While the wireless world and "Apple fanboys" wait breathlessly for the iPhone, Daren Tsui is hoping to turn mass-market phones already on the market into on-the-go digital music players.The CEO of mSpot this week plans to unveil its Remix software, a kind of place-shifting...
Third Screen Media bagged yet another media customer, inking a deal with Fox to deliver ads to mobile phones.Fox News will be the first franchise of the News Corp. subsidiary to use Third Screen's MADX platform, which allows publishers to create and sell wireless...
Broadcast mobile TV provider Modeo L.L.C. received a waiver from the Federal Communications Commission late last month that allows Modeo to increase the transmission power of its 1670-1675 MHz spectrum, which the company purchased in 2003. The spectrum, which is clear and unencumbered nationwide,...
Momentum for mobile television is building. Whether there is a market for it or not, the wireless industry is getting serious about hawking mobile TV services. Oh, sure carriers have offered an assortment of such offerings in the past through companies like MobiTV, but...
When Skype, the PC-based Voice over Internet Protocol provider, petitioned the Federal Communications Commission last month to allow consumers to load third-party, IP-based software onto their mobile phones, the company was thinking big. Getting a proprietary VoIP client onto mainstream feature phones could put...
Rural Cellular Corp. posted mixed results as its losses widened, but it made major improvements in churn and customer gains.The Minnesota-based regional carrier reported a net loss of $53.6 million for the fourth quarter of 2006, more than double the loss of $21.8 million...
Hedge*hog*ing v. Interrupting conversations in an office environment by poking your head over the top of the cube.What got the RCR Wireless News editorial staff talking this week? Simple: the 4 billion requests to meet at the CTIA Wireless 2007 show at the end...
The mobile phone industry is pressing the Federal Communications Commission to force Bell telephone companies to promptly process wireless number porting requests, with cellular carriers claiming they are losing business because of delays and obstacles in moving landline customers to wireless networks.The controversy is...
Nokia Corp. has created a new executive position-president of Nokia Inc., the vendor's North American arm-to lead its efforts in the United States, where the world's leading handset vendor has struggled in a carrier-controlled landscape split between GSM and CDMA technologies. Mark Louison, currently...
One of the great debates of the day in official Washington is over Internet freedom, a notion that wireline, cable TV and, yes, wireless carriers should be neutral on the speed and substance of content on their fat pipes. To be sure, net neutrality...
When a company wants to reinvigorate a business, heads often roll. A glance at the world's top handset vendors-bedeviled by the market's vagaries and slowing growth-reflects the pervasiveness of this perennial corporate option. Nokia Corp. last week announced that Mark Louison would ascend to...
Editor's Note: In this monthly feature, RCR Wireless News talks to retail managers across the country to get a first-hand view of what's hot in wireless.Cingular Wireless L.L.C., now a part of AT&T Inc., has historically held the South as its stronghold. Kevin Balgobin,...
Nokia Corp. announced a new push into mobile advertising, moves that likely will put the mobile powerhouse into direct competition with the likes of Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. as well as a raft of mobile advertising startups.Indeed, the news serves to further highlight...
SAN FRANCISCO-TRIP HAWKINS last week sounded more like an exasperated coach than a mobile gaming executive. And he wasn't alone. "We just keep selling to the same customers," the CEO of Digital Chocolate told software developers during his keynote address at GDC Mobile. "Clearly,...
ADVERTISEMENTS, PRODUCT endorsements and commercials have been the bread and butter of the TV business for decades. Mobile television-albeit a new distribution channel-is no different, though broadcasters of the new medium are still developing the technology and business plans that advertisers have dreamed of...
IF NOKIA CORP. HAS TO REFRESH its efforts in the United States to solidify carrier relationships, as it said last week, two Chinese handset vendors entering the market may similarly have to gird for the long haul-though ambition is a good place to start.The...
In the year-and-a-half since Sprint Corp. closed on its acquisition of Nextel Communications Inc., a company that once looked like a valuable asset has proved difficult to integrate. The loyal, high-average revenue per user Nextel customers that the company once generated like clockwork have...
For the past eight months, M2Z Networks Inc. stood alone behind a plan that might actually aid President Bush's quest for universal and affordable broadband service in the United States. Now it suddenly has company. It comes in the form of petitions to deny...
UnbelievableSony Pictures International said it has secured the rights from Ripley Entertainment Inc. to distribute mobisodes of the Ripley's Believe It or Not! Television show. The show, which aired in the 1980s and again between 1999 and 2003, featured footage of incredible and odd...
The following quote in the March 5 story, "Sprint Nextel, T-Mobile USA push pre-emption to Supreme Court," included the wrong attribution. The quote and attribution should read as follows: "Industry lost the appeal, a request for a stay of mandate, and a request for...
In the spirit of freewheeling online wireless forums such as HowardForums and SprintUsers.com, Sprint Nextel Corp. has started its own virtual community for wireless fans, foes and aficionados.Users do not have to be Sprint Nextel customers to participate, nor are the topics limited to...
Motorola Inc.'s performance last year cost CEO Edward Zander his bonus, but it didn't tarnish his golden parachute. Zander's exit pay, explicitly disclosed for the first time in a company filing March 2, could range as high as $56.8 million, depending on the circumstances...
Venture-capital funding is in the air. No less than four wireless companies announced new infusions of cash for their burgeoning endeavors in the industry:. Xtract announced it received more than $2.6 million in its first round of funding from Eqvitec Technology Fund III. The Finnish...
LCC International Inc., which designs and deploys wireless networks, announced an agreement to purchase Wireless Facilities Inc.'s businesses in Europe, the Middle East and Africa in a cash-for-stock transaction valued at $4 million. The sale is subject to closing conditions; however, LCC expects the...
