Video Optimization

Qik has announced an alpha version of the Qik video-sharing application for the BlackBerry. The Qik application will allow BlackBerry uses to stream live video around the world.

T-Mobile USA this week launched the Google Android-powered G1 across the country. However, the device, which is built by HTC, is only available in retail locations in cities where the …

Broadcasting groups filed an emergency request at the Federal Communications Commission, effectively asking that a vote not be taken Nov. 4 to allow unlicensed devices in white spaces and that …

After many promises, it seems carriers have kept good on their word to pro-rate early termination fees. Well, all of them except for Sprint Nextel Corp, which has yet to …

Spending on mobile broadcast TV services is expected to reach only $2.7 billion by 2013, less than previous forecasts indicated, according to Juniper Research. The success of pay TV services …

Teaming up with FremantleMedia to give viewers a chance to win prizes from the comfort of their couch.

In this week’s RCR Wireless Newscast we’re taking a look back at the past 25 years of cellular. To toast this anniversary, we are replaying a keynote session from this …

Global IP Solutions released a video engine it said can deliver high-quality peer-to-peer videoconferencing on smartphones.

RCR Wireless News’ Tracy Ford offers a look back at the big news during last week’s WiMAX World trade show in Chicago. Though Sprint Nextel’s Xohm stood as the main …

Nokia launches its new flagship mobile handset, the N96, today, and as well as impressive photo, gaming and video functionality, users can also run the BBC’s iPlayer through an embedded …

While today’s cell phones offer a wide range of multimedia functions it’s sometimes difficult for users to make the most of everything the handsets offer.

NBC Universal deemed its coverage of the Beijing Olympics a “ringing success,” with its games-dedicated mobile Web site drawing more than 6.5 million unique visitors and 36 million page views, …

Mobile-video service to deliver on-demand episodes of popular ABC primetime shows.

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 …

Steve Largent introduces a study, produced by CTIA and Harris Interactive, titled “Teenagers: A Generation Unplugged.”; Harris Interactive; CTIA; Trip Hawkins, Digital Chocolate CEO, discusses his views on the media …

CTIA announced the beginnings of an effort to implement 2D bar-code scanning via camera phones.; bar-code; cell phone; CTIA; Bullish on smartphone growth and confident of his company’s surging market …

The show got off to a solid start with a well-attended keynote session, anchored by a discussion among the CEOs of Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile and Sprint. ; CTIA; Yahoo Inc. …

Programs like Meet or Delete and Engine Room, which are created for marketers and feature products interwoven into the plots, are becoming more popular among execs at TV networks. Such …

CMMB may not be the only mobile TV standard in China for long, as Legend Silicon is rolling out more new digital TV chips based on China’s terrestrial digital television …

Welcome to the RCR Wireless Newscast for the CTIA I.T. show here in San Francisco. The second round of keynotes here were basically just PowerPoint show-and-tell presentations. But perhaps the …

CTIA I.T. attendees were treated to a CEO carrier panel discussion, as well as a history lesson from two wireless veterans.; CTIA; carriers; yahoo; CTIA I.T. attendees were treated to …

SAN FRANCISCO — Full-track downloads are spinning their wheels and subscription services are falling on deaf ears. So Nokia Corp. and its music-industry partners are hoping music lovers will shell …

RCR Wireless News reporter Gary Salazar spoke with ADC, which both the Republican and Democratic Parties hired to help increase wireless coverage during their conventions.; wireless; DNC; RNC; ADC; RCR …

The 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing were touted as a potential springboard for mobile video, an event that could help push the application beyond early adopters and gadget geeks and …