Microsoft Corp. is the latest company to jump on the cloud-computing craze with a free new service for Windows Mobile users.The software giant unveiled My Phone, a Web-based service that synchs contacts, appointments, messages and multimedia content between the Internet and mobile phones. The...
Sprint Nextel Corp. will expand its femtocell offering nationwide in the coming weeks, the company said today.The carrier's Airave - essentially a small network base station for the home that connects to DSL or cable lines - will sell to consumers for $100 apiece....
Apple Inc. apologized for stumbling out of the gate last week with MobileMe, an auto-synching service for iPhone and iPod touch users.MobileMe is a cloud-based app that automatically updates contacts, calendar information and other data between the mobile devices and computers. But the offering...
Delta Air Lines is the latest air carrier to get on board with mobile, allowing travelers at New York's LaGuardia to use their phones as a boarding pass.Domestic flyers departing from LaGuardia's main Delta terminal can download their boarding pass to a mobile...
According to a report from research and banking firm ThinkPanmure, AT&T Mobility plans to sell up to 7 million femtocells from ip.access Ltd., a picocell and femtocell infrastructure vendor based in Cambridge, United Kingdom.According to ThinkPanmure, AT&T signed a contract with the firm for...
ICO Global Communications Holdings' half billion-dollar gamble leaves the launching pad this week.The Reston, Va.-based firm is slated to launch its $500 million satellite into space Monday, setting the stage for the nation's first space-to-mobile multimedia service. The three-pronged offering is expected to deliver...
You remember when rivals Sprint Nextel Corp. and Verizon Wireless dueled over the coverage of their respective CDMA2000 1x EV-DO Rev. A network buildouts? One carrier popped out of the gate first, leading to bickering about whether "first" was indeed better. Get ready for...
After years of only minor price plan tweaks and occasional promotional offers, the nation's four largest carriers have ignited a new pricing war centered around unlimited voice calling minutes for $100 per month. And in a move that begs for a response, Sprint Nextel...
Not to be overrun by the stampede of national carriers flocking to unlimited pricing plans for voice, Sprint Nextel Corp. introduced a "Simply Everything" plan that includes, well, simply everything. Beginning tomorrow, customers can get unlimited voice, data, text, e-mail, Web-surfing, TV, music, GPS...
Make room for one more on the dance floor. U.S. Cellular joined the army of national carriers that this week opened the floodgates on minutes by introducing unlimited calling plans for $100.Verizon Wireless, AT&T Mobility and T-Mobile USA Inc. all announced new unlimited calling...
Come one and come all. Three of the nation's top four wireless carriers now plan to offer unlimited voice calling for $100 month.Verizon Wireless gets bragging rights for the being the first carrier yesterday to stick its neck out on the much-anticipated pricing model....
AT&T Mobility and Verizon Wireless have both announced new unlimited nationwide calling plans for $100 a month. The plans give customers unlimited calls to wireless and landline phones with no roaming or long-distance charges. Verizon Wireless' new offering is available now while AT&T's will...
Editor's Note: Welcome to Reality Check, a feature for RCR Wireless News' new weekly e-mail service, Mobile Content and Culture. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile content industry to give their insights into the marketplace. In the coming weeks...
Few mobile offerings have a longer - or more uninspiring - history in the United States than barcodes. But the odd-looking little images may finally be going somewhere.One of the first consumer-facing mobile barcode applications in the United States came to market about 10...
If you're wondering what shape WiMAX-enabled devices will take, you can hop a plane to South Korea and see Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.'s two models in action on SK Telecom's WiBro network. Samsung's M8100 is the world's first WiMAX-equipped PDA-style smartphone, a slider model...
Friction is growing between wireless executives and their Hollywood counterparts as both begin to experiment with mobile entertainment. One of the few points people from the telecom and television industries can agree on is that no one has yet discovered the best way to...
THE DEMOCRATIC TAKE-OVER of Congress and the early push for ethics reform on Capitol Hill is creating a new lobbying landscape for wireless, telecom and high-tech sectors, one with indirect policy implications for telecom reform. Lobbying is big business for the wireless, telecom and...
Lawmakers staked claim to pet telecom issues, with bipartisan support emerging out of the gate for legislation forcing the Federal Communications Commission to exploit vacant broadcast guard-band spectrum for unlicensed wireless services, including Wi-Fi. Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and John Sununu (R-N.H.), both members...
By Jeremy Mullman and T.L. Stanley CHICAGO—Cue the clydesdales: Anheuser-Busch is getting into the content business.The country's largest brewer is launching its own in-house film and TV production company that will make humorous shorts and sitcom-type programs to be broadcast over the Internet and...
The market for mobile phones' onboard memory is undergoing transformation and commoditization, threatening incumbent companies and opening opportunities for small, nimble companies with a competitive differentiator to their product, according to Yankee Group analyst John Jackson. Carriers and handset vendors are exploring how much...
DURHAM, N.C.—Motricity is looking to expand its content business after raking in $40 million in venture capital. Advanced Equities Inc. led Motricity’s most recent round; fellow existing investors New Enterprise Associates and Technology Crossover Ventures also participated. The announcement follows July’s $30 million fundraising...
Cingular Wireless L.L.C. kicked off 2006 with a strong first quarter that exceeded analysts' expectations, including driving its churn rate down to a company-record low of 1.9 percent overall, with 1.6 percent postpaid churn. But while Cingular's postpaid average revenue per user showed growth,...
ATLANTA—Cingular Wireless L.L.C. kicked off 2006 with strong first quarter results, including driving its churn rate down to a company record low of 1.9 percent overall, with 1.6 percent postpaid churn. While Cingular’s postpaid average revenue per user showed growth, the carrier’s total ARPU...
With the first few mobile virtual network operators out of the starting gate and more marching to the post, 2006 looks to be the year of the launch. After 2005, during which several MVNOs spent gearing up for and touting their upcoming launches, the...
