SAN FRANCISCO -- Symbian Ltd. and Nokia Corp. defended the relevance of the two companies in today's market Wednesday during a roundtable discussion that focused on the creation of the Symbian Foundation.In August, Forbes.com reported that some in Silicon Valley aren't too keen of...
SAN FRANCISCO -- Sprint Nextel Corp. prepped for the holiday shopping rush with a lineup of new devices, and a few customer incentives.The carrier presented five new handsets based on popular trends. Two of the phones will be text-message savvy -- the Samsung Electronics...
Even as Apple Inc.'s 3G iPhone ventures into the enterprise market, Research In Motion Ltd. is expected to continue its dominance in the business sector with the upcoming release of the 3G BlackBerry Bold, according to a report by Pacific Crest Securities.The new BlackBerry...
SAN FRANCISCO -- Full-track downloads are spinning their wheels and subscription services are falling on deaf ears. So Nokia Corp. and its music-industry partners are hoping music lovers will shell out for devices that come with music.
The Finnish manufacturer-cum-Internet services provider last week...
SAN FRANCISCO -- We know that mobile data is the key to unlocking future profits in the wireless industry.So, like the blind man describing an elephant by touch alone, the industry must use whatever tools of perception it has at hand to understand the...
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.Cellphones, with their index of personal contacts, knowledge of a user's location, ubiquity, and hallowed...
American consumers may well be treated to "a moveable feast" this fall. Unlike the sketches of 1920s Paris by Ernest Hemingway by the same name, however, this one is more akin to a mobile smorgasbord for buyers: more choice, cutting-edge models, attractive prices and...
The carrier deck is still the most valuable real estate in mobile content, but the future of downloadable wireless goodies may just lie in third-party storefronts. And for now, at least, developers are the key to success.Apple Inc. stole headlines two months ago with...
September, it's a month that starts with a three-day weekend, marks the end of summer and puts kids across the country back in school. There's a lot to be done and a lot to be purchased when going back to school including notebooks, pencils,...
AOL L.L.C.'s Platform-A debuted a mobile platform and network specifically for serving ads to Apple Inc.'s iPhone.The new offering, which is available through AOL's Third Screen Media subsidiary, delivers targeted, iPhone-optimized ads through sites within Third Screen's mobile network, Advertising.com's online network or any...
Vimpelcom and MegaFon - two of Russia's three largest wireless carriers - will offer Apple Inc.'s iPhone "later this year," according to company statements in recent days. Together, the two carriers serve about 80 million Russians, according to news reports. Russia has about 140...
My teen daughter complains that I treat her like my own private marketing lab. Over the years, when a new cellphone comes in with apps to review, I learned to toss the black slab at her and say, "here, play with this and tell...
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...
An Irish comic publisher is lobbying Apple Inc. to embrace content ratings after its graphic novel was dropped from the company's App Store.Infurious Comics is pushing for a ratings system after Apple rejected "Murderdrome," which the publisher describes as a "darkly humorous strop"...
Newswires have been buzzing with reports that Apple's 3G iPhones might not be selling as briskly in Poland as they are in the U.S., noting that the company's telecom partner in the country, Orange, has hired people to stand outside stores and create phony...
AT&T Mobility is set to expand international data plans for 3G iPhone owners - but they'll pay a pretty penny for it.Beginning tomorrow the carrier will release two new, international data plans for Apple Inc.'s uber-device: 100 megabytes of data transmission for an additional...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace. It feels like every day we are seeing articles about the "operating system wars" and who...
American and European users are using mobile map applications more frequently, with 8 % of U.S. mobile users and 3% of European subscribers accessing maps from the mobile phone between February and May, according to a new study from ComScore Inc.Those figures represent an...
A new report from Informa Telecoms & Media predicts the struggling mobile base station market could be revived by mobile data traffic demands by 2011.The report predicts mobile data traffic will grow nearly 1,100% to 1,925 petabytes by 2012 from 162 PB last year,...
An Alabama woman is suing Apple for claiming its latest iPhone offers 3G connectivity when she can't get connected most of the time, despite AT&T having decent coverage where she lives.
Believe it or not, CEOs still tell their I.T. managers to let them use whatever device they fancy, regardless of company standards for security and device management. Works for Apple Inc., which may well have chosen that path to get its foot in the...
Lately in the land of red, white and blue, people are talking a lot about green, including wireless service providers. In an industry that boasts 263 million subscribers who get a heap of stuff with their service, carriers can have a large carbon footprint....
A slice of iPhone 3G owners have said they are experiencing 3G connectivity issues such as weak signals, dropped calls and devices that revert from a carrier's 3G network to its EDGE network, eclipsing the device's much-ballyhooed 3G advantage. That's true in the United...
iPhone 3G reception issues were reported in 32 states across the U.S., and while Apple has yet to officially acknowledge the problem, technical support staffers are well aware.
