Yearly Archives: 2008

Can Wireless Technologies Rescue U.S. Hospitals?

(Wireless News Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) The number of US hospitals has decreased by 20 percent in the last 30 years, from...

Is Your Car the Ultimate ‘Mobile Computer’?

Microsoft wants to turn your car into a Windows machine (please, no "crash" jokes) with in-dash infotainment and diagnostic systems.

Developers look for happy medium for mobile Web

Traditional Web sites are often lost in translation on mobile phones. So developers are hoping to bridge the disconnect between wireless phones and the...

DT-Sprint Nextel combo would face uphill climb

ON MANY LEVELS, politics alone appear to weigh heavily against the government approving a merger that would propel German telecommunications giant Deutsche Telekom AG...

2nd time’s a charm?: Sprint Nextel, Clearwire re-merge WiMAX business, bring new investments to operations

WHAT'S THAT SAYING? Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me?After their previous union was aborted last year, Sprint Nextel...

Ad-supported TV moves to mobile: Why didn’t I think of that?

A new star is rising in mobile television and it's all premised on the fact that people don't want to pay for video on...

Apple’s New Deal?: Vodafone, America Movil take a bite

Apple Inc.'s foray into the global handset industry is a work-in-progress, judging by last week's events, just as its initial, domestic rollout was marked...

Executive Interview: Robert Dawson

When people think of domestic iDEN carriers, the most common name mentioned is Sprint Nextel Corp., which serves more than 13 million customers on...

Venting the rage: Shareholders rake Moto execs at annual meeting

Armed only with more promises to revive the badly flagging company, Motorola Inc.'s CEO Greg Brown and fellow board members took a verbal beating...

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Inspired messagesThe Pope will send inspirational text messages to mobile phones during Catholic World Youth day this summer in Australia, according to a report...

LTE’s IPR picture? Clear as mud: Many players have yet to step forward

Imagine that a group of disparate warriors needs to cross a field laden with land mines. If they can agree on an approach that...

Redesigned with you in mind

Big news: RCR Wireless News has redesigned its daily e-mail newsletter beginning today. The new and improved e-mail will still continue to bring you...

Sacred-cow skittishness

If nothing else, the legacy of FCC Chairman Kevin Martin will be one in which aggressive advocacy of public-safety policy reigned to the point...

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

If we didn't live in a capitalist society, we'd be all for using Sprint Nextel's iDEN network for public safety. Just look at the...

Messaging revenues to top $212B by 2013

Mobile messaging revenues are expected to grow to $212 billion by 2013, according to new predictions from ABI Research.The growth will be driven by...

WiMAX to snag 47M subscribers by 2013

A new report from Juniper Research predicts WiMAX growth will begin to take off in the period between 2009 and 2011, growing to more...

Changing channels in mobile TV : Business model flawed, user experience lacks

HOLLYWOOD, Calif. - Like many other forms of entertainment, watching mobile TV wastes time - at least to some. For the executives running mobile...

700 MHz: Not over til it’s over: C-Block petitons, D-Block reconsiderations in play

The 700 MHz auction ended two months ago, but you'd never know it.Few things rarely are settled in official Washington. The Federal Communications Commission...

Vehicle telematics to dominate M2M space

Analyst firm Berg Insight predicts 186 million machines will be connected to wireless networks by 2012, up from 37.5 million connections last year.Vehicle telematics...

Mowser remains go to DotMobi

Mowser has found a buyer.The technology behind the Web-to-mobile transcoding service that flat-lined three weeks ago was picked up by DotMobi, the Irish consortium...

Leap’s loss narrows, to $18.1M in Q1, while markets expand: Subscriber base passes 3-million mark

Leap Wireless International Inc., which sells unlimited wireless phone service under the Cricket brand, reported an unaudited $18.1 million loss in the first quarter,...

Can you hear me now?: Mobile music struggles lead to innovation

Nokia Corp. isn't the only player looking to offer devices that come with music.The Finnish manufacturer raised eyebrows late last year when it teamed...

More crumbs for 2nd-tier handset vendors: Top-tier share losses create opening for regional OEMs

A sequential dip in shipments by Motorola Inc. and Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications between the fourth quarter and the first quarter spelled t-r-a-c-t-i-o-n for...

MOBULL RODEO: Professional Bull Riders looks to bring fans closer to the action

Quietly, Professional Bull Riders has begun targeting rodeo fans - yes, rodeo fans - through their phones.The Pueblo, Colo.-based association several weeks ago launched...
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