Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Yay or Nay. Every week we'll review a new wireless application or service from the user's point of view, with the goal of highlighting what works and what doesn't. If you wish to submit your application or...
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 RCRWireless.com to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong way....
Thanks to a new executive position, AT&T Mobility is attempting to expand the range of gadgets its network interacts with - and counter similar efforts by its rivals.The carrier announced the appointment of Glen Lurie to president of AT&T's newly created Emerging Devices, National...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Yay or Nay. Every week we'll review a new wireless application or service from the user's point of view, with the goal of highlighting what works and what doesn't. If you wish to submit your application or...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our coverage of 25 years in wireless. RCR Wireless News is celebrating with a package of stories detailing the advances of the past three decades. For full coverage please visit RCRWireless.com/25years.
Crucial trends in the semiconductors that drive mobile-phone functionality have...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our coverage of 25 years in wireless. RCR Wireless News is celebrating with a package of stories detailing the advances of the past three decades. For full coverage please visit RCRWireless.com/25years.
People of a certain age will remember the Wayback Machine...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our coverage of 25 years in wireless. RCR Wireless News is celebrating with a package of stories detailing the advances of the past three decades. For full coverage please visit RCRWireless.com/25years.
When Nextel started to roll out their iDEN network back...
Research In Motion Ltd. said today that its new touchscreen effort - the Storm - is due at Verizon Wireless "later this fall," pricing to be announced.The price of the device is, of course, the most critical bit of information needed to assess the...
Connor-Winfield announced a new compact GPS timing receiver designed specifically for WiMAX applications.The TiMax Wi125 is part of the company's TiMax Global Timing product family. The company is showcasing the product at WiMAX World 2008. The product is a small OEM surface mount GPS...
"Oh no, where's my phone?" That has to be one of the scariest questions these days. And we've all done it; left our cellphone in a taxi-cab, on the counter at Starbucks or even had our phone-harboring purses stolen right from under our noses.Ten...
When Qualcomm Inc. talks, people listen. So when Qualcomm recently announced that its "Gobi" embedded connectivity module had been certified by AT&T Mobility for the latter's network and that Hewlett-Packard Co. and Panasonic had signed on to include Gobi in some of their new...
SAN FRANCISCO -- There are success stories in how wireless technology is helping the enterprise sector save money and improve employee productivity, but some in the industry say more can be done.When it comes to wireless services, the need of every business is different....
SAN FRANCISCO -- Innovators in the mobile industry typically have not hesitated about adding whatever they possibly can to the wireless experience. However, diving head first into mobile marketing is making carriers a little timid. Amid the various meetings at CTIA Wireless I.T. and...
Editor's Note: RCR Wireless News teamed with the Yankee Group to conduct a series of market surveys of RCR Wireless News subscribers to gauge their thoughts on various technology issues. RCR Wireless News will publish the exclusive results from our joint project, with Yankee...
Divergent strategies for handset vendors are reflected in two launches announced today. Palm Inc. will sell its Treo Pro device unlocked and unsubsidized through its online stores and resellers in the United States for $550, while launching it in Europe with Vodafone and O2,...
The wireless industry must continue its leadership role in addressing consumer-electronics waste, not just because it's good corporate citizenship, but because it's good business - for individual companies and the planet.Indeed, the world's most popular device, the cellphone, is merely the face of an...
Apisphere Inc. plans to acquire San Francisco-based Navit Innovations, a location-based technologies vendor. With the acquisition, Apisphere, a provider of location-awareness services for mobile business applications, said it stands to improve and enhance its location and navigation services.Apisphere said it will gain RF engineering,...
Just in time for the 2008 Olympics set to kick off in China later this week the nation's two largest carriers expanded their international data plans.AT&T Mobility introduced two new plans, one for smartphone users and one for PC card users. The new smartphone...
More than 550 million GPS-enabled mobile phones are expected to ship by 2012, according to a new report from ABI Research."While most CDMA handsets are already GPS-enabled and GPS is set to become a standard feature in GSM smartphones, GSM feature phones are next...
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 RCRWireless.com to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong way....
Editor's Note: In this monthly feature, RCR Wireless News talks to retailers across the country to get a first-hand view of what's hot in wireless.The Wireless Zone is a 20-year-old Verizon Wireless exclusive retailer. Originally named The Car Phone Store, (because 20 years ago,...
RadioShack Corp. reported a 6.9% increase in sales, driven by revenues from digital-to-analog TV converter boxes, GPS device sales, video gaming sales, prepaid wireless phones and improvement in AT&T Mobility's postpaid offerings. However, Sprint Nextel Corp. continued to drag on the company; RadioShack said...
As analysts and pundits scoured the tea leaves in the wake of Apple Inc.'s 3G iPhone launch, a few issues emerged.Who, besides Apple, will get a boost from iPhone mania? Who gets hurt? Will a rising iPhone-tide lift all boats in the second half...
Sprint Nextel Corp. and Palm Inc. are pushing hard for enterprise customers with their new Treo 800w, the first Palm device to offer Wi-Fi and GPS connectivity, with broadband speeds.In Sprint Nextel's case, the carrier needs to retain high-value corporate customers. For Palm, a...
