Yearly Archives: 2007

Broadcom: Counter-offer is old news

Covering the Hatfields' and the McCoys' blood feud might be easier than sifting through the conflicting claims between Broadcom Corp. and Qualcomm Inc. over...

ATSC’s mobile TV standard on the clock: Technology would join a crowded list of competitors

The field of technologies and systems vying for industrywide recognition as the standard for mobile broadcast television has reached 11, with three proposing a...

A post-iPhone world

There's been a lot of ink spilled about Apple's iPhone. And here's some more.Industry pundits have pointed out that the iPhone is like the...

Apple grabs mind share, growth questioned

Powered by brand equity and brilliant media manipulation, Apple Inc. has parachuted into the handset business. Look out below!The company's first foray into mobile...

NextWave closes on international acquisition

NextWave Wireless Inc. completed the purchase of a controlling interest in a Swiss WiMAX company with significant spectrum holdings in Austria, Slovakia and Croatia....

Sprint Nextel boots unhappy customers

Sprint Nextel Corp. is cutting loose subscribers who eat up its customer service resources, despite several quarters of struggling to hold onto users. However,...

iPhone’s battery swap: $86 and three days

Apple Inc. provided information on how the iPhone's battery replacement will take place and how much it will cost. The iPhone vendor's choice of...

Birdview launches WAP-based real-estate app

Birdview Technologies unveiled a WAP-based application that allows real estate agents to access details about properties on the market from their cellphones.The offering delivers...

Text ads favored by U.K. users

Women are more inclined to click on text-based mobile ads while men are more likely to be lured by video marketing messages, according to...

China flying high on GPS

Handset manufacturers and wireless carriers have quickly warmed up to the idea of global positioning system services as a means to offset declining ARPU...

Stanford, Ericsson, team to promote e-learning in Africa

Stanford University is teaming with L.M. Ericsson to offer classes via cellphones in Africa.The school unveiled a pilot project called Dunia Moja, or "one...

SunCom offers handset rewards

Regional carrier SunCom Wireless Holdings Inc. announced a new program that allows customers to accumulate rewards that can be used toward the purchase of...

Clearwire secures portion of $1B term loan

Clearwire Corp. secured the first portion of a fully committed $1 billion term loan that the wireless broadband service provider said would be used...

Worst of the Week: Aye Carumba!

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...

Some House Commerce Committee members go on record opposing Frontline plan

More than a dozen House Commerce Committee lawmakers urged Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin to reject Frontline Wireless L.L.C.'s push to have the...

Tessco buys NetForce to add to training tools

Tessco Technologies Inc. acquired NetForce Solutions Inc., a provider of technical and sales training to the wireless, telecommunications and networking industries. Although Tessco declined...

UMA users to top 65M by 2012

Unlicensed Mobile Access subscribers are due to reach 65 million by 2012, according to a new report from ABI Research. Although many believed UMA...

iPhone guts show sky-high margins for Apple

Initial research into the guts of Apple Inc.'s iPhone shows Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and Infineon Technologies AG as two of the major component...

Buongiomo acquires iTouch for $192M

Buongiorno S.p.A. stepped up its spending spree, agreeing to acquire U.K.-based content provider iTouch plc for $192 million.The Italian mobile content and advertising behemoth...

AT&T Mobility’s network pushed over the EDGE

Four days after launching the data-centric Apple Inc. iPhone, AT&T Mobility struggled with a regional crash of its EDGE network for several hours on...

Infrastructure awards wrap-up: Nokia Siemens, Alcatel-Lucent, Andrew 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...

Nokia picks new agency for $300M advertising account

Nokia Corp. named Wieden & Kennedy as the lead strategic and creative agency for its estimated $300 million mobile phones advertising account, following a...

Margin Check: Emerging media, SmartAds, Nintendo’s Wii 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...

REVIEW: Carrier navigation apps provide serviceable directions

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...

Cockroaches, Lemmings and Pioneers

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...
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