Sprint Nextel Corp. has launched an expensive, frontal assault on rivals in a bid for a hit handset that will resuscitate its fortunes. While it remains early in the game - the Instinct handset has been on the market for 11 days - the...
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."How can I help you, and where would you like to go?"In this simple greeting, there's a...
Last year, of course, the iPhone launch drove hand-wringing over the need to revamp user interfaces, accompanied by a move to large-display touchscreens.A wave of devices sporting large-display touchscreens followed, with varying results on the user interface. That influence continues to play out with...
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 RCRWirelessNews.com to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong way....
Loopt scored another carrier win, notching a deal to place its friend-finding service on Verizon Wireless's deck.The Silicon Valley-based startup offers a GPS-based service that allows users to locate friends and share information such as geo-tagged photos and comments from their phones. The service...
Based on preliminary analysis of the 3G iPhone, Apple's new handset may be its most profitable product, garnering better than 50% margins, according to analysts.Though the grand shift from hardware profits to service-and-application profits has yet to materialize for the mobile industry's biggest players...
Speech-recognition startup vlingo Corp. launched a free downloadable application that allows BlackBerry users to navigate their phones using voice. Vlingo for BlackBerry users can speak commands into their handsets to initiate phone calls, send a text or e-mail message, find contacts or search the...
Nokia Corp. will acquire total ownership of Symbian Ltd., buying out current partners in a deal valued at about $411 million, the company said today.Nokia said it would combine its own S60 platform with the Symbian platform and provide the results - a single...
Although it's not what I would call a frequent topic of discussion here on Infinite Loop, the subject of pornography and adult material does pop up from time to time, usually when someone mysteriously receives an iPod that's full of the stuff.
The new iPhone 3G is cheaper, right? The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the Apple iPhone 3G smartphone may cost $200 less, but you'll pay $40 more by the end of the contract.
Research In Motion Ltd. reports fiscal first-quarter earnings on June 25 and, driven by sales of its Curve at Verizon Wireless, two analysts said the company's results likely would be at the high end of current guidance."Our view is based on very strong retail...
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 RCRWirelessNews.com to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong way....
Apple Inc.'s iconic iPhone could become more prevalent in official Washington - especially among subway commuters - owing to House passage of an Amtrak funding bill with a provision designed to give rail customers a greater choice of mobile-phone service providers.Verizon Wireless has a...
The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.Carrier--RBC Capital Markets lowered its price target on AT&T to $46 from $47 and adjusted its estimates on the carrier to account for 3G iPhone...
LAS VEGAS - The growing importance of wireless in the general telecom space was evident during this morning's keynote session at the NXTcomm08 trade show here, as AT&T Inc. chief Randall Stephenson referred to the recently introduced Apple Inc. 3G iPhone numerous times in...
With the lucrative fourth quarter just around the corner (almost), Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications has joined the chorus of vendors reminding the world that they too have innovative phones.In SEMC's case, it spilled the beans today that it will bring to market an 8.1...
APPLE INC. IS THE NAME and, now, sheer volume is the game.Before the "wow" factor for his much-hyped handset fades or is eclipsed by competitors, Apple CEO Steve Jobs has abandoned his initial business model for plunging into wireless and has gone with a...
While Apple Inc.'s 3G iPhone includes a number of new technologies to excite tech-savvy phone users, it's the device's price and enterprise focus that could stand as the greatest boon to AT&T Mobility, the exclusive U.S. carrier for the device. But frankly, that is...
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, NPD Group's...
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Deutsche Telekom AG's (DTEGn.DE: Quote , Profile , Research , Stock Buzz ) T-Mobile will sell Apple Inc's (AAPL.O: Quote , Profile , Research , Stock Buzz ) new iPhone for as little as 1 euro ($1.
Apple's unveiling of its 3G iPhone this week came as little surprise to any industry observer or, for that matter, any person who happened to contact any form of media over the past several months. Countless trees and digital ink were sacrificed in the...
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