Monthly Archives: June, 2007

Alcatel-Lucent shops content-management platform

Alcatel-Lucent unveiled a content platform designed to allow operators to customize the mobile shopping experience for their users.The Paris-based corporation said its 5965 Mobile...

Venture capital financing wrap-up: AdaptiveMobile, Hop-On, WiQuest and more

The following list includes venture capital and other investments into wireless companies announced during the past week. The value of the investment is included...

Financial ratings wrap-up: Verizon, Tellabs, ADC and more

The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.Carrier --Standard & Poor's Ratings...

Adderton splits from Amp’d

Peter Adderton, founder and CEO of mobile virtual network operator Amp'd Mobile Inc., has left the company he founded and subsequently guided into bankruptcy.An...

RCR Wireless News Podcasts: David Sprosty, CEO, Best Buy Mobile

It was loud and frequent complaints-"I'd rather make a trip to the dentist than shop for a wireless phone"-that ultimately led to the creation...

Study rates effectiveness of industry’s call centers: One out of five callers gives up; PC companies worst offenders

When customers call, marketers aren't doing a very good job addressing their concerns. That's the conclusion of a new call-center-satisfaction study, which found one-fifth...

Sprint Nextel renews chase for affiliates, snaps up Northern PCS for $312.5M

After a temporary break from acquiring affiliates, Sprint Nextel Corp. is going forward with the purchase of a small Minnesota affiliate for $312.5 million,...

iPhone to accept third-party apps: Jobs changes course ahead of product’s release

The Wizard of Oz can change his mind, it seems. Apple Inc. said that its forthcoming iPhone product will run applications created with Web...

Broadcom to buy GPS firm for handset location

Broadcom Corp. plans to acquire GPS know-how, products and software by purchasing Global Locate Inc., a privately held firm that currently supplies GPS solutions...

Analyst: Samsung positioned to steal Motorola’s No. 2 slot in Q2

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. could overtake Motorola Inc. in market share for the second quarter, according to projections from analyst Ittai Kidron at CIBC....

DT keeping ‘core’ U.S. operations

German telecom giant Deutsche Telekom AG has no intention of selling its U.S. wireless operations T-Mobile USA Inc., according to Rene Obermann, CEO of...

MetroPCS re-ups with TCS for E911

MetroPCS Communications Inc. extended its contract with TeleCommunications Systems Inc. for the company to provide hosted E911 services to the flat-rate carrier. The contract...

Faith West bringing improved sound to mobile gaming

Faith West is targeting mobile game publishers with new technology designed to improve gaming audio.The U.S.-based division of Japan's Faith Inc. unveiled mXMFTool, an...

Bluetooth SIG accepts Nokia’s Wibree

The Bluetooth Special Interest Group once again made an ally out of a competing technology, agreeing to take the Wibree Forum under its umbrella.Wibree...

Infrastructure awards wrap-up: Ericsson, Nokia Siemens, LGC and more

The following list details this week's infrastructure awards for the cellular, Wi-Fi and WiMAX industries. The contracts are broken down by transmission technology, country...

Ericsson rings up $1B contract with China Mobile

L.M. Ericsson announced it has signed a GSM expansion framework deal with China Mobile Communications Corp. valued at $1 billion. Chinese President Hu Jintao...

Another lawsuit: Nokia moves to spoil BREW, MediaFLO parties

If you were wondering whether Nokia Corp. would take advantage of last week's potentially bruising decision by the U.S. International Trade Commission to ban...

Notebaert retires from Qwest

Richard Notebaert announced his retirement as chairman and CEO of Qwest Communications International Inc., pending the company's selection of a successor.The company has not...

InfoSpace wins VZW biz while offloading content operations

InfoSpace Inc. scored another carrier customer for its wireless Web service even as it continued to beat a retreat from the content space.The Seattle-area...

USA Today to launch ad-supported texting service

USA Today is partnering with mobile search provider 4INFO Inc. on an ad-supported, text-message news alert service for mobile users.Consumers can register to receive...

AdaptiveMobile catches $14M for parental-control offerings

Mobile security software developer AdaptiveMobile said it pocketed $14 million in a second round of funding.Doughty Hanson, an early-stage venture capital fund, led the...

IBM agrees to buy Telelogic for $745M

IBM Corp. announced it agreed to buy Swedish software firm Telelogic for $745 million in cash to raise its profile as a leading software...

Analyst Angle: iPhone Impact

Editor's Note: Welcome to our Monday feature, Analyst Angle. We've collected a group of the industry's leading analysts to give their outlook on the...

FMC to generate $33.4B in revenue by 2012

Fixed-mobile convergence subscribers will number 170 million by 2012 and generate $33.4 billion in revenue, if cooperation increases between all the players in the...

Wisdom of youth

I've seen the future and it is advertising on cellphones.A bit dramatic, perhaps? Yes, but during a panel discussion with a group of college...
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