Huawei is looking to bolster its presence in the European market with plans to open a research and development center in Helsinki, Finland, also known as Nokia’s backyard. The Chinese vendor said it plans to invest $90.5 million over the next five years to...
T-Mobile USA's German parent Deutsche Telekom says the carrier will bring Apple products to its customers next year, meaning that all four of the nationwide service providers now have agreements with Apple. Even some regional carriers have gotten the iPhone, but so far T-Mobile...
We live in a world where network signaling and data traffic patterns change by the day, based on the latest viral smartphone application or the release of a popular new model that fuels even further data consumption. As a result, manually managing, creating and...
Mobile Network Operators have invested heavily in the role LTE will play in their future competitiveness, as evidenced by LTE network rollouts underway at various stages across major U.S. and global markets. Whether these LTE networks are targeted for completion in 2012, 2013, or...
Apple has turned the tables on service providers, running tests of the iPhone 5 on their 4G/LTE networks before allowing carriers to market the new smartphone. Now some mobile operators, who are used to testing their own networks when launching a new device, may...
Now that December is here and the Google Nexus 4 still isn't, it's becoming clear that the smartphone sitting atop many Christmas lists will not be under the tree. According to Google's website, the Nexus 4 will not ship for another 5-6 weeks, and...
The iPhone 5 and the latest versions of the iPad will soon be available legally in China. Apple (AAPL) said today that the iPad mini and the newest full-size iPad will go on sale in China December 7. The iPhone 5 will hit the...
The latest numbers from Microsoft suggest that the software giant has not lost its touch - indeed it may be gaining a new touch with Windows 8, its operating system based on the touchscreen interface. Microsoft says it has sold 40 million Windows 8...
As cloud computing become more mature and ubiquitous, the mobile cloud emerges as the next hype once it allows you to access data wherever you are and whenever you want them. However, it effects a vast stakeholders range and key questions emerge such as...
Mobile is set to become a huge influence on cloud computing, with the so-called “mobile cloud” emerging as the next trend expected to impact not only enterprise IT management, but also the wireless world. As several observers have note, just like electricity and water,...
Ericsson (ERIC) has filed two patent infringement lawsuits against Samsung today, claiming that the Korean giant infringes Ericsson's patents while refusing to license its own essential technology. The telecom equipment maker says Samsung licensed its patents in 2007, but those licenses have expired. Ericsson...
Mobility, cloud and wireless will help improve business, society and people’s everyday lives, according to Ericsson SVP and chief strategist Douglas Gilstrap. During the Ericsson Business Innovation Forum in São Paulo, Gilstrap shared the company's view of the impact of increased mobile connections on...
The BYOD, or bring-your-own-device, trend has grown: A new report from iPass shows that more employees are using their own smartphones for work, and they rank connectivity cost as the least important factor when choosing a mobile network. iPass, a Wi-Fi and enterprise mobility services...
Apple announced that it will open its first store in Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro. It will also be the first Apple store in the Latin American region, where up until now, the company only had agreements with local retailers, such as A2U, iPlace and...
Samsung increased its leadership in the mobile phone market even as worldwide mobile phone sales decreased. According to Gartner's latest numbers, mobile phone sales to end users were down 3.1% in 3Q12 compared to 3Q11 with approximately 428 million units sold. Currently, Samsung has...
After selling out within hours of its UK launch, Google's no-contract Nexus 4 hits the Google Play store in the US today. The GSM/HSPA+ phone is sold unlocked for $299 ($349 for the 16GB version). Although it's called the Nexus 4, its display is...
Research In Motion said the long awaited launch of its BlackBerry 10 operating system will happen Jan. 30, at an event where it will also show off the first two smartphones running the new OS.
The company noted that the event will take place “simultaneously...
Apple and HTC are finished fighting in court. The two companies say they have a confidential settlement that will allow each of them to license current and future patents from the other for the next ten years. They are also dropping all current lawsuits...
With consumers increasingly tying themselves to mobile networks through smartphones and the hundreds of thousands of applications those devices can support, carriers are in need of ways in which to monitor and insure that the traffic load is handled in a consistent manner across...
President Obama probably used his iPad to post the most popular tweet in history Tuesday night. The fact that the President is stepping out with an iPad instead of his BlackBerry is a coup for Apple, but like the President the Cupertino company has...
Even before its newest slate of mobile devices hit the market, Google's Android operating system was winning the smartphone war. IDC says Android had a 75% market share in the third quarter, versus just 15% for iOS and 10% for all others (Windows Phone...
Research-in-Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) says 50 carriers are now testing its new BlackBerry 10 smartphone, which is expected to hit the market in the early months of next year. BlackBerry 10 will miss the holiday shopping season, but that's less critical for RIM than it...
The prevalence of “iDevices,”the bring-your-own-devices (BYOD) trend and the shift from Blackberry to Apple and Google devices are among the major challenges to mobile security today. “BYOD has changed it fundamentally,” said John McCormack, global president of Websense.
McCormack talked with RCR Wireless News during this...
Google may be giving a new meaning to the phrase "over-the-top" with the launch of its newest line of Nexus devices. The Nexus 4 is an unlocked smartphone powered by Qualcomm's top-of-the-line 1.5 GHz quad-core Snapdragon S4 Pro and running Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean.)...
