2009

U.S. employers plan to keep their staffing levels relatively stable during Quarter 4 2009, according to the seasonally adjusted results of the latest Manpower Employment Outlook Survey, conducted quarterly by …

SAN DIEGO–A self-admitted “somewhat arrogant” vision to make San Diego the center of the telecom universe took shape in 1998 with the formation of the San Diego Telecom Council. Today, …

The telecommunications industry is in the midst of a massive upheaval in their attempts to satiate consumer thirst for all things wireless. This upheaval is most obvious at companies with …

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 this column is a chance for …

ATLANTA–Louis Gump is a veteran in the mobile content space, having spearheaded The Weather Channel’s wireless efforts since 2001. In July, he moved to CNN –the No. 1 mobile news …

SAN FRANCISCO – The spark that led Motorola Inc. Co-CEO Sanjay Jha to reinvigorate his company’s relationship with Google Inc. was similar to two drunks finding each other in a …

Editor’s Note: Reporter Matt Kapko is reporting live from GigaOM’s Mobilize show today in San Francisco, where Motorola Inc. introduced its first Android-based smartphone. Watch this space for live updates.T-Mobile …

That didn’t take long. A day after AT&T Mobility threw its hat into the calling circle ring Sprint Nextel Corp. unveiled its unlimited off-network calling feature. Though, as has become …

SEATTLE–Since taking over as head of the Mobile Marketing Association in January, Mike Wehrs has juggled international expansion, carrier cooperation and the more boring, but essential work of fine-tuning the …

“Marketing over the mobile channel has put some real swing in our outdoor dance program. Getting people to cha-cha-cha requires flexibility and fast action, all delivered through our text messaging …

Goals: With mobile social networking becoming the ‘next big thing’, Trilibis was in the midst of developing two community-based applications. These applications needed to be compatible with multiple various mobile …

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 will be funded by $115 million …

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 nation’s No. 2 carrier said it …

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

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 first 3G CMOS RF Power Amplifier …

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 in funding from GE/NBCU’s Peacock Equity …

Calix, the largest communications equipment supplier focused solely on access solutions for broadband service delivery, has announced that it has raised $100 million in financing and added three new members …

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 amount of its 3.00% convertible notes …

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 announcement follows news of Dr. Lee’s …

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 look at whether new spectrum is …

Cellular phones are, as you well know, ubiquitous these days. And for the past decade, the dominant players in the industry have been well distributed around the globe. There is …

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

WiMAX networks counted more than 3 million customers worldwide at the end of the second quarter, according to a report from ABI Research. The firm noted that the 4G technology’s …

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 the phone has sold in the …

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 market, leapfrogging rivals O2 and Vodafone. …