The iPhone 3G’s “opening weekend” — get used to the movie lingo in this context — saw “one million devices sold” in 21 countries, according to Apple Inc.’s CEO Steve Jobs. If true, that’s more than three times the volume of last year’s iPhone...
FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION CHAIRMAN KEVIN MARTIN said it will be hard to hold either the D-Block re-auction or advanced wireless services-3 bidding this year because of intense controversy over rules. Thus, competition for two valuable blocks of public airwaves likely will play out under...
AT&T Mobility's decision to take Synchronoss out of the Apple Inc. iPhone-activation loop contributed to last week's debacle at Apple and AT&T Mobility stores, according to ThinkPanmure L.L.C.Apple last year employed New Jersey-based Synchronoss to handle activations for iPhone purchasers who chose to activate...
Sprint Nextel Corp.'s under-the-table Sprint Employee Referral Option has seen its final days. SERO was a plan Sprint Nextel introduced a few years ago that offered cheaper rates through an employee referral. And it wasn't as though you had to have a blood relation...
Electronics retailer pcRUSH.com has joined the growing number of merchants with an m-commerce site. The web-only retailer has used the popular "m" URL naming convention to launch its site, m.pcRUSH.com.
The Federal Communications Commission said it will begin field testing prototype TV white-spaces devices next week, a strong signal that agency chairman Kevin Martin remains committed to opening up more airwaves to Wi-Fi and other unlicensed wireless devices if interference to digital broadcast signals...
Google Inc. joined Apple Inc.'s iPhone-application frenzy with a free search offering.Google Mobile App uses a text box and a virtual QWERTY keyboard to allow users to search the Internet or through contacts on the phone. The application remembers past searches and offers typing...
Nokia Siemens Networks said it won an $874 million deal to expand China Mobile's network.The company, a joint venture between Nokia Corp. and Siemens AG, said it will design, build and maintain the network, including base stations and mobile switching systems. China Mobile said...
Apple Inc.'s launch of its 3G iPhone this morning got off to a rocky start for some. According to AT&T Mobility spokesman Mark Siegel, customers buying the device were having trouble synching their new phone to Apple's iTunes service in retail outlets, which is...
SAN FRANCISCO - Taking up a significant chunk of time at Apple Inc.'s WorldWide Developers Conference, Scott Forstall, senior VP of iPhone software, introduced 11 developers and handed over the stage as they demonstrated applications built for the iPhone.
Through the iPhone software development kit...
The most compelling things about all those third-party iPhone apps that are coming to market? The way you're going to buy them - and, maybe, how much you're going to pay.Apple earlier this year unveiled plans to launch an iTunes-like store, dubbed App Store,...
Forum Nokia is teaming with Mobile Complete Inc. to help developers to test and deploy applications across Series 40 and S60 handsets.Nokia Corp.'s developer program launched a Virtual Developer Lab that uses Mobile Complete's DeviceAnywhere service, allowing developers to access real handsets over the...
Apple Inc. plans to release its 3G iPhone in 22 countries today. To prepare for the inevitable media onslaught, read these top 10 most important stories on the iPhone from RCR Wireless News.1. Activation may prove challenge to 3G iPhone launch: New process requires...
So you're sick of that grimy flip phone you've faithfully (pathetically) toted around for two years - an eternity by any measure, except if you happen to enjoy immense wealth.
And you really don't get the math about monthly service options and their costs,...
Wireless hi-definition TV, while still in its "incubation" phase, could reach 1 million installations by 2012, according to a new report from ABI Research.The market is fractured by three competing markets loosely grouped as 5 GHz, 60 GHz and ultra wideband. Fewer than 100,000...
Netflix just may be the most annoying entity in online advertising.As you've probably noticed, the movies-by-mail company has mined the Internet with pop-ups, resulting in an unpleasant game of Whac-a-Mole as surfers move from site to site. The ads somehow seem to circumvent pop-up...
It won't be long until Congress breaks for its August recess (are they there now?), only to return for a short spell before taking off for the rest of this presidential election year.But the Federal Communications Commission and mobile-phone industry will be keeping their...
What shouldn't be overlooked with the launch of Apple's new 3G iPhone tomorrow (here's everything you need to know about that ) is today's launch of its iPhone application store --that's where the real story is, says BBC News' Rory Cellan-Jones . It's a...
PALO ALTO, California : When Apple opens its online App Store for iPhone software Friday, Steve Jobs, Apple's chief executive, will be making an attempt to dominate the next generation of computing as it moves toward Internet-connected mobiledevices.
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc will let customers, academics and even rivals build customized Web search services on top of its own technology, introducing a resale model into a major Internet market where it ranks a distant No. 2 to Google Inc.
The online retailer's debut coincides with the launch of the newest version of the device. The company will offer such programs as language translators and tip calculators.
