Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Yay or Nay. 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 and what doesn't. If you wish to submit your application or...
Synchronica said it will fork over roughly $5 million in new shares to acquire fellow mobile e-mail provider AxisMobile.A U.K.-based firm that provides over-the-air firmware update technology based on open industry standards, Synchronica targets business users and "prosumers" with mobile push e-mail and synchronization...
Mimicking a recent move by rival T-Mobile USA Inc., Verizon Wireless is now offering "more-control" options for parents. Verizon Wireless' new service, dubbed "Usage Controls," acts as an online tool that allows customers to set limits on their children's minutes and text messages, outline...
Online ad networks are booming as publishers scramble to place marketing messages on a glut of unsold advertising space. And that may be good news for their mobile counterparts.The use of ad networks - companies that essentially serve as inventory clearinghouses, connecting advertisers with...
More than 3 billion people own a cellphone. It's arguably the hottest consumer electronics product ever. But that success also can lead to a lot of waste in landfills-and worse-around the globe.; wireless; environment; green; mobile; Welcome to...
Lately in the land of red, white and blue, people are talking a lot about green, including wireless service providers. In an industry that boasts 263 million subscribers who get a heap of stuff with their service, carriers can have a large carbon footprint....
As businesses examine energy and fuel costs as well as worker productivity, wireless companies have an opportunity to support the greening of the economy - and make money at the same time - by running applications over their networks that help other enterprises in...
Wireless network infrastructure is becoming more green - and saving operators some greenbacks at the same time.While interest has been pushed to a higher pitch in recent months due to higher energy and transportation costs, the shift toward greener infrastructure has been in the...
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.To quote Bob Dylan. mobile networks are a-changin'. As more and more mobile users download...
The wireless industry must continue its leadership role in addressing consumer-electronics waste, not just because it's good corporate citizenship, but because it's good business - for individual companies and the planet.Indeed, the world's most popular device, the cellphone, is merely the face of an...
Now more than ever, policymakers and the wireless providers they regulate are finding it easier - indeed, politically and socially fashionable - to make peace with the latest iteration of the green revolution. Green has become sexy in corporate America. Executives unabashedly embrace green...
The ecological impact of the most ubiquitous consumer-electronics device in history - yes, mobile handsets - may be likened to a coin. On the coin's face is the easily recognized topic of recycling, as familiar to most Americans as a likeness of George Washington...
Here's the good news: Some of you mobile players are among the most progressive corporations around when it comes to being gentle to Mother Earth.The bad news? Well, yeah, there's plenty of that on the green front, too.Infrastructure vendors have made impressive strides in...
A slice of iPhone 3G owners have said they are experiencing 3G connectivity issues such as weak signals, dropped calls and devices that revert from a carrier's 3G network to its EDGE network, eclipsing the device's much-ballyhooed 3G advantage. That's true in the United...
A new study from ABI Research predicts there will be more than 32 million subscribers using Long Term Evolution networks by 2013, despite the fact that LTE networks are not expected to be commercial before 2010.The firm noted major carriers China Mobile, Vodafone and...
A number of Alltel Communications L.L.C employees may soon lose their jobs.According to an Associated Press report, when Verizon Wireless' purchase of Alltel finalizes, the carrier plans to keep a regional headquarters in Alltel's base city of Little Rock. However, the existing Alltel headquarters...
Machine-to-machine vendors face long- and short-term pressures that could affect their profitability, according to a new study from ABI Research."M2M module vendors are in a precarious position," says ABI Research senior analyst Sam Lucero. "If their OEM customers bypass them to work directly with...
Just a month and a half after Virgin Mobile USA Inc.'s announcement to acquire Helio L.L.C., all but one of Helio's five retail stores have already closed. The New York location remains open, for now, while stores in San Diego, Santa Monica and Palo...
Following up on a similar filing earlier this week, the Rural Telecommunications Group Inc. filed an individual petition with the Federal Communications Commission urging the agency to deny Verizon Wireless' pending acquisition of Alltel Communications L.L.C.The new filing touches on a number of issues...
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....
With the whole world watching, the Olympic Games in China are a great time and place to deliver messages to the world. Samsung's message to the world (today): We care.Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. touted its new E200 Eco handset, set for European launch in...
Hands-On Mobile Inc. said it has spun off "the bulk" of its business in Europe, the Middle East and Africa to Connect 2 Media in exchange for a minority stake in the cross-platform game publisher.Connect 2 Media publishes and distributes games for the Internet,...
Verizon Wireless ranked highest in J.D. Power and Associates' 2008 Wireless Customer Care Performance study. The results, which normally find T-Mobile USA Inc. on top, included more than 11,000 respondents and were based on three areas, including telephone calls with a service representative and/or...
