Yearly Archives: 2007

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...

Monday, Aug. 27, 2007

Patent litigation: the art of persuasion: Lay juries often make the call, appeals are common

AS THE 3G MARKET HEATS UP, so has the level of litigation among industry players, exemplified by longrunning headlines involving the Goliaths and the...

Selling numbers: Privacy concerns again raised as companies exploit loopholes

Washington state Attorney General Rob McKenna said he wants legislation to prohibit the marketing of cellphone numbers without consumer consent, responding to privacy concerns...

Health lawsuits thrown out

THE WIRELESS INDUSTRY DODGED one bullet and got tagged by another as the Superior Court of the District of Columbia threw out six brain-cancer...

Subprime woes hit Leap, MetroPCS stock prices

FLAT-RATE WIRELESS carriers serving the sub-prime sector have seen their stocks plunge in recent weeks, reflecting fears about sub-prime customers who could affect the...

What’s in a name?: Wireless companies continue push on naming rights

Battling for brand recognition, or more particularly, connecting a brand with a certain image, is more than apropos in the wireless industry-it very often...

VZW scores partners for new music offering: MTV, RealNetworks to support service

Verizon Wireless is hoping it can make better music as part of a trio than it did singing solo.The carrier last week announced a...

Potential bidders await details of 700 MHz auction

Google Inc. Chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt left the door open to bidding on wireless licenses when the 700 MHz auction begins in mid-January,...

EXTREMELY PERSONAL: Ringbacks, caller tags push personalization to new levels, garner attention from startups

Personalization refers to the way consumers use mobile content as kind of a bumper sticker, telling others who they are and what they think....

Moto’s Q Music 9m at VZW: QWERTY slab morphs for music, messagin

Verizon Wireless needed a refreshed portfolio of converged devices that could deliver revenue-generating services into consumers' hands. Motorola Inc. needed to boost its smartphone...

Wireless pinstripes

Are cellphone carriers becoming the New York Yankees of then wireless world? Or is it worse?● A federal judge last week said it was...

Now NAO

In light of the troubles encountered by telecom carriers and public-safety agencies following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and Hurricane Katrina four years later,...

MMS article inaccurate

Dear Editor,It is with great interest that we read the article, "The MMS disconnect," (RCR Wireless News, Aug. 13). Sybase 365 believes that the...

Satisfaction guaranteed?: CRM seeks to break barriers

If businesses had Ten Commandments, No. 1 would probably be "Know Thy Customer."Easier said than done.Customer information plays a crucial role in customer relationship...

Moto still holding second place in sales, Gartner reports

An aggressive pricing strategy to reduce inventory enabled Motorola Inc. to perform significantly better in global sales to end users in the second quarter...

Etc.

Save the trees In addition to its advanced functionality, Apple's iPhone is also endowed with very detailed billing. AT&T Mobility said it was re-examining...

Alcatel-Lucent loses pair of execs

Post-merger Alcatel-Lucent isn't winning over many hearts and minds on Wall Street these days. The company announced the departure of two senior executives last...

Contactless payments gain wireless steam: Partnerships, trials bolster deployment possibilities

Digital security company Gemalto is teaming with NXP Semiconductors to push contactless payments toward commercial viability.The companies last week said they'd work together to...

Navigating 911: Carriers, public-safety split on accuracy and timelines for E-911 service

The Federal Communications Commission latest efforts to improve wireless 911 location accuracy could be hindered by a widening chasm between public-safety organizations and the...

Hedgehogging: hedge*hog*ging v. Interrupting conversations in an office environment by poking your head over the top of the cube

Has it really only been two months that the iPhone burst on wireless scene? For all the hype leading up to the launch of...

The Week in Review

Welcome to our Friday feature, Week in Review. Every Friday, RCR Wireless News will run through the major events of the past week, outlining...

Industry sighs in relief as court throws out brain-cancer suits

The Superior Court of the District of Columbia today threw out six brain-cancer lawsuits against the mobile-phone industry, potentially removing a legal cloud that...

Matsushita to pay up to $172M on faulty Nokia batteries

With all eyes upon the two parties-Nokia Corp. and one of its suppliers, Matsushita Battery Industrial Co. Ltd. of Japan-the latter agreed today to...

‘Progressive’ MVNO offers solar-powered cellphone charger

Mobile virtual network operator Working Assets Wireless announced it will begin offering a solar-powered cellphone charger for free for a limited time. The company...
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