Monthly Archives: September, 2009

Weekly Deal Round Up

Innovation Works, a business creation platform focused on establishing the next wave of Chinese high-technology companies founded by Dr. Kai-Fu Lee, has launched and...

AT&T Mobility adds details to HSPA 7.2 plans: Carrier also joins off-network bandwagon

AT&T Mobility has put numbers to its plans to increase the data throughput its customers should expect to see when using its network. The...

KeyOn Continues to Improve its Balance Sheet with Note Conversion

KeyOn Communications Holdings, Inc. (OTCBB: KEYO), one of the largest providers of wireless broadband, satellite video and voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) services in...

Black Sand Technologies Announces World’s First 3G Cmos RF Power Amplifier, Closes $10m Series B Financing

Black Sand Technologies, Inc., a fabless semiconductor company specializing in advanced power amplifier technology for wireless applications, announced that it has produced the world's...

iPhone Advertising Network, Greystripe, Announces $2m Investment By GE/NBC Universal’s Peacock Equity Fund

Greystripe, the mobile brand advertising network responsible for over 250 million ad-supported mobile app and game downloads, today announced it has secured $2 million...

Calix Announces $100 Million in New Financing

Calix, the largest communications equipment supplier focused solely on access solutions for broadband service delivery, has announced that it has raised $100 million in...

American Tower Corporation Announces Completion of Redemption of Outstanding 3.00% Convertible Notes

American Tower Corporation (NYSE: AMT) announced on August 27, 2009 that it has completed its previously announced redemption of the remaining $162.2 million principal...

Innovation Works, Supported by Industry Giants, Plans $115 Million Investment to Enable Chinese Entrepreneurs to Develop Next Wave of High-Tech Companies in China

Innovation Works, a business creation platform focused on establishing the next wave of Chinese high-technology companies founded by Dr. Kai-Fu Lee, launches today. This...

FCC to take closer look at spectrum needs for smart-grid applications

The Federal Communications Commission's inquiry into the role communications technologies will play in developing a nationwide smart grid utilities network will take a close...

Analyst Angle: Mobile convergence good for USA

Cellular phones are, as you well know, ubiquitous these days. And for the past decade, the dominant players in the industry have been well...

Palm unveils Pixi: Pre’s little brother heads to Sprint Nextel ahead of holiday season

Looking to ride the success of its highly touted if not hot selling Pre device, Palm Inc. this morning announced plans to launch a...

WiMAX: 3M strong and growing

WiMAX networks counted more than 3 million customers worldwide at the end of the second quarter, according to a report from ABI Research. The...

A new hero?: Palm Pre’s tenure as top dog at Sprint Nextel could be short lived

Palm Inc.'s Pre has been a qualified success for both Palm and its exclusive launch partner Sprint Nextel Corp. (I say “qualified” because as...

Orange and T-Mobile to create UK’s largest mobile phone company

Orange and T-Mobile are merging their UK operations to create the country's largest mobile phone operator, with 28.4 million customers or 37% of the...

Is the FCC drawing a new regulatory map?

On the surface, there isn't much to suggest that this newly Democratic-led FCC will make any radical regulatory changes in the wireless industry. There...

Movers and Shakers

Rajeev Suri has been named CEO of Nokia Siemens Networks. He will replace Simon Beresford-Wylie effective November 1. Suri currently runs the Services...

Huawei to double North American staff as it secures contracts with Clearwire, Cox

Fresh off network wins with Clearwire Corp., Cox Communications Inc. and Leap Wireless International Inc., Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. is on its way...

Verizon’s Strigl to retire

Verizon Communications Inc. President and Chief Operations Officer Dennis Strigl announced he will retire at the end of the year, leaving behind a fantastic...

Spotlight on: Goodman Networks: Firm aims to hire several hundred in coming months

Goodman Networks Inc. is a national telecommunications services company founded in 2000 that provides engineering, deployment, integration and maintenance services to wireline and...

Worst of the Week: Why won’t my phone control an angry mob?

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

Device news: Nokia unveils netbook pricing, Storm’s price drops and Boost intros slider

Nokia announced pricing for its 3G booklet would run more than $800 if it is sold without carrier subsidies. The world's largest handset manufacturer...

Leap stock rises on buyout rumors

Leap Wireless International Inc. saw its stock rise yesterday as speculation mounted that AT&T Mobility may want to add the flat-rate carrier to its...

CDMA specs will squeeze more capacity out of voice networks

Even as the wireless industry moves ahead to LTE technology, the CDMA Development Group is aligning its efforts to make sure that CDMA technology...

Wireless will be used to make electrical grid smart: Effort starts with smart meters, but moves quickly up the grid

Wireless technology will be used to help utility grids become smarter as the technology can help better manage in the delivery of electricity in...

VeriSign scores banking contract

VeriSign Inc.’s mobile messaging unit said it won a contract to offer text-messaging-based mobile banking services to Wilmington Trust. Customers can access banking information,...
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