RCR Wireless News Editor-in-Chief Dan Meyer was joined by esteemed guests, including long-time industry analysts Roger Entner, former FCC Commissioner Harold Furchtgott-Roth, former Senior Attorney with the Competition Division in the FCC’s Office of General Counsel Lawrence Spiwak and former FCC Wireless Bureau Chief Fred Campbell in taking a look at the regulatory challenges facing [...]

Mobile applications will become critical to value, customer retention and differentiation for every industry, according to a new report by Strategy Analytics. The company has predicted that apps will drive more than $35 billion in revenue by 2017. That figure grows exponentially when factoring in the impact apps have on purchases such as choosing one [...]

Another big contract for mobile payments and analytics company Bango. The company that already has Facebook, BlackBerry App World, Windows Phone Store and Amazon as customers announced it has signed a global framework agreement with Telefónica Digital. The partnership aims to create “an enhanced direct-to-bill payment experience for mobile app stores,” by combining Bango’s frictionless [...]

In the mobile era, both companies and employees want to access data from any location and at any time. Although it seems a great way to boost productivity, this trend creates new challenges for IT organizations, and CIOs are concerned about how to address these corporate mobile management issues. Cesar Berenguer, managing director for Latin [...]

The number of LTE devices and manufacturers is exploding. This special report explores how the transition to LTE networks is changing the device ecosystem from design to test and repair, and the factors that affect a successful LTE device launch. Spectrum fragmentation, the proliferation of MIMO antennas in LTE-Advanced, and making a smooth voice transition [...]

The era for mobile business intelligence (BI) solutions has arrived, or at least according to a new report from Ovum. According to the analytics firm, the arrival of high-performance mobile devices and the evolution of robust data-carrying infrastructure have allowed the proliferation of mobile BI. In explaining its conclusion, Ovum noted that while the space [...]

Microsoft announced earlier this week that the company is dropping its “Messenger” product and replacing it with Skype, which it acquired last year, for its online chat service. In a blog post, Microsoft said “Skype and Messenger are coming together, and that by updating to Skype, Messenger users can instant message and video call their [...]

BROOMFIELD, Colo. – What do you call a gathering of the top technologists in cloud computing, mobile, APIs, and big data? Why, “Glue” of course! Because it’s all about how the biggest trends in technology today are coming together. Gluecon, as the event is dubbed, is now in its third year, and the uber-geeks of [...]

Sprint Nextel has launched its Sprint TV App in the iOS app store, enabling millions of iPhone owners to watch free TV on their phones. Powered by MobiTV, the Sprint TV App will be free with Sprint’s unlimited data plans. Free channels will include the three major broadcast networks as well as ESPN, Disney, and [...]

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 we maintain some editorial control to keep it free of [...]