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Time Trippin’: $500 iPhone!?!; WiMAX aims high … 6 years ago this week

Editor’s Note: The RCR Wireless News Time Machine is a way to take advantage of our extensive history in covering the wireless space to fire up the DeLorean and take a trip back in time to re-visit some of the more interesting headlines from...

Imagination Technologies brings video chat to Facebook (Video)

While AT&T customers are celebrating more cellular access to FaceTime, Imagination Technologies is marketing a competing video service to carriers -- video chat via Facebook. The company says its carrier customers are eager to upsell their customers with new communication apps. "There are...

M-health: 2.8 million patients remotely monitored worldwide in 2012

About 2.8 million patients were remotely monitored worldwide at the end of 2012, using a home monitoring service based on equipment with integrated connectivity, according to a new research report from the analyst firm Berg Insight. The number of monitored patients is higher than...

2013 Predictions: True mobility trends in the workplace

We are going through a radical shift in the way people work and use computers. Increasing availability and affordability of wireless broadband is giving

JDSU Webinar: Maximizing Your Wireless Network (and Revenue) by Detecting, Identifying and Locating RF Interference

RF interference negatively affects transmission coverage and mobile throughput, impacting the overall user experience. It is therefore, extremely important to perform a comprehensive analysis to promptly detect, identify and locate interference. This webinar will discuss this analysis at length as well as other aspects...

2013 Predictions: The year of the mobile enterprise app

If 2011 was the year of the mobile consumer app, then 2012 was the year mobile tablets conquered IT security in enterprises. So the stage is set for 2013 to be the year of the mobile enterprise app.

2013 Predictions: J. Gold Associates predictions for 2013 and beyond

Mobile devices will become the biggest users of “big data” and business intelligence/analytics by 2015/16 as users increasingly look for information to help them be more productive.

CES 2013: Breaking down the big news from CES

As has been an industry standard for some time, the new year kicked off with the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas where companies in the technology space unveiled their newest gadgets,

2013 Predictions: Small cell networks and services for a 2020 mobile world

As we’re kicking off 2013, we know this: mobile networks are becoming more capable and agile with the use of macro and small cell networks to better handle capacity requirements for enterprises customers.

2013 Predictions: M2M and the ‘Internet of things’ in 2013

We expect some fabulousness and some losers in this crazy world of the “Internet of things” and machine-to-machine. This topic may not be quite as dramatic as those of my associates Paris Hilton or Perez Hilton,

Enabling VoLTE: Broadcom shows off new LTE modem

Voice-over-LTE uses spectrum more efficiently than does 3G, so the nation's largest carriers are working hard to roll out VoLTE in order to get more use from their spectrum. Chipmakers see demand for LTE modems that support VoLTE, but these modems require rigorous testing...

Citrix taps mobile VPN to meet corporate security needs

After its popularity in the early 2000s when it was used to protect laptop connections, virtual private network (VPN) is back on CIOs’ agendas again—now to support their mobility strategies. As before when VPN was used for laptop connections made outside enterprises, mobile VPN...

2013 Predictions: Top technologies and trends for 2013

As we gaze at the crystal ball – or rather the crystal cloud – for the mobile industry in 2013, we see some significant technologies and trends that have the potential to transform

Time Trippin’: Auction analysis; economic uncertainty … 12 years ago this week

Editor’s Note: The RCR Wireless News Time Machine is a way to take advantage of our extensive history in covering the wireless space to fire up the DeLorean and take a trip back in time to re-visit some of the more interesting headlines from...

2013 Predictions: Strand Consult on what to expect in the mobile telecom industry

With the turn of each year, Strand Consult reviews the year past and makes an assessment about the year to come. For the last 18 years Strand Consult has provided strategic information to the mobile

SPONSORED: Mobile operators can enable personalized ‘anywhere, anytime’ services

There is a lot of talk about how operators should court non-traditional customers, but little information exists on how to actually monetize operators’ assets. Beyond the networks,

Broadcom licenses ARMv7 and ARMv8 architectures

Broadcom (BRCM) says it will license two ARM chip architectures, meaning that the California chipmaker will be able to design its own microprocessor cores based on ARM code, rather than just using ARM's pre-designed cores. Broadcom has a long history of designing chipsets based...

2013 Predictions: LTE roll-out to have limited immediate impact; social media giants to shake up IP-based messaging; smartphone penetration growth to slow

In 2013, LTE will become a commercial reality in many more countries, but will have limited economic impact in the next 12 months.

2013 Predictions: BYOD; death of the desk phone; over-the-top services; and more

It’s no surprise that the telecom industry has undergone a dramatic transformation over the last few years, and we don’t see this slowing down in 2013. The two biggest things that have happened

CES 2013: Qualcomm launches Snapdragon 800

Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs used his opening keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show to introduce the company's newest flagship chipset. The Snapdragon 800 is the successor to the hugely popular Snapdragon S4, the processor that powers many top-of-the-line Android smartphones as well as Nokia's...

2013 Predictions: Top-10 telecom trends for 2013 – What to watch in the coming year

2013 saw a raft of acquisitions, driven mainly by Tangoe burning their way through not one but two IPO war chests and buying anything that wasn’t firmly bolted to the floor.

2013 Predictions: The challenges for enterprise mobility

So, after following technology trends for 18 years and 15 years of mobile addiction, (I got my first mobile when it was too big to carry and my first BlackBerry in 2002),

CES 2013: Nvidia shows off Tegra 4

Nvidia (NVDA) is kicking off its week at the Consumer Electronics Show with a claim that it has the world's fastest mobile processor. The Tegra 4 combines a quad-core ARM Cortex-A15CPU with a 72 core GPU. Nvidia says the 72 custom graphics processing cores...

App wars: iOS and Android neck and neck

40 billion apps, 7 billion dollars and a quarter of a million different apps for iOS -- those are the numbers Apple is touting this week. The company says that users have downloaded 40 billion iOS apps to date, with almost half of those...