Third Screen Media finally found a well-heeled suitor.The Boston-based mobile advertising startup was acquired by Time Warner Inc.'s AOL Internet division for an undisclosed sum. Third Screen will operate as a subsidiary of AOL's Advertising.com business, which the Internet giant acquired three years ago."AOL...
Carl Icahn is gaining support from Motorola Inc. shareholders, increasing the likelihood the activist investor will land a seat on the company's board next week.Despite CEO Edward Zander's recent lobbying of large investors, some say they welcome Icahn's influence at Motorola, which posted a...
Time Warner Cable has partnered with Spanish-based hotspot company FON to offer its subscribers access to any of FON's 60,000 Wi-Fi hotspots scattered throughout the country.Interestingly, those FON hotspots are actually managed by FON community members who share their unused bandwidth via a FON...
Telecom operators in North America spent $68.6 billion on their networks last year, an increase of 8 percent from 2005, according to a new report from Infonetics Research.The firm predicts carrier spending will increase 12 percent to $76.7 billion by 2010.Infonetics said carrier spending...
Google and Yahoo have done a bang-up job optimizing search tools on the wired Internet, and the companies are moving aggressively into the mobile space. But they are going to face fierce competition from white-label companies that are partnering with wireless carriers. I know;...
The wireless industry was tagged with new privacy rules it decried as overkill and potentially costly to consumers, while Sprint Nextel Corp. downplayed suggestions its joint venture with four cable operators could suffer because of restrictions on sharing phone records. The Federal Communications...
As more consumer and business customers turn to the Internet for purchases as well as research, companies such as Synchronoss Technologies Inc. are providing telecom companies with a way to both automate customer orders and provide insight into a broad overview of e-commerce operations....
A year after the companies first announced their plans for the offering, Verizon Wireless and TiVo said the TiVo Mobile application for BREW-capable cellphones is now available to Verizon Wireless subscribers. The application is selling for $2 per month, and allows TiVo owners to...
Cox Communications has launched converged services in two markets in partnership with Sprint Nextel Corp., offering consumers in Arizona and San Diego a bundle that includes wireless service and mobile access to some cable content.Sprint Nextel has introduced similar services in Boston and Portland,...
Time Warner Cable became the latest of Sprint Nextel Corp.'s cable partners to launch wireless services, lighting up offerings in Raleigh, N.C. and Austin, Texas, running on Sprint Nextel's network. With the new launches, Sprint Nextel now counts four markets where its cable partners...
Editor's Note: Following are the most-read stories from RCRNews.com this year. They have been edited to fit in paper format.1. Vodafone records $41B loss, reworks strategic plansMay 30Vodafone Group plc posted a massive $41.1 billion loss for 2005, mainly from impairment charges over assets...
Editor's Note: Following are the most-read stories from RCRNews.com this year. They have been edited to fit in paper format.1. Vodafone records $41B loss, reworks strategic plansMay 30Vodafone Group plc posted a massive $41.1 billion loss for 2005, mainly from impairment charges over assets...
Comcast Corp. aims to find out if customers will buy wireless service from a cable company: the nation's largest cable provider is launching a trial of wireless service in partnership with Sprint Nextel Corp. in two markets: Boston and Portland, Ore.The launches are the...
BOSTON-Comcast Corp. launched wireless service in partnership with Sprint Nextel Corp. in two markets: Boston and Portland, Ore. Comcast's Mobile Access service is "a new arrangement from Comcast and Sprint that will make it easier for you to access all your home and entertainment...
Tower marketing and licensing firm KGI Wireless Inc. added 363 tower sites from Time Warner Cable to its portfolio, pushing its count of managed sites to more than 7,000.Earlier this year, KGI snagged a multi-year deal to manage Alltel Corp.'s 3,000 wireless tower sites,...
There were no last-minute bombshells when the advanced wireless services spectrum auction wrapped up last week after a few final, tedious rounds with a mere handful of bids. T-Mobile USA Inc. was the undisputed and unsurprising highest bidder, walking away with a hefty new...
Bidding in the government's auction of advanced wireless services spectrum is set to start Wednesday, but the jockeying and speculation has already begun as satellite and cable consortiums set themselves up to do battle with traditional wireless carriers for airwaves.Click here for the latest...
Polar opposite pictures of the second quarter emerged last week from Verizon Wireless and Sprint Nextel Corp. as the industry's No. 2 and No. 3 operators reported financial results. Verizon Wireless' parent company, Verizon Communications Inc., encountered what its executives called a "pivot point"...
OVERLAND PARK, Kan.—Sprint Nextel Corp. shares were down sharply after the company reported a scant 708,000 net subscriber additions in the second quarter, most of which were prepaid customers. Sprint Nextel added just 210,000 postpaid subscribers in the quarter. The rest of the carrier’s...
As news of Motorola Inc.'s joint venture with Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. sinks in, analysts offered insights as to what the partnership means to the two companies as well as the wireless industry as a whole. Technology Business Research's Bill Lesieur said that the...
SCHAUMBURG, Ill.—Motorola Inc. announced it’s adding video-on-demand technology developer Broadbus Technologies Inc. to its portfolio, extending its line of "Seamless Video Anywhere" solutions. Motorola explained that Broadbus Technologies’ suite of solutions enables the distribution of on-demand content to consumers through multiple devices, and its...
ATLANTA—EarthLink Inc. launched its municipal Wi-Fi network in Anaheim with considerable fanfare, but the company also quietly inked deals to resell Internet access on its muni Wi-Fi networks to DirecTV and AOL. EarthLink said the agreements are in line with the company’s "commitment to...
NEW YORK-The Recording Industry Association of America formally launched a Master Ringtone Sales Award, updating its 47-year-old Gold and Platinum program to recognize the growing popularity of ringtones on cellular phones. In the inaugural group, RIAA awarded 84 Gold, 40 Platinum and four Multi-Platinum...
WASHINGTON-With the advanced wireless services auction quickly approaching and companies largely silent about their bidding intentions, controversy and uncertainty are slowly beginning to dominate an event billed as one of the biggest and most import sales of public airwaves in years. Already a health-related...
