Company breaks new ground with first mobile/HTML5 tool to help users find the ideal ultrasound system at the right priceWILLOWICK, Ohio, Aug. 11, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Time is money, and time that is wasted looking for the right ultrasound machine is like throwing money...
Pandora Media Inc. (P) debuted on the New York Stock Exchange today at a per-stock price of $20.32 before immediately jumping to a peak of $24.25. Pandora has gained incredible user adoption thanks to its push on smartphones. Company stock was originally set for...
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Astro and TIME dotCom Berhad (TIME) have entered into a partnership to jointly bring the best of TV and broadband services for the benefit of customers. CEO of Astro, Dato’ Rohana Rozhan and CEO of TIME, Afzal Abdul Rahim today...
If there's one thing NTP Inc. is really good at, it's protecting patents with a fervor and winning handsome treasure along the way. Just ask BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM).After battling it out in court for the better part of five years over...
SAN DIEGO – Qualcomm Inc. has paid $3 billion to developers using its BREW platform, CEO Paul Jacobs told a crowd of about 3,000 during yesterday's keynote speech at the company's first Uplinq conference. That $3 billion amounts to an average selling price of...
For some, apps might be nothing more than a happy-hour staple, but for others they've become the latest sensation in all things mobile. Applications are driving a tremendous new avenue for business in the wireless space. The trend is pulling countless developers, publishers and...
Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile USA Inc. continue to lead in customer satisfaction, this time among small businesses, according to a recent J.D. Power and Associates survey released last month. While Verizon Wireless was the favored carrier among small- and medium-sized business, T-Mobile took...
SANTA MONICA, CALIF. – Few, if any, technologies have taken off as quickly as smartphones have in the United States and it's changing the American lifestyle in the process. At the end of 2008, the U.S. market had a smartphone penetration rate of 15%;...
The BWA auction that is scheduled to start two days after conclusion of the 3G auction under way in India, has sparked an intense debate over whether WiMAX or TD-LTE might be best positioned to serve the country's wireless broadband needs. At the center...
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 industry provides plenty of topics, and I was torn this week whether to focus on earnings...
Editor's Note:This article is an excerpt from RCR Wireless News' March Special Edition, "The Perfect Storm – A Focus on Mobile Messaging, Marketing, Content and Apps." The 80-page special edition is available here. Although the National Venture Capital Association says it expects to see...
Over the past 12 months any doubt over operator commitment to femtocells has been silenced. There are currently 10 deployments around the world and analyst firm Informa recently found operator commitment to femtocells has increased by 50% in the last three months alone. With...
Airvana Inc. reported fourth-quarter revenues of $47.7 million, down from revenues of $63.3 million for the fourth quarter of 2008. Net income for the quarter was $13.1 million, or 19 cents per share, compared with net income of $24.8 million, or 36 cents per...
Regional flat-rate operators MetroPCS Communications Inc. and Leap Wireless International Inc. posted similar increases in subscriber additions for the fourth-quarter, although both carriers reported increased churn and expect continued pressure in the no-contract market segment in 2010. The carriers did not comment on recent...
The Federal Communications Commission is considering implementing a law that would make cellphone boosters illegal unless they are deployed by a wireless operator or with the consent of a wireless operator, a move that could impact thousands of end users already owning such devices....
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 – Two heavyweights in their own right, Nokia and Intel this morning announced plans to merge their Linux-based software platforms for next-generation devices.MeeGo, which merges Intel's Moblin and Nokia's Maemo platforms, the software is intended to support multiple hardware types across a host...
BARCELONA – At Mobile World Congress today, Microsoft finally offered an entirely new look and feel for its mobile operating system in Windows Phone 7 Series.Presented as a complete reboot with no obvious remnants from the existing Windows Mobile operating systems (except for that...
BARCELONA – Nokia Siemens Networks took the opportunity at Mobile World Congress this morning to put its relatively new CEO Rajeev Suri in front of press and analysts to give an update on its latest customer wins and strategy.Repeating a regular theme at this...
BARCELONA – Sony Ericsson put on a media soiree here in an incredibly packed night club on the beach last night to announce a suite of new devices and strategies.Not one executive hid from the incredibly tough slog the company has had of late,...
BARCELONA – Verizon Wireless' metamorphosis from champion of CDMA technology among the world's largest carriers to a full-fledged member of the dominant GSM-based world took another step to completion today as the nation's largest operator announced its membership of the GSMA trade association.The decision...
What is it with carriers? Every time there is a ‘new' infrastructure technology, it takes years for the actual deployment to take place. My rule of thumb is now a decade or longer between when a vendor starts promoting a totally new concept to...
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...
Publisher's Note: This is the second a multi-part series of articles on Chinese companies following Publisher Jeff Mucci's recent trip to China. Huawei Fast Facts: In 2009, Huawei achieved over USD 30 billion in contract sales and USD 21.5 billion in revenue (unaudited revenues)....
