German company wants to double cloud revenue to more than $2.25B annually by 2018
Deutsche Telekom wants to dominate the cloud-services market in Europe. The German telecom company announced plans to double cloud revenue to more than $2.25 billion annually by 2018.
Chinese telecom infrastructure provider...
An infographic published by Dynatrace reveals just how pervasive mobile usage has become. For instance, mobile app downloads are expected to rise to 200 billion by 2017 – a 185% jump from 2013. A statistic of particular interest for merchants is that mobile users...
Finding the right smartphone can be difficult. Google wants to help with that by showing you which Android phone is right for you with their Android phone selector tool.
The sizable search engine has created a new landing page for Android.com that compares devices based...
That’s possibly the trickiest Wi-Fi industry question to answer right now. I’ve long held that Wi-Fi is the only technology that can keep pace with the free-falling (and unstoppable) price/performance curve that the tech industry has been racing down for 50 years – in...
"Rebuilding the Internet in space," is how SpaceX describes its plan to provide the entire world with Internet service via satellite. In a Federal Communications Commission filing, the company said that it wants to launch 4,000 low-orbit satellites that circle the globe.
SpaceX founder Elon...
Council Bluffs, Iowa, is rolling out free municipal Wi-Fi
WASHINGTON – Council Bluffs, Iowa, could soon become one of the first cities in the country to offer free Wi-Fi Internet as a public service to all of its residents.
The project, which began in 2014, started...
There has been no shortage of news affecting the telecom and wireless industries. First, as many expected, a three-way merger among Charter, Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks was announced last Tuesday. Many, if not most, of you are versed on the details of...
Can PayPal compete against Apple, Google, Android and other mobile commerce platforms?
The online and wireless payment space is growing, changing and maturing and that is threatening existing leaders like PayPal. How will new competition from entrants like Apple Pay, Google Wallet, Android Pay, Google...
Yesterday's Google IO keynote gives us plenty to talk about, with updates on Project Loon, Android Wear, and the introduction of cloud testing, an IoT solution for developers, Android M, Google Photos and more.
Android M is particularly notable for the introduction of system-level support...
Google has unveiled the newest version of its Android operating system as well as new mobile payment features that will be available later this year.
Android M will have three stages of previews before becoming finalized, according to its program overview for developers. According to the...
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Sprint Nextel...
Google's highly anticipated wireless service has generated more interest than it can handle right now. The company is telling would-be customers that they will need to wait up to 30 days just to get an invitation to use Google Fi.
Those who sign up early...
BOULDER, Colo. – Spectrum sharing were the buzzwords of the week as a bevy of federal agencies came together at the National Institute of Standards and Technology to discuss the topic with industry and academia. Google was one of the companies on-hand that shared how it is...
Apps and websites ping mobile phone antennas up to 50 times per minute, according to an Israeli startup that makes ad-blocking software. Shine is the name of the company that is trying to convince carriers to block mobile advertising – and apparently European operators are...
Lincoln Labs betting that political clout is a function of tech savvy
WASHINGTON – Lincoln Labs, a self-proclaimed conservative technology group created in 2013, operates with the stated goal of: “To create and support a community of like-minded individuals who desire to advance liberty in...
Blog: “Not once was the self-driving car the cause of the accident”
After six years and 1.7 million miles covered, Google’s director of the self-driving car program has learned a number of valuable lessons about human error as it relates to traffic incidents.
Chris Urmson detailed...
Analyst reactions are mixed
Verizon Communications is diving deeper into digital content with an agreement to buy AOL for $50/share, or approximately $4.4 billion. The nation's leading wireless carrier said that AOL will boost its LTE wireless video business, its "over-the-top" video offerings and will...
Uber's plan to develop self-driving cars may include Nokia's Here mapping unit. The New York Times is reporting that Uber will bid up to $3 billion for the unit in an effort to outbid a consortium of automakers that includes BMW, Audi and Mercedes-Benz....
Move to mobile is ‘tremendous opportunity,’ Google AdWords VP said
WASHINGTON – More Google searches are initiated from smartphones than from desktops and other devices in 10 countries including the U.S. and Japan.
Jerry Dischler, VP of product management for Google’s AdWords, dropped that tidbit in...
The European Commission unveiled plans on May 6 to create a single market for digital technologies across the 28-member European Union. The plan, which took six months to develop, is comprised of 16 initiatives organized around three goals: to create better access for consumers...
Comcast, AT&T and Google all deploying fiber-to-the-home networks
North Carolina’s Research Triangle is among the latest battlegrounds as network operators compete to offer ultra-high-speed, fiber-based Internet service to consumers.
The Research Triangle includes Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill and Cary, which similarly includes numerous academic and scientific...
Soon it will be nearly impossible to get lost in Dubai. The largest city in the United Arab Emirates recently launched the Makani e-map “the smartest map system in the world.”
Makani, a solution that is both digital and analog is the answer. Every building...
Report from security firm tallies apps containing malware that steal data among other negatives
U.S.-based Internet security firm Symantec released a report showing one in five apps for Google's Android operating system contain malware or "greyware."
Symantec came to this conclusion after using Norton’s Mobile Insight...
Hello! And welcome to our Friday 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....
