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...
Fixed-mobile convergence products are making their presence known in the enterprise.FMC is taking form by mobilizing private telephone switches used by many businesses, and offering PBX functions that extend to wireless devices. This baby step toward convergence, instead of some of the more daring...
Welcome to our new Friday feature, Week in Review. Every Friday, RCR Wireless News will run through the major events of the past week, outlining what happened and speculating on what to look for in the coming weeks. Check below for news about carriers,...
Visto Corp. managed to dispense with one of its patent-infringement battles, agreeing to license its mobile e-mail technology to Seven Networks Inc.The two Redwood City, Calif.-based startups ended their three-year legal tussle as Seven "acknowledged the validity and enforceability of Visto's patent portfolio." Visto...
Powered by brand equity and brilliant media manipulation, Apple Inc. has parachuted into the handset business. Look out below!The company's first foray into mobile handsets has captured so much attention-the proverbial "mind share" in tech-speak-that incumbent handset vendors must respond to the challenge, according...
It's beginning to look like all that money being poured into mobile search may end up in the pockets of patent lawyers.Shares of Local.com Corp. skyrocketed last week after the online search company said it had received a patent for ad-supported mobile search. The...
Four days after launching the data-centric Apple Inc. iPhone, AT&T Mobility struggled with a regional crash of its EDGE network for several hours on Monday-but the carrier said the problem was with a data center in Texas, and had nothing to do with the...
BlackBerry maker Research in Motion Ltd. saw its stock jump more than 20% in early trading after it reported a 76.5% increase in revenue from the same quarter a year ago. Meanwhile, smartphone rival Palm Inc.'s stock is down nearly 4% after it reported...
The language being bandied about today by iPhone reviewers for consumer publications-think The New York Times and Wall Street Journal-is revealing. The gatekeepers have been seduced. But at least they appear seduced by the device-if not by AT&T Mobility's network coverage and capabilities-rather than...
Motorola Good Technology Group this week plans to take its first serious swipe at Research In Motion Ltd's dominance of the mobile e-mail space.The Motorola Inc. subsidiary is expected to unveil an upgraded version of its flagship product for road warriors and other high-end...
MEDIA COMPANIES AND RETAILERS are beginning to target wireless users with free, advertising-supported services. And carriers are slowly tolerating-if not quite embracing-such offerings.USA Today last week launched a mobile search service that delivers text alerts about news, sports scores, stock quotes and other topics...
The fixed-mobile convergence market took a step forward with Verizon Communications Inc.'s introduction of its Wireless Office, PBX Mobile Extension and Mobile Conference Connection products, which the company said will help traveling professionals merge their wireless and wireline communications. Verizon made its announcement at...
Editor's Note: Welcome to the first edition of 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...
It's hard not to root for the little guy in epic battles. Maybe it's because we have been trained by Hollywood that the underdog is always the more virtuous combatant in a battle, which of course always makes for a better story when said...
Research in Motion Ltd.'s push into the consumer space with video-friendly BlackBerry devices is set to get a boost from QuickPlay Media, which recently unveiled its mobile media package for BlackBerry that is slated to begin showing up on users' handsets. Initially the offering...
Fans of GPS applications are getting enhanced features at two of the nation's largest carriers. AT&T Mobility announced four of its newer Research In Motion Ltd. BlackBerry devices can now provide customers direct access to traffic and re-routing information through TeleNav Traffic, and in...
Fans of GPS applications are getting enhanced features at two of the nation's largest carriers. AT&T Mobility announced four of its newer Research In Motion Ltd. BlackBerry devices can now provide customers direct access to traffic and re-routing information through TeleNav Traffic, and in...
As the days get longer and the mercury rises, a handful of mobile e-mail developers are reaching for the LEMONADE. Shorthand for the License to Enhanced Mobile Oriented And Diverse Endpoints-thank goodness for shorthand-LEMONADE is a group of standards designed to optimize mobile e-mail...
It's official: Research In Motion Ltd.'s BlackBerry Curve is available at AT&T Mobility. Price is $200, with two-year contract and mail-in rebate. The quad-band device rides on AT&T Mobility's EDGE network. Any doubts that RIM-known for its productivity-oriented, e-mail slabs-has gotten the fashion...
It's official: the BlackBerry Curve from Research In Motion Ltd., is available at AT&T Mobility beginning tomorrow. Price is $200, with two-year contract and mail-in rebate. The quad-band device rides on AT&T Mobility's EDGE network. Any doubts that RIM-known for its productivity-oriented, e-mail slabs-has...
Funambol plans to push ahead with its open source mobile e-mail strategy this week with an upgraded version of its white-label offering for carriers.The Redwood City, Calif.-based startup is set to unveil Funambol v6, a Java-based application that pushes e-mail to wireless devices from...
Research In Motion Ltd. has moved a step closer to satisfying Canadian regulators' requirements for restated earnings in light of past stock-option practices at the company.Maynard Um, analyst at UBS, said in a note to investors that the restatement of after-tax, net income through...
Handset pricing gyrations ran the gamut last week, as all of the nation's tier-one carriers tinkered with the cost of their handset portfolios.--AT&T Mobility slashed in half the price on four Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. handsets last week, ranging from the low-end C417, priced...
More than four months after announcing its acquisition of BellSouth Corp., AT&T Inc. continues a determined push to rebrand Cingular as "the new AT&T." Though that phrase has gotten its share of promotion by AT&T itself, let's get it straight: "The brand is 'AT&T,'"...
