It takes the average American six to eight minutes to realize they’ve lost their phone whereas it takes them some six to eight hours to realize they’ve lost their wallet according to Citibank’s head of global new product development and alliances. Speaking at a...
Nokia Corp. (NOK) continues to shed business interests as it shifts its strategy on many fronts. The latest to go is the company’s operator-branded messaging business, which gave carriers in North America the opportunity to sell white label email and instant messaging services to...
From the it-was-only-a-matter-of-time department, smartphones now comprise the majority of all new handset purchases in the United States. In addition to leading the pack among existing smartphone devices, Google Inc.’s (GOOG) Android is also driving the largest share of new smartphone sales, according to...
Red Bend Software, Mobile Software Management (MSM), announced that BYD Electronic Company Limited of China, manufacturer of mobile handset components and modules, has licensed Red Bend's vRapid Mobile
LightSquared filed a modified spectrum plan with the Federal Communications Commission that the company said would solve interference issues with approximately 99.5% of all commercial GPS devices, including 100% of GPS-equipped mobile phones.The report, which was filed after the granting of an extension from...
San Francisco-based Zynga Inc., which creates online games for mobile devices and sites such as Facebook, plans to file an initial public offering (IPO) with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) expected to be as early as today, reports CNBC.Some of Zynga's most...
DETROIT — Linda Daichendt, a small business consultant, was frustrated a couple years back when she kept coming up empty in her quest for mobile businesses based here in her home state of Michigan. With large, national associations barely touching the state or local...
International wireless conglomerate Vodafone Group plc (VOD) said it could receive up to $5.5 billion in an annual dividend from its 45% ownership stake in Verizon Wireless (VZ), according to published reports.According to a Bloomberg report, Vodafone's CFO Andy Halford told reporters in New...
Speaking at the GSMA’s mobile payment conference in Singapore, Barba said it was important that the industry work together to make NFC take off, as a local ecosystem was mandatory when it came to stimulating usage.Interoperability was key said Barba adding that mobile operators...
NFC is going to change how we behave and significantly enhance mobile marketing according to Mohammed Khan President and Founder of Vivotech, an NFC software and systems firm with 70% market share.Speaking in Singapore at the GSMA mobile money summit, Khan said it was...
PHILADELPHIA – The idea seems simple enough. Hang a bunch of wireless routers from city lamp poles, hook them up to the city's power supply and some sort of backhaul to the Internet and voila, instant mobile broadband access for the masses.Not so fast.A...
Square Inc.'s valuation has surged to $1 billion on the heels of a fresh venture financing round totaling $100 million. Led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, with participation from Tiger Global Management, the new funding will be used by the eight-month-old company to...
Hytera Communications China, the parent company of Miramar-based Hytera Communications Co., Ltd., has announced the successful Initial Public Offering on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange of 70 million shares at an initial price of $3.06/share. Total authorized capital is 278 million shares. The...
Spain kicked off the auction of 58 wireless spectrum licenses in the 800 MHz, 900 MHz and 2.6 GHz spectrum bands that published reports indicated could raise nearly $3 billion for the country.The auction, which is expected to take around two weeks, counts 11...
RCR Wireless News is set to visit Baltimore the week of July 18 as part of our Mobile Broadband Tour and Conference series. The RCR Wireless News Mobile Broadband Baltimore tour will include several days meeting with local telecommunication leaders and associations...
With 138 million mobile users in Indonesia, the market presents a huge opportunity to operators and service providers alike. Bakrie telecom, one of the leading CDMA brands in Indonesia, is one of those carriers cashing in on the country’s mobile hype.Bakrie boasts that...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.—FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski wants to be known as the broadband chairman, and as such has been at the forefront of removing obstacles that prevent wireless broadband deployments, said Josh Gottheimer, senior counsel to the chairman during PCIA's DAS Forum “DAS In Action:...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.—FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski wants to be known as the broadband chairman, and as such has been at the forefront of removing obstacles that prevent wireless broadband deployments, said Josh Gottheimer, senior counsel to the chairman during PCIA's DAS Forum “DAS In Action:...
ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Galtronics Corp. Ltd. said its single in-building distributed antenna that provides MIMO for the LTE 690-806 MHz band outperformed spatially separated SISO (Single In Single Out) antennas in data throughput tests conducted by American Tower Corp. (AMT) at the Las Vegas...
ClarityIndonesia: With PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia (TELKOM) to rollout next phase to enable Fulfilment and Assurance capabilities for TELKOM’s broadband access network.Value: UndisclosedConvergys Corporation China: With G-Net, a Beijing, China-based provider of telecommunications services to implement a single convergent billing platform comprised of Rating...
A new fixed wireless access service from Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) is being targeted at the enterprise. If successful, Sprint 4G Enterprise WAN (wide area network) could replace traditional wired options by connecting businesses to the carrier’s multiprotocol label switching network in any...
You can’t accuse LightSquared of not looking at its current glass of morass as half empty. With the possibility of network delays, or worse, hanging over its head, LightSquared continues to add customers to its planned wholesale network initiative announcing today a “multi-year wholesale...
More than 2.5 billion wireless subscribers are expected to use mobile payment services by 2015, according to a new report from Juniper Research. Representing a 40% growth rate from 1.8 billion projected users this year, the firm said tickets for transportation and entertainment are...
Editor's Note: John Williams is a human resource consultant to RCR Wireless News and TelecomCareers who is blogging on HR matters that impact the wireless industry, including hiring and retaining employees as the economy improves. This week he attended the SHRM conference in Las...
