Welcome to our new Friday feature, Week in Review. Every Friday, RCR Wireless News will run through the major events of the past week, outlining what happened and speculating on what to look for in the coming weeks, months and years. Check below for...
Editor's Note: Welcome to the first edition of Yay or Nay, a feature for RCR Wireless News' new weekly e-mail service, Mobile Content and Culture. Every week we'll review a new wireless application or service from the user's point of view, with the goal...
Broadcom Corp. plans to acquire GPS know-how, products and software by purchasing Global Locate Inc., a privately held firm that currently supplies GPS solutions to handset vendors, the two companies announced.Broadcom will pay $146 million in cash, with up to another $80 million possible...
Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications launched a half-dozen new handsets and a slew of accessories in Berlin yesterday, with one handset-a candybar Cybershot, model K850-destined for the United States in the fourth quarter. No pricing or carrier deal was announced, but the banding indicates it...
Broadcom Corp. plans to acquire GPS know-how, products and software by purchasing Global Locate Inc., a privately held firm that currently supplies GPS solutions to handset vendors, the two companies announced.Broadcom will pay $146 million in cash, with up to another $80 million possible...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our Monday feature, Analyst Angle. We've collected a group of the industry's leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry. In the coming weeks look for columns from Compete's Miro Kazakoff, Jupiter Research's Julie...
Fans of GPS applications are getting enhanced features at two of the nation's largest carriers. AT&T Mobility announced four of its newer Research In Motion Ltd. BlackBerry devices can now provide customers direct access to traffic and re-routing information through TeleNav Traffic, and in...
Fans of GPS applications are getting enhanced features at two of the nation's largest carriers. AT&T Mobility announced four of its newer Research In Motion Ltd. BlackBerry devices can now provide customers direct access to traffic and re-routing information through TeleNav Traffic, and in...
GPS company Wherify Wireless Inc. hired Vincent Sheeran as the company's new CEO."We are very pleased to see Vince Sheeran, a veteran of several high-growth technology companies, join the Wherify team," said W. Douglas Hajjar, a member of Wherify's board of directors. "We believe...
If you believe the talk on the street, Google Inc. is eyeing everything wireless from becoming a mobile virtual network operator to building Google-branded handsets. But it's the company's recent work with the Federal Communications Commission that stoked the gossip mill last week.The Internet...
Hedge*hog*ing v. Interrupting conversations in an office environment by poking your head over the top of the cube.From the "we can't make this up" department, there's a service provider getting started in the United Arab Emirates called "Moobility Telecom." Don't believe us? Go to...
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 RCR Wireless News to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the...
Ask.com announced it will offer a GPS-enabled mobile search application, a move that puts the company in direct competition with the likes of Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc.-and also further crowds the market for location-based services. IAC, parent company of Ask.com, is calling Ask...
Location-based application developer uLocate Communications Inc. pocketed $11 million in a funding round led by Venrock. Existing investors GrandBanks Capital and Kodiak Venture Partners joined the round, and Venrock partner Mike Tyrrell joined uLocate's board under terms of the deal. The Framingham, Mass.-based firm...
Ask.com announced it will offer a GPS-enabled mobile search application, a move that puts the company in direct competition with the likes of Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc.-and also further crowds the market for location-based services. IAC, parent company of Ask.com, is calling Ask...
Hedge*hog*ing v. Interrupting conversations in an office environment by poking your head over the top of the cube.Major props to all involved in this story: If you built a tower, wrote some software, etc., give yourself a pat on the back. Take the day...
Long billed as the killer app of tomorrow, location-based services finally appear to be gaining mass-market appeal. And network operators are well positioned to cash in. A study released late last year from In-Stat found that 53 percent of the 1,000 wireless users polled...
Speaking the languageLastminute.com and CoolGorilla launched six talking phrase books for mobile phones. The phrase books, which can be downloaded from www.coolgorilla.com, allow travelers to search for foreign words and phrases in English and hear the result on their mobile phone. The company is...
Sanef announced that it has acquired location-services firm Webraska for an undisclosed sum. The European telecom infrastructure management company said the move will help it gain a foothold in the satellite navigation and geospatial technologies markets.Webraska's properties include GPS-based navigation applications that support maps,...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our Monday feature, Analyst Angle. We've collected a group of the industry's leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry. In the coming weeks look for columns from Current Analysis' Avi Greengart, Compete's Miro...
Nursing home, lobster films drawtop honors at CellFlix Film FestivalFollowing a blind judging process masking school affiliation and biographical information, professional filmmakers and editors have selected the winners of the second annual CellFlix Film Festival at Ithaca College that challenges aspiring filmmakers to create...
As carriers tempt customers to move into data services beyond text messaging, some of them are designing service or accessory packages that specifically appeal to how different types of customers will make use of their phones. Sprint Nextel Corp. recently introduced a new...
Build it and they will come. Typically, this old saw is trotted out to underscore the odds that, in fact, "they" won't come when you build "it," whether it's a baseball diamond in a corn field or a "multimedia computing device" hiding out in...
Sprint Nextel Corp. recently introduced a new series of segmented data packages, offering various options at similar or equal price points in order to appeal to different categories of customers. The carrier is offering six different CDMA-based consumer data packages, dubbed Vision Packs. They...
