Wireless carriers are heading into the all-important holiday selling season, flashing new handsets designed to dazzle consumers and riding sales trends which have been building over the past year.The Apple Inc. iPhone craze has, as expected, prompted interest in touch-screen technology-and competitors are taking...
Music and messaging may be the mantra for holiday sales, according to conventional wisdom, but Sprint Nextel Corp. is taking no chances. The carrier will offer the HTC-branded Touch on Nov. 4, for $250 with a two-year contract and mail-in rebate. The Touch, naturally,...
The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.Carrier --Standard & Poor's Ratings Services said it does not expect the FCC's upcoming wireless spectrum auction to affect the ratings of U.S. wireless carriers...
Shares of Research In Motion Ltd. rocketed after the company broke the 10-million subscriber mark and issued a positive outlook for the rest of the year.The BlackBerry maker reported second-quarter revenue of $1.37 billion, more than doubling revenue during the same period last year...
The term "win-win" rightly makes sober people sick, but it might be applied to AT&T Mobility's news that it will carry HTC Americas' Tilt device, beginning Friday, at $300 with a two-year contract. AT&T Mobility gets an enterprise-grade smartphone supporting its UMTS/HSDPA network with...
Taking a page from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, copy writers for Samsung Telecommunications America wrote today that the vendor had delivered the "most wanted" features in a flip phone for customer T-Mobile USA. The Beat, aka the SGH-t539, will sell for $100 with...
TODAY BEGINS THE FOURTH QUARTER-the crazy, blow-out-the-pipes holiday season for most retailers, including those in the wireless industry. Financial numbers for the past three months are due soon.The numbers, of course, may answer some questions about how well companies delivered the goods in the...
T-Mobile USA Inc. is offering a BlackBerry Curve equipped with Wi-Fi for prosumers-yes, Virginia, that's a real word-who sign up to take advantage of the carrier's HotSpot@Home service, launched in June. The device, known as the Curve 8320, is Research In Motion Ltd.'s second...
The next big thing in mobile virtual network operators may not look much like the MVNOs that have been launching-and sometimes crashing-in the past couple of years. With the hype around the space settling into caution, observers see a new kind of MVNO-like partnership...
Todd Achilles, the face of HTC Americas in the United States and throughout the Americas, resigned about a month ago, Achilles confirmed today. The smartphone vendor is actively pursuing candidates to replace Achilles, said Jason Gordon, an HTC spokesman. Achilles said today that...
Following up on its July announcement, AT&T Mobility this morning said it would bring Research In Motion Ltd.'s BlackBerry 8820 to market at $300 with a two-year contract. The carrier said that the Wi-Fi-enabled device could roam on 10,000 hotspots in the United States-for...
NTP Inc. is at it again.The Virginia-based patent-holding company last week filed patent-infringement lawsuits against all four tier-one U.S. carriers, claiming the operators are violating eight patents for mobile e-mail services. Verizon Wireless and Sprint Nextel Corp. declined to comment last week; AT&T Mobility...
According to a popular if crass bumper sticker, "stuff" happens.In the case of outages or slowdowns for Research In Motion Ltd.'s BlackBerry service, stuff happens pretty rarely.But a days-long outage this spring and a day-long outage and slowdown in e-mail traffic Sept. 7-8 at...
T-Mobile USA Inc. has introduced an entry-level BlackBerry plan for $10 per month that includes unlimited e-mail access. The limited-time offer, which requires a Research In Motion Ltd. BlackBerry Pearl and a T-Mobile USA voice plan, does not include texting or Web browsing, and...
NTP Inc. jumped back into the litigation ring, filing patent-infringement suits against three of the four largest U.S. carriers.The Virginia-based patent-holding company targeted AT&T Mobility, Sprint Nextel Corp. and Verizon Communications Inc., reportedly claiming the operators are violating eight of its patents for mobile...
"I strongly believe that next year, in 2008, about 90% of people who walk anywhere in any store to buy wireless will have done their research online before. This changes the game," said Delly Tamer, founder and CEO of online retailer LetsTalk.com. Indeed, Tamer...
Boost Mobile has tapped Telmap for its branded navigation application, which will run on Java-enabled handsets with GPS.Boost Navigator provides turn-by-turn walking and driving directions as well as information about nearby theaters, clubs, malls or eateries. The offering can be downloaded over the Internet...
A new survey focused on smartphone operating systems by iGR found that more than half of all respondents use a Research In Motion Ltd. BlackBerry device, while the majority of the remaining respondents use a Windows Mobile device. At least 30% of those surveyed...
The smartphone market in North American is in flux, with Research In Motion Ltd. rapidly gaining ground by successfully crossing over into the consumer market from its traditional enterprise role. RIM has grabbed market share while competitors struggle with products and channels. One...
Editor's Note: Welcome to Yay or Nay, a feature for RCR Wireless News' new weekly e-mail service, Mobile Content and Culture. 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...
Movero Technology Inc. is hoping to strike a chord under a new brand name: Maestro.The Austin, Texas-based startup, which offers solutions for businesses looking to deploy and manage mobile devices, upgraded its platform and this week plans to begin marketing its wares with the...
A mistake in a media report earlier this month suggesting that Nokia Corp. had sold as many as 450,000 units of its high-end N95 handset in the United States during the second quarter immediately set chins to wagging.The N95 packs advanced Web browsing, multimedia...
Major League Baseball unveiled a widget that gives BlackBerry owners one-click access to its wireless Web site.The application can be downloaded free by visiting MLB.com, and is available free aside from carrier data charges. MLB Advanced Media LP, the interactive media arm of pro...
There's good news for a beleaguered American handset giant named Motorola Inc.The company's Razr handset-beefed up on functionality and spun off in customized form in myriad colors for all four of the top-tier network operators-represented two of the top five bestselling handsets last quarter...
