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.
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.
