Facebook means business when it comes to mobile – the company is spending an estimated $85 million to acquire Parse – that’s a hot startup that manages mobile for businesses.
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Apple took investors through its numbers yesterday, but not all those numbers were financial results or product sales. Faced with slowing growth rates and declining margins, Apple focused on numbers from outside research firms that show the high degree of loyalty and engagement that...
It's been more than two years since Nokia CEO Stephen Elop decided that the struggling phone maker would make handsets based on Microsoft's Windows operating system. Elop, a former Microsoft executive, said it would take two years to make the successful transition to Windows....
Shares of Apple (AAPL) are off almost 5% this morning on concerns about the company's upcoming earnings report, due next Tuesday. iPhone 5 buzz has died down somewhat, and many smartphone buyers may be waiting for the Galaxy S4, the HTC One, or another...
RCR Wireless takes a look at the regulatory challenges facing the wireless industry, including spectrum issues, potential for additional spectrum auctions, regulations on the second-hand spectrum market, M&A regulations and sitting challenges. As a special bonus, we will provide an annual FirstNet update.
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AT&T and U.S. Cellular are the first two U.S. carriers to offer Samsung's new flagship, the Galaxy S4. Pre-orders start today, with the handsets shipping at the end of the month. The 16GB version of the phone starts at $199 with a contract. T-Mobile...
China's Foxconn is hiring workers to produce a new version of the iPhone, according to Bloomberg. The news service says that Foxconn has ended a hiring freeze at its Zhengzhou plant and is bringing on new employees to make a new smartphone, probably the...
Samsung says demand for the Galaxy S4 is stronger than expected, and that's causing some U.S. carriers to delay the phone's launch.
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Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile USA have both pushed back the launch of Samsung's Galaxy S4...
RCR Wireless News Editor-in-Chief Dan Meyer was joined by esteemed guests, including long-time industry analysts Roger Entner, former FCC Commissioner Harold Furchtgott-Roth, former Senior Attorney with the Competition Division in the FCC’s Office of General Counsel Lawrence Spiwak and former FCC Wireless Bureau Chief...
Service providers have been buffeted by the explosive growth in data traffic. Meanwhile many networks remain highly siloed and are becoming more complex even as service providers move to converge infrastructure and adopt more flexible cloud-based approaches. In this webinar, we'll share some of...
Fairsearch, a business group formed to fight the dominance of Google, has filed a complaint with the European Commission alledging that the search engine giant uses "deceptive conduct to lockout competition in mobile."
The group says Google's practices are deceptive because Android is not really...
Taiwan's HTC, the world's fourth largest smartphone maker, recorded its lowest quarterly profit since it began reporting publicly in 2004. During the first quarter HTC earned $2.85 million (T$85 million), less than 10% of what it earned in the year-ago quarter.
A shortage of...
Ericsson's purchase of Microsoft's Mediaroom underlines the growing importance of the video-on-demand market market for mobile operators. Demand for set-top boxes is set to skyrocket during the next five years, according to the latest research from Infonetics. The research firm says the global set-top...
Facebook says its new mobile interface is all about shifting devices away from apps and tasks, and towards friends and people. Today the company shared the specifics about its new Facebook Home, showing off a user interface that is completely focused on photos, friends,...
Samsung says it will launch branded stores at 1,400 Best Buy locations by this summer. Best Buy employees will help customers purchase and activate Samsung devices, but will not service broken phones. So while Samsung hopes to attract customers in the same way that...
BlackBerry is getting a boost from its longtime partner Telefonica. The global carrier has made a commitment to buy roughly $200 million worth of smartphones, services and solutions from the struggling Canadian firm. Canada's Export Development Bank is incentivizing Telefonica with a $200 million...
Amazon joins Facebook this week on the list of companies hinting that they may be planning a smartphone launch. The company has hired Charlie Kindel, who formerly headed up Microsoft's Windows Phone platform. According to CNBC, Kindel says he's working on "something secret" at...
The HTC One was one of the hottest new smartphones to come out of Mobile World Congress, and now it looks like AT&T will be the exclusive U.S. carrier of the 64GB version, at least initially. The carrier shared the news on YouTube over...
Facebook will unveil what it calls its "new home on Android" at a Thursday press event. Today 9TO5 Google is reporting that Facebook is planning a new HTC device that will feature its own version of the Android operating system. "Facebook Home," is reportedly...
BlackBerry (BBRY) surprised Wall Street with a small profit during the fourth quarter, and said that it has already shipped a million Z10 smartphones. The Z10 is BlackBerry's new touchscreen phone based on its new BB 10 operating system. Although the new phone has...
It’s no secret that the future of the enterprise network lies with wireless, especially as computing technology aggressively and constantly expands on a mobile level. But, to support the mobile device boom (which Cisco pegs at 50 billion by 2020), network engineers will need to...
International communication doesn't have to be complex. In this white paper, you'll discover the challenges organizations with international travelers face to strike an appropriate balance between ease of use for those focused on being productive when traveling internationally, and the cost of using non-domestic...
Maintenance windows were originally designed to allow for downtime when the majority of users were asleep and not using the services. In today’s mobile “always on” world, maintenance windows are no longer viable. Businesses and consumers alike expect “always on”, 24x7x365 services. Users assume and demand...
BlackBerry is finally getting its touchscreen Z10 smartphone into stores this weekend, more than six weeks after the product launch. The delayed launch is probably due to carriers prioritizing testing for other smartphones that they expect to be more popular, such as the Samsung...
