AT&T Inc. is giving its 10 million broadband subscribers free access to its nationwide Wi-Fi network, the company announced. Previously, most subscribers were required to pay an additional $60 per year for access to the company's 10,000 Wi-Fi hotspots at retail stories, restaurants and...
Shares of Glu Mobile Inc. got a lift after the company offered to buy U.K.-based rival Superscape Group plc for $36 million.Superscape has gained traction with a portfolio of both 2-D and 3-D mobile games, and claims 135 employees in San Clemente, Calif., and...
The Supreme Court rejected a request by two national mobile-phone carriers to review a lower court's decision overturning a Federal Communications Commission rule preempting state regulation of line-items on subscribers' monthly bills. The move stands as a blow to the carriers, which have argued...
Disney and ESPN Media Networks have appointed Tim Connolly to the newly created position of VP of mobile distribution.Connolly has extensive experience in the wireless industry, most recently serving as VP of sales and business development at L.M. Ericsson, where he was responsible for...
The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.Carrier--Raymond James lowered its price target on Sprint to $14 after the company pre-released weak fourth-quarter earnings. Morgan Stanley lowered its price target on Sprint...
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.--Airbiquity: Acorn Ventures, Kirnaf Ltd., Shell Internet Ventures and Ignition Partners invested $25 million into Seattle-based Airbiquity Inc. The...
Apple Inc. declared its fiscal first quarter, the greatest in its history in terms of revenue and earnings.That unambiguous claim could not carry the day, however, as the company issued a tepid outlook for the current quarter, which sent its stock tumbling in after-hours...
Tellabs Inc. reported a profit of $6 million in the fourth quarter, marking a 78% drop from the $29 million it brought in during the year-ago period. Due to the lagging profits, the company said it would cut 225 employees from its workforce, in...
Verizon Wireless signed an agreement to purchase SureWest Communications' wireless assets in Northern California for $69 million, the companies announced.Under terms of the deal, Verizon Wireless will acquire the company's spectrum licenses and more than 50 communication towers. SureWest served more than 50,000 wireless...
WiMAX has come to the college town of Madison, Wis., thanks to a new network launched today by TDS Telecommunications Corp. with infrastructure provided by Alvarion Ltd. And in other WiMAX-related news, NextPhase Wireless said it has received approval from the Federal Communications Commission...
Text messaging is getting a lot of attention these days as society tries to figure out the appropriate rules to govern this new form of communication. Like most everything else, a one-size-fits-all approach likely won't work, and the etiquette behind texting will evolve over...
Editor's Note: Welcome to On the Margins, a feature for RCR Wireless News' weekly e-mail service, Mobile Content and Culture. Every week, the RCR Wireless News staff considers events in the wider business world and how they could affect the wireless industry.--Oracle pulled off...
Editor's Note: Welcome to Yay or Nay, a feature for RCR Wireless News' weekly e-mail service, Mobile Content and Culture. 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...
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--Angola: Alvarion Ltd. and Bridgewater Systems said they are providing...
Editor's Note: Welcome to Reality Check, a feature for RCR Wireless News' new weekly e-mail service, Mobile Content and Culture. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile content industry to give their insights into the marketplace. In the coming weeks...
AT&T Mobility is now selling the consumer-oriented iPhone by Apple Inc. as a productivity tool for business. The move may be in tandem with an anticipated introduction of Lotus Notes e-mail from IBM for the iPhone, to be announced at Lotusphere 2008 in Orlando...
The New York Times secured on-deck placement with AT&T Mobility. The nation's No. 1 carrier said it inked an exclusive, four-month deal to link to the newspaper's mobile site from its wireless portal."Consumers want immediate access to breaking news, and a wireless handset is...
Sanyo Electric Co. Ltd. will sell its ailing handset business -- and wireless infrastructure assets -- to Kyocera Corp. for about $375 million, the two companies announced.Sanyo's handset unit had been among the top ten original equipment manufacturers (OEM) in the world and a...
DirectTV Inc. introduced a new mobile site that will allow its TV subscribers to manage their digital video recorders remotely. The new offering comes nearly a year after TiVo Inc. introduced a similar service for cellphone users.According to DirectTV's Web site, the company's new...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We've collected a group of the industry's leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry. In the coming weeks look for columns from Current Analysis' Peter Jarich and more.In...
A top member of the House Homeland Security Committee advised Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin not to scrap plans to auction the 700 MHz national commercial-public safety license, despite the possibility no applicant will bid on the D Block now that the one-time...
Like L'Oreal, Sony and Toyota before it, T-Mobile USA Inc. is back for second helpings of user-generated ad spots from the contributors at Current.com.The mobile-network operator posted its program Jan. 7 on Current.com to help promote its two Sidekick handset products, the LX and...
A National Research Council report calls for more research into the potential health effects of long-term exposure to radiation emitted by cellphones and other wireless devices, with U.S. scientists anxious to gather more data on any risks posed to children, pregnant women and fetuses...
A Pennsylvania law firm slapped Virgin Mobile USA Inc. with a lawsuit claiming the operator misrepresented financial information in advance of its October initial public offering.The class action suit, which was filed by the Law Offices of Howard G. Smith, claim that Virgin Mobile...
