If Wirefly.com is any indication, Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) could be in for some surprising fourth quarter results. The online wireless retailer, which is owned by Simplexity, reported that the HTC Corp. Evo 4G was its best selling device during the holiday season. The...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this forum for those with something meaningful to say to the wireless industry. We want to keep this as open as possible,...
Editor's Note: The mobile space witnessed a lot of news over the past 12 months that have and will alter the mobile landscape for years to come. With the end of 2010 just days away, RCR Wireless News takes a look back at the...
Bloomberg | Diana ben-Aaron and Katie Hoffmann | December 29, 2010
Nokia Siemens Networks, the world’s second-largest maker of wireless phone systems, said the wait for antitrust approval from China will delay the completion of its $1.2 billion purchase of network assets from Motorola Inc.
The...
Wi-Fi technology, which used to be the red-headed step child of wireless operators, is getting renewed interest from those operators as carriers look to offload traffic from their 3G networks onto Wi-Fi systems, a move welcome by Ruckus Wireless, a six-year-old private company that...
Editor's Note: The mobile space witnessed a lot of news over the past 12 months that have and will alter the mobile landscape for years to come. With the end of 2010 just days away, RCR Wireless News takes a look back at the...
Motorola Mobility Inc. acquired Zecter Inc., which provides synchronization and streaming technologies for on-demand digital media content. The company did not provide details on the terms of the deal. Zecter currently offers two products, including its ZumoDrive for cloud-based content synchronization, and ZumoCast for...
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 many ways, 2010 was a landmark year in consumer devices: after years of...
The closing of Nokia Siemens Networks pending $1.2 billion acquisition of Motorola Inc.’s (MOT) public carrier wireless network infrastructure assets has been pushed back to the first quarter of next year due to still to be completed regulatory and antitrust clearance. NSN said 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.Many publications are offering their “top 10 for 2010” assessments this week. We have had a bunch...
Verizon Wireless' (VZ) LTE network might be using a new technology, but so far there is nothing new about the companies that will build the devices running on that network. Motorola Inc. (MOT) has been tapped to release one of the early, if not...
December 21 2010 - 1:02 pm ET | Dan Meyer | RCR Wireless News
Motorola announced the extension of its iDEN support for NII Holdings Inc. in October. That deal runs through 2014 and covers the supply of hardware, software and services to NII...
To the surprise of few, Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) this morning announced an extension with Motorola Inc.’s (MOT) Solutions business to provide support for the carrier’s iDEN network through the end of 2013. The three-year extension lines up with the carrier’s previously announced plans...
Motorola Inc. (MOT) is expected to be worth more as two separate companies when it splits into Motorola Mobility and Motorola Solutions next month. There is a range of value predictions coming out for both companies, but in almost every case analysts are saying...
Motorola Inc. (MOT) is expected to be worth more as two separate companies when it splits into Motorola Mobility and Motorola Solutions next month. There is a range of value predictions coming out for both companies, but in almost every case analysts are saying...
After reportedly stalling in its search for private equity investment just a month ago, Nokia Siemens Networks is now in talks to sell off a minority stake of about 30% to a consortium of private-equity firms. Blackstone Group LP and Gores Group are...
Press Release | December 14th, 2010
Water resistant and dust, the launch comes in the first course, brings the latest version of MOTOBLUR and increases the portfolio of the manufacturer
Sao Paulo, The course brings to Brazil the Motorola phone with MOTOBLUR Defy ™ ™, which...
Singapore – 9 December 2010 - Motorola Mobility, a subsidiary of Motorola, Inc., today announced the launch of Motorola DEFY™ in Singapore. DEFY is a slim, pocketable Android™ smartphone that comes equipped with advanced Web-browsing capabilities and a 3.7” high-resolution...
BEIJING, Dec 08, 2010 (SinoCast Daily Business Beat via COMTEX) -- Motorola (China) Electronics Ltd. will complete its final spin-off and restructuring on January 4, 2011. By then, the mobile terminal subsidiary of Motorola Inc. (NYSE: MOT) will become an independently...
(PRBuzz) December 10, 2010 -- Frbiz.com reports that in 2009, China smart phones market, Nokia is still a single big. Motorola brand promotion and new product release lack enough support and lack of enough dealer support, which causes the sales volume...
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....
Scanbuy said customers who have downloaded its ScanLife mobile barcode scanning application on their smartphones have contributed to 30 times more traffic on the platform compared with last year. The application allows shoppers to scan barcodes to obtain information about products. The company said...
Singapore, 9 December 2010 – Motorola Mobility, a subsidiary of Motorola, Inc., today announced the launch of Motorola DEFY in Singapore. DEFY is a slim, pocketable Android smartphone that comes equipped with advanced Web-browsing capabilities and a 3.7” high-resolution touch screen...
Dominic A. Gomez has been named president and CEO of Movius Interactive Corp., which provides value-added communication services. Prior to joining Movius, Gomez was president of Purple Communications.Funambol appointed Amit Chawla as its new CEO. He replaces Fabrizio Capobianco, who is transitioning to the...
