The Swedish subsidiary of Neonode Inc. - Neonode AB - filed for bankruptcy this week and the parent company said it too would restructure and continue life as a touchscreen-licensing operation."For the past six months, we have focused on turning the business around and...
Editor's Note: The following lists ranks the 10 most popular handsets in the United States for the month of October. Rankings were provided by AvianResearch L.L.C.
The firm derives its ranking via its Monthly Retail Store Survey, which is based on responses from 100 service...
Uncharted territory.
It's a phrase bandied about in many quarters since mid-September, when Wall Street's facade began to crumble. But it's particularly relevant to the wireless industry as it heads into the year's strongest quarter for handset sales and contract renewals.
Make that "traditionally"...
The following is market share information for the top five largest mobile-phone manufacturers for the third quarter of 2008. The figures were compiled by research firm IDC.
Nokia Corp. retained its No. 1 position, while Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. scored the No. 2 slot. Sony...
Motorola Inc. announced its first touchscreen phone for the U.S., called the Krave, with Verizon Wireless on Tuesday. The phone is now available for $150 with a mail-in rebate.The phone is a variant of the Ming, a popular model launched in China in early...
After months of hinting at the device, the world's largest handset maker unveiled its answer to Apple Inc.'s iPhone with the inspiringly named 5800 XpressMusic. The Nokia Corp. gadget features a touchscreen and, starting next year, will ship with the company's Comes With Music...
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 RCRWireless.com to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong way....
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 RCRWireless.com to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong way....
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.As adoption of the wireless web grows, so too does the Holy Grail of advertising:...
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.The introduction of the iPhone was the most significant event in the 2007 wireless industry....
Sprint Nextel Corp. and Palm Inc. are pushing hard for enterprise customers with their new Treo 800w, the first Palm device to offer Wi-Fi and GPS connectivity, with broadband speeds.In Sprint Nextel's case, the carrier needs to retain high-value corporate customers. For Palm, a...
You know what Google Inc. does on the Internet, right? Sifting through billions of destinations to help people find what they're looking for? That's what Sense Networks executives want to do for every city on the planet.A New York-based startup that will emerge from...
Forum Nokia is teaming with Mobile Complete Inc. to help developers to test and deploy applications across Series 40 and S60 handsets.Nokia Corp.'s developer program launched a Virtual Developer Lab that uses Mobile Complete's DeviceAnywhere service, allowing developers to access real handsets over the...
Faster networks, flat-rate data plans and improved marketing from carriers have combined to nearly double the number of mobile Internet users in the United States in less than two years according to new figures from Nielsen Mobile.A new report from the market research firm...
The term "serial entrepreneur" gets tossed around a lot in the technology world, but few executives can match Cheng Wu's resume when it comes to building - and then selling - startups. During his 20-year career, Wu founded Arris Networks (which was acquired by...
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.Mobile penetration in Latin America was around 66% in early 2008, well above the world average of...
Editor's Note: RCR Wireless News has teamed up with the Yankee Group to conduct a series of market surveys of RCR Wireless News' subscribers to gauge their thoughts on various technology issues impacting the wireless ecosystem. RCR Wireless News will publish the exclusive results...
Mobile instant messaging will eventually cannibalize SMS and computer-based e-mail, according to a survey from TNS Technology.The survey of 17,000 respondents in 30 countries found that once users adopt MIM, it becomes their primary non-voice method of interacting with others. Of those who already...
The mobile device market is expected to show shipments of 289 million units during the first quarter of 2008, according to a new study from ABI Research."Operators and distributors continued to top up their inventories in after a particularly strong ," said Jake...
Overnight, it seems, mobile Internet devices, or MIDs, are the topic du jour.But like many overnight sensations, the MID category is constructed of a fragile combination of long-term toil in the lab and a giddy if ephemeral sense of demand that has a long...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check feature. 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 look for columns from Laura Marriott of the Mobile Marketing Association,...
Mobile content provider go2 Media Inc. notched its third tier-one carrier win, announcing an agreement to deliver information through T-Mobile USA Inc.'s t-zones service.The Boston-based firm said T-Mobile wireless Web subscribers can access two go2 offerings - a sports channel with dedicated NBA and...
The mobile device management services market is expected to grow from $583 million in 2007 to more than $20 billion by 2013, according to a report from ABI Research."The range of services needed to manage a business's mobile investments requires inputs from many different...
In case book buyers felt limited by stores, direct mail and online options, Barnes & Noble is adding one more: mobile phones.The Manhattan-based book retailer announced the launch of B&N mobile (wwww.bn.com/mobile), an e-commerce site accessible via any mobile device with a Web browser,...
