Editor’s Note: Wireless operators are a busy bunch, and as such RCR Wireless News will attempt to gather some of the important announcements that may slip through the cracks from the world’s largest carriers in a weekly wrap-up. Enjoy!
--Verizon Wireless looks again to be...
The recent Mobile World Congress 2014 event was stocked full of news announcements, though thankfully a good selection of industry analysts and observers were in tune with the events to make sense of all the noise.
The biggest news to come out of the...
Verizon Wireless is extending its relationship with Samsung, making the company a supplier to its LTE network for the first time. This week Samsung Mobile said it will supply indoor LTE small cell solutions for Verizon, including femtocells, core network elements and a complete...
It seemed like I picked a bad year to not attend the annual Mobile World Congress event, as from the sounds of it there was a really interesting dinner party that I am sure I would have been invited to.
Editor’s Note: Wireless operators are a busy bunch, and as such RCR Wireless News will attempt to gather some of the important announcements that may slip through the cracks from the world’s largest carriers in a weekly wrap-up. Enjoy!
While this week’s Mobile World Congress...
Samsung finally unpacked its long-awaited Galaxy S5 yesterday, launching a flagship that is perhaps the inverse of Apple's iPhone 5S in more ways than one. While Apple has stubbornly refused (so far) to enlarge the iPhone screen size, Samsung is boosting the display dimension...
Traditionally, competitive juices in the wireless communications space flow between companies in the same market segment. We have often seen this when one carrier touts its “superiority” to a rival
The wireless telecommunications world is set to again descend on Barcelona, Spain, for the annual Mobile World Congress event. The gathering is known as the largest wireless-specific event on the trade show calendar, drawing tens-of-thousands to discern what the market has in store for...
Motorola Mobility's red ink will soon be history, according to China's Lenovo Group, which recently agreed to buy the struggling smartphone maker from Google for $2.9 billion. Today the company's CEO told Bloomberg that it expects to achieve what Google could not, turning the...
No-contract wireless mobile virtual network operator FreedomPop rolled out a new rate-plan offering that provides unlimited voice and text messaging for less than $5 per month.
The company, which offers service running across Sprint’s cellular network, unveiled the new plan that forgoes data for $4.58...
American consumers continue to buck the global trend, passing over popular Chinese brands in favor of handsets made by Apple and Motorola. The latest report from ComScore found that of the estimated 156 million Americans who own a smartphone, 41.8% own an iPhone. The...
Hon Hai Precision Industry, more commonly known as Foxconn, is reportedly buying a Taiwanese chipmaker that specializes in ARM-based SoCs, the applications processors most commonly used in smartphones and tablets. Socle Technology Corporation licenses the ARM Cortex MPCore processors, ARM Mali (GPUs), ARM11MP-S, ARM1176-S,...
By staying on top of current and emerging trends, businesses can avoid getting blindsided by an unforeseen change in the market. Here's what's happening in mobile chip development news this week.
Ericsson (ERIC) CEO Hans Vestberg says he has no plans to leave the company, dispelling rumors that he was on the short list of candidates to replace Steve Ballmer at Microsoft. That news along with the company's guidance regarding stronger growth in Europe helped...
Google is selling the Motorola Mobility handset business to China's Lenovo at a fraction of the price it paid for the company less than two years ago. But Google will keep most of Motorola's patents.
Lenovo will pay $2.91 billion for Motorola's mobile device...
Apple said yesterday that it sold 51 million iPhones and 26 million iPads during the fourth quarter of 2013, which is the company's first fiscal quarter. Quarterly revenue was a record $57.6 billion, while net income was flat versus the year-ago quarter at $13.1...
Ericsson (ERIC) has ended a major patent dispute with Samsung in an agreement that the company hopes will set a precedent for the wireless industry. "We feel that this is a very important agreement to be viewed as a precedent for other companies, to...
Welcome to our weekly wrap-up of telecom software news. It's been a week of big deals and big reports in the telecom space. Verizon Communications acquired Intel Media, VMware bought AirWatch, Subex landed $10 million worth of contracts and Redknee signed a $5...
Samsung remains the world's leading smartphone maker, but growth is slowing for the Korean industrial giant as its mobile unit finds itself pressured by Apple on the high end and by Chinese rivals on the lower end of the market. Sales at the company's...
Editor’s Note: The RCR Wireless News Time Machine is a way to take advantage of our extensive history in covering the wireless space to fire up the DeLorean and take a trip back in time to re-visit some of the more interesting headlines from...
A new report from Actix found that different devices interact with wireless networks in different ways, resulting in the customers experience varying across a carrier’s handset portfolio.
The report, which included information from more than 4.2 million data sessions, 85,452 voice sessions and 56,712 combined...
The touch-screen is a key element of most smartphones and tablets today, and the speed with which it responds to users’ touch is a critical part of successful interaction with the device. While stats on screen size and resolution are readily available, judging responsiveness...
Smartphones connect us to one another through voice, text and video, and soon they will be connecting us to our home appliances as well. As connectivity chipsets find their way into everything from televisions to ovens, smartphones are set to become remote control devices...
Welcome to our weekly wrap-up of telecom software news. CES 2014 may be dominating headlines this week, but some of the biggest stories in software came from companies not participating in CES, like Oracle announcing its acquisition of Corente or Apple announcing the $10...
