Monthly Archives: February, 2009

AT&T Mobility lawsuit tackles autodialing telemarketers, claims ‘annoyance and intrusion’

AT&T Mobility filed a lawsuit in Georgia federal court to crack down on autodial telemarketers offering wireless consumers extended automobile warranties, making it the...

Worst of the Week: My five-point plan to fix Motorola

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...

Nokia Siemens Networks supports LTE migrations: Infrastructure supplier touts upgradeable benefits of new base station

With wireless providers looking to enhance their networks during an economic downturn, Nokia Siemens Networks unveiled a base station that it claims can handle...

Verisign continues to streamline operations: Dumps part of Euro mobile messaging biz

VeriSign Inc. continued to streamline its business by jettisoning part of its European mobile messaging division.The Mountain View, Calif.-based company had established a mobile...

Handmark beefs up with FreeRange acquisition

Mobile application retailer Handmark announced a deal to acquire FreeRange Communications, a Portland, Ore.-based mobile technology firm, for an undisclosed amount.FreeRange offers a publishing...

UPDATED: Following iPCS court victory, Sprint Nextel to sell contested iDEN operations: Wireless providers could continue to spar in courtroom

Following a lengthy legal process, the Circuit Court of Cook County Illinois has ordered Sprint Nextel Corp. to sell all Nextel operations in affiliate...

RIM executives to pay $75M in backdating case

Four executives, including RIM's co-CEOs and chief operating officer, will pay fines totalling about US$75 million, the company said.

Certicom favors RIM’s richer takeover bid

Security software maker Certicom Corp said that BlackBerry maker Research In Motion had tendered a superior bid to VeriSign Inc, the latest move in...

Smarter phones require smarter employees

Now that retailers have honed in on wireless, realizing that it can serve as an integral part of its business, they've also begun to...

Wal-Mart’s sales top forecasts

Several retail chains reported steep drops in January store sales. But Wal-Mart sees some relief at its discount stores.

Motorola kickstarts internal 4G tests

Motorola has begun testing 4G Long-Term Evolution (LTE) broadband in the UK. The firm said the trial kicked off at a testing lab in...

Facebook steps into OpenID Foundation

Facebook has joined the board of the OpenID Foundation and will host an OpenID Design Summit later this month, according to a post on...

Politics in the App Store: Throw shoes at Bush gets denied

Although the 15-seconds of Internet fame surrounding games and videos parodying the George W. Bush shoe throwing incident have probably passed, an interesting new...

Digital TV transition to be delayed until June 12: Verizon Wireless, AT&T Mobility forced to delay 700 MHz buildout plans

Congress approved legislation to postpone the digital TV transition from Feb. 17 to June 12, capping a fiercely-partisan House debate today that forces wireless...

CBO: The full $6B earmarked for broadband might not be spent until 2016: Report questions economic stimulus’ short-term impact

A big chunk of the billions of dollars earmarked in economic recovery bills for broadband grants for wireless and other service providers likely will...

Alcatel-Lucent posts eighth straight quarterly loss: Wireless network vendor remains confident of turn around

French-American telecommunication equipment manufacturer Alcatel-Lucent posted its eighth straight quarterly loss, posting a $5 billion loss for the fourth quarter, which is the company's...

Maybe it’s good if AT&T buys Verizon’s divested markets

According to a Wall Street Journal report this morning, AT&T Inc. is very interested in acquiring network assets and customers Verizon Wireless has...

EA takes $368M hit on wireless gaming biz

Shares of Electronic Arts Inc. soared as the company announced cost-cutting measures after its wireless business suffered an estimated $368 million charge.The Redwood City,...

T-Mobile USA dethrones Verizon Wireless in J.D. Power’s rankings: No. 4 wireless provider outshines the new No. 1

T-Mobile USA Inc. scored a 755 out of 1,000 possible points in J.D. Power and Associates latest wireless customer care performance study, the highest...

Google’s new Maps play includes friend-finding feature: Others in the location-based services field include Loopt, BrightKite, Fire Eagle, MobiFriends and Tripit

Google Inc. is jumping headfirst into the location-aware social networking space.The Internet titan unveiled Latitude, a Google Maps feature that allows users to share...

New .tel Internet suffix: As if things weren’t complicated enough already

The land rush is on for the new .tel domain. The question is, why?The U.K.-based firm Telnic is hoping to create a "phone book...

MetroPCS launches NY area wireless service: Wireless provider hopes to lure customers with pitch to ditch their landlines

Dallas-based MetroPCS Communications Inc., the surprise winner in a 2006 auction of $3.6 billion worth of licenses covering the New York area, made its...

Who’s delivering e-mail to all those fancy smartphones?: Well, besides Research in Motion

Smartphones are no longer the exclusive domain of high-powered executives and road warriors. But what that means for the mobile e-mail space - which...

Report: UWB on the brink

The difficult economy has had an effect on the Ultra Wideband market, with 2008 marking the exit of four UWB chip makers from the...
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