Monthly Archives: January, 2009

Best Buy names new CEO

Brian Dunn will take the consumer electronics retailer's top post June 24 when current CEO Bradbury Anderson retires.

Helio Ocean 2 finds itself in Mr. Blurrycam’s hands

Our friend Mr. Blurrycam has come through once again, this time with a handful of Helio Ocean 2 snapshots.

Financial ratings wrap-up: MetroPCS, Motorola, Freescale and more

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

Smartphones a bright spot for chips: GPS, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, 3G help in down year

No one can miss the dark clouds streaming overhead, but analysts say that without the expected growth in smartphone sales, those clouds might blot...

Riverbed snaps up Mazu for $25M

Riverbed Technology will pay $25 million to acquire a Massachusetts company in its effort to improve its Wide Area Network optimization products.Mazu, which is...

Hail to the BlackBerry-loving Commander-in Chief

So there I was in the front section on the west front of the U.S. Capitol, within yelling distance of the man who would...

AT&T’s ‘America Idol’ blunder a setback to mobile marketing industry: Boneheaded promotion infuriates some subscribers

Consumer-advocacy groups last week took on a host of players in the mobile marketing space, demanding the Federal Trade Commission look into the still-nascent...

Qualcomm bolsters holdings with $65M purchase of AMD assets: Chip maker buys mobile graphics technologies and other resources

Qualcomm Inc. agreed to pay about $65 million today for certain assets from chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices Inc., including intellectual property and the right...

Global Tower Partners picks up 235 AT&T towers

Global Tower Partners added 235 towers to its inventory. The Florida-based company bought the new towers from AT&T Mobility; the towers span across 24...

RIM rebuffed by court on Certicom offer: Mobile device maker founders on takeover

The effort by Research In Motion Ltd. to purchase encryption firm Certicom Corp. was dealt another setback as a Canadian court yesterday "enjoined," or...

VIDEO @ CES: Novatel Wireless shows off MiFi

Jon Driscoll, Novatel Wireless Inc.'s VP of global product management, sat down to show us MiFi, a new...

Can you hear me now? Maybe … during inauguration: Can you hear me now? The answer appears to be ‘sometimes’ during inauguration crush

Can you hear me now? The most appropriate answer in the nation's capital on Tuesday appears to be "sometimes." "I had to stand in...

RIM, Microsoft to launch storefronts

According to Venture Beat, Research in Motion is gearing up to challenge Apple’s App Store with its Blackberry Application Storefront.

Goldman upgrades Motorola, sees 50% upside

Goldman Sachs raised its rating on mobile-phone maker Motorola, Inc. ( MOT ) to conviction buy from neutral, saying it sees 50% upside to...

Is KT-KTF perfect match for merger?

KT, the country's biggest telephone company, announced plans to merge with KTF, the No. 2 wireless carrier, creating a mighty industry giant whose sales...

Why wireless Internet matters to small wind

If you ask Andy Kruse, the CEO of wind turbine maker Southwest Windpower, about technology, he's more likely to talk about software and WiMax...

Report: Search advertising to drop 20%

A new report predicts that the U.S. search advertising market will contract by as much as 20% from the first quarter a year ago....

Pandora adds audio ads

Pandora's free Internet streaming radio service just got a little less free. Well, it still doesn't cost you anything, but it is no longer...

Clear as mud: Now that it’s launched, Clearwire has operational challenges to tackle: Wireless provider targets mobile Internet space

With just two markets launched, Clearwire Corp.'s mobile WiMAX service is already facing an identity crisis. Unveiled late last year in Baltimore by joint...

Will the lions lie down with the lambs? A future for public-safety communications

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their...

Infrastructure awards wrap-up: Ericsson, Nokia Siemens Networks, Huawei 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...

Obama’s inauguration likely to break text-messaging records

Industry insiders say Barack Obama's inauguration today is likely to spark record-high SMS usage among U.S. mobile consumers. But the event may also serve...

REVIEW: It’s no joke, Skype allows you to make free calls from your cellphone

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Yay or Nay. Every week we'll review a new wireless application or service from the user's point...

Top Android developer quits Google

The engineering director who helped Google create its mobile operating system Android is leaving the company to join recession-friendly Coupons Inc. as CTO.

Verizon does about-face, voices support for DTV transition delay: June 12 may soon be the new deadline

A digital TV transition postponement appears increasingly inevitable, with the parent company of top mobile-phone carrier Verizon Wireless shifting course to support a limited...
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