Editor’s Note: This is the first of a three-part series this week highlighting the Irish Information and Communications Technology (ICT) sector. Today’s article focuses on spectrum and technology initiatives led by the Irish government targeting wireless companies. Wednesday’s article will focus on an overview...
Ericsson’s growing presence in the North American market is set for further expansion in the coming months as the infrastructure and technology giant this week announced that its current CTO Hakan Eriksson would begin heading up the company’s IP business based in San Jose,...
SAN DIEGO--That slow, steady drumbeat you hear is the sound of mobile marketing initiatives across the globe. It’s a soft, steady sound that could explode into a wild, rich (and by that I mean lucrative) dance once the ecosystem is in place -- but...
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 e-mail, advanced messaging and data services are no longer the sole province of smartphones and high-end...
The converging telecom and IT space is set to become a $5 trillion global business, fueled by relentless demand from individuals and businesses to be able to access information across any device at any time. The wireless/telecom/media/IT sector is growing two to five...
Oracle Communications announced several new contracts this week at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.The company said Fox Mobile Distribution, a division of Fox Mobile Group, has implemented its Billing and Revenue Management solution to improve efficiency and increase billing flexibility as it rolls out...
Editor's note: RCR Wireless News has teamed with 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...
The most important weapon in the war against the dumb-pipe scenario may just be the cloud.Cloud-based services - hosted applications "in the sky" and accessible through the Internet, as opposed to native apps - are suddenly all the rage in mobile. The concept is...
The blueprints for the much-hyped IP Multimedia Subsystems architecture have been drawn, plans have been made, dreams have hatched; nearly everything needed to be done has been done; everything but the implementation. This seems odd, especially when a few years ago, carriers spent a...
Research In Motion Ltd. has known since January 2007 that Apple Inc.'s iPhone could threaten its bread-and-butter business in the mobile enterprise space. Indeed, last week, Apple entered the enterprise fray with several announcements. Today, three of the Canadian firm's partners unveiled applications that...
A recent study from Forrester Research predicts that the mobile enterprise market won't really arrive for another six years or so. But some application developers are hoping to bridge that gap by helping on-the-go employees to be less connected.The study, which was released in...
Qualcomm Inc. hired Apple Inc.'s top attorney as its general counsel, while Apple replaced that attorney with Oracle Corp.'s general counsel.Donald Rosenberg leaves Apple after less than a year of service to take the reins of Qualcomm's worldwide plate of legal challenges. Rosenberg served...
Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Inc., held forth from London this morning to orchestrate consumer frenzy over the iPhone's arrival in the United Kingdom, the first in as many as three European markets to announce this week.One can only imagine the spectacle of a...
Despite the prevalence of end-to-end billing systems as operators have consolidated in recent years, some companies may prefer a one-shot solution to a particular problem without the expense and effort of replacing an entire system. According to Forrester Research senior analyst Michele Pelino, service...
Telcordia Technologies and mPortal Inc. are joining forces to provide an end-to-end content solution for mobile virtual network operators. The companies this week plan to unveil a platform that couples Telcordia's hosted delivery and billing services with mPortal's content library, which includes more than...
The nation's 236 million mobile subscribers rang up an impressive $4.8 billion in mobile data purchases last year, using their phones to do everything from sending text messages to watching "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart," according to figures released last week by IDC....
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 RCR Wireless News to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the...
PLANO, Texas—Oracle Corp. said it plans to acquire MetaSolv Inc., which provides service fulfillment operations support system solutions, in a cash merger valued at about $219.2 million. The agreement is subject to stockholder and regulatory approvals and is expected to close later this year...
One little number means so much-it's a sign of customer satisfaction, implies network quality and is closely tracked as an indication of the health of wireless service providers. Steve Bamberger, vice president of media, communications and utilities for Oracle, describes three strategies for tackling...
WASHINGTON-Three groups sued the Federal Communications Commission over changes to small-business bidding rules, asking a federal appeals court in Philadelphia to immediately stay enforcement of new guidelines and delay the scheduled Aug. 9 start of the advanced wireless services auction pending judicial review of...
WASHINGTON—Three groups sued the Federal Communications Commission over changes to small-business bidding rules, asking a federal appeals court in Philadelphia to immediately stay enforcement of new guidelines and delay the scheduled Aug. 9 start of the advanced wireless services auction pending juridical review of...
Software giant Oracle Corp. announced it's spending about $220 million to buy Portal Software Inc., a firm that develops billing and revenue management solutions for the communications and media industries. Oracle cited its long commitment to the communications industry and noted that its Siebel...
REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.—Software giant Oracle Corp. announced it’s spending about $220 million to buy Portal Software Inc., a firm that develops billing and revenue management solutions for the communications and media industries. "The combination of Oracle and Portal delivers the first end-to-end packaged enterprise...
PALO ALTO, Calif.-Linux software vendor Trolltech announced it appointed wireless entrepreneur Juha Christensen to its board of directors. The move further expands Christensen's touch and influence in the wireless industry.Christensen gained notoriety in wireless when Microsoft Corp. hired him away from OS vendor Symbian...
