Friday, july 3, 2009

Features: Video

Welcome to our weekly RCR Wireless Newscast.

 




VIDEO REVIEW: Hiccups limit effectiveness of SpinVox's voicemail transcriptions

March 3 2009 - 11:49 am ET | Allie Winter

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SpinVox provides a relatively accurate and useful service, although transcribed voicemails can take up to 10 minutes to arrive and are in some cases truncated. ... Read More »

VIDEO REVIEW: XM Radio Mobile does what it says, but that doesn’t mean it’s worthwhile

February 24 2009 - 5:59 am ET | Dan Meyer

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XM Radio’s move in the mobile space provides several unique features that set it apart from dozens of similar offerings, but some hiccups prevent it from being worth the price of admission. ... Read More »

VIDEO REVIEW: Streaming Internet radio arrives on mobile courtesy of Moodio.fm

February 17 2009 - 5:59 am ET | Mike Dano

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Moodio.fm provides a fantastically useful service that suffers from a number of usability challenges. It’s hard to set up, and is in some cases technically challenging. That said, if cleaned up a little, Moodio. ... Read More »

VIDEO: Verizon Wireless to announce LTE vendors next week

February 10 2009 - 12:33 pm ET

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Verizon Wireless is set to unveil further details of its highly anticipated LTE rollout at next week’s Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona, Spain. ... Read More »

Video: Wehrs takes helm at Mobile Marketing Association

January 27 2009 - 12:40 pm ET

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Mike Wehrs took over the reins at the Mobile Marketing Association a few weeks ago and immediately was greeted with two fresh controversies. ... Read More »

VIDEO @ CES: Ford enlists Microsoft's Tellme for Sync

January 21 2009 - 1:18 pm ET | Allie Winter

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Dariusz Paczuski, consumer services director for Microsoft Corp.'s Tellme, described how the company's offering will work directly with Ford Motor Co.s Sync platform, which runs on Microsoft technology. ... Read More »

VIDEO @ CES: Novatel Wireless shows off MiFi

January 20 2009 - 1:23 pm ET | Allie Winter

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Jon Driscoll, Novatel Wireless Inc.'s VP of global product management, sat down to show us MiFi, a new wireless modem that allows about five people in a 30-foot radius to connect to Wi-Fi working through a 3G connection as ... Read More »

VIDEO @ CES: AT&T's CruiseCast brings TV to the car

January 19 2009 - 12:42 pm ET | Allie Winter

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Winston Guillory, president of the company behind AT&T Inc.'s CruiseCast, clued us in on what the service entails. CruiseCast streams television channels to the vehicle through an antenna on top of the car. In fact, Guillory ... Read More »

VIDEO @ CES: TeleNav and location services for the Ford Sync

January 16 2009 - 1:27 pm ET | Allie Winter

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HP Jin, CEO of TeleNav Inc., sat down at the CES show to share his company's news. TeleNav will be providing the GPS and location-based-services program on the Ford Motor Co. Sync product. Jin discussed what went into getting ... Read More »

VIDEO @ CES: Alcatel-Lucent and satellite-powered mobile TV

January 15 2009 - 1:07 pm ET | Allie Winter

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During last week's Consumer Electronics Show, we managed to plant ourselves at the Showstoppers media event to talk to a few industry players about their products, announcements and the show in general. The common theme seemed to ... Read More »

Numerex touts ‘DNA’ in winning fleet-tracking business

January 14 2009 - 12:18 pm ET | Gary E. Salazar

-The Geomoto fleet-tracking mobile interface is accessible from nearly any mobile phone with a Web browser, the company said.-

With the machine-to-machine market projected to boom in the coming years, Numerex Corp. is finding a simple way to sell its services to potential customers: The “Numerex DNA” stands for device, network and applications. ... Read More »

VIDEO @ CES Part 1: Airbiquity plays in the wireless/automotive space

January 14 2009 - 12:58 pm ET | Allie Winter

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During last week’s Consumer Electronics Show, we managed to plant ourselves at the Showstoppers Media Event to talk to a few industry players about their products, announcements and the show in general. The common theme seemed to ... Read More »

VIDEO: See go2Media’s new music information portal

December 17 2008 - 1:27 pm ET | Colin Gibbs

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Boston-based go2Media is expanding beyond local listings with a new portal for local, personalized entertainment information. ... Read More »

Person of the Year: Kevin Martin

December 9 2008 - 12:46 pm ET | Jeffrey Silva

-FCC Chairman Kevin Martin is this year's RCR Wireless News Person of the Year.-Dennis Brack/Bloomberg News

Each year since 1993, the RCR Wireless News editorial staff has chosen one person who has most impacted the wireless industry for the year. FCC Chairman Kevin Martin is this year’s choice. ... Read More »

VIDEO: Nokia unveils N97 touchscreen ... for next year

December 2 2008 - 1:12 pm ET | Phil Carson

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Nokia Corp. will deliver its second touchscreen handset by June of next year, the company said at the opening of its Nokia World exposition in Barcelona. The N97 is a touchscreen, horizontal slider with QWERTY keypad that will ... Read More »

