Yearly Archives: 2007

Worst of the Week: What if. I was as rich as Bill Gates?

Hello! And welcome to our Thursday column, Worst of the Week. There's a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so...

SunCom reaches deal to reduce debt, pursues ‘strategic alternatives’

Regional wireless operator SunCom Wireless Holdings Inc. has reached an agreement with its bondholders to reduce its debt, and also hired a company to...

Aperto drums up $19M in funding

WiMAX equipment maker Aperto Networks said it raised $19 million in follow-on series E financing.The company said its total capitalization now stands at $139...

Sprint Nextel cuts price of unlimited text messages, offers family plan option

Sprint Nextel Corp. is undercutting other carriers' pricing for unlimited text messaging with a package that costs $10 for individual lines and $20 for...

Cellphone insurers reach settlement in class action lawsuit

A federal judge in Miami gave preliminary approval to a settlement in a class action lawsuit against Asurion Corp., one of several major cellphone...

McCain backs Cyren Call plan

The battle is joined.Cyren Call Communications Corp. and the nation's first responders found a big-time lawmaker to champion legislation that would redirect 30 megahertz...

Mitec retreats from U.S., inks deal with Broadband Wireless

Mitec Telecom, a Canadian firm that designs and sells radio-frequency products for the telecom industry, is closing its U.S. operations in an attempt to...

Sony Ericsson unveils India gambit, takes aim at Samsung with tiered strategy

Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications L.P., the world's fastest-growing mobile handset maker, announced it will work with Flextronics International Ltd. and Foxconn to make 10...

Comverse stock headed to Pink Sheets

Comverse Technology Inc. and its spinoff Verint said they will be delisted from the Nasdaq exchange after failing to meet financial reporting requirements.Comverse, which...

Dell’Oro: W-CDMA set to stomp into CDMA market

W-CDMA technology will enjoy "exceptional" growth over the next several years, according to research firm Dell'Oro Group, expansion that will come at the expense...

Thumbplay inks EMI deal

Direct-to-consumer content provider Thumbplay Inc. expanded its music portfolio through a new pact with EMI Music.Thumbplay sells ringtones, games and text-based services from its...

Sprint Nextel taps mFormation for device management

Sprint Nextel Corp. announced it will use technology from mFormation Technologies Inc. to remotely provision, configure, diagnose and manage its cellphones. The deal is...

Jabra to move offices, cut workforce

Headset maker Jabra will move its offices from Lombard, Ill., to Nashua, N.H., as part of a consolidation of the company's operations with those...

Obopay buys into ‘social money’ with BillMonk acquisition

Mobile payment company Obopay announced it bought BillMonk, a company that provides "social money" services. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.The companies said...

Growth in wireless market to boost telematics

The telematics sector could be on the brink of worldwide growth thanks to better wireless networks, devices and operating systems, according to new research...

Cingular dials up 15-cents-per-minute PTT

Cingular Wireless L.L.C. customers who have push-to-talk phones now have the ability to use the service on an a la carte basis for 15...

WIRELESS BLAZES AT DEMO: Mobile startups show their wares at semi-annual trade show

Mobile content and community were the hot topics during the opening day of Demo, a semi-annual conference designed to highlight emerging technologies and new...

Clearwire gets new chief of strategy

Wireless broadband service provider Clearwire Corp. named Scott Richardson its new chief strategy officer.Richardson joins Clearwire from Intel Corp. where he was vice president...

MyxerT eases image sharing

MyxerT announced the launch of its MyxerMagicT, a free Internet browser extension that lets users send any online image to their mobile phone directly...

Buongiorno expands U.K. presence with Inventa purchase

Mobile content behemoth Buongiorno Vitaminic is expanding its video offerings with the $1.3 million acquisition of Inventa, a London-based mobile video production agency.Buongiorno, which...

Cingular settles adware advertising dispute for $35,000

Cingular Wireless L.L.C. is one of three companies that has settled disputes surrounding online advertising practices in the state of New York. The wireless...

Ntelos posts robust Q4 growth

Regional telecommunications provider Ntelos Holdings Corp. said it added 9,773 wireless customers in the fourth quarter of 2006, an increase of 18 percent from...

Sprint Nextel boosts Rev. A speed estimates, coverage

Sprint Nextel Corp. increased its estimates for the speed of its CDMA2000 1x EV-DO Revision A network, and expanded coverage in several markets including...

Sprint Nextel slashes price on CDMA/iDEN ‘Blend’ phone

On the heels of a phone launch it declared a "linchpin" in its efforts to maintain high-value iDEN subscribers while migrating them to its...

Carl Icahn: Motorola’s new backseat driver?

Carl Icahn wants a seat on the board of directors at Motorola Inc., the company acknowledged in a statement.Icahn and business interests he controls...
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