Editor's Note: This article originally appeared in the July Special Edition of RCR Wireless News, entitled: "Riding the Wave: The forces impacting carrier strategy." To download a complimentary version of the 80-page magazine, click here. In North America today, it is a real...
Mobile device sales surged to 325.8 million units worldwide during the second quarter, a 13.8% year-over-year increase, according to a report from Gartner Inc. The report noted that smart phones accounted for 19% of sales worldwide to end users, a 50.5% increase from the...
Verizon Wireless said it would begin taking pre-orders on the Motorola Inc. Droid 2 beginning tomorrow ahead of its expected launch later this month. The device will retail for $200 after all rebates and a two-year contract. The device is set to replace the...
Editor's Note: This article is an excerpt from RCR Wireless News' July Special Edition, "Riding the Wave: The Forces Impacting Carrier Strategy." The 80-page special edition is available here.On the streets of Guangzhou, Harbin and Shanghai, the mobile phone has become ubiquitous. Once...
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....
Bling Nation launched a program in Palo Alto, Calif., that allows PayPal employees and early adopters to fund Bling Nation purchases on their mobile phone to a PayPal account. The program uses BlingTags that are affixed to mobiles phones and can be linked to...
Accedian Networks, which provides service assurance solutions said it secured $19.5 million in a new round of funding. The round was led by Summit Partners and included participation from Rho Ventures and Skypoint Capital. The funds will be used to accelerate the company's commercial...
iPad, BlackPad, PalmPad, Cisco pad – the tablet craze shows no signs of letting up any time soon, and with popular handset maker Motorola joining the fray with its own offering, the space looks likely to heat up even further over the coming months.
Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM) upped its game today unveiling its latest smart phone, dubbed the BlackBerry Torch and available initially exclusively in the United States through AT&T Mobility (T). The device sports the device makers latest BlackBerry 6 operating system highlighted by increased...
There's no argument about the feverish pace of smart phone and handset sales of late, but it's always good to have some fresh hard numbers from Strategy Analytics to back it up.Smart phone shipments jumped 43% year-over-year to 60 million units globally in the...
Being in Google’s gang seems to be paying off, especially for Taiwanese phone maker HTC which has seen its Q2 profits skyrocket by 33%, mostly thanks to the amazing success of its Android offerings. Indeed, for every two Android smartphones sold today, one is HTC made.
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....
Motorola must be doing something right, as the firm seems to have found a way to generate higher profits from lower revenues this quarter, mainly thanks to Droid X.
Editor's Note: This article is an excerpt from RCR Wireless News' May Special Edition, "Enabling the Mobile Revolution: Mobile Chips, Devices and Accessories." The 80-page special edition is available here.The fourth quarter of 2009 was ripe for a Motorola Inc. comeback. The company that...
Following are infrastructure contracts announced during the past week:ADC Telecom (ADCT)United States: With Texas Tech University to deploy its distributed antenna system to provide high-capacity cellular service throughout the university’s Jones AT&T StadiumValue: UndisclosedAlcatel-Lucent (ALU)Taiwan: With Far EasTone Telecommunications for a Carrier Ethernet solution...
Editor's Note: Following are the top-paid CEOs of U.S.-based companies in the wireless industry. Last week, RCR Wireless News ran the list of the top 10 highest paid wireless executives. This week we are featuring No. 11- 20. Some caveats apply: private companies...
It was only a matter of time before Google became a military power, and now, with its Android army marching forward at a furious pace, it has finally happened. Or should we say ‘app-end.
Motorola Inc. has amended a lawsuit against Lemko Corp. and 14 individual defendants to include Huawei Technlologies Co. Ltd., charging the company with actual or threatened misappropriation of trade secrets. The case, originally filed in 2008, alleges that Hanjuan Jin and other defendants were...
Some devices are so popular, so high flying, you need to literally look to the skies just to get your hands on, as is the case with Motorola’s much hyped Droid X, which sold out at Verizon on the first day it was offered.
RCR Unplugged was surprised, therefore, when we received the following offer from Continental airlines this week, offering us a Droid X. “Earn Miles and get a new DROID X by Motorola,” read the subject line.
If you consider yourself to be more of a rugged, rough and tumble Android user, who doesn’t mince his words and prefers to push-to-talk, you may just grunt with joy at Sprint’s new military grade Motorola i1 offering.
AT&T’s strained, outdated network and spotty coverage has long been a sore point for US iPhone users, with many calling for Apple to bring its popular phone to other carriers, thus giving users more of a choice. The rumor mill has even posited that the AT&T/Apple divorce could be no more than a year away, with a possible open relationship with Verizon Wireless happening well before that.
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.We have yet to learn of the bottom-line successes of the iPhone 4 or Droid X launch...
Randall Stephenson, CEO of AT&T Corp., is the top paid executive in the telecom space among U.S.-based public companies. Stephenson is followed by Qualcomm Inc. CEO and Chairman Dr. Paul Jacobs. During the next month, RCR Wireless News will feature top paid executives each Monday.
Nokia Siemens Networks should be able to increase its presence in the United States and Japan with the announced acquisition of Motorola Inc.'s networks business. The $1.2 billion acquisition was hinted at last week. Motorola will retain its iDEN networks business.Nokia Siemens will pick...
