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March 19 2010 - 11:45 am ET | RCR Wireless News staff
AUSTIN, Texas – RCR Wireless News has expanded its news outlet sources with the launch of RCR Local Market News and RCR Unplugged.
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March 18 2010 - 6:00 am ET | Aptilo Networks
Wireless guest Internet access is ushering in a new paradigm shift in the hospitality industry. There’s a tremendous demand for wireless access – for overnight guests, corporate use, and for conferences and trade
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March 17 2010 - 12:14 pm ET | Kristen Beckman
InterDigital Inc. updated its financial guidance for the first quarter to reflect a new contract and an audit resolution, which will add between $37.5 million and $38.5 million to its revenues. The company previously
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March 16 2010 - 12:11 pm ET | Tracy Ford
The National Broadband Plan delivered to Congress today calls for another 500 megahertz of spectrum to be freed up for wireless use by 2020, as well as an auction of D-Block spectrum and greater use of unlicensed spectrum.
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March 15 2010 - 10:52 am ET | Matt Kapko
Editor's Note:This article is an excerpt from RCR Wireless News' March Special Edition, “The Perfect Storm – A Focus on Mobile Messaging, Marketing, Content and Apps.” The 80-page special edition will
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March 14 2010 - 11:13 am ET | Sylvie Barak
SXSW keynoter slams Google Buzz over privacy
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March 10 2010 - 11:19 am ET | Tracy Ford
Target is launching what it calls the first scannable mobile coupon program from a nationwide retailer. Customers must opt in to the program on their computer at target.com/mobile, or on their device at m.target.com or by texting
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March 10 2010 - 10:11 am ET | By Nizar Assanie, Vice President (Research), IE Market Research Corp.
In February, Intel and Nokia announced that they were merging their open-source Linux initiatives into a single project called MeeGo. On its face, what's not to like about MeeGo? It has a catchy name.
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March 4 2010 - 10:54 am ET | Kristen Beckman
Novatel Wireless said it completed a technology transfer with Qualcomm Inc. consisting of two of Qualcomm’s Wearable Mobile Device module designs. Novatel said it will use the designs to expand its portfolio
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March 3 2010 - 6:29 pm ET | By: Steve Largent, president & CEO, CTIA-The Wireless Association
The wireless industry continues to evolve and innovate at a rapid pace and 2009 was no exception. Smart phones were the “it” device with nearly 41 million operating on carriers' networks last year. The reason for
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March 3 2010 - 10:36 am ET | Dan Hays, Director, Telecom, PRTM
As we await the release of the FCC's National Broadband Plan on March 17th, PRTM is hopeful that the forthcoming recommendations will effectively serve their intended purpose to help reinvigorate the United States' leadership in
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March 3 2010 - 1:00 pm ET | Dan Meyer
Nokia Corp. finally found a domestic taker for its Ovi application platform announcing today that T-Mobile USA Inc. would begin offering the Nokia 5230 Nuron in the coming weeks.
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March 2 2010 - 6:00 am ET | Andrew Shikiar, Global Marketing Director, LiMo Foundation
In 2009 the app-store gold rush induced “headless chicken” behavior within the mobile industry on an unprecedented level
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February 18 2010 - 11:21 am ET | Kristen Beckman
VeriSign Inc. said it partnered with CAQH, a nonprofit alliance of health plans and trade associations, to conduct a pilot program to demonstrate secure authentication for health IT interoperability.
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February 18 2010 - 11:37 am ET | Matt Kapko
BARCELONA -- "No doubt about it, to some extent we're selling change," Tim Sefton, customer director of Telefonica O2 UK, said today on a mobile marketing and advertising panel.
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February 18 2010 - 6:00 am ET | Matt Kapko
BARCELONA – “Any piece of content should be playable within five seconds.” That’s the goal Spotify is after with its hugely popular music service that barely anyone outside of Europe has ever heard of, CEO
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February 17 2010 - 10:28 am ET | Levi Shapiro
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.
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February 17 2010 - 10:12 am ET | Matt Kapko
BARCELONA – For Nick Rhodes, the keyboardist in Duran Duran, technology has never been an afterthought, but rather something he’s tried to leverage every step of the way in the band’s 29-year career.
