Nokia Corporation (NOK) reported its first quarterly profit in over a year today, earning $270 million on revenue of $10.7 billion. The numbers were better than Wall Street had expected, and reflect Nokia's deep cost cuts combined with strong sales of entry-level phones in...
Record sales of iPhones and iPads were not enough to renew Wall Street's appetite for Apple. The stock fell 10% in after hours trading following the company's fiscal first quarter earnings report. Many investors are worried that future revenue gains will increasingly come from...
Editor’s Note: With 2013 now upon us, RCR Wireless News has gathered predictions from leading industry analysts and executives on what they expect to see in the new year.
Two types of handset-based solutions will emerge to combat mobile network congestion.
Network congestion will continue to...
Huawei says profits surged 33% in 2012, as the company focused on expense control, customer service and management transformation. For all of 2012, Huawei earned 15.4 billion CNY ($2.5 billion) on revenue of 220.2 CNY ($35.4 billion). More than 13% of Huawei's revenue went...
By 2014, mobile Internet usage is expected to exceed desktop Internet usage. That means that in 2013 developers and marketers will be hard at work fine-tuning their mobile apps
Reports that Apple has cut orders for iPhone 5 and iPad components have investors on edge as they wait for the Cupertino company's fourth quarter earnings release, due late Wednesday. While lower orders for components could indeed signal a slowdown, most of the reports...
Samsung's Galaxy Note 10.1 is distinguished from the iPad by two key features: a smart stylus and a split screen app that enables users to multitask without opening and closing apps. At CES 2013, Samsung showed off both these features, highlighting ways that the...
The number of LTE devices is exploding rapidly, from 269 devices in January 2012 to 560 devices produced by 83 suppliers as of November 2012. Getting an LTE smartphone, tablet, or USB modem into users' hands is no simple task, however. RCR Wireless News...
The number of LTE devices and manufacturers is exploding. This special report explores how the transition to LTE networks is changing the device ecosystem from design to test and repair, and the factors that affect a successful LTE device launch. Spectrum fragmentation, the proliferation...
Nokia (NOK) detailed today what it says will be the last of the 10,000 job cuts announced last June. The latest cuts affect 300 workers in the company's IT division. Nokia will also transfer up to 820 employees to HCL Technologies and TATA Consultancy...
Nvidia is calling its Tegra 4 chipset the world's fastest mobile processor, and the company was excited enough by the product to build a device to show it off. Project Shield is a wireless gaming device that plays both Android and PC games. ...
With two weeks to go until the launch of BlackBerry 10, Research-in-Motion (RIMM) says Visa has approved its mobile payments solution. RIM's solution securely manages credit card information stored on SIM cards in NFC-enabled BlackBerry, Android and Windows smartphones. It will give carriers who...
RF interference negatively affects transmission coverage and mobile throughput, impacting the overall user experience. It is therefore, extremely important to perform a comprehensive analysis to promptly detect, identify and locate interference. This webinar will discuss this analysis at length as well as other aspects...
Samsung says its flagship Galaxy S III smartphone has been selling at rate of 200,000 a day, pushing sales of the company's Galaxy line of smartphones past the 100 million mark. The Korean conglomerate says it has sold more than 40 million Galaxy S...
China's ZTE (0763.HK) was the world's No. 4 smartphone vendor in the third quarter, behind Samsung, Apple and Research In Motion. The company's entry-level smartphones have helped it to overtake rivals like HTC, Huawei and Nokia, and now ZTE is launching a high-end offering,...
Despite its $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility, Google turned to LG to manufacture its Nexus 4 smartphone. While LG workers in Asia are undoubtedly scrambling to get the phones out the door, the company's marketing arm is working hard to convince consumers the...
Apple shares are lower today on concerns that demand for the iPhone 5 may be slackening. Japan's Nikkei news service and The Wall Street Journal both report that Apple has made sharp cuts in its orders for iPhone 5 parts, prompting speculation that orders...
Although the fourth quarter of 2012 marked the launch of Microsoft Windows 8, it did not impact PC demand. According to the International Data Corporation (IDC), worldwide PC shipments fell 6.4% in the fourth quarter of 2012 compared to the same quarter in 2011....
Smart, high-defintion TVs were a huge trend at CES, and with LG's 84-inch ultra-HD offering and others coming to the US in time for the Superbowl, we can all expect to hear a lot more about them. For carriers, the smart TV opportunity is...
Software and mobile manufacturer Nokia has teamed up with Avanade, a joint venture of Accenture and Microsoft, to sell Nokia Lumia devices, applications and services to large enterprise customers.
Under the agreement, Avanade and Nokia plan to deliver packaged offerings combining Avanade's application development and...
Near field communications has been around for a while, but at this year's Consumer Electronics Show it was clear that the technology has made it out of the technical journals and into the products that consumers are buying. From smart TVs to mobile devices...
Ubuntu demonstrated its Unity operating system on a Galaxy Nexus at CES 2013, and says the open source operating system will be available on other smartphones this year. Sandwiched between the gleaming white structures that housed ZTE and Huawei, Ubuntu's smaller booth at the...
With the Consumer Electronics Show underway in Las Vegas (CES 2013–check out all pieces), vendors and carriers are hurrying to announce their news for 2013. RCR Wireless News has gathered some of the biggest news released at the trade show on Monday and Tuesday:
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Verizon Wireless said it plans to sell Samsung’s LTE-enabled Galaxy Note 10.1 tablet and Samsung's first Windows Phone 8 smartphone. The announcements were made during this week’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2013 – check out all pieces). Both devices will be available in the...
