Maryland Attorney General Douglas Gansler reached an accord with the four national cellular carriers and the leading handset insurer to improve disclosure of policy terms to consumers. "Before deciding to purchase an insurance policy, Maryland consumers should clearly understand the terms of the policy,"...
Starting April 7, T-Mobile Germany will drop the price of its lower-tier iPhone to $156, from $628. The newer, 16 GB version retains its $784, price tag. The move to discount the cheaper iPhone may be driven by two factors. Apple Inc. is widely...
Nokia Corp. quietly - and finally - launched its N-Gage gaming platform.The handset-maker-cum-content-company made five games available on its online storefront, and teased gamers with more than a dozen titles "coming soon." The games are supported by five handsets - the Nokia N81,...
The Communications Workers of America said it joined forces with Germany's largest union, potentially giving organized labor more leverage to secure unionization of T-Mobile USA Inc.'s wireless workers."This is an aspect of organizing that hasn't been done before - it's a huge breakthrough," said...
The CTIA Wireless show is always the scene of all sorts of funny, crazy goings-on. From cranes to giant robots, you have to be on your toes.
The below photoguide collects the best of the ShowScene section from this week's RCR Wireless News Show Daily...
Motorola Inc. is cutting 2,600 jobs as part of an effort to trim $500 million in annual costs to cope with declining revenue. Many of the job cuts already have been announced, including 700 positions in Singapore, 355 in Plantation, Fla., and 60 in...
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.Aperto: Quicksilver Ventures led a $20 million equity round of funding into Aperto Networks, which makes WiMAX base stations...
The Mobile Marketing Association is teaming with ioglobal Inc. to measure the effectiveness of mobile ads.The Denver-based industry association said it is backing ioglobal's " Three Screen Trial," which will study the impact of marketing messages on mobile phones, PCs and television. The trial...
The nation's top two carriers plan to deploy Long Term Evolution network technology over their recent spectrum winnings. However, Verizon Wireless executives said an LTE rollout won't happen until 2010 at the earliest, while those from AT&T Mobility pegged a rollout date as far...
Cyren Call Communications Corp. said it never demanded long-term payments as a condition for a winning bidder of the 700 MHz national commercial/public-safety license, breaking its silence in response to news reports and blog postings that strongly suggested it caused the demise of one-time...
Shares of Research In Motion Ltd. surged after the BlackBerry maker reported strong quarterly revenues and offered a rosy forecast for the current quarter.The Waterloo, Ontario-based developer reported $1.88 billion in revenue during the fourth quarter, more than doubling the $930 million generated during...
I know there is a lot of news to talk about.During this year's CTIA Wireless show, we got to see a bunch of fun, new devices, we heard interesting discussions about 4G and the future of the world's network equipment, and we even got...
LAS VEGAS -- As usual, the CTIA Wireless show stood as a launch pad for a variety of new devices coming onto the market in the coming months.
First up is the Samsung Instinct, which is the handset maker's latest response to Apple's iPhone. The...
The country's two largest wireless carriers are stepping up their retail experience, with more interactivity and new design elements. AT&T Mobility is introducing Microsoft Corp.'s Surface at select stores, which the company describes as a 30-inch table-like display that allows customers to interact with...
Amazon.com is making purchases from its Web site as easy as sending a text message. The online retailer announced a new service called Amazon TextBuyIt, which allows users to text an item search term to "AMAZON." In response, they receive a numbered list of...
If MVNOs had a theme song, it would probably be "Another One Bites the Dust." Movida Communications Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy this week in a Delaware court, blaming a "costly and restrictive" mobile virtual network operator agreement with Sprint Nextel Corp. for...
Telecom policymakers and special-interest groups are fond of talking about ubiquity, making sure communications -- wireless, wireline, Internet and video -- are within reach of all Americans. Indeed, there are government subsidy programs that address this very issue. Take the stressed universal service regime...
She has been on your TV set for about a year now. If you grew up in the 1970s, the girl in the commercial might remind you a bit of "That Girl." You know -- the one with the girl with the new job...
A recent compendium of bank technology case studies from financial research and advisory firm Celent, asked the question, "What would it look like for a bank to do everything right with today's technology?"According to Celent, Wells Fargo was the first major U.S. financial services...
It didn't take long after the 2001 terrorist attacks for the Federal Communications Commission to get energized on wireless priority access service, which during emergencies queues first responders and government officials ahead of rank-and-file cellphone subscribers. The FCC issued priority access rules in 2000,...
While 'interoperability' and '9/11' have become mainstays in debates on how to improve the highly fragmented public-safety communications regime in the United States, a new survey reveals first responders do not regard terrorism their top concern or consider interoperability their greatest technological need.Moreover,...
The mobile enterprise world for years has been rife with talk of Trojan horses, data-soiling worms and other Internet-age nasties. For the time being, though, the biggest threat to mobile security is the user.Security technology vendors have long tried to plug their wares by...
Is the struggle for mobile security a losing battle?"There is no such thing as absolute security," former White House Cyber Security Adviser Howard Schmidt told an audience of mobile security businesspeople and analysts at the recent Mobile and Wireless Enterprise Summit event in Indian...
The adult mobile content market will nearly triple over the next several years, reaching $4.6 billion by 2012, according to a recent forecast from Juniper Research. But don't expect much of that money to come from North American consumers anytime soon.Juniper predicted video chat...
