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...
IBM released the results of a survey of 350 marketing professionals across a range of industries and geographies in which some of the key findings indicate that CMOs feel a disconnect between the marketing and IT departments. This is particularly important because the survey...
Nokia (NOK) says it needs to make deep cuts in its workforce, but that it will continue to invest in cutting-edge technologies. To that end, Nokia is actually hiring developers from mobile imaging firm Scalado. Nokia is also buying all Scalado's patents and imaging...
An estimated 84% of American workers use a mobile device, but just 22% of employers have a mobile security program in place. Some investors see the gap in those numbers as an opportunity for cyber-security companies like Check Point Software(CHKP), SourceFire (FIRE), Websense (WBSN),...
How many mobile wallets do you need? Many of us might say none, thank you very much, our credit cards work just fine. But service providers see a revenue opportunity in loading those cards into smartphones, and banks are paying them to do it....
As expected, Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference was light on direct impacts to the wireless space, with the biggest spotlight shinning on the company’s laptop computers. Those devices include higher-performance specifications, reconfigured auxiliary ports and in some cases crisper screen resolutions, but will not include...
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...
Do you really need a smarter smartphone? Executives who stake their careers on the answer to that question seem to think it's a resounding "yes," and they're investing heavily to make the next generation of smartphones faster and more powerful. Here are three ways...
With the PC market in the doldrums, one of the world's biggest computer makers is quietly making money by proving that it's amazing what you can get done if you don't worry about who's getting the credit. That adage informs Dell's OEM Solutions, a...
As the newly appointed president and CEO of Freescale (FSL), Gregg Lowe may be calling on a number of the same customers he visited in his previous role as head of Texas Instruments' (TXN) analog chips business. The two Texas companies compete head-on in...
Holiday weekends are usually quiet ones overall for business, and especially in the telecom world. Not this year. Between Leap’s iPhone announcement, Randall Stephenson’s wide-ranging discussion at the Sanford C. Bernstein conference,
AT&T came to the rescue of the proposed Band Class 17 proposal that would see a 3GPP standard for LTE interoperability across the lower 700 MHz band exclude the A-Band that is mired in potential interference issues.
In a report filed with the Federal Communications...
Google (GOOG) won a key court victory yesterday in Northern California when Federal Judge William Alsup ruled that 37 of Oracle's Java APIs are not protected by copyright law. APIs are the application program interfaces that help different pieces of code work together, and...
The Women's Wireless Leadership Forum is now giving its fellowship and scholarship recipients and their mentors an all expenses paid trip to the annual PCIA trade show.
"The opportunities, exposure, support and connections that our recipients will gain from this experience will be extremely beneficial...
BROOMFIELD, Colo. – It's a good thing a 15-hour buffer separated Day 1 and Day 2 of Gluecon, as many attendees noted brain rest was much needed after a packed first-day agenda.
The second day kicked off with veteran database architect Max Schireson of...
United States-based RCR Wireless News and Signals Telecom News, a Spanish language, Latin American telecommunication news portal with a presence in Argentina, Spain and Uruguay, are pleased to announce a licensing and syndication agreement. “This agreement will allow our organizations to provide our readers...
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...
Wanda, the mobile money joint venture between Telefónica and MasterCard, launched in Argentina, eyeing the millions of wireless users who don't have a bank account. Wanda is expected to reach approximately 10 million transactions by the end of 2012.
Announced earlier this year, the m-payment...
BROOMFIELD, Colo. – What do you call a gathering of the top technologists in cloud computing, mobile, APIs, and big data? Why, "Glue" of course! Because it's all about how the biggest trends in technology today are coming together.
Gluecon, as the event...
AUSTIN, Texas – Silicon Labs CEO Tyson Tuttle calls his company's $72 million purchase of Ember Corp. "the ultimate play in terms of home automation and wireless mesh networking." But he says it's just one part of a larger picture for Silicon Labs (SLAB)....
AUSTIN, TX. -- Silicon Labs hopes to spark its M2M ambitions with the purchase of Ember Corporation, a leader in 2.4 GHz wireless mesh networking solutions. Boston-based Ember makes semiconductors and software for monitoring and control applications including smart energy, connected homes, and security....
When Germany auctioned LTE frequencies in 2010, operators were required to first deploy the high-speed internet technology in rural areas before deploying to the more lucrative urban areas.
Now having met many of their rural obligations, carriers are complaining of bureaucratic delays for their big...
