2008

Nearly 3 million mobile users received Barack Obama’s SMS about his new running mate, but many of those who signed up may have gotten the text late – or not at all – according to new figures from Keynote Systems.A …

Editor’s Note: Following the Democratic National Convention, RCR Wireless News Bureau Chief Jeffrey Silva looked at the Obama tech and telecom policy team. Next week, Silva plans to report on telecom and high-tech policy formulation in the McCain camp.< WHILE …

MetroPCS Communications Inc. expanded the distribution of its phones and services with an agreement with Best Buy Mobile. The deal covers locations in 14 markets. The retailer currently offers four of MetroPCS’ no-contract devices and also carries phones from the …

Nokia Corp. is teaming with The Carphone Warehouse to bring its all-you-can-eat mobile music service to U.K. users next month.Comes With Music, as the effort is branded, packages one year of unlimited downloads with the purchase of a handset. Users …

Fresh on the heels of closing the Helio L.L.C acquisition, Virgin Mobile USA Inc. has named a new chief information and technology officer.Daniel Acton steps into the role to manage present Virgin Mobile USA I.T. and product development operations. The …

Vimpelcom and MegaFon – two of Russia’s three largest wireless carriers – will offer Apple Inc.’s iPhone “later this year,” according to company statements in recent days. Together, the two carriers serve about 80 million Russians, according to news reports. …

As the nation’s eyes shift from Denver to the Twin Cities for this week’s Republican National Convention, a Minnesota-based company’s technology is once again being used to make sure cell phones and other wireless devices work inside the convention hall.ADC, …

My teen daughter complains that I treat her like my own private marketing lab. Over the years, when a new cellphone comes in with apps to review, I learned to toss the black slab at her and say, “here, play …

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 and vendor. The value of the contract is included when available.Cellular–United Kingdom: Mobile Broadband Network Ltd., …

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 hot topics in the wireless industry. Over the next few years the three major mobile operators …

Motorola Inc.’s co-CEO Gregory Brown has plenty of incentive to see the company’s phone business spun of as a public company. According to a new three-year employment agreement signed Wednesday, Brown will receive options to buy stock valued at $3.33 …

Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News teamed with the Yankee Group to conduct a series of market surveys of RCR Wireless News subscribers to gauge their thoughts on various technology issues. RCR Wireless News will publish the exclusive results from our …

Not that the upcoming event would have commanded greater urgency and import had it been announced sometime other than in the lazy summer season in official Washington, at the moment politically barren with Congress on recess and operatives out of …

Remember the good old days of wireless regulations? The analog sunset date was February 2008. E911 rules initially required carriers to supply public safety answering points with a call-back number and cell site location, and Phase II rules demanded more …

Just as the Federal Communications Commission appears ready to settle the great white-spaces debate – one predominantly framed to date by a powerful broadcast lobby fearing costly disruption to digital signals from unlicensed devices and by equally muscular high-tech titans …

Google Inc. unveiled its answer to Apple Inc.’s App Store, outlining a distribution system for applications built on its Android platform.Android Market will serve as an unrestricted storefront where registered developers can offer their wares simply by uploading their applications …

Like squabbling politicians, Broadcom Corp. and Qualcomm Inc. issued dueling press releases yesterday on a federal judge’s ruling that Qualcomm had violated certain conditions of an injunction issued last year related to W-CDMA patents owned by Broadcom. Qualcomm said it …

The following list includes venture capital and other investments into wireless companies announced during the past week. The value of the investment is included when available.—BuzzCity: Naspers invested $10 million into BuzzCity, a developer of global wireless communities and consumer …

Nearly three million mobile users received Barack Obama’s SMS about his new running mate, but many of those who signed up may have gotten the text late – or not at all – according to new figures from Keynote Systems.The …

Roaming – until recently a backburner, stand-alone issue – suddenly has emerged as a potential pivot point in the Federal Communications Commission’s consideration of two major transactions and competition policy in general for a wireless sector that has experienced relentless …

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 this column is a chance for us at RCRWireless.com to rant and rave about whatever rubs …

Cricket Communications Inc. said it is giving customers all the video their eyes can take, for $5 a month. The subsidiary of Leap Wireless International Inc., Cricket is offering unlimited mobile video service, allowing customers to view a selection of …

DENVER – It’s a glitzy, ostentatious spectacle that has drawn hundreds of powerful politicians, thousands of TV cameras, tens of thousands of convention-goers and an audience that stretches across the globe. And it has coaxed out all corners of the …

Like millions of motorists, Eric Hanson used a Global Positioning System unit in his Chevrolet TrailBlazer to find his way around. He probably didn’t expect that prosecutors would eventually use it too — to help convict him of killing four …