The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.Carrier --Credit Suisse First Boston upgraded Qwest Communications International to neutral from underperform and raised its price target to $9 from $7.50 after the carrier...
Telcordia Technologies and mPortal Inc. are joining forces to provide an end-to-end content solution for mobile virtual network operators. The companies this week plan to unveil a platform that couples Telcordia's hosted delivery and billing services with mPortal's content library, which includes more than...
Everyone, it seems, wants a piece of the Linux action. That includes Symbian OS champion Nokia Corp., which recently joined the Linux Foundation, and IMS Research, which just joined its brethren in issuing a report on Linux' pros and cons and the dynamics of...
Mbile software developers are coping with the headaches of the small screen by-strangely enough-cramming it with as much information as possible.Instead of forcing users to scroll through seemingly endless lists and drill through more layers than an archeologist could manage, developers are packing the...
Everyone loves a horse race, and in the first quarter global competition in the handset industry has tightened, infusing the high-stakes race with a sense that the future is in play. While first-quarter earnings reports and market analysis found no change in overall tier-one...
Some high-profile investors are wagering on Emotive Communications Inc. and its "Push Ringer."The Encino, Calif.-based company last week said it pocketed $7.7 million in a funding round from Warner Music Group, Bertelsmann Digital Investments, the D.E. Shaw Group and undisclosed angel investors. Emotive said...
Nokia Corp. is behaving like a market leader with a thoughtful, winning strategy. The Finnish handset vendor is carefully undercutting competitors in emerging markets for volume gains-enduring a short-term lag in revenue and profit growth-and is pushing hard to position its profitable smartphones for...
Alltel Corp., the nation's fifth-largest carrier, discounted two smartphones over the past week, dropping prices on the Palm Inc. Treo 650 to $150 (from $200) and the UTStarcom PPC6700 to $200 (from $250). T-Mobile USA Inc., fourth-largest in the nation, also lowered the price...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our Monday 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 Compete's Miro Kazakoff, Jupiter Research's Julie...
Hedge*hog*ing v. Interrupting conversations in an office environment by poking your head over the top of the cube.You gotta love Nokia. Here is a company that is handily the largest cellphone maker in the world, yet it still has the nerve to bring the...
Both companies' stock has been bid up, though for opposite reasons, and both companies seek to expand their traditional markets by intruding on the others' turf. They both make smartphones for a dedicated cadre of end users in North America, and they're expanding to...
Verizon Wireless has discontinued sales of its kid-focused Migo phone, by LG Electronics Co. Ltd., while Cingular has dropped its youth-targeted Firefly device at its retail stores, as the nation's top two carriers apparently continue to figure out the potentially lucrative market for children's...
Palm Inc.'s management told analysts in New York yesterday that it will exploit growth in the smartphone sector to thrive, yet ducked questions about whether the company would be acquired, according to various media reports. Analyst Maynard Um of UBS wrote in a note...
Alltel Corp. has broadened the price range of its Smart Choice plans for individual and family smartphone users, which combine the carrier's mycircle calling offer with unlimited messaging, data access and mobile-to-mobile calling, as well as off-peak calling starting at 7 p.m.The company has...
Editor's Note: In this monthly feature, RCR Wireless News talks to retail managers across the country to get a first-hand view of what's hot in wireless.Retail store manager Mark Jones manages an Alltel store in the carrier's hometown of Little Rock, Ark. The location...
ORLANDO, Fla.-If smartphones aren't the proverbial "overnight success" that results from years of toil, they've acquired added cachet in the industry because the players are focused on growth. Operators seek to sell more data, handset vendors seek healthier margins, operating-system providers seek market share....
ORLANDO, Fla.-The intriguing thing about the mobile handset business is that competition and ambition can help a vendor thread the eye of a needle. To some, that's the slim opening for vendors not counted among the top-tier, whose five companies claim more than 80...
Microsoft Corp. showcased a new Web browser that customizes Web pages for smartphone screens.The browser, dubbed Deepfish, delivers small images of Web sites, retrieving detailed information as needed when a user zooms in on part of a page. The technology is designed to replicate...
ORLANDO, Fla.-SmarTVideo Technologies Inc. announced a deal to deliver live mobile broadcasts of Dennis Miller's radio talk show.The Atlanta-based company, which operates the under the brand uVuMobile, said it will offer a free 30-day trial to mobile users for the three-hour program live. The...
Walk into just about any department or grocery store, and chances are that the automatic door swinging open comes from a company called Stanley Works-and it's serviced using wireless technology. Stanley Access Technologies is a division of the 163-year-old Stanley Works company, which counts...
Editor's Note: Welcome to a special CTIA Show Daily edition of our weekly online feature, Analyst Angle. Every Monday at www.RCRNews.com you can find columns from the industry's leading analysts, including Current Analysis' Avi Greengart, Compete's Miro Kazakoff and Jupiter Research's Julie Ask. Visit...
Teens and young adults dominate the console gaming space, but mobile publishers are hoping their parents can help take wireless gaming into the mainstream.Gameloft this week plan to announce a deal with Research in Motion Ltd. to develop, market and distribute games for BlackBerry...
Based on new statistics that suggest soccer moms and teens are warming to smartphones, Handango Inc. is making seven predictions for the smartphone and mobile content market for 2007. The global content provider with a distribution network of more than 16,000 content partners is...
The battle of the titans continued last week as the industry's No. 1 and No. 2 carriers rolled out dueling promotional efforts centered on popular handsets. AT&T Inc.'s Cingular division, the No. 1 operator, cut the price of the LG Electronics Co. Ltd. CU400,...