VIDEO: Zumobi’s Ziibii brings a river of content to the iPhone

December 1 2008 - 5:59 am ET | Tracy Ford

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Zumobi just launched a free iPhone application that meshes several social-networking sites, RSS feeds and other types of content into one place that users can access in real time. ... Read More »

Video: BlackBerry Storm flying off Verizon Wireless shelves

November 21 2008 - 2:13 pm ET | Allie Winter

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Verizon Wireless released Research In Motion Ltd.’s BlackBerry Storm this morning. Customers showed up early to get their hands on the device and the device has been selling out quickly. ... Read More »

Video: Sprint Nextel's One Click

November 19 2008 - 2:25 pm ET

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User interface is an important part of the device experience and carriers have been diligent in enhancing it across their handsets. RCR Wireless News takes a look at Sprint Nextel's One Click. ... Read More »

VIDEO: Circuit City store closings to impact Verizon, Virgin

November 10 2008 - 1:47 pm ET | Allie Winter

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Big-box retailer Circuit City said last week it will close 155 of its stores, including 143 locations that house a Verizon Wireless store-within-a-store location. ... Read More »

VIDEO: Economic uncertainty could weigh down mobile ad experimentation

November 3 2008 - 12:33 pm ET | Colin Gibbs

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Wondering whether the ripples from the Wall Street implosion will rock the wireless world? They already are, according to Laura Marriott. ... Read More »

VIDEO: G1 hits the streets

October 23 2008 - 9:44 am ET | Allie Winter

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T-Mobile USA this week launched the Google Android-powered G1 across the country. However, the device, which is built by HTC, is only available in retail locations in cities where the carrier's 3G technology has launched, ... Read More »

VIDEO: Pro-rated ETFs becoming rule, not exception

October 20 2008 - 5:59 am ET | Allie Winter

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After many promises, it seems carriers have kept good on their word to pro-rate early termination fees. Well, all of them except for Sprint Nextel Corp, which has yet to implement its pro-rated ETF pricing. ... Read More »

VIDEO: A look back at the past 25 years in cellular

October 14 2008 - 5:59 am ET

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In this week's RCR Wireless Newscast we're taking a look back at the past 25 years of cellular. In a package of stories posted today, we are looking at the history of cellular handsets, carriers, content, networks and policy. ... Read More »

VIDEO: WiMAX World 2008, a recap

October 6 2008 - 12:29 pm ET

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RCR Wireless News' Tracy Ford offers a look back at the big news during last week's WiMAX World trade show in Chicago. Though Sprint Nextel's Xohm stood as the main attraction, show attendees had plenty to talk about. ... Read More »

VIDEO: The real story on mobile advertising

September 29 2008 - 5:59 am ET

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Recently, we've been looking at mobile advertising in terms of possibilities, timelines and what exactly it would mean for the mobile industry. ... Read More »

VIDEO: T-Mobile USA raises curtain on G1, world's first Google Android phone

September 23 2008 - 11:10 am ET | Allie Winter

-Dubbed the G1, T-Mobile USA introduced the first Google Android phone.-

At an event in New York today, T-Mobile USA Inc. and Google Inc. executives took the wraps off the G1, a device built by HTC Corp. that features Google Inc.'s Android operating system. ... Read More »

VIDEO: Did you miss it? The full keynote from the third day of CTIA I.T. '08

September 22 2008 - 4:25 pm ET

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Welcome to the full, unedited keynote from the third day of the CTIA I.T. show in San Francisco. ... Read More »

VIDEO: Did you miss it? The full keynote from the second day of CTIA I.T. '08

September 20 2008 - 5:59 am ET

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Welcome to the full, unedited keynote from the second day of the CTIA I.T. show in San Francisco. ... Read More »

VIDEO: Did you miss it? The full keynote from the first day of CTIA I.T. '08

September 18 2008 - 4:38 pm ET

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CTIA President & CEO, Steve Largent Welcome to the full, unedited keynote from the first day of the CTIA I.T. show in San Francisco, held last week. ... Read More »

VIDEO: CTIA I.T. THURSDAY KEYNOTE WRAPUP

September 11 2008 - 7:13 pm ET

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Welcome to the RCR Wireless Newscast for the CTIA I.T. show here in San Francisco. The second round of keynotes here were basically just PowerPoint show-and-tell presentations. But perhaps the most interesting came from ... Read More »

VIDEO: CTIA I.T. WEDNESDAY KEYNOTE WRAPUP

September 10 2008 - 7:33 pm ET

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Welcome to the RCR Wireless Newscast for the CTIA I.T. show here in San Francisco. The show got off to a solid start with a well-attended keynote session, anchored by a discussion among the CEOs of Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile and ... Read More »

VIDEO: Industry aims to reconnect music with mobile

September 9 2008 - 5:13 pm ET | Colin Gibbs

-Warner Music Group EVP Michael Nash-

SAN FRANCISCO -- Full-track downloads are spinning their wheels and subscription services are falling on deaf ears. So Nokia Corp. and its music-industry partners are hoping music lovers will shell out for devices that come with ... Read More »

VIDEO: Conventions boost in-building business

September 8 2008 - 11:05 am ET | Gary E. Salazar

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The Democratic and Republican national conventions are good examples of how in-building network additions can boost wireless coverage inside packed venues and why revenue in the industry is projected to soar in the next five ... Read More »