Garmin Ltd. reported rosy jumps in sales in its various sectors - automotive, outdoor, aviation, marine - but its earnings and outlook disappointed analysts, sending the company's stock tumbling more than 19% to a new, 52-week low.Oh, and, remember Garmin's celebrated leap into mobile...
T-Mobile USA Inc.'s new Sidekick device is the first to launch since Microsoft Corp. bought the software company at the heart of the Danger Inc. franchise. Sharp makes the handset's hardware.The news: The messaging-happy, social networking crowd that patronizes the Sidekick devices at T-Mobile...
Nuance Communications Inc. is targeting carriers - and plenty of others - with a mobile application designed to cut the cost of customer-care calls.Mobile Care is a client-server application designed to automatically launch when a user dials a customer-care call center for assistance. The...
Sprint Nextel Corp. will expand its femtocell offering nationwide in the coming weeks, the company said today.The carrier's Airave - essentially a small network base station for the home that connects to DSL or cable lines - will sell to consumers for $100 apiece....
Electronic Arts Inc. continued to grow its mobile revenues even as it disappointed investors with a $95 million quarterly loss.The publishing giant's wireless business generated $44 million in revenues during the period, marking a 33% year-over-year increase and a slight bump over the previous...
The landline telephone company Embarq posted higher second-quarter profit on Tuesday on lower operating expenses, even though revenue fell as access lines were lost. Add to Portfolio Embarq Corp Go to your Portfolio
Wireless penetration rates for teens are reaching saturation and growth in the segment is stagnating, according to a new report from research firm MultiMedia Intelligence.Subscribers between the ages of 12 and 17 exceed 16 million in the United States last year, up 12% from...
Mobile video phone sales reached nearly $99 million in 2007 and should experience strong growth during the next five years despite worries about profitability of mobile video services, according to a new report from Infonetics.Mobile video subscribers topped 10 million worldwide last year and...
Editor's Note: In this monthly feature, RCR Wireless News talks to retailers across the country to get a first-hand view of what's hot in wireless.The Wireless Zone is a 20-year-old Verizon Wireless exclusive retailer. Originally named The Car Phone Store, (because 20 years ago,...
How much do we really know about our phones or - even more complex - our smartphones? We know they turn on, make calls and even connect to our work e-mail. The hard part usually comes when trying to organize the bill, trouble shoot...
The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.Carrier--RBC Capital Markets lowered its price target on Verizon to $37 from $43 on strong wireless results but mixed wireline. The firm raised its EPS...
On a sunny afternoon back in June 2007, members of the media, academia, and the tech industry gathered to watch Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin drive a white Prius around the parking lot of the search giant's Mountain View (Calif.) headquarters. It...
If it's going to be used at work, IT needs to know what to do. One of biggest stories behind the release of the iPhone 3G -- and the iPhone 2.0 firmware update for first-generation iPhones -- was the inclusion of features designed for...
The fees that cell phone carriers charge customers who break service contracts took a big hit in a California courtroom when a judge said such charges by Sprint Nextel Corp. likely violate state law.
Once again, the Olympics will be seen as a kind of barometer for mobile data. But for wireless to perform alchemy at this year's games by turning consumers into gold, carriers and their business partners will need to put some marketing muscle behind the...
Neonode Inc. needs patience from investors, the company's interim CEO wrote yesterday in an open letter.The fledgling, Swedish public company, known to many for its small, touchscreen N2 device - which debuted long before Apple Inc.'s iPhone - will miss its guidance from the...
Leap Wireless International Inc. played musical chairs with a few of its senior executives. Al Moschner, formerly VP and chief marketing officer, has been appointed to COO. In his new position, Moschner will lead the information technology and technical operation functions, including supply chain...
Alcatel-Lucent's troubles are likely to continue in the third quarter, as the network vendor struggles with structural problems, according to one research company. As part of its second-quarter results, Alcatel-Lucent announced CEO Patricia Russo has decided to leave the company. At the board's request,...
The following list details this week's infrastructure awards for the cellular, Wi-Fi, and WiMAX industries. The contracts are broken down by transmission technology, country and vendor. The value of the contract is included when available.WiMAX--Kenya: AccessKenya Group chose Alvarion for a large-scale WiMAX network...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Yay or Nay. Every week we'll review a new wireless application or service from the user's point of view, with the goal of highlighting what works and what doesn't. If you wish to submit your application or...
Things move quickly in the U.S. mobile entertainment ecosystem - unless you're an adult content vendor.From sex texts to moantones to bikini-clad models to full-on hardcore video, wireless porn is gaining traction in certain markets around the world. Wireless wantonness rang up about $1.7...
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.Patrick Maurer is no techie. "I can barely work my toaster," says the lanky 29-year-old sales rep...
Transport-based mobile ticketing will grow from 37.4 million transactions last year to more than 1.8 billion by 2011, according to new research from Juniper Research.The Far East and China will make up nearly three-quarters of the total number of transactions worldwide by 2011, said...
