Yearly Archives: 2008

FCC rules Comcast violated Internet access policy

WASHINGTON — A divided Federal Communications Commission has ruled that Comcast Corp.

France to boost competition in mobile telephony through MVNOs

The French competition authority Conseil de la concurrence (equivalent of the FTC in the US) wants the government to ease regulations governing mobile virtual...

Apple Puts The Kibosh On Tethering Application For The iPhone

Yesterday, a $10 application from Nullriver appeared in the iPhone Apps Store that allowed you to use the iPhone to access the Internet via...

Nokia to beef up venture fund, expand in China

Nokia Corp. is more than doubling the size of its direct venture investment fund with an injection of $150 million, with a view to...

Venture capital financing wrap-up: Celeno and deCarta

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

GSM growth to spur GPS-enabled handset proliferation

More than 550 million GPS-enabled mobile phones are expected to ship by 2012, according to a new report from ABI Research."While most CDMA handsets...

Femtocell market set for 2010 ramp up

Despite the buzz surrounding the femtocell market, 2008 will probably be a low-key year for femtocell vendors with only about 100,000 units expected to...

Moto makes profit, hangs onto No. 3 ranking: Handset spin-off will wait more than one year

Motorola Inc. managed to both pleasantly surprise the market today and disappoint industry observers who are looking further down the road.The company posted a...

Wireless History Foundation scores more support, announces details of Oct. 13 dinner

It's a big year for wireless. As cellular communications celebrates its 25th anniversary with a lavish celebration planned for this October, more wireless luminaries...

Qwest starts pimping VZW: Regional carrier steering new customers to new partner

The question was popped earlier this year and now Qwest Communications International Inc. has sealed the deal. The company has sown all its wild...

Worst of the Week: All hail Google

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...

T-Mobile USA to give parents more control

Thanks to a new T-Mobile USA Inc. offering, parents can give their children a different type of allowance each month, and it's not the...

Court Overturns Injunction In Nokia-InterDigital Dispute

NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- A federal appeals court on Thursday overturned a district judge's preliminary injunction ordering arbitration in a patent dispute between InterDigital...

Nokia cuts phone prices across portfolio: sources

HELSINKI (Reuters) - Nokia (NOK1V.HE: Quote , Profile , Research , Stock Buzz ), the world's top cellphone maker, cut prices of many of...

Top Four Mobile Games Developers Consolidate Lead

The world's top four games publishers are taking an ever bigger share of the market for mobile games, according to the latest report from...

Top 5 things to know about SMS advertising

If you want a marketing platform that offers reach, ease of entry, targeting and interactivity,

ZON Multimedia Signs MVNO Contract with Vodafone Portugal

LISBON -(Dow Jones)- Portuguese telecommunications company ZON Multimedia said Thursday its cable television unit signed a five-year contract with the Portuguese unit of the...

By the Numbers: Top Mobile Infrastructure Vendors

The companies listed below represent the seven largest global infrastructure vendors as of the first quarter of 2008. Rankings were provided by research firm Dell'Oro...

Open mic

Time was when the bloody white- spaces spat was nice and neat, with mostly high-tech giants seeking more spectrum for Wi-Fi pitted against television...

Garmin: Nuvifone is MIA until next year

Garmin Ltd. reported rosy jumps in sales in its various sectors - automotive, outdoor, aviation, marine - but its earnings and outlook disappointed analysts,...

Danger adds customization to Sidekick: Device is first since Microsoft acquisition

T-Mobile USA Inc.'s new Sidekick device is the first to launch since Microsoft Corp. bought the software company at the heart of the Danger...

Handset help: Nuance looks to embed customer care assistance into handsets

Nuance Communications Inc. is targeting carriers - and plenty of others - with a mobile application designed to cut the cost of customer-care calls.Mobile...

Sprint Nextel’s femtocell to go nationwide

Sprint Nextel Corp. will expand its femtocell offering nationwide in the coming weeks, the company said today.The carrier's Airave - essentially a small network...

Wireless revenues pop at EA, but not enough to please investors

Electronic Arts Inc. continued to grow its mobile revenues even as it disappointed investors with a $95 million quarterly loss.The publishing giant's wireless business...

Profit Up but Sales Down at Embarq

The landline telephone company Embarq posted higher second-quarter profit on Tuesday on lower operating expenses, even though revenue fell as access lines were lost....
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