Ever since Dick Tracy made them popular back in the day, who hasn't dreamed of owning their very own watch phone? Well, it looks like you budding super spies out there may just be in luck, as the VNA Group showed off its Kempler...
***The tree that tweets and speaks***If a tree tweets in Las Vegas and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? Well, a team of bored marketeers at Sony Ericsson apparently believe so. Yes, the CTIA ConnectedTree senses changes in...
LAS VEGAS—Even if the Federal Communications Commission didn't give the wireless industry everything it wanted in the National Broadband Plan, panelists at “The Evolving Wireless Ecosystem—What's Next in Wireless Law, Policy and Technology,” are excited about the plan. The Monday event, sponsored by CTIA...
LAS VEGAS – Few topics get advertisers worked up than the potential of the mobile space. Countless reports have been generated touting the billions of dollars just waiting to be made through mobile marketing and advertising, an amount that remains locked up in these...
After a week of fun, sun and rain at Austin's SXSW, RCR Wireless Unplugged has recharged itself for the CTIA 2010 convention in Las Vegas. As the US' premier tradeshow for the wireless industry, CTIA is the launch pad for a plethora of new...
LAS VEGAS—Playing a game of Tetris downloaded from Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Mobile application store costs $2 more than downloading the same game from the Apple App Store. With 35 applications stores globally, and many more expected to open in 2010, developers are wondering...
Palm Inc. shares dove more than 18% early Friday after the company announced an increased number of shipments to carriers during its third fiscal quarter ended Feb. 26, but a drop in sell through of devices to consumers. The results further cloud the smartphone...
AUSTIN, Texas – RCR Wireless News has expanded its news outlet sources with the launch of RCR Local Market News and RCR Unplugged. Taking advantage of the latest in social media and networking, both RCR Local Market News and RCR Unplugged will provide readers...
T-Mobile USA Inc. is attacking the machine-to-machine space with four SIM form factors to enable companies that want m2M solutions to use the one that best fits their needs, said John Horn, national director of M2M at the carrier. “Our strategy for many years...
A new consortium funded by the European Commission has been formed to work toward increasing mobile broadband infrastructure capacity density. The Beyond Next-Generation Mobile Broadband consortium is organized under the Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development. The goal of the group is...
Wireless carriers and equipment companies should benefit from the Federal Communications Commission’s National Broadband Plan while smaller local exchange carriers and TV broadcasters may be vulnerable, according to consultants Global Medley Advisors L.L.C.However, the details of the plan – how it is implemented and...
InterDigital Inc. updated its financial guidance for the first quarter to reflect a new contract and an audit resolution, which will add between $37.5 million and $38.5 million to its revenues. The company previously predicted it would report revenues of between $78 million and...
***Spotify consumes more data than Sweden*** Are you a hipster bandwidth hog? Do you stream ironic YouTube clips to your shiny iPhone, watch Hulu episodes of Battlestar Galactica on your Misfits-decorated Macbook and download gritty Velvet Underground MP3’s? Yeah, we all do it. But not...
It’s not very often that you find one of the world’s largest companies intimately involved in how telecom companies handle something as personal, though important, as customer care calls. But, that is what IBM Corp. is pushing through its SPSS division that is focused...
The National Broadband Plan delivered to Congress today calls for another 500 megahertz of spectrum to be freed up for wireless use by 2020, as well as an auction of D-Block spectrum and greater use of unlicensed spectrum.Federal Communications Chairman Julius Genachowski has been...
Google Inc said that it expects the rates that companies pay for search ads on mobile phones could surpass the rates of its existing PC-based ad business thanks to the growing popularity of powerful smartphones.Reuters
RCR Unplugged: Bits, bytes and buzz from day four @SXSW Interactive***Twitter briefing causes mass exodus***Bored hacks and hyperactive industry reps made a mad dash for the crowded exit shortly after Twitter CEO Evan Williams announced his "@Anywhere" platform. According to the pedantic Williams, new...
