BROWSING: RCR Unplugged

We take a look at some of the weird and wonderful devices on display at this year’s CommunicAsia in Singapore:Mobile life saverWhile some people might feel dead without their mobile phones, some mobile phones are actually in the life saving business. Literally. The EPI...

It has apparently been a very good year for Chinese telecom equipment and network provider ZTE. The Chinese firm announced not only had it leapfrogged rival Alcatel Lucent to become the world's number two fixed broadband infrastructure provider, but also that it had just...

Buy Your iPhone at WalmartWant an iPhone 4G come June 24th? No problem, just head on down to your local Walmart, the coolest hipster budget supermarket on the block. That's right, because if you can't bear the thought of donning a pair of checkered...

With the World Cup kicking off on Friday, cell phones are playing a new role in bringing the games live to fans wherever they may be, and regardless of timezone.

According to an anonymous tip to the Google Operating System blog, the search engine giant is testing its own Google Voice VoIP service through Gmail. Indeed, we've noticed the new icons pop up on our Gchat boxes today.

For all the studies claiming mobile phone radiation gives you cancer, there a multitude more claiming they don’t, but something no one denies is the fact mobile phones do emit radiation, and that it is probably a good idea to minimize one’s exposure wherever...

A cabal of companies have thrown their weight behind the e-reading phenomenon here at Computex Taipei, proclaiming it to be not only the technological way forward, but green to boot.BenQ, Vishay, STMicroelectronics, Ralink Technology, Nationalize Technologies, Freescale and others have been talking the e-reading...

At a charismatic and device filled event in Taipei's Hyatt hotel on Tuesday, Intel's vice president and general manager of the PC Client Group Mooly Eden told a star struck crowd just why they wanted – REALLY wanted – an Intel Atom based tablet....

After an explosive day zero at Computex Taipei on Monday, day two had much to live up to – but didn't disappoint. Here are a few snippets from today's show.Intel and Qualcomm square off with dual core chip offeringsTwo veritable tech goliaths faced off...

When it rains it pours or – in Apple’s case – when it leaks, it floods, with news that yet another iPhone 4G has managed to escape Castle Cupertino, only to find itself dismembered and naked on Vietnamese website Tao Viet.The images surfaced early...

Arden Media Co. and RCR Wireless News announced the official launch of the RCR Unplugged Web site designed to take readers behind the scenes of the wireless revolution, providing news and analysis from an interactive and edgier perspective. Be it on our homepage,...

It's a good time to be a niche chip maker and Cavium Networks is spring boarding off its recent major growth spurt by releasing a new line of embedded multi core processors – the OCTEON II CN68XX line - for the next generation of...

Korean Telecom SK plans to release 10 new Android based smartphones over the next few months to battle against the iPhone released by its rival KT Telecom.The “anti-iPhone force,” as SK's team has been dubbed by the Korean Herald, aims to use Android platform...

Over the last decade, computing power has become much cheaper, more plentiful and more widely available. At the same time, some companies have been built on business models that require massive aggregate computing power. Think about Yahoo!, Amazon, Google or Facebook.

The Embedded Systems Conference, in San Jose CA., is hardly the place to look for simple, uncomplicated products, but small Danish company Nabto proved a welcome exception to all the complexity, offering rather ingenious answers on a tiny scale.The firm's name stands for “network...

The world may think Apple has blazed a new trail in the tablet space with its much hailed iPad, but one firm that isn’t impressed by the Jobs’ mob’s originality is Nokia, who says the Cupertino, CA., company infringed on some of its patents.So...

Sylvie Barak interviews Chris Treadaway, Founder and CEO of Notice Technologies at SXSW

It has been yet another disappointing quarter for Paris-based telco equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent, with the firm posting an even greater net loss than last quarter, citing problems with its supply chain.Alcatel-Lucent posted losses of some $660.3 million for the first quarter, up from the...

Skype will soon be rolling out a group video chat function for up to five people says the firm, and will also be unveiling updated subscription offerings for calls to mobile devices and landlines in some 170 countries.A Skype executive told the AP news...

Last week RCR reported that Nokia CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo’s next speech to shareholders might well be his last, but despite significant pressure on the firm, it would appear the Finnish firm’s board still supports the management team and its strategy.Reuters reports that Chairman of...

Speaking at the IEF conference in Germany’s the Technische Universitat in Dresden, Gerhard Fettweis, Vodafone chair professor told his audience he believed 100 billion cellular devices would be connected using LTE in less than a decade.According to UK based site TechEye, Fettweis’ predictions depend...

It hasn’t been an easy recession for Clearwire, but on Wednesday, the firm heartened investors with news of the firm’s biggest quarter yet in terms of new subscribers, revenues up 72% and expansion plans into more markets.The firm said it counted total ending subscribers...

Koreans, it would appear, are willing to pay over and above the established retail price for Apple's iPad in order to get their tech savvy hands on one before the official release date in Korea. In April, a lift on the requirement for Koreans...

Proving the old adage that “the enemy of my enemy is my friend,” Nokia has teamed up with Microsoft, to releas enterprise mobile software meant to threaten the likes of RIM and maybe even Apple.The Microsoft Communicator Mobile software is the result of a...