Greg Brown, CEO of Motorola Inc. since Jan. 1, was set to participate today in a "fireside chat Q&A session" at Morgan Stanley Technology Conference in Dana Point, Calif. The session will be Web cast live beginning about 11 a.m. Pacific time.Presumably, the Q&A...
After years of only minor price plan tweaks and occasional promotional offers, the nation's four largest carriers have ignited a new pricing war centered around unlimited voice calling minutes for $100 per month. And in a move that begs for a response, Sprint Nextel...
Once-beleaguered RadioShack Corp. - which sells wireless devices and services for AT&T Mobility and Sprint Nextel Corp., as well as a handful of prepaid providers - saw its stock soar more than 22% after reporting a rise in net income for the fourth quarter...
T-Mobile USA Inc. announced a $10-per-month unlimited calling plan for its growing fixed-line effort.The operator launched Talk Forever Home Phone, an Internet service with unlimited local and domestic long-distance calls. The offering is available in Dallas and Seattle to T-Mobile USA wireless users with...
Hollywood content producers looking to cash in on mobile should take a cue from The Red Hot Chili Peppers and give it away - now.That's the message of a white paper released last week from Parks Associates and the think tank Entertainment Technology Center...
David Kaye has joined RCR Wireless News as an interactive media manager. In this role, Kaye will be involved in all daily operations as well as enhance RCRWirelessNews.com with new multimedia offerings. Previously, Kaye was as an operations manager and Web specialist at Colorado...
The 700 MHz auction is all but over, with the Federal Communications Commission increasing the number of bidding rounds to eight per day last Friday in an attempt to speed to a close bidding whose spectacular revenue and open access achievements will likely be...
NOKIA CORP. AND QUALCOMM INC. HAVE ENDED THEIR ARBITRATION PROCESS over the renewal of an expired cross-licensing contract and agreed to consolidate the major issues with a FRAND case in Delaware Chancery Court, to avail themselves of that court's reputation for speed and expertise...
HOUSE LAWMAKERS OFFERED A PREVIEW of the debate apt to escalate in coming months over efforts to write a wireless consumer protection bill, with the role of states expected to be highly controversial and critical to determining whether major stakeholders can find enough common...
Sprint Nextel Corp.'s performance is likely to get worse before it gets better, the company told agitated investors last week.The company's stock plummeted to new lows after it reported a $29.5 billion loss for the fourth quarter due to a write down of the...
DukeNet Communication Services L.L.C., which is owned by Duke Energy Corp., said it signed a definitive agreement to acquire 115 wireless towers from Vangard Wireless L.P.The sites are located within Duke Energy's utility territory in Indiana, Kentucky, North Carolina, Ohio and South Carolina, as...
It's odd that at a show where PhDs, MBAs and so many smart people from the telecom space stroll the pavilions, Robert Redford can steal the headlines by talking about the possibility of mobile films. -------------------------------Mobile World Congress continues to grow and grow...
Editor's Note: The following is an excerpt from Reality Check, a feature for RCR Wireless News' weekly e-mail newsletter, Mobile Content and Culture. The mobile entertainment industry is currently plagued with a wide variance of proprietary formats in reporting mobile content sales, their...
As I listened to some of the world's largest wireless infrastructure providers talk about their business plans last week at the Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona, Spain, I heard a lot of pain. This is not the Lucent of 2000, at $80 a...
Proponents of blind bidding claim the nearly $20 billion in pledges for 700 MHz licenses as well as the possible addition of a few new players (though unlikely national) in the wireless space vindicate their emphatic embrace of the no-name competition methodology. And who...
Clear the set. It's back to business as usual in Hollywood.Members of the Writers Guild of America last week voted overwhelmingly to end the 100-day-long strike that brought most TV and film production to a screeching halt on Nov. 5.As if on cue, a...
Don't be fooled by the flow of VC funding or the fact that Google Inc. and MySpace are in on it. The truth is, mobile social networking is not as cool as its fixed Internet brethren. An obsession with user-generated content, coupled with the...
In 2008, the wireless industry appears poised to continue its move to a model where access is open to qualifying third-party developers and handset manufacturers. With this shift should come continued proliferation of applications, content and services for mobile phones. Back in June 2006,...
What is mobile search? A search for "mobile search" on Merriam-Webster's online dictionary returns only paid search terms. I will refrain from comment. Wikipedia returns the following:". an evolving branch of information retrieval services that is centered around the convergence of mobile platforms and...
Mobile television and clip-based video content clearly represent an emerging opportunity for mobile network operators, traditional production houses, online portals and community sites like YouTube/Google, advertising firms, and other wireless supply chain companies. However, new IDC research suggests this market faces several hurdles that...
Mobile security has been a topic of discussion for many years. Skeptics have always said "mobile security is a solution looking for a problem." True, few mobile security disasters have occurred on the scale of a Code-Red or Blaster, however, mobile data usage has...
Smartphones will come of age as the primary venue for mobile Internet content in the U.S. this year. The proliferation of these devices will reshape the sector and force content companies, operators, and advertisers to retool.Companies in the mobile advertising sector have been busy...
BARCELONA, Spain - The world's largest network providers are jockeying for position in the race to build out fourth-generation networks in an increasingly uneasy market affected by intense competitive price pressures and worries of an economic downturn.Nokia Siemens Network CEO Simon Beresford-Wylie reiterated earlier...
BARCELONA, Spain - With the LTE market just starting to develop, Alcatel-Lucent and NEC Corp. believe combining their resources early on will help them develop a market advantage. Alcatel-Lucent CEO Patricia Russo said the move is an offensive play, rather than a defensive one....
