to cut costs, the company said...
BOSTON - Futuremark Corp. is hoping to topple the bar set by Apple Inc.'s iPhone by taking the mobile user interface into the third dimension. The software company announced a new graphics software engine, dubbed Kanzi, that it said will allow handset makers to...
BOSTON - A day after the release of the first cellphone powered by Google Inc.'s Android software, the founder of the startup that initially developed the software took the Mobile Internet World keynote stage to explain the reasons behind the search giant's much-hyped effort."It's...
T-Mobile USA this week launched the Google Android-powered G1 across the country. However, the device, which is built by HTC, is only available in retail locations in cities where the carrier's 3G technology has launched.; Android; G1; T-Mobile...
There's a land grab underway in MIDs and two high-tech giants will join forces to exploit it. Intel Corp. and L.M. Ericsson will integrate their technologies for the handheld browsing device market, the companies said.Both companies recently reported robust quarterly earnings, but at least...
AT&T Mobility announced a new touchscreen smartphone from Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., dubbed the Epix. The device will cost $200 with a two-year contract, positioning it as an option for those considering similarly priced devices at the carrier, which include the iPhone 3G, Razr2...
On paper, handset vendors and their carrier patrons can be very persuasive. In the hand, new devices can be seductive. At the checkout counter, however, or on the street where reality bites, a multitude of factors suddenly crowd in like so many shark's teeth,...
Social networking is exploding in mobile, according to figures released by ABI Research. And Frank Meehan thinks he knows how to capitalize.ABI polled 500 users of online social networks and found that 46% of respondents had used such services from their phones. MySpace and...
Leadership concerns persist at Samsung Group, Korea's top conglomerate, after nearly 100 days passed since a new management system was put in place following the resignation of its chairman, Lee Kun-hee.
With Sony Ericsson's inaugural Windows Mobile device set to be launched in the coming days, the handset maker has revealed that it had to convince Microsoft to embrace plans to make the Windows interface more user-friendly.
Mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson is to lay off about 400 workers, roughly half the work force, at its North American headquarters in Research Triangle Park, Rayleigh, North Carolina in the U.S.
We thought he probably would've at least stuck around long enough to see the Tube get announced later this week , but Nokia CTO Bob Iannucci has announced that he's stepping down from the world's number one cellphone maker effective immediately for undisclosed "personal...
When Qualcomm Inc. talks, people listen. So when Qualcomm recently announced that its "Gobi" embedded connectivity module had been certified by AT&T Mobility for the latter's network and that Hewlett-Packard Co. and Panasonic had signed on to include Gobi in some of their new...
Palm Inc.'s revenue for the first fiscal quarter just ended was flat and the company lost about $40 million, vastly beyond losses in the year-ago quarter. While Palm said it shipped 1 million smartphones in the last quarter, up nearly 50% from the year-ago...
The BlackBerry Storm - the first touchscreen device from Research In Motion Ltd. - appears ready for landing at Verizon Wireless, which is both advertising the device and demurring from providing details.The device is called the BlackBerry Storm 9530 Smartphone "with global capabilities," potentially...
You've noticed that your father's laptop card is giving way, in many cases, to sleeker-looking USB modems, with embedded modems increasingly popular as well. That transition is merely emblematic of several changes sweeping the laptop modem space, according to analysts and the vendors themselves....
SAN FRANCISCO -- Bullish on smartphone growth and confident of his company's surging market share, Research In Motion Ltd.'s co-CEO Jim Balsillie devoted his keynote address Thursday to ... consumer services.Mentioning - but giving short shrift to - RIM's three new devices destined for...
SAN FRANCISCO -- Sprint Nextel Corp. prepped for the holiday shopping rush with a lineup of new devices, and a few customer incentives.The carrier presented five new handsets based on popular trends. Two of the phones will be text-message savvy -- the Samsung Electronics...
