Yearly Archives: 2008

Google exec claims lobbying conspiracy against white spaces: Device challenges continue to plague initiative

Google Inc. co-founder Larry Page said there are not technical impediments to making vacant television channels - white spaces - available for unlicensed wireless...

Visage offloads to Convergys in wake of MVNO fallout

Mobile virtual network enabler Visage Mobile announced plans to sell its Subscriber Management business to billing giant Convergys Corp. Terms of the deal were...

Worst of the Week: Mobile video explained (but not endorsed)

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...

Winter joins RCR Wireless News staff

Allie Winter has joined RCR Wireless News as a reporter covering the wireless carrier beat. Winter, a Minnesota native, graduated from the University of...

Industry bullish on nontraditional devices: RCR Wireless News, Yankee Group announce new research effort

Editor's Note: RCR Wireless News has teamed up with Yankee Group to conduct a series of market surveys of RCR Wireless News' subscribers to...

Samsung announces reorganization plan

Samsung Electronics said Thursday it was consolidating some of its key businesses a week after announcing a new executive lineup.

New Specifications for Security Layers in Mobile Phones Published

The UK's Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has welcomed the release of the Advanced Trusted Environment recommendations document from the mobile industry's device requirements body,...

Google carves an Android path through open-source world

Google is committed to many open-source tenets with its Android mobile phone software--but it's willing to step on a few open-source toes, too.

A Social Network On Your Phone

You've already got a phonebook on your cellphone. What about turning that list into a social network?

Mobile ads years away from breakthrough: execs

PARIS - Advertising on mobile phones has enormous potential to become a significant platform for marketers, but any breakthrough is years away and major...

GPS devices are getting smarter

The Global Positioning System that helps us navigate the highways was a brilliant idea. So brilliant that industry watchers at ABI Research Inc. in...

KT to WiBro It in Gyeonggi

In Korea where broadband Internet speed is one of the world's fastest, downloading a two-hour movie file may not take more than five minutes.

Philly legislator: Don’t let Wi-Fi network die

Exactly one week after EarthLink Inc. said it would be shutting down its nearly citywide municipal Wi-Fi network in Philadelphia, one of the city's...

Virgin Mobile, Microsoft add momentum to mobile ads

Virgin Mobile USA has tapped AOL's Platform-A to handle its WAP banner inventory.Platform-A will serve as the "exclusive display advertising and sales partner" for...

Qualcomm invests in GSM-based femtocell firm

Qualcomm Inc. will buy a stake in ip.access Ltd., a U.K.-based femtocell vendor. The dollar amount of the investment and Qualcomm's relative share in...

AT&T Mobility nearly finished with HSUPA upgrade

AT&T Mobility is set to put the icing on its 3G network cake. The industry's No. 1 carrier said that by the end of...

Still fighting, NTP sues Alltel over patents

Alltel Communications L.L.C. is the latest major mobile-phone carrier to be tagged with a patent infringement suit by NTP Inc., the Virginia-based patent holding...

Nokia to crank up Linux use in smartphones

PARIS - The world's top handset maker Nokia Oyj expects the role of the Linux operating system in its product portfolio to increase as...

Sprint May Limit Its Unlimited 3G Plan

Will Sprint follows its competitors lead and restrict mobile broadband subscribers to 5 gigabytes of monthly combined upstream and downstream data usage?

Wireless security better than you think

Wi-Fi security has greatly improved over the past few years, so it's time to stop reviving the arguments of the past.

New Clearwire Won’t Use Google Fiber

I was never much for the annoying and persistent rumor that Google was going to become a national broadband provider.

Philippine provider to offer free phones

A Philippine mobile service provider plans to offer free service to subscribers who agree to receive advertisements on their cell phones, company officials said...

Hulu grows as free movie model proven

NEW YORK - Hulu, the video website owned by News and NBC Universal, said its service will be distributed on seven new sites, making...

Financial ratings wrap-up: Sprint Nextel, Aruba, American Tower 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--Credit Suisse First Boston lowered...

Cell phone users may get break on fees

The government is quietly negotiating to help cell phone customers avoid expensive fees when they cancel contracts with wireless companies, The Associated Press has...
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