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February 16 2010 - 6:00 am ET | Kevin Mitchell, Director Solutions Marketing, Acme Packet
Last year the issue of Voice over Long Term Evolution (VoLTE) emerged from the shadows, and after a rigorous debate, concluded in resounding fashion with a positive answer (yes, it's needed) and near unanimous support of a
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February 15 2010 - 11:26 am ET | Tracy Ford
Good news for Sprint Nextel Corp. employees: the carrier stated in its fourth-quarter conference call that does not anticipate any more job cuts for the year. Things are not so great for people employed in the wireline sector,
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February 15 2010 - 2:02 pm ET | Matt Kapko
BARCELONA – Two heavyweights in their own right, Nokia and Intel this morning announced plans to merge their Linux-based software platforms for next-generation devices.
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February 12 2010 - 11:46 am ET | Tracy Ford
With the Mobile Marketing Association's decision to restructure into four global business units, iLoop Mobile Inc. founder Michael Becker has been named managing director of North America for the trade group.
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February 11 2010 - 10:28 am ET | Kristen Beckman
NII Holdings Inc., which operates under the Nextel brand in Latin America, selected Nokia Siemens Networks to manage its network operations. The agreement covers network management in Argentina, Brazil, Chile,
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February 9 2010 - 6:00 am ET | Terry Stepien, President, Sybase iAnywhere
Ecosystems found in nature can be easily destroyed when there is an imbalance. Business ecosystems tend to be somewhat hardier, yet they too demand balance.
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February 9 2010 - 6:00 am ET | Marcelo Claure, Chairman, President and CEO, Brightstar Corp.
2010 will definitely be a year of significant innovation in the wireless industry, and the buzz surrounding wireless at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas was palpable.
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February 9 2010 - 11:48 am ET | Dan Meyer
You know the mobile device chipset market has matured when a big player in the space, Texas Instruments Inc., unveils a new product targeting smartphones that includes every conceivable radio access technology except one for a
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February 4 2010 - 12:06 pm ET | Tracy Ford
Fresh off a successful mobile giving campaign that has raised more than $35 million for Haitians, the wireless industry is embarking on another goodwill campaign, this time targeting pregnant women with a text messages that offer
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February 3 2010 - 6:00 am ET | Jim Patterson, founder and CEO, Mobile Symmetry
We've come a long way since the introduction of the iPhone in 2007 and the App Store in 2008. It has provided a reason for owning a particular handset, and allowed personalization and (un)productivity to flourish.
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February 2 2010 - 6:00 am ET | By Michael Eagleton, Global Lead, Mobile Money Management, Accenture
Consumer demand for mobile money transfer services will see users exceed 500 million globally by 2014, principally in developing countries. Signs point toward mobile money management as being the personal banking option of the
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February 2 2010 - 6:00 am ET | Andrew Shikiar, Global Marketing Director, LiMo Foundation
Over the past three years there has been an irreversible shift towards open platforms in the mobile marketplace. With this rapid adoption of openness and collaboration, mobile has yet again proven that it is one of the fastest
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February 1 2010 - 12:32 pm ET | Tracy Ford
Verizon Wireless launched its VZ Navigator 5.0 GPS navigation service, which is now integrated with Facebook.
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January 25 2010 - 6:00 am ET | Oz Zimerman, DSP Group
The growing popularity of smartphones and multimedia-rich services has bombarded subscribers with new devices and applications. However, there is a simpler opportunity to improve the user experience that doesn't require any
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January 25 2010 - 6:00 am ET | David Gehringer, VP of Marketing, Fanfare
Today, we are using 10 times more bandwidth than we did three years ago. With demand for high-speed wireless growing, every major carrier will soon need to offer 4G technology to remain competitive.
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January 25 2010 - 1:09 pm ET | Tracy Ford
Distributed antenna solution provider ExteNet Systems Inc. has raised $128.4 million in equity funding in a deal that moves SBA Communications Corp.'s DAS assets to Lisle, Ill.-based ExteNet.
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January 22 2010 - 12:32 pm ET | Tracy Ford
Palm Inc.'s and Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Mobile operating systems lost ground on independent mobile aggregator Myxer's Web site in 2009, giving up a combined 24% of the smartphone traffic on the site to Research in Motion Ltd.,
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