Monthly Archives: August, 2008

Motorola Inc.'s co-CEO Gregory Brown has plenty of incentive to see the company's phone business spun of as a public company.According to a new...

Editor's Note: RCR Wireless News teamed with the Yankee Group to conduct a series of market surveys of RCR Wireless News subscribers to gauge...

Not that the upcoming event would have commanded greater urgency and import had it been announced sometime other than in the lazy summer season...

Remember the good old days of wireless regulations? The analog sunset date was February 2008. E911 rules initially required carriers to supply public safety...

Just as the Federal Communications Commission appears ready to settle the great white-spaces debate - one predominantly framed to date by a powerful broadcast...

Google Inc. unveiled its answer to Apple Inc.'s App Store, outlining a distribution system for applications built on its Android platform.Android Market will serve...

Like squabbling politicians, Broadcom Corp. and Qualcomm Inc. issued dueling press releases yesterday on a federal judge's ruling that Qualcomm had violated certain conditions...

The following list includes venture capital and other investments into wireless companies announced during the past week. The value of the investment is included...

Nearly three million mobile users received Barack Obama's SMS about his new running mate, but many of those who signed up may have gotten...

Roaming - until recently a backburner, stand-alone issue - suddenly has emerged as a potential pivot point in the Federal Communications Commission's consideration of...

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...

Cricket Communications Inc. said it is giving customers all the video their eyes can take, for $5 a month. The subsidiary of Leap Wireless...

DENVER - It's a glitzy, ostentatious spectacle that has drawn hundreds of powerful politicians, thousands of TV cameras, tens of thousands of convention-goers and...

Like millions of motorists, Eric Hanson used a Global Positioning System unit in his Chevrolet TrailBlazer to find his way around. He probably didn't...

Sprint is lining up partners to help localize the WiMAX experience it plans to roll out this fall. Sprint users will get local news,...

Triple-tapping continues to explode, according to new figures from VeriSign Inc.The Mountain View, Calif.-based company said it delivered 95.4 billion inter-carrier text messages in...

An Irish comic publisher is lobbying Apple Inc. to embrace content ratings after its graphic novel was dropped from the company's App Store.Infurious...

Klausner Technologies Inc. has filed a lawsuit against Verizon Wireless and LG Electronics Co. Ltd., claiming the carrier's recently launched visual voicemail service for...

T-Mobile USA Inc. has been hit with a new class-action lawsuit over early termination fees, the complaint coming amid costly, high-stakes litigation in California...

Newswires have been buzzing with reports that Apple's 3G iPhones might not be selling as briskly in Poland as they are in the U.S.,...

A new mobile plan offers customers a 65 percent monthly discount for customers who agree to receive mobile advertisements. Australian telco ComTel, who runs...

Apple has been forced to withdraw an advert for the original iPhone after its claims that the device could access "all parts of the...

Just when you thought no one could possibly launch yet another search engine along comes Viewzi .

The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.Carrier--Credit Suisse First Boston lowered...