Mobile software developer iLoop Mobile appointed former Volantis Systems chief Matthew Harris as president and CEO.A San Jose, Calif.-based startup, iLoop produces technology for interactive text marketing campaigns and mobile content distribution. Harris replaces interim CEO Jorgen Larsen, who will retain his post as...
Editor's Note: Welcome to On the Margins, a feature for RCR Wireless News' new weekly e-mail service, Mobile Content and Culture. Every week, the RCR Wireless News staff considers events in the wider business world and how they could affect the wireless industry.--Google's YouTube...
Like a first-year student struggling with the violin, carriers have hit a lot of wrong notes with their music offerings.But that may finally be changing.Verizon Wireless last week garnered headlines by teaming with MTV Networks and RealNetworks on a new, cross-platform mobile music service....
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.Cellular--Uganda: Hits Telecom Uganda signed Alcatel-Lucent to a $100 million...
Editor's Note: Welcome to Yay or Nay, a feature for RCR Wireless News' new weekly e-mail service, Mobile Content and Culture. Every week we'll review a new wireless application or service from the user's point of view, with the goal of highlighting what works...
Google Inc. offered a glimpse into the operations of its free, municipal Wi-Fi effort, which the company launched earlier this year in its home base of Mountain View, Calif. Google reported that the network now covers 12 square miles and counts 15,000 unique users...
Editor's Note: Welcome to Reality Check, a feature for RCR Wireless News' new weekly e-mail service, Mobile Content and Culture. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile content industry to give their insights into the marketplace. In the coming weeks...
Sprint Nextel Corp. awarded the build-out contract of its biggest WiMAX market yet to Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.The carrier confirmed this morning that it has awarded the equipment contract for the New York City metropolitan area to Samsung. The coverage area will include parts...
China's Sina Corp. launched five mobile games connected to Nokia Corp.'s SNAP Mobile gaming platform.The online media company is distributing the titles 3D Pool Hall, Jellypop, Sudoku and new versions of Link Up and Stone Park to Chinese users through its popular Internet portal....
Yahoo Inc. updated its e-mail service, adding a feature that enables users to send text messages to mobile phones. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company incorporated instant messaging components into its Yahoo Mail service, allowing users to send real-time messages to wireless handsets in the United...
China should surpass 500 million cellular connections during the third quarter, according to Wireless Intelligence, a joint venture of Ovum and the GSM Association.The firm said China adds about 19 million connections per quarter, representing a quarterly growth rate of about 4%.China Mobile dominates...
High-value customers feel underappreciated by their carrier, according to In-Stat.The study found more than 60% of high ARPU users say they do not feel their wireless operator appreciates them and 80% believe operators should do more to show their appreciation."The kind of appreciation these...
Andrew Corp. won a major upgrade contract to modify the Mass Transit Railway Corp.'s territorywide network in Hong Kong.As part of the project, Andrew will upgrade infrastructure in stations, tunnels, and other buildings to migrate the railway's radio system from an 80 MHz trunk...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We've collected a group of the industry's leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry. In the coming weeks look for columns from Current Analysis' Avi Greengart, Jupiter Research's...
AS THE 3G MARKET HEATS UP, so has the level of litigation among industry players, exemplified by longrunning headlines involving the Goliaths and the Davids in wireless.The underlying disputes that have generated the current level of litigation may be few, but the number of...
Washington state Attorney General Rob McKenna said he wants legislation to prohibit the marketing of cellphone numbers without consumer consent, responding to privacy concerns raised by a directory business launched by Bellevue, Wash.-based information commerce firm Intelius Inc."I have my staff working on options...
THE WIRELESS INDUSTRY DODGED one bullet and got tagged by another as the Superior Court of the District of Columbia threw out six brain-cancer lawsuits against wireless carriers, manufacturers and others.The decision was a major legal victory that tempered the sting of a separate...
FLAT-RATE WIRELESS carriers serving the sub-prime sector have seen their stocks plunge in recent weeks, reflecting fears about sub-prime customers who could affect the carriers' financial results.The financial markets have been rattled by fears about the extent to which the floundering sub-prime mortgage market...
Battling for brand recognition, or more particularly, connecting a brand with a certain image, is more than apropos in the wireless industry-it very often defines the success of each company's marketing scheme.Ever since the entertainment and sports worlds opened their arms to brand sponsors-in...
Verizon Wireless is hoping it can make better music as part of a trio than it did singing solo.The carrier last week announced a partnership with MTV Networks and RealNetworks Inc. to challenge Apple Inc.'s dominant iTunes service. MTV will shutter its Urge music...
Google Inc. Chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt left the door open to bidding on wireless licenses when the 700 MHz auction begins in mid-January, but the Web search-engine giant and others are not apt to make final plans until after the Federal Communications Commission...
Personalization refers to the way consumers use mobile content as kind of a bumper sticker, telling others who they are and what they think. It won't be long, though, before users will be placing those bumper stickers on your phone-not theirs.Ringback tones were the...
Verizon Wireless needed a refreshed portfolio of converged devices that could deliver revenue-generating services into consumers' hands. Motorola Inc. needed to boost its smartphone offerings, its margins and its overall fortunes.The two parties' interests thus dovetailed over the new Q Music 9m-a version of...
Are cellphone carriers becoming the New York Yankees of then wireless world? Or is it worse?● A federal judge last week said it was ridiculous that AT&T Mobility (then Cingular) had a clause in its customer contracts that said customers cannot sue the carrier...
