Computex 2010, the massive Taipei electronics expo is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, with a slew of new gizmos and gadgets, smartphones and tablets on display. TAITRA, Taiwan’s External Trade Development Council, says it believes the show will bring some $20 billion of business into the country, with over 1715 vendors spread across 5,000 [...]

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this forum for those with something meaningful to say to the wireless industry. We want to keep this as open as possible, but maintain some editorial control so as to keep it free [...]

As the Wholesale Applications Community takes steps to form in July, widget companies like Snac are hoping to see operators embrace widgets as another way to drive data traffic, said Snac CEO Mark Caron. The WAC initiative, announced at Mobile World Congress earlier this year, is a way for wireless operators to make themselves relevant [...]

Editor’s Note: The list below is a wrap up of first quarter 2010 results for the nation’s largest facilities-based and public wireless carriers. The results are from the carriers’ quarterly reports and include all customers on their networks, including network partners.Verizon Wireless continues to lead the industry in total customers with more than 92 million [...]

Hello! And welcome to our Friday 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. We hope you enjoy it!And without further ado:T-Mobile USA’s announcement this [...]

Sequans Communications said WiMAX device developer Accton Wireless Broadband has chosen Sequans’ chips for several of its new WiMAX products, including an advanced USB dongle and two integrated access devices. Sequans also announced an agreement with Huawei to provide chips for WiMAX USB dongles, modems and customer premises equipment. The GSMA announced seven new grants [...]

The retail and restaurants category of mobile Web advertising climbed into the top 10 mobile advertising verticals ranked by ad spend in April, according to Milliennial Media’s monthly report on mobile ad trends.Overall, the U.S. mobile web grew 2% to 73.3 million users in March, said Millennial Media, citing Nielsen data. Millennial Media is an [...]

ANAHEIM, Calif. – A group of academics and top systems engineers looked the part in a panel this week at the International Microwave Symposium, but their discussion took on all the makings of political theater. Designed to address whether silicon can operate at THz frequencies, the panelists quickly took their sides on the issue and [...]

NextG Networks Inc. named Steven Moskowitz its new chief executive officer of the company.In his new role, Moskowitz will be tasked with helping the company grow in the distributed antenna systems market. Moskowitz most recently was executive vice president of American Tower Corp. and president of the company’s U.S. Tower division. He also has held [...]

Mobile entertainment company Thumbplay and Cellular South signed a deal that allows Cellular South customers to access the new cloud-based Thumbplay Music service. The service gives customers unlimited, on-demand access to a portfolio of songs directly from their handset and allows them to download the Thumbplay Music application directly from Cellular South’s Discover Center Web [...]