Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.What will the mobile world look like in 10 years? It's certainly a question worth pondering. It's...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.As has been well established in this column and elsewhere, the mobile marketplace is undergoing rapid change...
Blackberry maker RIM is bouncing back this afternoon after the firm’s co-CEO Mike Lazaridis confirmed the new touchy-feely BlackBerry 6 operating system will be available from this September.
RIM’s share prices were taking a bit of a beating before the announcement, dropping 2.8 percent this...
In honor of the Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) this week in San Jose, Freescale Semiconductor has embedded itself with a trio of software companies - Enea Systems, Green Hills Software and Mentor Graphics – to bolster its software package offerings.
Freescale hopes the move...
Research In Motion Ltd. unveiled updated versions of a pair of its devices this morning that should bring increased functionality to its devices that are seeing a dramatic increase in competition in the smartphone market.
RIM said it’s set to launch a CDMA version of...
If one were the cynical kind, one might think believe that all these recent leaks about upcoming operating systems, architectures and new smartphones was all an elaborate ploy by phone makers to make consumers hold off just a couple more months to buy their...
Adtran Inc. reported first-quarter results, including a 15% increase in sales to $127 million from $110 million during the first quarter of 2009. Net income increased 20% to $18.2 million, or 29 cents per share, compared with net income of $15.2 million, or 24...
Palm Inc. stock was up more than 16% this morning on continued speculation the company is on the sales block. Bloomberg News first reported last week that Palm had hired investment bankers Goldman Sachs and Qatalyst Partners to explore a possible sale. The handset...
Despite the worldwide nature of original equipment manufacturers, and the knowing nod that nearly all mobile devices are made in Southeast Asia, North American-based companies controlled the leadership position in mobile device ownership in the U.S., according to a report from Comscore Inc.The report,...
Hello! And welcome to our Friday 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 RCRWireless.com to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong way....
Famed Blackberry maker Research In Motion Ltd. saw its stock price dive more than 5% in early Thursday trading after the company posted fourth fiscal quarter results that fell short of analysts' expectations and highlighted the increased competition entering the smartphone market.For the quarter...
Editor's Note:The following is a list of notable alliances and partnerships announced over the past two weeks. Brightpoint Inc. said it expanded a strategic alliance with Research In Motion Ltd. to provide logistics and supply chain services for BlackBerry smartphones in Indonesia. In connection...
LAS VEGAS—Even if the Federal Communications Commission didn't give the wireless industry everything it wanted in the National Broadband Plan, panelists at “The Evolving Wireless Ecosystem—What's Next in Wireless Law, Policy and Technology,” are excited about the plan. The Monday event, sponsored by CTIA...
In February, Intel and Nokia announced that they were merging their open-source Linux initiatives into a single project called MeeGo. On its face, what's not to like about MeeGo? It has a catchy name. It will result in the creation of a Linux platform...
Nokia Corp. remained the wireless industry’s No. 1 handset vendor worldwide in 2009, but its lead over rivals continued to shrink, while LG Electronics Co. Ltd. overtook Motorola Inc. as the third largest handset vendor.According to a report from Gartner Inc., Nokia sold nearly...
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.Kelly Tedesco is easy to reach on her phone- as long as you send a...
BARCELONA – Venture capital firms are finding the current rush of mobile application developers a solid segue for shaking off the past 18 months of economic doldrums. Speaking during a keynote session at this week’s Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona, Spain, a trio...
BARCELONA – The first official day of this year's Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona, Spain, kicked off with a high-powered, though low- energy, keynote address with heads of Vodafone Group plc, Alcatel-Lucent and Research In Motion Ltd. giving their perspective on the wireless...
Mobile operators realize they need customers to adopt increased data services to offset declining voice revenues but are not sure how to best implement strategies to facilitate that, according to a December survey of nearly 200 senior-level wireless operators, conducted by the Economist Intelligence...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.This year, like last year, they might as well have renamed CES the “iPhone and iPhone Accessories...
Motorola Inc. said Friday it filed a complaint with the International Trade Commission accusing Blackberry maker Research In Motion Ltd. of engaging in unfair trade practices by importing and selling RIM products that infringe on Motorola patents.Associated Press
Palm Inc.'s and Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Mobile operating systems lost ground on independent mobile aggregator Myxer's Web site in 2009, giving up a combined 24% of the smartphone traffic on the site to Research in Motion Ltd., Android and Apple Inc.'s iPhone OSes.Myxer, which...
Eastman Kodak Co., the camera company founded in 1880, said it filed patent-infringement claims against Apple Inc. and Research In Motion Ltd. to get the companies to pay royalties.Bloomberg
The increasing rivalry between Google and Apple spilled over into mobile advertising space this morning with Apple's announcement it is buying Quattro Wireless for a reported $275 million, according to All Things Digital, which broke the news.Neither Apple nor Quattro commented on the price...
