Yearly Archives: 2007

Lasky steps down at EA, joins VC firm

Mitch Lasky has left the world of game publishing and settled in the comfortable digs of venture capital.Lasky stepped down from his post as...

Cingular-Sprint Nextel quibbles spill onto NASCAR racetrack

AT&T Inc., owner of the largest U.S. mobile phone carrier, sued the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing Inc. after meeting resistance to...

Pocket plans nationwide roaming

Pocket Communications, a regional flat-rate carrier in Texas, said it will soon begin offering national roaming. Pocket said that as of April 1, all...

Medio to serve ads over Amp’d

Medio Systems Inc. joined the mobile advertising stampede, unveiling a performance-based ad-serving network for both on-deck and off-deck activity.Mobile virtual network operator Amp'd Mobile...

XO launches wireless LMDS service in Phoenix

XO Communications has started offering wireless broadband services in Phoenix, to expand its offerings beyond its fiber network. XO is offering the service in...

Inmarsat finances Stratos acquisition

Canadian satellite communications company Stratos Global Corp. announced it will be acquired by Communications Investment Partners Ltd., an investment company focused on satellite services....

Nortel posts $80M loss

After delaying the filing of its annual financial reports for 2006, Nortel Networks Ltd. announced that despite a 10-percent increase in revenues from the...

Alltel cooks up cable sponsorships

Alltel Corp. has worked out sponsorship agreements with several cable networks for programs on VH1, ESPN, Speed, the Discovery Channel, USA and CMT.The deal...

Pointer to acquire LBS firm Cellocator for $18.5M

Pointer Telocation Ltd. announced its plans to acquire Cellocator Ltd., a private Israeli company focused on location-based services and technology for cellphones. Pointer, which...

iLoop eyes mobile ad playground

iLoop Mobile announced the launch of its mFinity mobile platform, which enables customers to create and implement text-based and interactive mobile ad campaigns. The...

RCR@CTIA

The CTIA Wireless show is the most important U.S. wireless event of the year. With tens of thousands of attendees, over 400,000 square feet...

Zander bows out of CTIA keynote

Ed Zander, Motorola Inc.'s CEO, will not appear at CTIA Wireless 2007's keynote address on Tuesday next week, as originally scheduled.He may well be...

Nokia ratchets up legal tussle against Qualcomm with Euro filings

Nokia Corp. is asking European courts to declare Qualcomm Inc.'s patents in Europe "exhausted," freeing the Finnish mobile phone maker to sell handsets in...

mBlox to deliver flight-tracking texts

Global flight information firm OAG has tapped mBlox to deliver text alerts to travelers in the Star Alliance network.The pact, which will be announced...

Monday, March 19, 2007

Analyst Angle: Targeting Device-centric Consumers

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...

SEC goes after former Nortel execs

The hits just keep coming for Nortel Networks Ltd., this time from the Securities and Exchange Commission. The SEC last week filed civil fraud...

People

Cellular SouthCellular South announced it promoted four of its vice presidents to senior vice president positions. Suzy Hays was promoted to senior vice president...

OnStar may bleed subscribers: Cellular providers drop analog for digital; Lexus and Mercedes are also at risk

General Motors must dump 10 percent of its OnStar subscribers-about 500,000 users-because OnStar must cut off service to vehicles equipped with outdated analog telematics...

Qualcomm upbeat on prospects, despite legal ‘overhang’

Qualcomm Inc. remains positive about its business prospects this quarter, even as it girds for an unprecedented procession of litigation. The chip maker is...

DE lawsuit targets 700 MHz auction

A small-business lawsuit to overturn the results of the $13.7 billion advanced wireless services auction is back on track, with the 3rd U.S. Circuit...

National Geographic broadens reach with international MVNO

As an American who grew up in Italy, Sebastian Harrison always had two phones: one for use in Italy, and one for the United...

Digicel expands reach, technology to support continued growth

Caribbean carrier Digicel has been snapping up properties and is introducing dual-technology roaming for its customers as it expands its network reach and potential...

Revol trialing ad-supported mobile service: View an ad, get a discount coupon

Regional, flat-rate carrier Revol has started testing an advertising-supported wireless service that allows users to get a discount on their bills if they agree...

Barney says

The Massachusetts Democrat who chairs the House Financial Services Committee is as liberal as liberal gets. But if the wireless industry and other business...
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