Monthly Archives: March, 2007
Aircom network-sharing product launched
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Aircom International made a series of announcements this week.The company launched its ASSETShare product, which allows carriers to share network equipment. The company said...
Karma enables rich media services
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Streamezzo announced availability of its Karma product, which allows carriers to create and deploy rich media mobile services such as mobile TV and music...
InfoSpace launches BlackBerry app
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InfoSpace Inc. announced its InfoSpace Find It! application for North American BlackBerry users.Users can download the GPS-based application for free onto a variety of...
Flash Lite’s simplicity is boon for mobile
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Developers agree that Flash Lite isn't the best platform for delivering immersive, 3-D titles with eye-popping graphics and console-like gameplay.Which is why it may...
Flash Lite illuminating alternative porting options
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North American game developers are looking to Adobe Systems Inc. to help Lite-n the load.Flash Lite-essentially a stripped-down, mobile version of the company's ubiquitous...
Cingular braves uncharted IMS waters
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Cingular plans to deploy its Video Share product in the first half of this year, in what will constitute its first deployed IMS-supported application....
Bad wave: Surfing the wireless Web a real bummer
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If checking out the Internet on a PC can be called surfing, browsing the wireless Web is more akin to hunting snipe in a...
After the handset, jacking ARPU
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So you sell a jillion handsets into the next global hotspot. What's next? The true believers at the 3GSM conference last month, for instance,...
Able Planet improves audio
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Able Planet Inc. said it has added its proprietary Linx Audio technology to its new Sound Clarity Headphones.The Sound Clarity Headphones are customized to...
Low-hanging fruit: ripe or already gone?: The emerging market harvest is well underway
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With mobile markets in India and China generating growth in numbers that few can get their mind around-but offering revenue and market share that...
Stanley, Palm combo took years to cement
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The Stanley Works mobile deployment was the culmination of several years of work by both the company and its partner in the undertaking, Palm...
Social nets the next step for cell video: Mobile communities seen as tipping point for adoption of video on phones
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If the cellular phone continues to mimic the Internet, then social networking will be the next big application on wireless phones. In fact, a...
A bevy of Treos open doors for Stanley service techs
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Walk into just about any department or grocery store, and chances are that the automatic door swinging open comes from a company called Stanley...
Analyst Angle: Real Convergence
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Editor's Note: Welcome to a special CTIA Show Daily edition of our weekly online feature, Analyst Angle. Every Monday at www.RCRNews.com you can find...
LG seals Google deal
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LG Electronics Co. Ltd. announced it will install Google Inc.'s software for cellphones on "millions" of LG phones through a new partnership between the...
Sprint Cuts Y&R From Review: Goodby, Ogilvy Left in Hunt for $1.2 Billion Ad Account
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Sprint Nextel, the nation's No. 3 telecom provider, has narrowed the contenders vying for its $1.2 billion advertising account to two, eliminating WPP Group's...
Turner Broadcasting: Striving for third-screen content partnerships
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From its recent partnership with L.M. Ericsson to develop and deliver its suite of news and entertainment content to the handheld to a variety...
Maps, games lead location-based services apps
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Location-based services, like so many emerging technologies in the wireless space, for years have been on the cusp of widespread use among mobile-phone users....
Andrew launches drive test product
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Andrew Corp. plans to launch this week its Invex3G Autonomous drive test product, which allows carriers to measure network performance and improve service by...
Wilson introduces amplifiers
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Wilson Electronics released its Wilson Signalboost, a dual-band amplifier that works with all cellular and PCS carriers and has up to 3 watts of...
Bluetooth accessories for motorcycle riders
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BlueAnt Wireless said it is launching four new products at CTIA Wireless 2007. The Australian-based firm is introducing an entry-level T8 micro Bluetooth headset...
Gemalto unveils Smart Dongle, On Card Portal
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Gemalto plans to introduce two new products this week at CTIA Wireless 2007.The company said it will introduce its Smart Dongle product that allows...
Sprint Nextel leveraging network for healthcare
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In the healthcare industry, professionals are more likely to be mobile than not: roaming from patient to patient, office to operating room, clinic to...
Worst of the Day: Padded carpet
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Welcome to a special edition of our online column, Worst of the Week. Industry trade shows are especially nutty, so this column is a...