REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.—Fresh from a courtroom victory against Seven Networks, Visto Corp. is setting its sights on a much bigger competitor—Research In Motion Ltd. A jury in the federal court for the Eastern District of Texas Friday awarded Visto a $3.6 million judgment, finding...
READING, United Kingdom-The worldwide smart mobile device market is in flux, according to a new study from market research firm Canalys. The firm defines smart mobile devices as handhelds, wireless handhelds and smart phones.According to the study, top-ranked Nokia Corp. slightly increased its market...
READING, United Kingdom—The worldwide smart mobile device market is in flux, according to a new study from market research firm Canalys. The firm defines smart mobile devices as handhelds, wireless handhelds and smart phones.According to the study, top-ranked Nokia Corp. slightly increased its market...
CHARLOTTE, N.C.—SunCom Wireless Holdings Inc. said it has begun offering Research In Motion Ltd.’s Blackberry 8700g Wireless Handheld device at all of its retail stories. The BlackBerry 8700g operates on SunCom’s GSM/GPRS network. Features of the device include quad-band GSM/GPRS and EDGE support, Bluetooth...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.—Alltel Corp. is teaming with software developer Seven Networks Inc. to offer mobile e-mail and data to subscribers with Palm-powered and Microsoft Corp. Windows Mobile-based smart phones. The operator launched two versions of Office Sync, allowing users to send and receive e-mail...
Software giant Oracle Corp. announced it's spending about $220 million to buy Portal Software Inc., a firm that develops billing and revenue management solutions for the communications and media industries. Oracle cited its long commitment to the communications industry and noted that its Siebel...
Research In Motion Ltd. said that its talks with China Mobile, China's leading wireless carrier, were "going well" for establishing wireless e-mail service in the world's largest telecommunications market. According to RIM's Asia Pacific Vice President Norm Lo, the company expects to close a...
The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms. Click here for wireless ratings from past weeks from RCR Wireless News.CarrierStandard & Poor’s Ratings Services placed its B- corporate credit rating and bank...
SINGAPORE—Research In Motion Ltd. announced today that its talks with China Mobile, China’s leading wireless carrier, were "going well" for establishing wireless e-mail service in the world’s largest telecommunications market. According to RIM’s Asia Pacific Vice President Norm Lo, the company expects to close...
SAN FRANCISCO—Software developer Salesforce.com plans to spend $15 million to acquire privately held mobile software company Sendia Corp. Sendia’s technology supports Web-based applications across mobile devices, and the companies first partnered in 2004 to extend Salesforce.com’s offerings to wireless. Salesforce.com, which specializes in customer...
LAS VEGAS-Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. added to its broad portfolio of devices for both consumer and enterprise markets with the introduction of a bevy of handsets that will bring its handset offerings to nearly three dozen.The South Korean handset maker recently has produced so...
James Balsillie, chairman and chief executive officer of Research in Motion Ltd., cut right to the chase. You'd expect no-nonsense talk from a fellow still fuming from having to write a fat, $612.5 million check to a small Virginia patent-holding firm to make it...
WATERLOO, Ontario—Research In Motion Ltd. posted results largely in-line with analyst expectations, with a net income for the quarter of $18.4 million, but investors appeared fatigued of the BlackBerry maker—which recently settled its long-running legal dispute with patent-holding company NTP Inc.—and sent the company’s...
The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms. Click here for wireless ratings from past weeks from RCR Wireless News.CarriersStandard & Poor’s Ratings Services assigned an A-2 short-term rating to Sprint Nextel...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.—Yahoo Inc. said it will expand its partnership with BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd. by offering its Yahoo Go for Mobile products and services to BlackBerry users. "Our Yahoo users want to access our services from all of their connected devices. Together...
By Gail KachadourianRobert Lutz's boss and wife both complain about the amount of time he spends on his BlackBerry. But the General Motors product czar insists he wouldn't be without the wireless communications device."It's an intimate part of my life," Lutz says. "I use...
Alltel Corp. is on track to complete its wireline spinoff by mid-year, and the company plans to extend CDMA2000 1x EV-DO services to about 60 percent of its potential customers, Chief Financial Officer Sharilyn Gasaway told analysts at the Bank of America Media, Telecommunications...
Handmark Inc. is hoping to raise its profile by giving away service. The Kansas City, Mo.-based company mobile media company this week will begin offering free content in an effort to raise consumer awareness of its Pocket Express offering. Users with smart phones from...
SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-The Moto Q, Motorola Inc.'s flagship smart phone, will be available in April, missing by a hair the company's initial forecast for a first-quarter release. A Motorola spokesperson was not immediately available to comment on the timing of the Q's release.The device was...
ATLANTA-Being fashionably late to a party can cut two ways-it gets you noticed, but the assembled crowd inevitably registers a thumbs up or down on your appearance. So Nokia Corp., Cingular Wireless L.L.C. and market watchers will observe with keen interest how Nokia's 9300...
IRVINE, Calif.—Location-services company Networks In Motion announced it scored $10 million in its latest round of venture funding. Sutter Hill led the round, while the company’s existing investors Redpoint Ventures and Mission Ventures also participated. Networks In Motion said it would use the funds...
WASHINGTON-The Supreme Court and Congress are jumping into the powder-keg patent debate, one encompassing a morass of complex issues increasingly confronting wireless and high-tech sectors at a time when innovation in knowledge-based economies is driving significant growth in developed and emerging markets alike. The...
WATERLOO, Ontario—Research In Motion Ltd. is going public with its crusade to improve the patenting process. The BlackBerry maker took out full-page advertisements yesterday in The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and six other newspapers urging reforms for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office....
WATERLOO, Ontario-Research In Motion Ltd. announced it purchased Ascendent Systems, which sells products that extend desk phone connectivity to wireless handsets in a campus environment. RIM said the purchase would complement its current enterprise offerings. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed.Ascendent will become...
