Toshiba Corp. said it will shut down its four-year-old, satellite-based digital multimedia broadcasting service, which it offers via its Mobile Broadcasting Corp. business unit.The company said the service has failed to attract sufficient customers to its paid service in the face of demand for...
Luxury brand Dolce&Gabbana said it ran a successful mobile advertising campaign on the Nokia Media Network.The company's youth-oriented brand, D&G, used a viral campaign on mobile handsets to raise awareness of its products during the Male Collection Fashion Show in Italy earlier this summer....
I guess if you lose a few billion dollars, someone has to take the blame. Or at least that was the case last week at Alcatel-Lucent, where after posting another quarter of underwhelming results, one of the wireless industry's largest infrastructure providers decided a...
Motorola Inc. says its troubled handset business is improving and will be stronger by the end of the year, but CEO Gregory Brown isn't willing to say when he expects the unit to break even.Yet Brown insists the division, which lost $346 million in...
Verizon Wireless is the latest marketer to yank an ad deemed offensive, in what has become a minor trend of marketers caving to pressure from advocacy groups.The ad, a 30-second spot from Interpublic Group of Cos.' McCann Erickson for the LG Electronic Co. Ltd....
Despite the buzz surrounding the femtocell market, 2008 will probably be a low-key year for femtocell vendors with only about 100,000 units expected to ship, according to predictions from ABI Research.By 2010, however, the market will begin a serious ramp-up, hitting double-digit millions in...
More than 550 million GPS-enabled mobile phones are expected to ship by 2012, according to a new report from ABI Research."While most CDMA handsets are already GPS-enabled and GPS is set to become a standard feature in GSM smartphones, GSM feature phones are next...
The following list includes venture capital and other investments into wireless companies announced during the past week. The value of the investment is included when available.--Celeno: Cisco led a $16 million Series C funding round into Celeno Communications, which provides semiconductors for multimedia...
Nokia Corp. is more than doubling the size of its direct venture investment fund with an injection of $150 million, with a view to putting some of the money to use in India and China.
Yesterday, a $10 application from Nullriver appeared in the iPhone Apps Store that allowed you to use the iPhone to access the Internet via 3G and share that connection through its Wi-Fi radio. It didn't last long, however, before the powers that be at...
The French competition authority Conseil de la concurrence (equivalent of the FTC in the US) wants the government to ease regulations governing mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) to increase competition in the mobile telephony market, which is dominated by SFR, Orange and Bouygues Telecom.
Motorola Inc. managed to both pleasantly surprise the market today and disappoint industry observers who are looking further down the road.The company posted a meager profit, beat expectations on handset volumes and forecast it would end the year in the black.Motorola also said its...
It's a big year for wireless. As cellular communications celebrates its 25th anniversary with a lavish celebration planned for this October, more wireless luminaries have voiced support for the Wireless History Foundation. The Foundation, designed to preserve and promote the rich history of wireless,...
The question was popped earlier this year and now Qwest Communications International Inc. has sealed the deal. The company has sown all its wild oats and has put its wild, mobile virtual network operator days behind it, no longer running on the Sprint Nextel...
Hello! And welcome to our Thursday 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....
Thanks to a new T-Mobile USA Inc. offering, parents can give their children a different type of allowance each month, and it's not the typical $5 they get for finishing chores. The carrier unveiled Family Allowances, a feature allowing parents to manage multiple accounts....
Time was when the bloody white- spaces spat was nice and neat, with mostly high-tech giants seeking more spectrum for Wi-Fi pitted against television broadcasters fearful of interference to digital signals from wireless devices that would operate in vacant TV channels. In short, a...
The companies listed below represent the seven largest global infrastructure vendors as of the first quarter of 2008.
Rankings were provided by research firm Dell'Oro Group and include CDMA, W-CDMA and GSM vendors. Revenue and income information comes from first-quarter financial updates provided on the...
LISBON -(Dow Jones)- Portuguese telecommunications company ZON Multimedia said Thursday its cable television unit signed a five-year contract with the Portuguese unit of the UK's Vodafone Group for the launch of a mobile virtual network operator, or MVNO.
The world's top four games publishers are taking an ever bigger share of the market for mobile games, according to the latest report from media analyst Screen Digest.
HELSINKI (Reuters) - Nokia (NOK1V.HE: Quote , Profile , Research , Stock Buzz ), the world's top cellphone maker, cut prices of many of its phones by up to 10 percent in late July, with the steepest cuts in music and media phones, according...
NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- A federal appeals court on Thursday overturned a district judge's preliminary injunction ordering arbitration in a patent dispute between InterDigital and Nokia and barring InterDigital from pursuing a separate action before the International Trade Commission.
