You can’t feel, see, hear, touch, taste, or smell it, but the air around you is full of electromagnetic activity. These bursts of oscillating electric and magnetic fields are the carrier pigeons of the information age. They contain our voices, our faces, and our...
5G will be a big step in wireless communication technology connecting billions of devices on an enormous scale with instant data on-demand. While bringing numerous benefits, 5G presents new EMI / EMC design challenges due to several new technologies that are now featuring on...
RIM believes it could hit a harmonious note with consumers by launching its own music streaming service say sources. The news comes on the same day wireless phone carrier MetroPCS announced it had struck a deal with subscription digital music service Rhapsody.Though details of...
After two long years of negotiations with record companies, Spotify, a Swedish streaming music service, is finally launching today in the U.S. after hammering out deals with the big four labels of Universal, Sony, EMI and Warner Music to stream around 15 million tracks.
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ORLANDO, Fla.—CTIA’s semi-annual survey of wireless operators confirmed what the industry already knows: Americans are in love with their wireless devices, and using them more and more for data connections.Some quick stats from the survey: Wireless penetration is at 96%, up nearly 5% from...
SingTel | January 28, 2011 | Press Release
Singapore 28 Jan 2011 - Singapore Telecommunications Ltd (SingTel) today announced that it has expanded the library of its award-winning mobile music service, AMPed, to more than two million tracks. In a new agreement signed with Warner...
Thumbplay Inc. bulked up its library off-deck goodies with a full-track mobile download service.The New York-based wireless content company launched a beta version of the offering, which delivers DRM-free tunes directly to MP3-enabled phones as well as PCs. The songs are available for $1...
Nokia Corp.'s ambitious new mobile music service is just weeks away from making its debut. But the Finnish phone maker has plenty of work left to do before Comes With Music comes to market.The offering - which essentially packages one year of unlimited downloads...
Jamba said it will be the first digital retailer to offer music unencumbered by digital rights management (DRM) software under a deal with record label EMI.A joint venture between News Corp. and VeriSign Inc., Jamba said it will distribute an undisclosed number of DRM-free...
Two newly published stories could create more confusion rather than clarify controversies over whether cellphones pose risks to man and machine alike.Israeli scientists said radiofrequency radiation levels below those of mobile phones can cause biological effects in humans, but researchers stopped short of declaring...
The family of late reggae star Bob Marley said they will sue Verizon Wireless and Universal Music Group in response to an exclusive ringtone deal announced earlier this week.Verizon Wireless on Tuesday trumpeted an exclusive pact to offer ringtones and ringback tones from more...
Editor's Note: Welcome to On the Margins, a feature for RCR Wireless News' new weekly e-mail service, Mobile Content and Culture. Every week, the RCR Wireless News staff considers events in the wider business world and how they could affect the wireless industry.--Google's YouTube...
The nightmarish world of mobile digital rights management may have taken a small step toward sanity.Microsoft Corp. scored a big win last week, agreeing to license its PlayReady anti-software piracy to Nokia Corp. The world's largest handset manufacturer plans to embed the technology on...
Managed service, payments and settlements provider Valista named John Lowry as its new CEO. Lowry has a background in information technology and communications, as well as building technology businesses. The company said in a statement that founder Raomal Perera will remain as executive...
Sony Ericsson has tapped Gracenote to power a sideloading-enabled mobile music platform.The new platform includes features such as search and discovery, song identification and playlisting, and is designed to allow the easy transfer of tunes between home music libraries, online music stores and mobile...
Shares of InfoSpace Inc. sank after the company reported a first-quarter loss of $500,000, marking a notable downturn from a net income of $3 million the company posted during the year-ago period.The Seattle-area developer reported $86.6 million in revenue during the quarter, down $3.6...
InfoSpace Inc. got some good news-a rarity lately-as AT&T Inc. said the buffeted company will continue to power the carrier's MEdia Net service.The agreement renews a pact struck in 2003, when InfoSpace began offering mobile e-mail access, messaging, games, ringtones and other content to...
User-generated content is the largest threat-and, perhaps, the biggest potential opportunity-to media and entertainment companies, according to a survey of executives released by Accenture.The poll of front-office personnel found that more than half the respondents identified amateur digital videos, podcasts, wikis and blogs as...
EMI Group has become the first major music label to offer digital music tracks without anti-piracy software. The move has some claiming digital rights management (DRM) software is slipping precariously close to its demise, while others are holding out to see what kind of...
EMI Group has become the first major music label to offer digital music tracks without anti-piracy software. EMI announced that it will offer its entire digital music catalog on Apple Inc.'s iTunes Store without digital rights management software. The label's entire catalog will also...
March in Florida typically conjures up images of half-naked college kids partying 24/7 on the beach, or for the more modest long lines and mouse ears. But, for the wireless industry this year it means show time. After a five-year hiatus, wireless trade association...
Challenges continue for InfoSpace Inc. with news that a major shareholder is looking to nominate three independent candidates for election to the company's board of directors at an upcoming stockholders meeting.Sandell Asset Management Corp., which holds 8.8 percent of InfoSpace shares, earlier this week...
Mobile virtual network operator Helio L.L.C. said last week that it expects to reach the 100,000-customer mark by early in the second quarter and launched a full-track music download service to compete with similar offerings from rival MVNOs and traditional operators.The company ended last...
Helio L.L.C. expects to reach the 100,000-customer mark by early in the second quarter, and its subscribers have been generating average revenue per user of more than $100 per month, the mobile virtual network operator said.The company ended 2006 with 70,000 customers, according to...
