YOU ARE AT:TagsGoogle

BROWSING: Google

Google exec claims lobbying conspiracy against white spaces: Device challenges continue to plague initiative

Google Inc. co-founder Larry Page said there are not technical impediments to making vacant television channels - white spaces - available for unlicensed wireless broadband access, but that powerful lobbying forces want to convince the Federal Communications Commission otherwise."I think the debate has been...

Industry bullish on nontraditional devices: RCR Wireless News, Yankee Group announce new research effort

Editor's Note: RCR Wireless News has teamed up with Yankee Group to conduct a series of market surveys of RCR Wireless News' subscribers to gauge their thoughts on various technology issues impacting the wireless ecosystem. Starting today and over the balance of the...

MVNOs winnow: Try not to wake the bear

THE GROUND CONTINUED TO SHIFT in the tumultuous mobile virtual network operator space this month as one player announced plans to call it quits, another explores a potential merger and a third prepares to morph into a reseller of wireless services.Embarq Holding Co. L.L.C....

Verizon Wireless backs LiMo: Decision sets up potential battle of platforms

GOOGLE INC.'S OPEN HANDSET ALLIANCE has attracted plenty of attention in the hot mobile Linux space, but the LiMo Foundation is assembling an impressive coalition of its own.Verizon Wireless last week threw its weight behind the open-source community, filling the final seat on LiMo's...

Wireless Web in watchdog’s crosshairs: Proliferation of mobile marketing garnering increased interest

While mobile content is expected to contribute increasingly to wireless carrier revenue growth in coming years, it is also attracting increased scrutiny by the Federal Trade Commission, plaintiffs' lawyers and a pugnacious industry watchdog known for taking on corporate giants and influencing public policy...

Fresh voices, new blood

For the 700 MHz C-Block license and perhaps other frequency bands, it's mostly a matter of cagey competitive ambition. For the D Block, it's mostly a matter of desperation. No matter. Getting more input - outside of the sometimes self-limiting marketplace of ideas -...

VZW throws support behind LiMo

Google Inc.'s Open Handset Alliance has attracted plenty of attention in the mobile Linux space, but the LiMo Foundation is assembling an impressive coalition of its own.Verizon Wireless has thrown its weight behind the open-source community, filling the final seat on LiMo's board of...

Margins Check: HBO on iTunes, Google’s social network, and more

Editor's Note: Welcome to On the Margins, a feature for RCR Wireless News' weekly e-mail service, Mobile Content and Culture. Every week, the RCR Wireless News staff considers events in the wider business world and how they could affect the wireless industry.--HBO announced it...

Analyst Angle: Clearwire attracts billions from strange bedfellows

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. In the coming weeks look for columns from Current Analysis' Peter Jarich, IDC's Shiv...

Developers look for happy medium for mobile Web

Traditional Web sites are often lost in translation on mobile phones. So developers are hoping to bridge the disconnect between wireless phones and the Internet by building a "middle Web."The emergence of Apple Inc.'s iPhone has spawned a flurry of activity by developers looking...

2nd time’s a charm?: Sprint Nextel, Clearwire re-merge WiMAX business, bring new investments to operations

WHAT'S THAT SAYING? Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me?After their previous union was aborted last year, Sprint Nextel Corp. and Clearwire Corp. decided last week to try to merge their WiMAX businesses again, this time under the Clearwire...

700 MHz: Not over til it’s over: C-Block petitons, D-Block reconsiderations in play

The 700 MHz auction ended two months ago, but you'd never know it.Few things rarely are settled in official Washington. The Federal Communications Commission this week plans to launch a rulemaking to consider changes to the D Block. The national public-safety/commercial licensee was stranded...

Worst of the Week: Odds and ends

Hello! And welcome to our Thursday 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 RCRWirelessNews.com to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong way....

Google nuzzles closer to Sprint Nextel

It seems Google Inc. has no plans to be a silent partner in the forthcoming Sprint Nextel Corp./Clearwire Corp. business.The Internet giant said it will become the default search provider for Sprint Nextel as early as this summer, powering both Internet and local, GPS-enabled...

DONE DEAL: Sprint Nextel, Clearwire re-merge WiMAX business, bring new investments into operations

Following a rash of rumors earlier this week, and an aborted attempt last year, Sprint Nextel Corp. and Clearwire Corp. said they were going to again combine their WiMAX operations in an attempt to launch a nationwide network. Unlike the last go around, this...

Verizon Wireless: Google’s open-access complaint is ‘sour grapes’

Verizon Wireless is downplaying a Google Inc. effort to have the Federal Communications Commission extract an explicit commitment from the No. 2 cellular carrier that it will adhere to open-access requirements governing a nationwide collection of regional C-Block licenses won at the 700 MHz...

Greenlight Wireless now Skweezer

Greenlight Wireless has finally adopted the name of its flagship product.The Irvine, Calif.-based developer rebranded as Skweezer Inc., taking the name of its popular Web-to-mobile transcoding technology. The startup also introduced Skweezer Ads - a new version of its 4-year-old mobile ad business, formerly...

Nortel stakes IPR claims to LTE: Campfire sing-along over LTE patents appears unlikely

Nortel Networks Corp. said today that it would charge "about" a 1% royalty rate* to handset vendors licensing Nortel's Long Term Evolution patents.(Yes, that asterisk is intentional. See below or Nortel's statement.) The infrastructure vendor said its motive was "to provide increased transparency and...

Online and mobile ad firms intermix

Traditional online ad firms are teaming with their mobile counterparts to target consumers on their phones.DoubleClick Inc., which was acquired earlier this year by Google Inc. in a massive $3.1 billion acquisition, said it inked deals with several mobile ad networks to integrate its...

Google adds graphics to mobile ads

Google Inc. has added image ads to its mobile advertising offerings.The move allows advertisers to deliver made-for-mobile banners on Web sites being accessed by wireless devices. The ads -- which, like Google's text ads, are keyword-targeted -- are priced on a cost-per-click basis and...

Margins Check: Google’s brand, TV on the Internet, and more

Editor's Note: Welcome to On the Margins, a feature for RCR Wireless News' weekly e-mail service, Mobile Content and Culture. Every week, the RCR Wireless News staff considers events in the wider business world and how they could affect the wireless industry.--Google is the...

Report: Linux to capture handset market share

Nearly one-fifth of mid- and high-end handsets will run Linux by 2013, according to a new forecast from ABI Research.High-profile backers such as Google Inc.(whose Android initiative is based on Linux) and Nokia Corp. (which earlier this year spent $153 million to acquire Trolltech...

Men’s Health to link ads and readers via cameraphones: SnapTell service to let cellphone users access digital promos

One of magazines' biggest strengths in the dawning digital age -- that engrossing environment often said to be so conducive to glossy branding campaigns -- isn't much help when the economic downturn is pressing advertisers to cut any ad spending that lacks quick, quantifiable...

Mowser set to expire: Founder: 80% of site’s traffic was porn-related

Mowser is dead. But forensics has yet to indicate whether the business's demise is a sign of an epidemic or simply a predictable casualty of the tumultuous wireless Web space.Russell Beattie, a former mobile developer for Yahoo Inc., launched Mowser just a year ago...