HOLLYWOOD, Calif.-Online video is here in a big way. If it wasn't validated by Google Inc.'s $1.6 billion purchase of YouTube last October, it sure was last week when media conglomerate Viacom Inc. sued Google and YouTube for $1 billion, claiming rampant, unauthorized use...
It's only March, but 2007 appears to be shaping up as the year of location-based mobile services. No, really, it might be true this time. Honest.Loopt Inc. this week is set to announce a major partner win, unveiling a deal to integrate its friend-finding...
Challenges continue for InfoSpace Inc. with news that a major shareholder is looking to nominate three independent candidates for election to the company's board of directors at an upcoming stockholders meeting.Sandell Asset Management Corp., which holds 8.8 percent of InfoSpace shares, earlier this week...
AT&T Inc., which controls the nation's largest mobile-phone carrier Cingular, agreed pay more than $30 million and withdraw a U.S. Supreme Court challenge to end a highly controversial, seven-year-old case at the California Public Utilities Commission. In addition to the record $12.14 million fine...
European Union telecom regulators have settled on a price they would like to see for roaming rates that EU operators can charge customers, although the new rule has yet to receive final approvals. According to the European Commission Web site, the new rates are...
Shenandoah Telecommunications Co. announced it has settled its legal battle with Sprint Nextel Corp. The affiliate said it reached new agreements with the national carrier that include the transfer of former Nextel operations to Shentel, within its territory.Shentel said that the new agreement provides:--A...
CDMA pioneer Qualcomm Inc. sat atop a busy week-with many more likely to come-as the company made moves in its legal battle with Broadcom Corp., stirred up the dust in a separate matter with Nokia Corp., and negotiated a new cross-licensing deal with Nortel...
Wireless users may be warming to the idea of mobile advertising, according to new figures from Harris Interactive.The market research group found that 35 percent of adult mobile users in the United States are willing to accept ads in exchange for cash, discount coupons,...
Game-maker Electronic Arts Inc. announced it will offer a new sports service, and that the offering will be first available through AT&T Inc.'s Cingular Wireless. The company's new EA Sports Link will offer the latest sports and gaming news, and will also serve as...
Wireless communications company CalAmp Corp. announced it will purchase the GPS-based vehicle-tracking service of AirIQ Inc. for $19 million in cash."The acquisition of AirIQ's Vehicle Finance division significantly expands CalAmp's existing mobile resource management business with a complete end-to-end solution and leading position in...
The Federal Communications Commission is expected to rule next week that wireless broadband is an information service, a move that would put wireless Internet access in the same deregulated category as landline telephone and cable TV broadband offerings.The FCC said it would vote on...
The following list details this week's infrastructure awards for the cellular, Wi-Fi and WiMAX industries. The contracts are broken down by transmission technology, country and vendor. The value of the contract is included when available. CellularCaribbean: Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. said it won a...
The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.Handset and infrastructure vendors CIBC World Markets further lowered its estimates on Motorola Inc. on stronger-than-expected weakness throughout its handset operation. Its 2007 estimates drop...
The infrastructure market will see another combined entity step onto the playing field April 1, the date Nokia Siemens Networks announced it will formally begin operations. Nokia Siemens Networks gets started just four months after the combination of Alcatel SA and Lucent Technologies Inc....
A year after the companies first announced their plans for the offering, Verizon Wireless and TiVo said the TiVo Mobile application for BREW-capable cellphones is now available to Verizon Wireless subscribers. The application is selling for $2 per month, and allows TiVo owners to...
L.M. Ericsson, the world's largest equipment manufacturer, announced it will acquire Mobeon AB, which produces an IP-based voicemail system called Messaging over IP (MoIP). Ericsson plans to accelerate the development of a new messaging system through the acquisition, the company said in a news...
Mobile media company Mobifusion Inc. said it picked up $3.1 million in its first round of venture funding.Mobifusion targets carriers and publishers with a content-delivery platform designed to increase customer acquisition and loyalty. Backers in the initial round included Emergic Ventures, Ingram Digital Group,...
Chinese mobile content behemoth Tom Online blamed policy changes by China Mobile as it posted a fourth-quarter loss of a half million dollars.The Nasdaq-listed firm reported a net loss of $510,000 during the final three months of 2006, down drastically from a $12.7 million...
Sprint Nextel Corp. PCS affiliate iPCS Inc. reported increased revenues and net customer additions for the fourth quarter of 2006, but still recorded an overall loss for the quarter of $12 million.iPCS earned total revenues of $133 million in 2006's fourth quarter, up from...
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...
Software giant Microsoft Corp. announced it acquired voice-services company Tellme Networks Inc., which offers a variety of speech-recognition services for cellphones and other platforms. Microsoft said it will integrate the company's offerings into its various desktop computer products as well as its nascent Live...
HOLLYWOOD, Calif.-Digital rights management is an inevitable byproduct of the capabilies consumers now have to store and stream large amounts of information, but for it to function properly it must be virtually invisible to the consumer, Albhy Galuten, vice president of digital media technology...
Location-based developer uLocate Communications Inc. is hoping to help even the smallest publishers get attention with a new application from Sprint Nextel Corp.The Framingham, Mass.-based company this week unveiled WHERE, a GPS-enabled offering that allows users to personalize their phones with widgets, graphical interfaces...
SkyPilot Networks, which provides broadband wireless mesh network equipment, launched its SkyAccess DualBand product, a dual-radio product the company said complements its existing citywide Wi-Fi products.The product incorporates a dedicated radio for backhaul and a second radio for Wi-Fi access. The product resides at...
