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.The introduction of the iPhone was the most significant event in the 2007 wireless industry....
Hello! And welcome to our Thursday 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....
Apple suffered a case of the hiccups last week with the launch of the iPhone 3G and MobileMe, but Google is struggling with a serious developers' revolt months ahead of Android's scheduled launch.Android developers began getting antsy a few weeks ago due to the...
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.A race is underway, and the whole world is watching - even though the winners have already...
You know what Google Inc. does on the Internet, right? Sifting through billions of destinations to help people find what they're looking for? That's what Sense Networks executives want to do for every city on the planet.A New York-based startup that will emerge from...
Won't it take time to develop an open-source version of Symbian, giving competing open-source groups time to get their products out? One of the factors that sets our initiative apart is the promise of backward compatibility with Symbian Version 9 and S60 3rd Edition....
Hello! And welcome to our Thursday 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 RCRWirelessNews.com to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong way....
Suddenly, it's all about consolidating handset platforms. Today, LiPS said it would jump on the LiMo. Earlier this week, Nokia Corp. said it would buy out its partners in Symbian Ltd. in order to drive innovation and consolidation of that handset platform. The drivers...
Based on preliminary analysis of the 3G iPhone, Apple's new handset may be its most profitable product, garnering better than 50% margins, according to analysts.Though the grand shift from hardware profits to service-and-application profits has yet to materialize for the mobile industry's biggest players...
Nokia Corp. will acquire total ownership of Symbian Ltd., buying out current partners in a deal valued at about $411 million, the company said today.Nokia said it would combine its own S60 platform with the Symbian platform and provide the results - a single...
BARCELONA, Spain - Nokia Corp. used its S60 Summit '08 to tout the reach of its smartphone platform, woo low-profile developers and - like just about everybody else in mobile - crow about its openness.The show opened with a flashy video that demonstrated Series...
Our favorite country to the North, Canada, is going to have its own spectrum auction next month. We can't wait! Will Google play? Will bidders shell out billions to build 3G networks and then find uptake is slow and beg the government for relief?...
Hello! And welcome to our 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 RCRWirelessNews.com to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong way. We...
The mobile enterprise world for years has been rife with talk of Trojan horses, data-soiling worms and other Internet-age nasties. For the time being, though, the biggest threat to mobile security is the user.Security technology vendors have long tried to plug their wares by...
Mobile gaming continues to languish, plagued by a lack of innovation, overpriced titles and the constraints of tiny screens and 12-key pads. But game makers are hoping that Apple Inc.'s iPhone changes all that. Perhaps no other space in mobile content has been hyped...
Smartphones will come of age as the primary venue for mobile Internet content in the U.S. this year. The proliferation of these devices will reshape the sector and force content companies, operators, and advertisers to retool.Companies in the mobile advertising sector have been busy...
Few would argue the premise that, in the post-iPhone handset world, the user experience matters most. Observers at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, this week have noted the emphasis of substance over style, and Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications executives emphasized that mantra...
Microsoft Corp. kick-started its effort to grab a piece of the hot, youth-oriented messaging and social networking market by acquiring Danger Inc., the software driver behind the popular Sidekick devices at T-Mobile USA Inc. The purchase price was not disclosed. Microsoft's stock declined nearly...
Sling Media Inc. announced its video-viewing software will run on Blackberry devices starting later this year. The company will demonstrate the new application on Research in Motion's Blackberry Pearl 8120 at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas next week.Sling Media said the BlackBerry...
In a bid to expand its direct-to-consumer content offerings, Nokia Corp. announced the release of a free-to-download, Internet-based radio service for its cellphones.The application, available to Nokia phone owners, allows users to browse hundreds of online radio stations worldwide based on station name,...
Google Inc. apparently got so fed up waiting for more GPS-enabled devices to hit the market that it has taken matters into its own hands. Google Maps for Mobile users can now have their location automatically set, with or without GPS.The search behemoth added...
Microsoft Inc. announced it has acquired the right to buy Musiwave SA from Openwave Systems Inc., which has struggled with management changes in light of stock-option backdating woes and proxy battles with shareholders. No terms of the proposed deal were disclosed.The acquisition of Musiwave...
Google Inc. drew considerable media attention last week with an idea and 33 influential friends.Missing was its long-rumored gPhone, whose actual fate remains a closely guarded secret. Instead, Google announced a consortium of 34 companies-the Open Handset Alliance (OHA)-and a common goal of producing...
Google Inc. is the new E.F. Hutton-when the Internet search giant talks, everybody listens. Many observers today expected to hear about a long-rumored Google phone-it didn't happen. Nor were any specific handset models announced. But listeners probably included likely competitors to the new Open...
