Editor's Note: Welcome to Reality Check, a feature for RCR Wireless News' new weekly e-mail service, Mobile Content and Culture. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile content industry to give their insights into the marketplace. In the coming weeks...
While much discussion has rightly focused on touchscreen-based display technology - and, of course, the "experience" it enables as an input/output mechanism - there's always something coming down the pike. In this case, that something may well be digital projectors, either standalone modules or...
MetroPCS Communications Inc. launched service in Las Vegas and unveiled two new handsets.The Dallas-based carrier launched its flat-rate, unlimited service and announced plans to operate roughly six dozen retail locations in the greater Las Vegas area. MetroPCS also said it will establish four company-owned...
SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO. LTD. appears to be upping the ante in the U.S. cellphone market, where it is No. 2 - some distance behind Motorola Inc. and trailed closely by LG Electronics Co.While confident of its future here, Samsung sees the U.S. market's rate...
At the end of the day - the verbal pause du jour - a gathering of thousands of industry people bursting with innovative products, some of them handsets, will undoubtedly kick up a little dust in Las Vegas next week.Whether handset vendors are merely...
Mobile content vendor Handango Inc. announced it landed a major distribution deal with The Carphone Warehouse, the largest independent mobile-phone dealer in Europe.Calling the partnership the first of its kind for mobile content distribution, Handango CEO Bill Stone said the company will be expanding...
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. In the coming weeks look for columns from Current Analysis' Peter Jarich, IDC's Shiv...
Add Austria and Ireland to the list of countries in which the iPhone is legitimately available.The iPhone retail price at T-Mobile Austria, and in Ireland, at O2, will be ?399 ($623) for the 8 GB version and ?499 ($779) for the 16 GB version,...
If you think you're seeing Bluetooth headset advertisements everywhere, offering a bewildering array of styles and functionality from innumerable companies, you're spot on. The growth of mobile multimedia - driven in part by a shift in emphasis by network operators' pursuit of data-related revenues...
Five top package-goods manufacturers are using mobile phones in an effort to revive the art of coupon redemption.Procter & Gamble, Clorox, Del Monte, General Mills and Kimberly-Clark are teaming with retail giant Kroger for what will almost certainly be the biggest test of wireless...
Kenneth C. "Casey" Keller Jr., the package-goods marketing guru who tried to revive Motorola after its popular Razr product started to lose its edge, has been cut from the company.In a statement, Motorola attributed Keller's departure to a restructuring aimed at ensuring "that our...
SK Telecom and Citi hope to push the mobile-banking envelope with a new, San Francisco-based joint venture. The companies unveiled Mobile Money Ventures, a joint venture that aims to develop a platform that "encompasses all key mobile banking value propositions" as it bridges the...
Leap Wireless International Inc. announced plans to hire 100 new employees as it expands its Cricket service into the St. Louis market.The carrier said it is seeking local candidates for positions including retail sales representatives, indirect account managers, assistant retail business managers and retail...
Motricity Inc. finally made it official, announcing that it will slash 250 jobs over the next nine months and move its headquarters from Durham, N.C. to the Seattle area.The moves, which were first reported last week, are an effort by Motricity to streamline its...
T-Mobile USA Inc. announced a $10-per-month unlimited calling plan for its growing fixed-line effort.The operator launched Talk Forever Home Phone, an Internet service with unlimited local and domestic long-distance calls. The offering is available in Dallas and Seattle to T-Mobile USA wireless users with...
Here are several things you need to know this week about mobile WiMAX: First, mobile WiMAX is seen by analysts as a larger but riskier global opportunity for vendors, compared to fixed/nomadic WiMAX, which offers a smaller, less-risky and immediate opportunity. Second, rumors and...
Qwest Communications International Inc. could take its 824,000 wireless subscribers from Sprint Nextel Corp.'s network to CDMA rival Verizon Wireless next year when its current mobile virtual network operator agreement expires, according to media reports. Such a move would give both Qwest and Verizon...
The phrase "iPhone killer" sounds great but it doesn't withstand scrutiny.
Consider that in the 8 months since Apple Inc.'s splashdown in the mobile device market, device vendors have relentlessly chanted the mantra of "user experience" and "ease-of-use."
Sure, that mantra has been a...
Shenandoah Telecommunications reported $3.7 million in net income for the fourth quarter, representing a 14.5% increase from the year-ago period. The wireless arm of the company, which operates as an affiliate of Sprint Nextel Corp., brought in $3.7 million in net income, the same...
T-Mobile USA Inc. announced a $10-a-month unlimited calling plan for its growing fixed-line effort.The operator launched Talk Forever Home Phone, an Internet service with unlimited local and domestic long distance calls. The offering is available in Dallas and Seattle to T-Mobile wireless users with...
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...
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...
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. In the coming weeks look for columns from Current Analysis' Peter Jarich, IDC's Shiv...
While not everyone can ride the Google Shuttle to work and enjoy a free Wi-Fi connection, in-vehicle Internet access for all is not far off as cars roll into the digital age. In-car access to everything from real-time traffic updates to favorite iTunes songs...
