Mobile and Wireless Industry Reports

The Mad Ballmer remained out of sight for Tuesday’s keynote address before a standing-room-only crowd.Instead, a calm, determined Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp.’s CEO, offered a new, enterprise-friendly, mobile-device-management suite, touched device maker HTC Corp. with his magic wand and just …

For Verizon Wireless and its recently installed chief, Lowell McAdam, life seems great. Customer growth remains near the top, customer churn remains nearly invisible and the carrier recently unveiled new devices targeting fast-growing demographics as well as a certain “fruity” …

Facts are facts. Large companies are the main drivers for the wireless industry. If MicrosoftNokiaVerizonWirelessRIM want to push innovation, they have the clout, power and money to make something happen.But following a quick stroll along the show floor, I think …

Nokia Corp. is preparing to add a new feature to its mobile sharing site, MOSH, that will allow users to request specific content from the growing number of members and developers that frequent the site.SEEK will allow the MOSH community …

What’s plaguing the mobile gaming market? Pretty much the same headaches that have been there for years.Mobile gaming continues to struggle to move beyond what publishers have dubbed the “golden nickel”-the 5% or so of mobile users who pay to …

AT&T Inc. reported a strong quarter, adding 2 million net new wireless subscribers to bring its subscriber base to 65.7 million. Of its net additions, 1.2 million were retail postpaid customers, up more than 30% from retail postpaid gains during …

Sprint Nextel Corp. is expanding the reach of its Boost Mobile L.L.C. unlimited calling offer to an additional 10 states. The carrier said that, based on the offer’s success in trial markets in California and Texas, Unlimited by Boost will …

Cisco Systems said it has agreed to purchase mobile WiMAX vendor Navini Networks for about $330 million in cash and assumed options. Navini’s specialty involves the integration of “smart beamforming” technologies with multi-input multi-output (MIMO) antennas to improve performance and …

Litigation surrounding rules for the Jan. 24-scheduled 700 MHz auction has taken a sudden turn. Verizon Wireless filed to withdraw its appeal of the Federal Communications Commission’s 700 MHz open-access rule, only to have cellphone association CTIA immediately fill the …

Sprint Nextel Corp. is one of five companies to sign an agreement with the government of Taiwan to help speed the deployment of mobile WiMAX technology in that country. The memorandum signed by both companies in Taipei yesterday will enable …

The bloom is off the rose. And maybe it’s about time.A longtime stage for all sorts of hyperbole, the CTIA I.T. conference this year is different. If Monday’s pre-show events were any barometer, those of us in San Francisco this …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to Yay or Nay, a feature for RCR Wireless News’ new 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 …

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. …

Big things tend to start out small, or so the saying goes. So it was that Voice over Internet Protocol provider Skype Ltd. came out of nowhere in February to petition the Federal Communications Commission to extend to the mobile-phone …

The enterprise, like any individual, has to decide what it wants out of mobility in general and a device in particular before making a series of decisions. What are the needed applications? Should deployment be managed in-house or out-sourced? Should …

Despite caveats that smartphones and enterprise devices are only roughly analogous, based on whether the operating system can be modified to run enterprise applications, the North American smartphone market offers a snapshot of enterprise handset vendors and their wares. According …

If you’ve ever tossed a strand of spaghetti against a refrigerator to see if it sticks-and, therefore, is fully cooked-then you have a sense of what handset vendors and carriers go through each fall. The analogy is inexact because the …

Investing venture capital in wireless companies is at a turning point between money flowing to network-based investments and content-based investments, according to Tom Wheeler, managing director of Core Capital Partners and past CEO of wireless industry trade association CTIA. Wheeler …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to a special CTIA I.T. Show Daily edition of our weekly online feature, Analyst Angle. Every Monday at www.RCRNews.com you can find columns from the industry’s leading analysts, including iGR’s Iain Gillott, JupiterResearch’s Julie Ask and more. …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to On the Margins, a feature for RCR Wireless News’ new 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 …

Apple Inc. beat Wall Street’s financial estimates and said that it sold more than 1.1 million iPhones during the quarter to bring its cumulative sales of the popular wireless device close to 1.4 million unit since it launched on June …

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 –Bulgaria: Max Telecom has chosen …

As capital flows into the wireless space, the companies who are lucky enough to reap the benefits span a wide range of wireless ventures, from infrastructure to content. Among recent deals are those of Conterra Ultra Broadband Inc., which provides …

Sling Media CEO Blake Krikorian might think all of the content that wireless subscribers can get on their cellphones is pretty neat, but not if mobile operators and content providers expect consumers to pay multiple times for the same thing.“Consumers …

Carriers definitely should have a place at the mobile advertising table. But maybe not too much of a place.Mobile network operators and their content partners increasingly are looking to advertising dollars to help support flagging mobile data services. While $15-per-month …