Yearly Archives: 2007

Nokia offers four handsets to run Ovi services

Nokia Corp. unveiled four handsets along with its "Ovi" Internet-based content services in what appears to be an early example of how the Finnish...

EarthLink woes bring Wi-Fi, Helio into question

EarthLink Inc. has fired 900 employees and closed offices in Orlando, Fla.; Knoxville, Tenn.; Harrisburg, Pa.; and San Francisco. The company said it will...

Diebold builds mobile banking patent base

Diebold Inc., maker of self-service and security systems including automatic teller machines and electronic voting machines, said that it has been granted five U.S....

Nokia goes it alone with ‘Ovi’ line of services

Nokia Corp. outlined a surprisingly aggressive direct-to-consumer strategy comprising music, games, maps and social-networking offerings across both PCs and mobile phones.The manufacturer introduced Ovi-which...

Venture capital financing wrap-up: Bluepulse, Movida, Telegent and more

The following list includes venture capital and other investments into wireless companies announced during the past week. The value of the investment is included...

Financial ratings wrap-up: AT&T, InterDigital, RealNetworks and more

The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.Carrier --Standard & Poor's assigned...

AT&T to review $3.4B advertising strategy

AT&T Inc. is reviewing its advertising strategy, and has put its estimated $3.345 billion media-buying and -planning account up for grabs. The nation's No....

Calif. law targets teen drivers by banning all mobile devices

The California Assembly overwhelming voted to take all wireless devices out of the hands of drivers under the age of 18, a measure that...

FAST, Rakuten announce mobile search joint venture in Japan

Enterprise search company Fast Search & Transfer and Rakuten, a Japan-based Internet service provider, announced they have formed a joint venture to develop and...

iGR: Smartphones on the upswing, RIM in the lead

A new survey focused on smartphone operating systems by iGR found that more than half of all respondents use a Research In Motion Ltd....

Motorola sues Aruba over patents

A pair of Motorola Inc. subsidiaries filed a lawsuit against Aruba Networks Inc. alleging patent infringement related to wireless local area network communication technologies....

Redback Wireless teams with NextLevel for MMS service

Redback Wireless Corp. said it entered a joint venture agreement with digital advertising agency NextLevel.com.NextLevel, which has designed more than 75 Internet sites for...

iLoop scores new CEO

Mobile software developer iLoop Mobile appointed former Volantis Systems chief Matthew Harris as president and CEO.A San Jose, Calif.-based startup, iLoop produces technology for...

Margins Check: TouTube ads, calling from a PlayStation, high-def Flash and more

Editor's Note: Welcome to On the Margins, a feature for RCR Wireless News' new weekly e-mail service, Mobile Content and Culture. Every week, the...

Behind iTunes, there’s a place for mobile music

Like a first-year student struggling with the violin, carriers have hit a lot of wrong notes with their music offerings.But that may finally be...

REVIEW: MyxerTones cuts down barriers between cellphones and content

Editor's Note: Welcome to Yay or Nay, a feature for RCR Wireless News' new weekly e-mail service, Mobile Content and Culture. Every week we'll...

Google shows numbers on its muni Wi-Fi network

Google Inc. offered a glimpse into the operations of its free, municipal Wi-Fi effort, which the company launched earlier this year in its home...

Mobile entertainment users ‘can’t get no satisfaction’

Editor's Note: Welcome to Reality Check, a feature for RCR Wireless News' new weekly e-mail service, Mobile Content and Culture. We've gathered a group...

Infrastructure awards wrap-up: Alcatel-Lucent, Alvarion, ZyXel and more

The following list details this week's infrastructure awards for the cellular, Wi-Fi and WiMAX industries. The contracts are broken down by transmission technology, country...

Samsung snares Big Apple WiMAX contract

Sprint Nextel Corp. awarded the build-out contract of its biggest WiMAX market yet to Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.The carrier confirmed this morning that it...

China firm taps into Nokia’s SNAP platform

China's Sina Corp. launched five mobile games connected to Nokia Corp.'s SNAP Mobile gaming platform.The online media company is distributing the titles 3D Pool...

Yahoo adds e-mail-to-mobile SMS to mail service

Yahoo Inc. updated its e-mail service, adding a feature that enables users to send text messages to mobile phones. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company incorporated...

Andrew to install TETRA network in Hong Kong

Andrew Corp. won a major upgrade contract to modify the Mass Transit Railway Corp.'s territorywide network in Hong Kong.As part of the project, Andrew...

Analyst Angle: Buying into the ‘real’ mobile Internet

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...

China wireless to pass 500M

China should surpass 500 million cellular connections during the third quarter, according to Wireless Intelligence, a joint venture of Ovum and the GSM Association.The...
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