Yearly Archives: 2009

Manpower Employment Outlook Survey Projects a Weak Hiring Pace for Q4 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...

San Diego nonprofit aims to drive business to the city

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...

Carrier workforce challenge: Balance

The telecommunications industry is in the midst of a massive upheaval in their attempts to satiate consumer thirst for all things wireless. This upheaval...

Worst of the Week: Did somebody step on a duck?

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...

Spotlight on: CNN mobile’s Louis Gump

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...

@Mobilize: Motorola anchors its rebound on Android and all things social

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...

Moto unwraps its Android OS smartphone

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....

Sprint Nextel adds twist to calling circles: New voice offering targets data

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...

MMA’s Wehrs balances big picture with nuts-and-bolts details

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,...

MMA Case Study: Mobile Enhancing the Performing Arts Center (Verizon Wireless)

“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,...

MMA Case Study: Trilibis Mobile (DeviceAnywhere)

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...

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...
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