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A touch of Glimmer at Alltel: Carrier lands LG’s latest touchscreen device

If you add up a number of factors, the new LG Glimmer at Alltel Corp. makes a lot of sense for the two companies. Touchscreens are hot. The Glimmer offers a 2.8-inch touchscreen with slide-out numeric keypad. Multimedia is hot. Glimmer offers a "robust"...

Apple cracks open the iPhone : Move expected to entice enterprise and app developers

Four days after Apple Inc. released its iPhone software development kit (SDK), the company announced that more than 100,000 developers had already downloaded the set of application programming interfaces (APIs) and tools used to create applications for the iPhone and iPod Touch.Interest is definitely...

Hedgehogging: hedge*hog*ging v. Interrupting conversations in an office environment

So let us get this straight. 100,000 developers paid $100 a piece to download Apple's new SDK for the iPhone. We are no math majors, but doesn't that translate to like $10 million? Apple is amazing.-------------------------------FCC Chairman Kevin Martin is in so much trouble...

RIM adds three enterprise apps, fights off Apple

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...

Firm takes aim at handset giants over patent infringement

Aloft Media L.L.C. has sued several wireless handset giants over alleged infringement of a patent for transferring contact information using a mobile phone. Aloft Media, based in Longview, Texas, names as defendants Nokia, Motorola Inc., Palm Inc. Research in Motion Ltd. and Sony Ericsson...

Apple homes in on BlackBerrys with enterprise-friendly iPhone: Firm releases SDK

CUPERTINO, Calif. -- Business has formally been introduced to Apple Inc.'s iPhone. The company invited about 350 analysts, developers and press to its headquarters today to announce a suite of business-minded applications that will be added to current iPhones through a software update in...

Visto settles with Microsoft

Wireless e-mail vendor Visto Corp. said it reached a settlement with software giant Microsoft Corp. over patent licensing, an announcement that appears to indicate another legal victory for Visto.Although the companies did not release specific terms of the deal -- typical in such agreements...

Carriers go all in with unlimited pricing plans: Big 4 target $100 price point with new plans

After years of only minor price plan tweaks and occasional promotional offers, the nation's four largest carriers have ignited a new pricing war centered around unlimited voice calling minutes for $100 per month. And in a move that begs for a response, Sprint Nextel...

NYT Co. unveils new mobile app: Service to further link PC, mobile space

The New York Times Co. announced the beta launch of an application designed to help move content between computers and mobile phones.ShifD updates information to users' accounts using any Web browser, via text message or with an Adobe AIR-based application. The application distributes the...

RIM: No seasonal dip in subscriber growth

Research In Motion Ltd. said today that its subscriber growth will be stronger than previously forecast for its fiscal quarter ending March 1. But the BlackBerry maker did not raise its financial projections for the same period. RIM in December had predicted 1.8 million...

Palm Centro goes GSM at AT&T

One popular handset does not a successful vendor make. But in Palm Inc.'s case, the launch of its popular, $100 Centro smartphone at AT&T Mobility in a GSM, quad-band world format, may help the company recapture mindshare and produce cash flow. The Centro first...

Moto and RIM begin cross-licensing dance

One of the typically opaque aspects of the cellular handset industry erupted into view over the weekend as Motorola Inc. and Research In Motion Ltd. sued each other. The familiar culprit: failed negotiations to renew a cross-licensing agreement. A 2003 agreement expired at the...

Industry Outlook 2008: Social Networking: My mobile social networking wish list for 2008

Don't be fooled by the flow of VC funding or the fact that Google Inc. and MySpace are in on it. The truth is, mobile social networking is not as cool as its fixed Internet brethren. An obsession with user-generated content, coupled with the...

Industry Outlook 2008: Smartphones: Smartphones will reshape the mobile Web in 2008

Smartphones will come of age as the primary venue for mobile Internet content in the U.S. this year. The proliferation of these devices will reshape the sector and force content companies, operators, and advertisers to retool.Companies in the mobile advertising sector have been busy...

Hardware, and beyond : Nokia and Samsung race to provide Internet services

BARCELONA, Spain - Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. announced plans at the Mobile World Congress trade show to launch an Internet-services strategy for its handsets, a move that could put the Korean vendor into direct competition with Nokia Corp.'s overarching Ovi content play.And though Samsung's...

Alcatel-Lucent scores AT&T Mobility deal: Contract calls for expansion of UMTS/HSPA network

Alcatel-Lucent came out swinging at the Mobile World Congress event this week. The company added to the pile of news it's made by announcing a deal with AT&T Mobility to further expand the No. 1 carrier's UMTS/HSPA wireless network. Financial terms of the deal...

Alcatel-Lucent to power RIM’s prepaid platform: Tracking service expected to increase interest in developing countries

Alcatel-Lucent announced that it's developing an application for Research In Motion Ltd.'s BlackBerry platform that will allow prepaid users to track voice and data usage against the amount remaining in their account.The partnership is largely aimed at increasing interest in BlackBerry smartphones in developing...

RIM’s soft underbelly: network outages: Piqued BlackBerry users quick to forget, forgive

When you turn on the tap, water simply flows out, right? Nothing to it. The same assumption holds true for many if not most BlackBerry users, who tend to rely on the device and the service from Research In Motion Ltd., for uninterrupted, 24/7...

Microsoft steps up mobile strategy with Danger purchase

Microsoft Corp. kick-started its effort to grab a piece of the hot, youth-oriented messaging and social networking market by acquiring Danger Inc., the software driver behind the popular Sidekick devices at T-Mobile USA Inc. The purchase price was not disclosed. Microsoft's stock declined nearly...

Worst of the Week: Place your bets on those cellphone flameouts

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....

Forecast calls for … iPhone ‘killers’: Vendor-specific challenges also loom as smartphone space heats up

The landscape of the wireless industry is in flux as you read this story, with product launches, pre-announcements and hype flying by like so much confetti on the wind.Or is that confetti actually the cellular industry after being fed through a shredder?The traditional cellular...

Pained about the roaming in Spain?: Domestic carriers offer options, but heavy usage can be costly

Anyone who has traveled abroad and decided to use their cellphone to call home or check e-mail knows how shocking the total on your subsequent wireless bill can be. Short of owning an unlocked GSM device and carrying multiple SIM cards - each serving...

Pained about the roaming in Spain?: Domestic carriers offer options, but heavy usage can be costly

Anyone who has traveled abroad and decided to use their cellphone to call home or check e-mail knows how shocking the total on your subsequent wireless bill can be. Short of owning an unlocked GSM device and carrying multiple SIM cards - each serving...

Wi-Fi and 3G cellular: Learning to live together

The momentum of 3G data access has picked up speed as customers - particularly business users - experience the value of access to mobile broadband connectivity on their laptops, regardless of location. With this growing market, does Wi-Fi still have a role with the...