Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We’ve gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.
Fifteen years ago, analysts and investors frequently asked enterprises, "What's your Internet strategy?" The unspoken corollary was,...
Sequans Communications, a Paris-based 4G chipmaker, introduced three new FDD and TDD LTE baseband chips, a companion RF chip and two new LTE platforms, supporting all global FDD and TDD LTE networks.
Leaked accounts that the latest round of interference testing to see whether LightSquared’s attempt to launch an LTE network would interfere with commercial GPS communications garnered a strong reaction from LightSquared, though that reaction did not refute claims that interference still exists.
Reports indicated that...
Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries Ltd. (RIL) plans to alter the course of data services market by rolling out 4G mobile broadband services by the end of 2012 on tablets priced at $67.
Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers, we have created this forum for those with something meaningful to say to the wireless industry. We want to keep this as open as possible,...
Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this forum for those with something meaningful to say to the wireless industry. We want to keep this as open as possible...
The iPad and iPhone are looking much more successful in retail stores than in courtrooms, with Samsung and Motorola Mobility both scoring significant court victories against Apple this week. Australia's High Court says Samsung will be able to sell its Galaxy 10.1 tablet this...
Hello! And welcome to our Friday column, Worst of the Week. There’s a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so this column is a chance for us at RCRWireless.com to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong way....
The Brazilian electronics industry will close this year with revenue of U.S. $73.7 billion (R$134 billion), an increase of 8% from 2010 but short of an initial expectation of 13%, nonprofit trade group Abinee said this week, citing a trade imbalance and a stronger real.
Global enterprises are shifting to mobile-only communications more rapidly than expected, as well as adopting unified communications services more broadly, notes the 2011 BroadSoft Mobile Enterprise of the Future survey. This trend could be an opportunity for mobile network operators, because enterprises believe their MNO is better positioned to deliver services such as video calling and conferencing, Web conferencing, voice mail, presence management and instant messaging than fixed-line providers like Microsoft, Google or IBM.
Just in time for the holidays, OnLive has a new application to stream popular games to the tablets and smartphones that will be waiting under millions of Christmas trees. Gamers already use OnLive's technology to download games directly to their computers, but now tablets...
The Federal Communications Commission gave consumers a big clue today about what T-Mobile USA and Nokia will be announcing next week in New York. After approving the Nokia 710 for use in the United States, the agency today posted a manual for the phone...
Although IT consumerization is a relatively new phenomenon, it cannot be ignored by chief information officers. IBM is taking steps to address enterprise-class requirements with a series of new mobile apps.
While smartphones continue to make great strides in penetrating the domestic market, the third quarter of this year saw a slight lull in the action as consumers awaited the latest offering from Apple, according to a report by Fitch Ratings.
The report found that during...
What the wireline Internet has taught the world is that eventually power shifts from the ones providing the pipes to the ones providing value-added service. Unless net neutrality goes away, I expect this same phenomenon will take place in the wireless domain.
Just when investors in Canada's Research in Motion were enjoying some good news, the maker of the BlackBerry smartphone and PlayBook tablet triggered a new round of sell orders on Wall Street with news of a $485 million charge related to a markdown of its inventory of unsold PlayBook tablets. RIM also said BlackBerry shipments are slipping and lowered its sales and earnings projections for the year.
With its new lines of Lumia and Asha Windows-based phones, Nokia is hoping to maintain its hold on low-end consumers while increasing its appeal to high-end users, say analysts and company executives.
Finnish telecom giant Nokia is planning to add its Asha series of Web-enabled cellphones and Lumia 710 to the array of devices manufactured at its Manaus plant in northern Brazil.
With thousands of applications available across multiple platforms, it’s easy to get lost in the crowd. The Apple App Store alone has over 500,000 applications, with the challenge now for app developers is to get noticed or to get a large number of downloads...
American businesses hired more workers in November than they have in almost a year, payroll firm ADP reported today, and a survey of job opportunities at wireless device manufacturers in the United States shows that a number of technical jobs have been open for as long as six months, suggesting that demand for engineers is outpacing supply.
Shares of Research in Motion (Nasdaq: RIMM) shot up today after the company announced the introduction of BlackBerry Mobile Fusion, a unified system for managing BlackBerry, Android and Apple iOS devices. After years of watching competing operating systems cut into its market share, RIM...
Amdocs unveiled its Amdocs Data Experience Solution, which it said was designed to help service providers deploy new data services that could improve the customer user experience and accelerate data services monetization.
Chief information officers are looking forward to three main trends that will (and in several cases already are) challenging their own corporate strategies: consumerization, cloud computing, and mobile security and management. Pressured by chief financial officers to reduce the total cost of ownership and...
Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this forum for those with something meaningful to say to the wireless industry. We want to keep this as open as possible,...
