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Where music and technology meet: Verizon, Pandora announce virtual, 5G-supported concert

The performance will feature a virtual environment using 3D images captured at the Verizon 5G Lab in Los Angeles Verizon is using its edge compute capabilities and its 5G Ultra Wideband network — the brand name for its C-Band and mmWave network — to deliver...

Who’s talking up connected car services?

Who's talking about the connected car? Executives from a range of industries beyond automotive have been speaking with investors and analysts about how they see their prospects for benefiting from connected car services. RCR Wireless News went through recent comments from a number of industries to...

Analyst Angle: How much data is T-Mobile US giving away with Music Freedom?

When T-Mobile US made its announcement, the immediate question was “how much data are they giving away?” Obviously, music streaming services can use a lot of data in a day, depending on how many hours they are streaming.

Reality Check: Apple’s next move

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.In less than 200 words, CEO Steve Jobs rocked the tech world with a sudden yet not...

Spotify music service launches in the U.S.

After two long years of negotiations with record companies, Spotify, a Swedish streaming music service, is finally launching today in the U.S. after hammering out deals with the big four labels of Universal, Sony, EMI and Warner Music to stream around 15 million tracks. As...

Reality Check: Data rations for you!

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.This week’s article deals with a hot topic – bandwidth buckets, or, as Craig Moffett from Sanford...

Zynga valued up to $20B, IPO rumored soon

San Francisco-based Zynga Inc., which creates online games for mobile devices and sites such as Facebook, plans to file an initial public offering (IPO) with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) expected to be as early as today, reports...

Video: Weekly news wrap from MMA Forum

NEW YORK — Live from the Mobile Marketing Forum, RCR Wireless News presents a wrap of the week's news and highlights some key trends coming out of the event. Please check out the video for a full recap of the event and the week's...

No sign of ‘old and stodgy' Detroit at Ford Motor Co.

DEARBORN, Mich. — Here at Ford Motor Co.'s (F) headquarters, Doug VanDagens is preparing to rapidly expand the size of his connected services team over the next three to four years. The global director of the connected services group at Ford recently got the...

Capital Markets: Google bets on Admeld; Qualcomm acquires Rapid Bridge; and more

Qualcomm announced it has agreed to acquire substantially all of the assets of Rapid Bridge LLC, a San Diego-based inventor of advanced techniques for the design and development of semiconductor products. Rapid Bridge's San Diego design team and San Diego/Bangalore engineering services operations will...

Reality Check: Why wireline matters to wireless

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.Whenever we talk about the wireline business, about a third of you respond positively, and about a...

@ NAB: HD radio could be reason for operators to embed FM chips

LAS VEGAS – High-definition radio could bring the value proposition of adding an FM chip to mobile devices because the service can offload traffic from the wireless operator's network and drive revenue to the operator by using music tagging services to push consumers to...

Reality Check: Here come the fast apps

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.Understanding the interplay between the wireline and wireless worlds is important as value shifts occur. You can’t...

Analyst Angle: CES roundup – bigger isn't better

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.Things tend to be big at the Consumer Electronics Show, the annual gadget-fest held this...

Analyst Angle: Mobile and wireless trends for 2011

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.I have always tried to give readers some perspectives on the coming year – trends...

Reality Check: The decade of ‘C’

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.The “twenty-teens” will begin my third decade in the telecom industry. In the past 17 years, there...

Reality Check: The wish list (Part 2)

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.This week, we touch on the second part of the “wish list” – those items that are...

Reality Check: The wish list (Part 1)

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.One of the most popular series of articles we wrote last year was called “All I Want...

Reader Forum: Parting the skies for cloud music

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,...

Analyst Angle: The looming rich media wars: Apple vs. rest of the world”

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.Last week, Apple Inc. made a ton of announcements including a new iPod nano, a...

Reality Check (Special Edition): Why AT&T changed their data pricing

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.I am taking a brief respite from my start-up focus to weigh in on the AT&T announcement...

Reality Check: The Tweet guarantee

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've come a long way since the introduction of the iPhone in 2007 and the App Store...

Reality Check: Why Verizon did it

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.On Friday, Verizon announced a new phone strategy, largely misreported as their volley in an escalating price...

Reality Check: The purpose-driven device

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.Whether you cringe at the thought of attending CES or look forward to it as much as...