Perhaps no other player has invested as much in the speech-recognition market as Nuance Communications Inc. The Burlington, Mass.-based company has spent more than $1 billion in the past two years as it acquired competing firms and broadened its portfolio. We talked to Steve...
The controversy over whether the Federal Communications Commission should regulate short code-related text messaging has opened a floodgate of weighty policy questions - from network management to consumer protection to free speech - that could make resolution of the matter far more difficult than...
The mobile-phone industry finds itself confronted by a new net neutrality bill in the House, a development that adds to mounting pressure on the Federal Communications Commission to force wireless carriers to allow third-party devices/applications on networks and to forbid them from interfering with...
The Walt Disney Internet Group took the wraps off a wireless Web site for U.K. consumers offering mobile content and interactive services.The company, which last year folded both its Disney Mobile and ESPN Mobile domestic MVNOs, said the site can be accessed by texting...
BARCELONA, Spain -- The Android has landed, so to speak.A number of chip companies showed off demonstrations of Google Inc.'s Android cellphone software today at the Mobile World Congress trade show here. Google and the Open Handset Alliance released Android's software development kit (SDK),...
T-Mobile USA Inc. has been hit with a class action suit over alleged charges for text messages received by consumers who do not want the feature.The suit, recently filed in the U.S. District Court in Seattle, claims T-Mobile USA charges for text messages regardless...
Sprint Nextel Corp. is hoping to leverage its alliance with the NFL by launching a host of Super Bowl-related offerings.The buffeted carrier created a wireless Web site hawking ringtones, screen savers and video clips related to the big game, and launched a video channel...
Text messaging is getting a lot of attention these days as society tries to figure out the appropriate rules to govern this new form of communication. Like most everything else, a one-size-fits-all approach likely won't work, and the etiquette behind texting will evolve over...
THE FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION launched a rulemaking to determine whether mobile text messages and short codes are covered by non-discrimination provisions of the telecom act.Public-interest and consumer groups asked the FCC in December to rule that the law forbids wireless providers from blocking the...
The Federal Communications Commission launched a rulemaking to determine whether mobile phone text messages and short codes are covered by non-discrimination provisions of the telecom act.Public interest and consumer groups asked the FCC in December to rule that the law forbids mobile-phone carriers from...
At crime scenes in Boston, youth who gathered in the aftermath to watch the police at work were often texting and making calls, communicating about the events that had just transpired - and which they may have seen.Like many police departments around the country,...
America has fallen in love with text messaging. More than 28.8 billion text messages are sent per month, according to figures from CTIA. And nearly everyone knows someone who knows someone who sends 15,000 texts a month. (Usually that someone is a teenage girl).Obviously...
Today's children live in a digital world. They've embraced electronics. As parents, we live and die by the Best Buy.I confess that, earlier this year, I let my 11-year-old daughter test-drive one of the many demo phones we get here at the RCR Wireless...
AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands-Nokia Corp.'s strategy hasn't wavered much in the past few years and the message for 2008 is essentially more of the same. While at one end of the spectrum, the Finnish company is eyeing more feature-rich devices and applications that connect peoples'...
Public-interest and consumer groups asked the Federal Communications Commission to forbid mobile-phone operators from discriminatory interference with text messaging."For many people, texting has replaced calling as a way of keeping in touch," said Gigi Sohn, president and co-founder of Public Knowledge. "The FCC should...
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands-Nokia Corp. blew the lid off what it sees as the future of mobile connectivity this morning at Nokia World. President and CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo and Executive VP and GM of Multimedia Anssi Vanjoki took the stage to deliver a one-two punch on...
As Virgin Mobile USA Inc. has endured, even thrived, over its five-year life, it has seen its customer base transition from a play for the 18- to 34-year-old crowd to a substantial proportion (nearly 50%) of over-35 subscribers.The mobile virtual network operator itself has...
Most people would assume cellphones get in the way of learning. David Droga is betting they can help.The creative big and founder of the start-up Droga5, who previously launched the highly successful Tap Project for UNICEF, is working with the New York City Department...
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...
"Danny Bonaduce: Life Coach," jokes CBS Mobile CBS Mobile has tapped Danny Bonaduce for a new mobile video series that will air on major wireless carriers beginning next week.The first original animated program developed under the CBS Mobile brand will air new three- to...
Editor's Note: Welcome to Yay or Nay, a feature for RCR Wireless News' new weekly e-mail service, Mobile Content and Culture. Every week we'll review a new wireless application or service from the user's point of view, with the goal of highlighting what works...
Big things tend to start out small, or so the saying goes.So it was that Voice over Internet Protocol provider Skype Ltd. came out of nowhere in February to petition the Federal Communications Commission to extend to the mobile-phone industry a landmark third-party connectivity...
Text-to-vote campaigns are changing TV viewing habits dramatically, and TV programming is pushing the popularity of text campaigns.And so it was that I watched "Dancing with the Stars" last Tuesday. For the uninitiated, Wayne Newton got kicked off the contest. America voted correctly. If...
It's possible Verizon Wireless has done as much for the open access/net neutrality campaign as the liberal MoveOn.org Petraeus ad did for struggling Republicans.Verizon Wireless' decision first to block text messages from pro-abortion group NARAL and then to promptly reverse itself after the incident...
