Yearly Archives: 2008

Tellabs posts rough Q1: Company’s stock continues to sink

Tellabs Inc. reported $16.6 million in earnings in the first quarter, down nearly 35% from the $25.5 million it brought in during the year-ago...

Sunrise launches network monitoring tool

Sunrise Telecom Inc. introduced a monitoring and analysis platform designed to help operators better manage their mobile data services. Mobile X-Ray correlates information from...

TI curtails expectations: Chip giant’s Q1 results meet forecasts

Shares of Texas Instruments Inc. tumbled after the company ratcheted down expectations about the short-term market for high-end phones.The Dallas-based chipmaker reported $3.27 billion...

Nokia snares Sony BMG for music offering

Nokia Corp. bulked up its music offerings, inking a deal with Sony BMG and adding two new handsets to its XpressMusic line.The Finnish company...

Isn’t it time to dabble in the steamy stuff?

Nearly lost in all post-mortems following the death of Mowser last week was this little tidbit: 80% of the traffic to the site was...

AT&T Mobility continues iPhone-fueled growth: No. 1 carrier adds 1.3M customers, boosts ARPU

AT&T Mobility continued its steady growth during the first quarter of the year, reporting customer additions on par with the previous year and gains...

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...

REVIEW: Mobispine’s mobile RSS reader calls up deficient results

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

What the horse racing industry can teach us about the future structure of wireless: With a Special Bonus Mortal Lock Kentucky Derby Pick* (Maybe)

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

Infrastructure awards wrap-up: Ericsson

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...

Hispanic-focused MVNO sells to APC: We’ll ‘cut the fat’ from Movida, says exec

APC Wireless announced it closed a deal late last week to purchase the recently bankrupt MVNO Movida Communications Inc. for an undisclosed sum.Movida, which...

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...

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...

Analyst Angle: Intel’s MIDs use Linux to go after GPS systems first and iPhone next

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...

Push for mobile TV: Potential bringing more competitors to the table

LAS VEGAS - EVER SINCE television was invented in 1926, the industry has seen over-the-air broadcasts reach more screens as the medium exploded in...

Interconnection tiff ensnares telecom giants: AT&T, Verizon and Sprint Nextel ask courts, FCC to intervene

Verizon Communications Inc. sued Sprint Nextel Corp. in Delaware federal court, accusing the No. 3 mobile-phone operator of failing to pay nearly $10 million...

Carriers work at enterprise mobility space: Everyone’s differentiator is ‘the network’ and ‘the partnerships’

Competitive pressures are leading American companies to adopt mobility for the obvious reasons: increasing productivity, decreasing costs and distinguishing themselves among their competitors.The top...

Etc.

What about the shoe phone?Echoflex Solutions Inc. introduced a self-powered wireless key switch, which the company said can reduce the cost of powering unoccupied...

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...

Climate change

For public safety, the political atmospherics have changed from what they were just a year ago when federal regulators understandably gave great weight to...

Both sides argue freedom in text messaging debate: Public Knowledge says carriers will discriminate, operators say they should get to choose marketing partners

Public-interest groups reiterated their call for federal regulators to protect text-messaging rights, framing the debate as far-reaching in terms of the potential implications for...

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

So what's up with Vodafone CEO Arun Sarin? He must have been pretty cranky when BusinessWeek interviewed him for a story published last week....

Sales of PC cards set to quadruple by 2011

Mobile data card sales will quadruple between 2007 and 2011 to reach $2.9 billion, according to predictions from Infonetics Research.The report suggest mobile data...

GSM growth expected to slow through 2009

Global GSM subscriber growth is expected to slow from 22% year-over-year in 2006 and 2007 to 14% in 2008 and 2009, according to a...

Industry giants agree on LTE IPR: Qualcomm notably absent from list

The market for Long Term Evolution technology took another step forward last week as seven infrastructure heavyweights announced a framework for licensing the rights...
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