While Opera Software ASA continues to attract attention with its mobile browsers and a host of startups go directly to consumers with their transcoding technology, InfoGin is quietly making headway by cozying up to carriers.The 8-year-old Israel-based startup notched its first big win in...
When Texas Instruments Inc. lowered its revenue guidance last week for the quarter about to end, citing weakness in 3G sales to a large customer, analysts were quick to speculate on forecasts for global handset sales this year. That's because Nokia Corp. is TI's...
Four days after Apple Inc. released its iPhone software development kit (SDK), the company announced that more than 100,000 developers had already downloaded the set of application programming interfaces (APIs) and tools used to create applications for the iPhone and iPod Touch.Interest is definitely...
So let us get this straight. 100,000 developers paid $100 a piece to download Apple's new SDK for the iPhone. We are no math majors, but doesn't that translate to like $10 million? Apple is amazing.-------------------------------FCC Chairman Kevin Martin is in so much trouble...
If you think you're seeing Bluetooth headset advertisements everywhere, offering a bewildering array of styles and functionality from innumerable companies, you're spot on. The growth of mobile multimedia - driven in part by a shift in emphasis by network operators' pursuit of data-related revenues...
The House Commerce Committee's probe of the Federal Communications Commission moved to a new level, with key lawmakers asking FCC Chairman Kevin Martin to produce extensive documentation on a wide array of agency activities that appear to impact some wireless policy-making.The document request was...
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) asked chief executives of AT&T Mobility, Sprint Nextel Corp. and T-Mobile USA Inc. to explain whether they will pro-rate early termination fees as previously promised. Her letter comes amid a new Government Accountability Office report that found shortcomings with how...
The mobile-phone industry urged the Federal Communications Commission not to impose burdensome wireless broadband reporting requirements on cellular carriers. Congress is considering legislation to improve data collection on the availability of high-speed Internet service.In meetings with FCC officials last week, cellular industry association CTIA...
The wireless industry relies on towers like a lifeline. All those wireless calls, messaging exchanges and data downloads and uploads rely on a steadily budding array of transmission towers. Without them, nothing happens.Bearing that in mind, it's no surprise towers are considered one of...
A divided appeals court struck down a Federal Communications Commission's decision in which the agency rejected the contention it illegally licensed 6,000 towers in the Gulf Coast by failing to first assess the potential impact on migratory birds. "We vacate...
So, Sprint Nextel posted a $29.5 billion loss for the fourth quarter of 2007. That would be a billion with a "b." (And you were shocked when you received your post-holiday credit card statements.) Now Sprint Nextel did note that all of that loss...
The field of mobile content aggregators has seen more casualties than a "Terminator" movie. For the few remaining players, though, there's still plenty of money to be made in going directly to consumers with goodies like games, wallpapers and - believe it or not...
The Federal Emergency Management Agency urged federal regulators to defer key decisions in efforts to establish a voluntary mobile-phone emergency alert system.FEMA, a unit of the Department of Homeland Security, told the Federal Communications Commission a 2006 executive order gives FEMA delegated authority over...
Editor's Note: Welcome to Yay or Nay, a feature for RCR Wireless News' weekly e-mail service, Mobile Content and Culture. Every week we review a new wireless application or service from the user's point of view, with the goal of highlighting what works and...
What is Google's game plan for wireless?The easy answer: I have no clue. But as we await the outcome of the FCC's 700 MHz auction, and the winner of the C-Block licenses, I'm ready to speculate on the search-engine giant. Google is everywhere in...
Sen. Mark Pryor (D-Ark.) may have opted himself out the wireless industry's good graces. I don't know whether Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin, a Republican, ever had a warm and fuzzy feeling for Pryor, but - if so - Martin's likely opted out....
T-Mobile USA Inc. ended 2007 with 28.7 million customers after adding 951,000 customers and posting a net income of $383 million during the fourth quarter. The carrier netted more than 3.6 million new customers during 2007, with 83% of its total customer base coming...
Verizon Wireless' $2.67 billion play for Rural Cellular Corp. has turned intensely political, with Republican and Democratic lawmakers urging the Federal Communications Commission to rule soon on a deal whose review has been lengthy and controversial due to the potential impact on consumers in...
The war of words continues over government testing of wireless devices that could be allowed to operate in vacant broadcast spectrum, with claims about the viability of Wi-Fi operations in white spaces as divergently polarized as congressional testimony over whether pitching great Roger Clemens...
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Video chat services will help fuel mobile adult content revenues as the worldwide market for the steamy stuff reaches $1.5 billion by 2012, according to new figures from Juniper Research.Interactive video accounts for just 8% of all adult mobile services today but will generate...
A new category of consumer electronics device - the Mobile Internet Device - is expected to appeal to a wide variety of consumers, according to a new study from ABI Research.The report predicts the always-connected devices will grow from less than 3.5 million units...
And if he hadn't won? Alltel gave 500 free bonus minutes to new customers and existing customers who added a line of service to celebrate race car driver Ryan Newman's victory in the No. 12 Alltel Dodge at the Daytona 500. The offer was...
