Games, music, video, voice, e-mail, and the myriad of other content. Companies include: EA Mobile, Groove Mobile, PacketVideo, MediaFLO, MobiTV, Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft.
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. Taking advantage of the latest in social media and networking, both RCR Local Market News ... Read More »
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 ... Read More »
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 ... Read More »
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. It will result in the ... Read More »
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 ... Read More »
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 ... Read More »
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. The device’s price of $70 after rebates also ... Read More »
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 ... Read More »
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. The six-month ... Read More »
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. That fact more than anything may be why for nearly ... Read More »
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. Kelly Tedesco is easy to ... Read More »
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 ... Read More »
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, ... Read More »
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. MeeGo, which merges Intel's Moblin and Nokia's Maemo ... Read More »
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. In this role, he ... Read More »
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, ... Read More »
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. ... Read More »
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 ... Read More »
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 ... Read More »
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. ... Read More »
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 ... Read More »
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 ... Read More »
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. The navigation and search service, which sells for $10 a month or $3 per day on certain devices, is powered by ... Read More »
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. ... Read More »
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. The funding round includes the SBA ... Read More »
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., ... Read More »
January 21 2010 - 6:00 am ET | Tracy Ford
Nokia is offering people who buy its smartphones free access to its personal and car-based navigation platform in an effort to spur the development of location-based and social-networking applications on its devices and in its ... Read More »
January 19 2010 - 12:15 pm ET | Jim Patterson, Founder and CEO, Mobile Symmetry
On Friday, Verizon announced a new phone strategy, largely misreported as their volley in an escalating price war. ... Read More »
January 18 2010 - 11:22 am ET | Nicole Maestri
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Cellphone users in the United States have contributed more than $11 million to Haitian earthquake relief through text messages in what is being hailed as an unprecedented mobile response to a natural ... Read More »
January 14 2010 - 11:47 am ET | Tracy Ford
Millions of dollars are being sent to Haiti via a number of text-messaging campaigns, according to various sources. Red Cross text-messaging donations from the United States to Haiti have topped $3 million so far, according to ... Read More »
January 13 2010 - 10:38 am ET | Terry Stepien, President, Sybase iAnywhere
Based on the shopping bags I saw this past holiday season, the smartphone industry is posed to have a banner year in 2010. Consumers of all ages and technical abilities want these intelligent devices that give them constant ... Read More »
January 12 2010 - 10:23 am ET | Jim Patterson, Founder and CEO, Mobile Symmetry
Whether you cringe at the thought of attending CES or look forward to it as much as the holiday break, you cannot leave the show without a feeling of tired awe. It is a logistical masterpiece. But more than that, it’s a ... Read More »
January 12 2010 - 12:01 pm ET | Dan Meyer
The wireless industry's increasing desire to attract customers looking for service without the hassles of a contract is taking its toll on those operators focused on such goals. MetroPCS Communications Inc. this morning ... Read More »
January 7 2010 - 6:33 pm ET | Matt Kapko
LAS VEGAS — What does your mobile phone say about you? A group of panelists representing academia, marketers and makers of content and software, tackled the issue of "mobile as lifestyle," and the sentiment was nearly ... Read More »
January 6 2010 - 6:00 am ET | By Shiv K. Bakhshi, Ph.D.
As I sit down to pen my thoughts about India – after having spent more than a month in the country, researching digital and financial inclusion issues, attending conferences, meeting mobile operators and their vendors, ... Read More »
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