Zumobi launched a version of its free, widget-based content application for users of Research In Motion Ltd.'s BlackBerry devices and expanded its content offerings.A Microsoft Corp. spinoff, Zumobi launched last year as ZenZui and came to market in December with a matrix-like menu for...
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...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Yay or Nay. Every week we'll review a new wireless application or service from the user's point of view, with the goal of highlighting what works and what doesn't. If you wish to submit your application or...
The iPhone 3G’s “opening weekend” — get used to the movie lingo in this context — saw “one million devices sold” in 21 countries, according to Apple Inc.’s CEO Steve Jobs. If true, that’s more than three times the volume of last year’s iPhone...
So you're sick of that grimy flip phone you've faithfully (pathetically) toted around for two years - an eternity by any measure, except if you happen to enjoy immense wealth.
And you really don't get the math about monthly service options and their costs,...
Crackberry addicts are 60% more likely to visit Apple Inc.'s Web site - presumably to peruse the new 3G iPhone's features - than owners of other handsets, a survey of United States consumers by Compete Inc. found. The next likeliest, in descending order, are...
When it comes to investment money, perhaps no space in mobile is as hot as social networking. And it looks like the spigot isn't going to shut off anytime soon. But for venture capital to truly flood the space, the online guys will need...
You already know that Steve Jobs understands the power of deep device lust in American hearts and, indeed, in hearts around the globe. And it may not be news that Jobs knows how to use this lust to produce a media splash in the...
Handset vendors' second-quarter earnings are expected to be ho-hum, based on a global lull in new product launches during the quarter. As usual, however, analysts will carefully parse the language used by leading vendors - most prominently, Nokia Corp. - to describe their outlook...
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 RCRWirelessNews.com to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong way....
Research In Motion Ltd. doubled its fiscal first quarter revenue and net income over the year-ago quarter, sold 5.4 million devices and added 2.3 million new subscribers. RIM's fiscal first quarter ended May 31.Not good enough for Wall Street, however. RIM's stock dipped nearly...
Wi-LAN Inc., a Canadian wireless technology firm, filed a new patent infringement lawsuit against Research in Motion Ltd., Motorola Inc. and UTStarcom Inc. Wi-LAN said the three companies, subject of the suit filed in the popular patent infringement litigation venue of the...
Research In Motion Ltd. reports fiscal first-quarter earnings on June 25 and, driven by sales of its Curve at Verizon Wireless, two analysts said the company's results likely would be at the high end of current guidance."Our view is based on very strong retail...
Analyst Tero Kuittinen at Global Crown Capital L.L.C. said in a note to investors that top-tier carriers in the United States were pulling back on support for Motorola Inc., and characterized the vendor's pending product launches as "a half-baked mess.""The summer surge of fresh...
APPLE INC. IS THE NAME and, now, sheer volume is the game.Before the "wow" factor for his much-hyped handset fades or is eclipsed by competitors, Apple CEO Steve Jobs has abandoned his initial business model for plunging into wireless and has gone with a...
Qualcomm Inc. said that it expected revenue in its current quarter, on a pro forma basis, would be just above the high-end of its prior guidance of about $2.5 billion to $2.7 billion. Meanwhile, Texas Instruments Inc. narrowed its range for the quarter's revenue...
Disaster reliefVerizon Wireless launched a program designed to make it easy for its customers to donate to disaster relief efforts targeted at China and Myanmar. The program allows postpaid customers to send a text message to the shortcode 4SAVE with the key word "quake"...
Perhaps no segment in mobile data remains as untapped as wireless e-mail.Research In Motion Ltd. continues to dominate the market for high-powered users, resulting in millions of CrackBerry addicts hunched over their flashy devices who don't mind paying a premium - or charging their...
TeliaSonera, the Stockholm-based network operator, will offer Apple Inc.'s iPhone this year to some portion of the 115 million subscribers it covers in seven countries, the operator said yesterday in a one-sentence announcement.Those countries include Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.The announcement...
CORPORATIONS' IT "SPEND" THIS YEAR is markedly less than last year, yet mid-year changes have yet to surface, according to several sources. An annual survey of CIOs conducted by Gartner each fall projected flat to less than 3% growth in corporate IT spending for...
Alltel Communications L.L.C. is the latest major mobile-phone carrier to be tagged with a patent infringement suit by NTP Inc., the Virginia-based patent holding firm that scored a $612.5 million settlement with Research in Motion Ltd. in 2006 before setting its sights on top...
Rural mobile-phone operators have asked the Federal Communications Commission to investigate exclusivity deals between the industry's major carriers and handset vendors, taking aim at an entrenched business practice that they assert is anticompetitive and denies rural residents in many states access to popular wireless...
Cellphone sales in the United States declined abruptly in the first quarter of the year, the first time since The NPD Group began tracking handsets, the firm wrote in a new report. The quarter saw a 22% decline in sales year-over-year, reaching just shy...
Forces swirling throughout the wireless industry are clearly shaping handset offerings expected to reach U.S. consumers in the second half of this year. While that pattern has been typical in the industry in recent years, the pace of competition has quickened and the types...
