Having survived an attempted coup by dissident shareholder Carl Icahn earlier this week, Motorola CEO Ed Zander hit the road this week to tout Tuesday's launch of his company's new 3G handsets.Zander appeared yesterday at Software 2007 in Santa Clara, Calif., according to Reuters,...
First impressions really do count in wireless, and retail store staff had better be quick on their feet, according to the most recent customer satisfaction survey by J.D. Power and Associates. The firm found that wireless customers want to be greeted within their first...
AdMob is teaming with mobile media company mywaves to power click-to-video advertisements on wireless phones.The offering will allow wireless Web surfers to click on a banner ad to watch a video from a landing page, and save the clip to their phones or send...
The Federal Communications Commission said it received 4,600 wireless complaints in the fourth quarter of 2006, a slight increase over the previous quarter. Most fourth quarter wireless complaints dealt with billing and rates, the FCC said. The same was true of the 4,149 wireless...
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 RCR Wireless News to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the...
TeleCommunications Systems Inc. has extended a pact to provide hosted E911 Mobile Positioning Center (MPC) services to Verizon Wireless.The Annapolis, Md.-based mobile data technology firm announced a new, five-year contract with the nation's second-largest wireless carrier. The news follows the announcement earlier this week...
PlayPhone Inc., which provides off-deck entertainment offerings, said it raised $18.7 million in a third round of venture capital funding.The financing was led by Scale Venture Partners and included participation from existing investors Cardinal Venture Partners and Menlo Ventures.The company said it will use...
LAS VEGAS-At a press conference at the Cable Show yesterday, News Corp. COO Peter Chernin offered his views on both mobile and online business efforts."We've been spending a lot of time trying to get from zero to 60 in 10 seconds," he said. "I'm...
T-Mobile USA Inc. posted a solid first quarter, bringing in 980,000 net new subscribers and outperforming analyst' expectations, largely on the strength of its prepaid customer growth. The company's net customer additions were down slightly from the 1.04 million subscribers it gained in the...
Motorola Inc. said a lawyer for a California landscape contractor who alleged in a suit that heavy cellphone use caused his fatal brain tumor has asked a state court to throw out the case.The mobile-phone manufacturer, which made the disclosure in a quarterly filing...
Sprint Nextel Corp. has joined the cadre of telecom companies who have sued small Iowa operators and Internet calling services for alleged "traffic pumping," while the small companies themselves have formed a coalition to formally oppose the telcos' efforts. Sprint Nextel's complaints virtually mirrored...
Brightpoint Inc., the mobile handset distributor that's rapidly becoming "a global powerhouse," according to one analyst, posted solid sales for the first quarter of the year, but earnings and gross margins took a hit. The company said revenue for the quarter was $641.6 million,...
A subsidiary of UniCell Advanced Cellular Solutions Ltd. has acquired TippCom Ltd. for an amount reported only as "several tens of millions of shekels (Israeli currency)," which could be anywhere from $2.5 million to $10 million, according to Israeli media.The deal also reportedly involved...
Regional carrier SunCom Wireless Holdings Inc. reported mixed metrics for the first quarter of 2007, but cut its losses compared with the year-ago period.The company, which operates in the southeast and Puerto Rico, improved its average revenue per user and cut its churn rate,...
Nokia Corp. is teaming with live music company Live Nation to give mobile phone users access to concert tickets before they are available at the box office.The handset manufacturer said registered users will receive exclusive ticket offers via e-mail or text message, and can...
AT&T Mobility announced that its Cingular 8525 Pocket PC (made by HTC Corp.) will henceforth be known as the AT&T 8525 Pocket PC. The operator said that the device has been upgraded, retaining the functionality it originally offered, while adding software upgrades to enable...
Mobile software developer Semotus Solutions Inc. said it plans to jettison its wireless financial information assets to Stockgroup Systems Inc. for an undisclosed sum.Semotus, which markets software that connects enterprise users to office information systems, said it expects to benefit from the deal over...
Sanef announced that it has acquired location-services firm Webraska for an undisclosed sum. The European telecom infrastructure management company said the move will help it gain a foothold in the satellite navigation and geospatial technologies markets.Webraska's properties include GPS-based navigation applications that support maps,...
Shares of Clearwire Corp. slid after the wireless broadband carrier reported a net first-quarter loss of $92.6 million, up drastically from the $55.2 million loss over the same period last year.Craig McCaw's Kirkland, Wash.-based outfit said it saw a 41% increase in subscriber growth...
Several private-equity groups have reportedly formed in an attempt to acquire Alltel Corp., according to the Wall Street Journal.The paper said at least three groups exist that are pursuing the nation's fifth-largest wireless carrier, including Blackstone Group and Providence Equity Partners; TPG Capital L.L.C....
Verizon Wireless said it added a variety of new features to its VZ Navigator location service.The new Place Messaging feature allows customers to send directions to their contacts through a new Messages option. Recipients who have the VZ Navigator service can access the directions...
Leap Wireless International Inc. nearly tripled its net customer additions during the first quarter of 2007 compared with the same period last year, landing more than 318,000 new users and bringing its customer base to more than 2.5 million.Leap's service revenues were up 51...
Sun Microsystems Inc. previewed a simplified way to write Java applications for mobile phones, DVD players and Internet browsers at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco.The developer unveiled JavaFX Script, a "radically simple" scripting language designed to expand the company's Java technology onto more...
High Tech Computer Corp., also known as HTC, said today it would henceforth adopt a global marketing strategy that appeared to call for all its products to be branded as "HTC" products.The declaration was accompanied by an announcement that HTC would acquire nine Dopod...
