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Worst of the Week: Fourth-quarter bliss
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Subscriber data management reaches top of the to-do list
Editor's note: RCR Wireless News has teamed with Yankee Group to conduct a series of market surveys of RCR Wireless News subscribers to gauge their thoughts on various technology issues. RCR Wireless News will publish the exclusive results from our joint project, with...
Nuance inks Nokia deal for speech, text recognition
Nuance Communications Inc. announced a deal to provide mobile speech and predictive text capabilities "across a broad range" of devices from Nokia Corp.The world's largest handset maker will license Nuance's technology and partner with the Burlington, Mass.-based firm to offer open protocols for use...
RIM takes touchscreen market by ‘Storm’: Verizon Wireless, Vodafone to sell BlackBerry gadget, pricing TBA
Research In Motion Ltd. said today that its new touchscreen effort - the Storm - is due at Verizon Wireless "later this fall," pricing to be announced.The price of the device is, of course, the most critical bit of information needed to assess the...
Carriers need to enter ‘the cloud’ to keep their grip on subscribers
The most important weapon in the war against the dumb-pipe scenario may just be the cloud.Cloud-based services - hosted applications "in the sky" and accessible through the Internet, as opposed to native apps - are suddenly all the rage in mobile. The concept is...
Best handset, service selection ever: But will economic realities spook consumers?
The second half of 2008 already ranks highly for offering the most advanced handsets and most reasonable prices in the history of wireless. And myriad device launches are yet to come in October and November.In a word, the season is about getting smart, as...
Clearwire CEO pushes WiMAX’s promise: In exclusive interview, Wolff promises lower prices for WiMAX kit
CHICAGO - Clearwire Corp. CEO Ben Wolff stepped onto the WiMAX World stage in front of a packed house Wednesday morning. As audience members squeezed to find chairs or stood along the back walls, Wolff made the business case for WiMAX, as well as...
CBS iPhone app generates troubles: Eye-opening content shows up on Eyemobile for iPhone
Like a lot of news networks, CBS jumped on the citizen journalism bandwagon with a free iPhone app, Eyemobile for iPhone, to make it easy for users to upload news to its user-generated news site, CBSeyemobile.com.Interesting, though, the citizens' definition of "news." Karl Johnson,...
How many ‘app stores’ can the market support?
It seems you're nobody in wireless if you're not building - and bragging about - your app store. Apple got the ball rolling, of course, by opening its iPhone to developers and adding an on-device storefront, and its unqualified success has sparked a flurry...
So you want to open an “app store”? : What does the plethora of app store announcements mean to the world of smartphone content distribution?
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace. By far and away, the most popular question I was asked at CTIA earlier this month...
RIM’s stock tumbles on product delays, increased costs: Downgrades fly amid increased competition from Apple, Google
Investors slammed BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd. for the company's lowered outlook and product delays ahead of the critical fourth-quarter holiday shopping season, raising questions about the company's ultimate ability to play in a smartphone market that - with the arrival of heavyweights...
Worst of the Week: Loyalty and smartphones
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Visa, Sprint Nextel move ahead on mobile commerce: Nokia phone to run Visa offerings for testing
Visa Inc. outlined a series of initiatives with three big-name partners in an effort to make mobile payment services "broadly available" to U.S. consumers by year's end.Visa next month will begin rolling out m-commerce offerings for Nokia Corp. phones, beginning with the handset maker's...
T-Mobile USA removes 1 GB cap from G1’s data plan
T-Mobile USA Inc. has erased the worrisome fine print on the data-usage agreement related to its recently announced G1 phone, which the carrier unveiled with Google Inc. and HTC Corp. earlier this week.At the launch, T-Mobile USA outlined the unlimited data plans priced at...
Motorola a tough competitor: Nokia CEO
Nokia Corp.'s CEO, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, isn't counting out rival Motorola Inc. Although Nokia has benefited as much as any company from Motorola's stumbles in the cellphone business during the past two years, Kallasvuo didn't gloat Tuesday when he addressed the Executives' Club of Chicago....
Carriers sharpen customer education efforts
As device and service options become more complex, wireless service providers are increasing their efforts to educate customers. Sprint Nextel Corp., which has been criticized in the past for its customer care, has taken steps to enhance its "street cred." The carrier earlier this...
G1 backers tout Android’s openness: Exec comments draw line between Android Market and Apple App Store
T-Mobile USA Inc.'s new G1 phone will serve as a kind of one-stop shop for Google Inc.'s mobile offerings, but the device's prospects may hinge on the success of Android Market. The phone will integrate Google Maps (with Street View), Gmail with Contacts, Google's...
Google, HTC create a contender with G1: Analyst: Device can go ‘head-to-head’ with iPhone, BlackBerry
The long-awaited Google Inc. Android-powered handset by HTC Corp. for T-Mobile USA Inc. - dubbed the G1 - debuted today and its pre-launch reception appeared positive.Timed for release on Oct. 22 at $180 with a two-year voice and data contract, the touchscreen-and-QWERTY device may...
VIDEO: T-Mobile USA raises curtain on G1, world’s first Google Android phone : ‘It’s more of a consumer device; not an enterprise device’
At an event in New York today, T-Mobile USA Inc. and Google Inc. executives took the wraps off the G1, a device built by HTC Corp. that features Google Inc.'s Android operating system. The phone, which sports a QWERTY keyboard, touchscreen and Wi-Fi and...
Analyst Angle: Foreboding cloud coming ‘off the deck’
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We've collected a group of the industry's leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry.Another CTIA show has come and gone. There was plenty of talk of new applications...
Text-based search finds impressive numbers
Think Google Inc. has the mobile search space all sewn up? Think again.ChaCha - heard of 'em? - claims to have delivered search results to 1 million users since its launch earlier this year, answering more than 27 million queries via text message. And...
Worst of the Week: The Google Android hammer
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T-Mobile USA hits the gas on its 3G rollout: Carrier aims for 27 markets by the end of the year
T-Mobile USA Inc. said it's adding seven cities to its list of 3G markets in the next few weeks. And the industry's No. 4 player said it plans to offer its UMTS/HSDPA-based service, which uses its recently acquired AWS spectrum, in 27 markets by...
Google and T-Mobile USA to showcase first Android phone next week
The first handset to feature Google's Android operating system - an HTC Corp. model destined for T-Mobile USA Inc. - will debut at a media event in New York next week, on Sept. 23, according to T-Mobile.Google and T-Mobile will provide "details" on the...