2010

The economy may be tanking, but app developers aren’t suffering much, with a new report today claiming a whopping 25 billion mobile applications will have been downloaded by 2015, a figure that has skyrocketed from a paltry 2.6 billion applications downloaded in 2009.

If you consider yourself to be more of a rugged, rough and tumble Android user, who doesn’t mince his words and prefers to push-to-talk, you may just grunt with joy at Sprint’s new military grade Motorola i1 offering.

Nine months ago, Korea’s KT telecom made the iPhone available to Apple hungry customers and has dominated the Korean Apple pie since, being the only telco exclusively offering the product, giving the firm a huge business advantage and marketing edge, much like AT&T’s in the US. But is KT’s monopoly on Apple crumbling?

AT&T’s strained, outdated network and spotty coverage has long been a sore point for US iPhone users, with many calling for Apple to bring its popular phone to other carriers, thus giving users more of a choice. The rumor mill has even posited that the AT&T/Apple divorce could be no more than a year away, with a possible open relationship with Verizon Wireless happening well before that.

While the oil disaster in the gulf of Mexico is certainly no game, app developers are finding innovative ways to raise awareness of the issue, and even raise money for the environment at the same time

Android has made significant gains in the US when it comes to mobile advertising, but remains the OS with the lowest Response Rate (CTR) in Europe according to the latest Smaato Metrics.

Randall Stephenson, CEO of AT&T Corp., is the top paid executive in the telecom space among U.S.-based public companies. Stephenson is followed by Qualcomm Inc. CEO and Chairman Dr. Paul Jacobs. During the next month, RCR Wireless News will feature top paid executives each Monday.

It’s been a long time in coming, but finally Microsoft has seen fit to bestow a “technical preview” of its Windows Phone 7 operating system to the unwashed developer masses.

Not wanting to miss out on the hype, Nokia has decided to beam us over its thoughts on Apple’s antenna issues, admitting that while the way you grip your phone may affect signal strength, Nokia puts its phones through vigorous testing which should allow you to hold your phone however you want… but does it?

Last week, Fring’s activation of mobile-data video calling on the iPhone annoyed Skype so much that the firm decided to remove itself from the service altogether. We’ve therefore compiled a list of the five top mobile apps that will let you use your Skype account on your mobile device.

The holidays came early to my desk this week as by some stroke of genius and luck not one, but two brand new mobile devices landed in my lap. I should probably say in reality that it’s more like 1.5 devices as they are both a version of Samsung’s Galaxy S model, one from AT&T Mobility and one from T-Mobile USA.

While most of America may be going gaga for Apple’s antenns this morning, other (possibly more sensible) Murkins are focusing their hype on the new Motorola Droid X smartphone, resulting in its complete sell out from retail stores on its first day of sale and clogging Verizon’s phone activation infrastructure.