When Apple reports earnings on Tuesday investors will be hoping for another blockbuster quarter from the Cupertino cash machine. Stakeholders throughout the mobile economy will be reading Tuesday's report closely whether or not they own a slice of Apple. Here are some of the questions they'll hope to answer:
Hello! And welcome to our Friday 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....
If you've been thinking about a Galaxy Tab 10.1, now would be a good time to buy one. Once U.S. retailers sell their current supplies they will probably not be able to get any more, at least for a while.
To some serious head scratching, Microsoft unveiled its Surface tablet device at a refreshingly non-star-studded event in Hollywood, Calif. (Sorry Steve Ballmer.)
The device looks to somehow more thinly slice the space between current tablet devices and ultrabook computers, packing features from both segments. More...
As expected, Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference was light on direct impacts to the wireless space, with the biggest spotlight shinning on the company’s laptop computers. Those devices include higher-performance specifications, reconfigured auxiliary ports and in some cases crisper screen resolutions, but will not include...
Typically a June announcement from Apple would have a significant impact on the wireless industry, but following last year’s announcement adjustment of an updated iPhone to the fall the wireless industry could be breathing a sigh of relief.
Apple is kicking off its annual Worldwide...
Smartphones have been used in corporate environments for quite a while and, since the advent of Apple’s iPad, tablets have also flooded the enterprise environment. Sometimes, adoption is driven by users under the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) phenomenon; other times it is the corporation that starts...
Brazilian Foxconn plant employees in the city of Jundiaí, Brazil, gave up going on a strike that was proposed last week due to bad working conditions. In a meeting held yesterday, employees voted for no downtime. The strike was contemplated as a way...
Brazilian workers in the city of Jundiaí have threatened to go on strike against Taiwanese manufacturer Foxconn beginning May 3 if the company does not fix problems related to water, food, and transportation. Local newspaper Jornal de Jundiaí first reported the situation on April 25.
Evandro Santos, director at...
Apple (AAPL) put a shine on the US stock market Wednesday, rising 9% and regaining most of the ground lost earlier this month. Fears that the engine of the mobile revolution might be slowing down were quickly put to rest yesterday when Apple once...
About 5 million DirecTV subscribers in New York, Philadelphia, Chicago and 16 other U.S. cities are able to again watch local TV stations that went dark early Sunday. Bankrupt Tribune Broadcasting pulled the programming after failing to reach an agreement with DirecTV, but late...
Enterprises from Fortune 500 companies to hospitals to schools are adopting iPads and other tablets to replace much of the work that personal computers used to do, and the people who use these devices want to use them for a lot more than work....
Calling 2012 a "breakout year for 4G LTE technology," Strategy Analytics today released a report predicting tenfold growth this year in shipments of LTE phones. The firm's Neil Shah projects that 67 million LTE phones will ship this year, primarily manufactured by Apple, Samsung,...
Apple’s recent introduction of its newest iPad, simply named the “new iPad,” came with the usual fanfare associated with any new Apple product – a dose of excitement, a frenzy of buyers and a horde of analysis regarding why Apple included or didn’t include certain features and technologies.
Sprint Nextel’s (S) stock received a hit of bad news this morning as an analyst warned of a potential bankruptcy in the carrier’s future. The analyst, Craig Moffett from Sanford Bernstein, expressed concern over Sprint Nextel’s ongoing need to spend billions of dollars to...
While thousands of consumers were busy enjoying their new iPads this weekend, analysts were busy ripping the device apart (literally) in an effort to figure out which firms supplied the component parts. Apple never discloses this information ahead of time, and insists that its...
Three days after its newest iPad finally made it to the hands of eager customers, another group of Apple affiliates is also getting what they've wanted. Apple (AAPL) shareholders will start receiving a regular quarterly dividend of $2.65/share during Apple's fourth quarter, which starts...
While thousands of people around the world were lined up to buy the new iPad, and Apple's stock price (AAPL) was soaring to new highs, a small group of lawyers was busy poking a small hole in Apple's balloon. Claiming that " a number...
This week Verizon Wireless, often viewed as that carrier that is doing so well that it does not need to dirty its hands by acknowledging its competitors, unleashed a “4G Throw-Down” video punkin' all those that claim to provide a superior 4G network experience.
Avaya announced it has signed an agreement to acquire Radvision, a provider of videoconferencing and telepresence technologies over IP and wireless networks for approximately $230 million.
The proposed deal calls for Radvision shareholders to receive $11.85 per share, with the acquisition expected to close within...
The recent consumerization of IT and bring-your-own-device phenomenon, which clearly has been boosted by Apple devices such as the iPhone and iPad, have been big drivers for (CIOs) to start looking at Apple devices as part of their corporate strategy.
From Apple’s perspective the enterprise...
For those just coming out from their caves, Apple (AAPL) sent out a friendly reminder that its latest iPad is set to hit stores this Friday at 8 a.m. local time across the United States (including Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands), Australia,...
With talk that supplies could be limited at launch, Verizon Wireless and AT&T Mobility have begun ramping up marketing efforts for Apple’s latest iPad model, which is set to hit stores March 16.
Both carriers, which are the two domestic carriers tapped to offer...
