Monthly Archives: June, 2010

Cisco has surprised the world yet again, announcing at the company's Cisco Live 2010 conference on Tuesday that it would come out with its own tablet, called “Cius,” aimed at corporate users and singularly-focused on delivering high-quality video conferencing.

Editor's Note: This article is an excerpt from RCR Wireless News' May Special Edition, "Enabling the Mobile Revolution – Mobile Chips, Devices and Accessories."...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Motorola Inc. has a long history in supplying equipment to the municipal service networks market, also known as muni Wi-Fi. The...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Inmarsat plc recently launched its first mobile satellite handset, filling out its roster with a portable device designed to tap into...

Stop me if you have heard this one before: Apple Inc. is set to break free of its AT&T Mobility bonds and begin offering...

Sequoia Capital led a $14 million series A funding round into Sencha, which makes Internet applications for mobile devices. Radar Partners also participated in...

Last Friday, Far EasTone Telecommunications’ (FET) board announced its intention to acquire 100% of fixed-line affiliate New Century InfoComm Tech (NCIC). FET plans to spend up to NT$20.815 billion (US$646.8 million) to acquire the remaining 73.6% of NCIC that it does not already own.

Another nail has been brutally hammered into Adobe Flash’s coffin with the Porn industry coming out in support of HTML5, forming an unlikely thought alliance with Apple.

On Tuesday Google officially announced the release of its Android 2.2 (Froyo) update, which it said would be rolled out to its Nexus One smartphone over the course of this week. As well as offering improved speeds and performance, the updated software also brings Flash 10.1 to the device and mobile hotspot capabilities.

Gemalto (GTO) is buying module maker Cinterion Wireless Modules GmbH for $198.7 million, adding to its machine-to-machine business strategy by bringing the world's...

Editor's Note:Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights...

Alcatel Lucent (ALU) continued its strategy of connecting operators, enterprises and developers, buying ProgrammableWeb, a repository for more than 2,000 application programming...

Sometimes, when a company wants people to know it has something big up its sleeve, the best and most subtle way to announce it is via job posting, and a recent Microsoft listing leads us to believe the software giant is mulling cross platform pastures for its Office Mobile 2010 suite.

Driven by an insatiable consumer demand for anything “i” related, and apparently overlooking some slight design flaws, Apple Inc. (AAPL) said it managed to...

LOS ANGELES — As more services collide on mobile networks, the business models that support the entire wireless ecosystem are being strained like never...

Following are infrastructure contracts announced during the past week:Nokia Siemens NetworksUnited States: With Mosaic Telecom, in conjunction with Airvana, to provide a standards-compliant 3G...

While the debate still rages about the effectiveness of mobile advertising, one firm, Amobee Media Systems, knows where it’s placing its bets, positioning itself between publishers and carriers in a bid to become the premiere one-stop-shop of mobile advertising, worldwide.

Intel and Nokia’s Meego operating system is not looking too shabby at all, at least not on a recent Intel YouTube video showing off the OS on an unspecified tablet.

The US is pretty fond of its wireline pipes, but Israeli IP radio firm Siklu is trying to change the world's mind, and the...

Foursquare, the smartphone app which lets one “check in” at various real-life locations, proceeding to use that information to spam ones mates via every...

We love companies with a sense of humor, and Finnish phone maker Nokia had us chuckling this morning with its amusing little dig at...

AT&T put out a press release today touting its purported improvement of 3G coverage in New York City, home to most iPhone toting hipsters.

AT&T put out a press release today touting its purported improvement of 3G coverage in New York City, home to most iPhone toting hipsters.

Not long after the truce between India’s famous Ambani brothers – who own Reliance Communications (RCOM) and Reliance Industries Limited respectively - the younger brother, Anil Ambani, head of RCOM, has sold off his firm’s tower business to GTL Infrastructure for $11 billion. This is the first time a non-telco player has gained a foothold in the highly lucrative Indian telecom infrastructure business.

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. updated the distribution plans for its Galaxy S smartphone platform with Verizon Wireless (VZ), T-Mobile USA Inc. (DT), Sprint Nextel...