HELSINKI (Reuters) – IBM has started a two-year research program that aims to make cellphones easier to use for groups including the elderly and the illiterate.Reuters
Editor's Note: This article originally appeared in RCR Wireless News' January Special Edition Wireless Infrastructure: The Engine for Economic Recovery. Look for our March Special Edition, coming soon.Wireless networks are the cornerstone of the wireless industry. These capital-intensive investments are a key building...
NII Holdings Inc., which operates under the Nextel brand in Latin America, selected Nokia Siemens Networks to manage its network operations. The agreement covers network management in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Peru.Nuance Communications and Vesta Corp. announced a partnership to co-promote and...
With the wireless industry increasingly focused on the deployment of advanced wireless data services, network management capabilities are becoming an integral part of network deployments. Spectrum constraints combined with consumer demand require almost mandatory management solutions in order to keep both the network and...
Imagine your business with no telephones on the desk top. No large PBX to maintain if you have digital phones, no PBX configuration changes due to office moves. If you have Voice over Internet Protocol, the switches in the closets that provide power over...
Editor’s Note: This is the first of a three-part series this week highlighting the Irish Information and Communications Technology (ICT) sector. Today’s article focuses on spectrum and technology initiatives led by the Irish government targeting wireless companies. Wednesday’s article will focus on an overview...
The converging telecom and IT space is set to become a $5 trillion global business, fueled by relentless demand from individuals and businesses to be able to access information across any device at any time. The wireless/telecom/media/IT sector is growing two to five...
SEVEN has unveiled its messaging solution for the Android platform that addresses personal and business e-mail on one integrated interface.The solution, which is being showcased at this week's GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, is not only geared to combine a customer's personal and...
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: Welcome to our weekly 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.The migration to mobile messaging and data was the story of the first half of...
More shakeup continues at the senior executive level for Alcatel-Lucent, as the company has brought in a new CFO.The French-U.S. company announced today that Hubert de Pesquidoux has decided to leave his post as CFO to pursue other opportunities. Pesquidoux was also president of...
Virgin Mobile USA Inc. reported plans to shed 10% of its workforce, announcing it will eliminate 45 positions in its New Jersey and California offices. The cuts comes on the heels of the MVNO's mixed third quarter results, in which the company posted a...
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.The history of mobile data teems with unrestrained hyperbole and...
Editor's note: RCR Wireless News has teamed with 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...
Nokia Corp. is pulling the plug on some of its enterprise offerings in an effort to increase its focus on consumer Internet services.The Finnish company said it will stop developing and marketing its proprietary corporate e-mail service, opting instead to integrate its devices and...
Nearly three million mobile users received Barack Obama's SMS about his new running mate, but many of those who signed up may have gotten the text late - or not at all - according to new figures from Keynote Systems.The mobile and Internet test...
Sprint Nextel Corp. is hoping to bridge the gap between enterprise users and multimedia devices with a new mobile e-mail service.The offering, awkwardly dubbed Sprint Mobile Email Work, allows customers with the new Samsung Instinct and other handsets to access Microsoft Exchange Server and...
Qualcomm Inc. is downplaying a Supreme Court decision that restricts the ability of a patent holder to continue to collect royalties after an invention is sold or licensed, despite urging the high court not to rule as it did and making dire predictions about...
MARINA DEL REY, Calif. - Dan Lyons, the man behind "The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs," began his online experiment as the sensational alter ego of Apple Inc.'s CEO mostly because he hated his job at Forbes and was "freaking out" about the future...
Editor's Note: Welcome to On the Margins, a feature for RCR Wireless News' weekly e-mail service, Mobile Content and Culture. Every week, the RCR Wireless News staff considers events in the wider business world and how they could affect the wireless industry.--HBO announced it...
You may have never heard of it, but Google Inc. is behind it. So are AOL, Microsoft Corp., and Yahoo Inc. With that kind of support, OpenID may soon be coming to mobile in a big way.Designed as a standardized platform for online authentication,...
AT&T Mobility is now selling the consumer-oriented iPhone by Apple Inc. as a productivity tool for business. The move may be in tandem with an anticipated introduction of Lotus Notes e-mail from IBM for the iPhone, to be announced at Lotusphere 2008 in Orlando...
BEIJING-One of China's largest companies, Haier Group, is stepping up its efforts to build a global brand on the scale of Samsung or Sony by appointing an ex-Motorola Inc. marketer, Larry Rinaldi, to a new position, global chief brand officer.Haier already has a global...
As Nokia Siemens Networks continues to refine its business operations following its April merger, the company has to fend off speculation that Siemens' CEO is considering a sale of his company's 50% stake in NSN. Meanwhile, over at newly merged Alcatel Lucent, the story...
