A new, faster Internet: Internet giants like Google and Apple are investing in making the Internet faster. A faster Web serves more content, adds and searches, which by end of the day means
In 2013, we saw the incumbents beginning to roll out or make progress in planning LTE roll outs to smaller towns and cities in rural America. This will catch fire in 2014,
"Ruggedish" smartphones is a global trend – and traditional rugged computer makers are best equipped to supply truly rugged smartphones and tablets: The cracked display is a common sight these days.
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...
With mobile data usage surging, wireless industry trade association CTIA released a tool that lets consumers see how much bandwidth many popular apps use before they download them.
The site KnowMyApp.org measures 50 of the most popular free and paid apps, showing how many megabytes...
Before we turn the page on 2013, we thought we would take a look back at the past 12 months by highlighting what we felt were the top 100 stories across the mobile space. Since it would be foolish to rank these in order...
Welcome to our weekly wrap-up of everything in the world of telecom software. The amount of news has slowed some due to the Christmas holiday, but that hasn't stopped Oracle from announcing a new acquisition and the results of a recent CEM survey. Google...
Before we turn the page on 2013, we thought we would take a look back at the past 12 months by highlighting what we felt were the top 100 stories across the mobile space. Since it would be foolish to rank these in order...
Welcome to this Christmas week edition of cell tower news. We cover top-level industry stories, DAS and regional/local news. After reporting so many climber accidents and deaths this year, it's exciting to be able to share the great news of a climber who fell...
Before we turn the page on 2013, we thought we would take a look back at the past 12 months by highlighting what we felt were the top 100 stories across the mobile space. Since it would be foolish to rank these in order...
Before we turn the page on 2013, we thought we would take a look back at the past 12 months by highlighting what we felt were the top 100 stories across the mobile space. Since it would be foolish to rank these in order...
Savvy smartphone users know the names of the chip companies that make the processors and modems inside their devices, but most have never heard of the companies that make the accelerometers, the gyroscopes, or the ambient light sensors.
“Sensors are the fastest growing segment...
You can tell it’s December by the last-minute shopping frenzy online and at the malls. But consumers aren’t the only ones lining up at the register. Plenty of mobile and wireless companies, apparently imbued with holiday spirit, have gone on a year-end shopping spree....
Oracle is paying $1.5 billion for online and mobile marketing specialist Responsys, marking the software giant's third acquisition this quarter. The software giant described Responsys as "the leading provider of enterprise-scale, cloud-based marketing software."
Other Oracle purchases this quarter include BigMachines, a cloud-based sales...
A study of 56 global airlines concluded that payments for transactions via a mobile device are now an important focus area for air carriers, with nearly 60% of participants saying that mobile has the greatest potential to drive revenue over the next two years.
The...
Welcome to our weekly wrap-up of everything in the world of telecom software. There's no real common thread in the week's news, but there's definitely a sense of gearing up for 2014 with new acquisitions, new software deployments and new partnerships.
Redknee landed an impressive $10...
MediaTek is gaining ground quickly in the fast-growing markets for smartphone applications processors and baseband processors, but Qualcomm continues to dominate. During the third quarter, MediaTek had 10% of the processor market and 12% of the baseband market, according to Strategy Analytics, while Qualcomm...
PayPal is diving deeper into mobile with the purchase of StackMob, a San Francisco startup that makes a cloud-based backend for mobile applications. StackMob customers include Verizon Wireless, Citibank, McKinsey & Company, Intuit, Atari, Accenture and the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.
Despite its impressive...
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...
Intel is buying the wireless assets of small cell expert Mindspeed, which agreed last month to be acquired by MACOM. Mindspeed said at that time that it would find a buyer for its wireless assets.
Mindspeed, which bought Picochip last year, brings to Intel...
Avago Technologies is buying LSI Corporation for $6.6 billion in a deal that will move the chipmaker into more parts of the wireless ecosystem, and expand its markets outside wireless as well. Avago makes RF amplifiers, LEDs, LED displays, motion control encoder products, and...
Welcome to our weekly wrap-up of everything in the world of telecom software. With winter in the air and the year winding down, it seems like everybody's either wrapping up unfinished business for 2013 or building out new opportunities to start 2014 with a...
More than half of mobile users first check notifications when they pick up their phones, and among women, the percentage is even higher -- 57%.
So says a recent survey from home screen messaging company Mobile Posse and Phoenix Marketing International, released as part of...
Welcome to the weekly wrap-up of everything in the world of cell tower companies. We cover top-level industry stories, DAS, and regional/local news. This week's news brings the sad news of the loss of another tower climber recently in Wichita.
In addition to this, we've...
