Editor's Note: Welcome to Reality Check, a feature for RCR Wireless News' new weekly e-mail service, Mobile Content and Culture. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile content industry to give their insights into the marketplace. In the coming weeks...
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. In the coming weeks look for columns from Current Analysis' Peter Jarich, IDC's Shiv...
Here are several things you need to know this week about mobile WiMAX: First, mobile WiMAX is seen by analysts as a larger but riskier global opportunity for vendors, compared to fixed/nomadic WiMAX, which offers a smaller, less-risky and immediate opportunity. Second, rumors and...
The following list includes venture capital and other investments into wireless companies announced during the past week. The value of the investment is included when available.--Accedian Networks: RHO Canada Ventures, Skypoint Capital and Solidarity Fund QFL invested $7.6 million into Montreal-based Accedian Networks, which...
Here's a hypothetical: What's the distinction between a smartphone, a MID, a PND, and a UMPC?Posing this type of question invites a geek fight. We who follow the smartphone space and remember the personal digital assistant (PDA) know it's a fool's errand to apply...
Despite the unceremonious break-up that shattered plans for a nationwide mobile WiMAX network partnership between Sprint Nextel Corp. and Clearwire Corp., both companies insist their rollout plans for 2008 are on track. However, plans for some markets are being revisited now that both companies...
The Federal Communications Commission said the next round of laboratory testing of prototype TV white-spaces devices will begin Jan. 24, a public process lasting four to six weeks that will be followed by a month or more of field testing at different locations.Microsoft Corp.,...
The following list includes venture capital and other investments into wireless companies announced during the past week. The value of the investment is included when available.--Kyte: Telefonica led a $15 million round of funding into Kyte. Also participating were Nokia Growth Partners, DoCoMoCapital Inc.,...
Clearwire Corp.'s stock jumped nearly 12% in early afternoon trading based on speculation that the company is on the verge of announcing it will be acquired. According to a research note by Raymond James & Associates analyst Ric Prentiss, Clearwire's stock has been boosted...
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, iGR's Iain...
Sprint Nextel Corp. remains committed to its WiMAX plans and continues to move forward with its soft launch of services in Chicago, Baltimore and Washington, D.C. ,later this year, according to Sprint Nextel Xohm public-relations spokesman John Polivka."We don't expect any impact to the...
TERMINATING A LETTER OF INTENT-as Sprint Nextel Corp. and Clearwire Corp. did Nov. 9-doesn't lend itself to gauging possible impacts to Sprint Nextel's ambitious, multibillion-dollar WiMAX plans. Assessing impacts to suppliers is even more perilous, according to analysts.Sprint Nextel appeared to send mixed signals...
The following list includes venture capital and other investments into wireless companies announced during the past week. The value of the investment is included when available.--Celltick: JVP and Amadeus invested $8.5 million into mobile marketing company Celltick Technologies. The company said the venture-capital funding...
A group of industry heavyweights-headed by Google Inc., T-Mobile, HTC Corp., Qualcomm Inc., and Motorola Inc.-announced a new software platform for cellphones that includes an operating system, middleware, user interface and applications. The alliance said the first phones based on the "Android" platform will...
Qualcomm Inc.'s new Gobi chip marks the arrival of a technology long-discussed by the San Diego company, according to one analyst.The chip will offer high-speed access to the Internet via both CDMA2000 1x EV-DO and UMTS-based HSPA networks worldwide, plus GPS. The chip will...
WiMAX could be the technology that fuels the fusion of all sorts of mobile applications, integrating video, location-based services and a host of other offerings.And analysts generally agree that speedy access to the wireless Web will be the key."When I talk WiMAX, I always...
The International Telecommunication Union agreed to include WiMAX technology in the global family of advanced wireless technologies. The win is a major victory for vendors and service providers on the eve of the World Radiocommunication Conference that the Bush administration hopes to build on...
The Federal Communications Commission said it will conduct further testing on the viability of Wi-Fi and other low-power wireless applications in unoccupied TV broadcast spectrum known as white spaces.The agency's action appears to benefit high-tech companies that urged additional testing after the FCC found...
DEMOCRATS WARNED FCC CHAIRMAN KEVIN MARTIN not to cripple the open-access stipulation on the 700 MHz spectrum up for auction early next year, following the agency chief's failed attempts to revise the rule through a procedural maneuver shortly after Verizon Wireless lobbied on the...
Nokia Corp.'s N95-the Finnish company's flagship "multimedia computing device"-will soon be available in the United States with HSDPA, assisted GPS, and increased screen size, memory and battery life. The device will now offer up to 8 GB of memory, a number that may sound...
Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale, a tale of a historic trip, that started on the Chicago River aboard this WiMAX-ready ship. The skipper was skinny and Gilligan was nowhere in sight, but WiMAX chipsets were sending signals all over a...
A quick stroll of the show floor reveals all sorts of flashy gadgetry and eye-popping mobile applications. But the executives behind Sprint Nextel Corp.'s Xohm would rather talk about the ecosystem than about megabits per second.WiMAX is a substantial technological step forward for the...
Intel Corp. has a vision for portable, personal broadband that will ensure the company transitions from "Intel Inside" to "Intel on the Internet."Mobile WiMAX plays a big role in chip vendor's vision, according to Intel's Ron Peck. Intel is prepared to turn out WiMAX...
Don Stroberg, VP of sales for Sprint Nextel Corp.'s new Xohm Business unit, sat down with RCR Wireless News to talk about how the company's WiMAX plans are shaping up. Q: How does WiMAX fit into Sprint Nextel's overall strategy? A: Generally speaking, this...
