Monthly Archives: August, 2011

Tech stocks slump amid double dip depression fears

Silicon Valley took it’s knocks with the rest of the U.S’ financial markets Friday, with tech stocks sinking significantly as fears of a double...

Sprint, StraightTalk ‘winners’ in my view

So with all of the economic malaise out there in the past few weeks, and a new commercial from Virgin Mobile that slams T-Mobile...

Tech stocks slump amid double dip depression fears

Silicon Valley took it’s knocks with the rest of the U.S’ financial markets Friday, with tech stocks sinking significantly as fears of a double...

RCR's Mobile News Weekly hits the Northwest, tackles AT&T/T-Mobile merger

In this week's mobile news weekly RCR takes a look at the recent developments in the AT&T/T-Mobile merger, spends some time up in the...

BlackBerry set to unleash Colt in early 2012

RIM is preparing to unleash its BlackBerry Colt running a QNX operating system but without BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) in Q1 of 2012.According to...

Telecom, computer jobs and wages inched up in July : Verizon Communications workers on strike

July employment numbers in the telecommunications and computer and electronic products sectors ticked up by 2,700 and 2,500 positions respectively, from the previous month,...

Wireless companies shed value following first-ever U.S. debt downgrade

The stock market is poised for a disastrous week, following previously disastrous weeks and a first-ever downgrade of America's debt by Standard & Poor's...

U.S. Cellular posts growth in customer losses, net income

Regional wireless operator U.S. Cellular Corp. (USM) posted second quarter results that showed continued strain for smaller players in the segment.The carrier said it...

Vince Papale gets public safety crowd ready for game day at APCO

PHILADELPHIA — To football fans everywhere and especially natives of this sports-saturated city, Vince Papale is a hero. But on stage here this morning...

ClearTalk signs up for LightSquared's planned LTE service

LightSquared added yet another regional wireless operator to its wholesale LTE plans, signing up Flat Wireless L.L.C.'s ClearTalk Wireless to a bilateral roaming agreement....

Reader Forum: Testing the cloud

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this forum...

Reader Forum: Always on, always connected – LTE and the connected world

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this forum...

Personal devices invade workplace; 37% of Brazilian use smartphone to access business app

Do you think your personal devices are more useful at work than those provided by your company? If you said yes, you fit in...

Android “most closed project” claims Visionmobile report

Google has found itsef under attack from all sides this week as rivals attempt to patent bash it and poke holes in its open...

Android "most closed project" claims Visionmobile report

Google has found itsef under attack from all sides this week as rivals attempt to patent bash it and poke holes in its open...

Google unveils Gmail calls for Latam users

Latin America Gmail's users can now make phone calls. Since last year, it was possible for U.S. users to  call any mobile phone or landline...

Mexico may allow bids on 2.5 GHz spectrum

The Mexican Secretary of Communications and Transport said that it may allow bidding on a portion of nearly 190 megazhertz of spectrum currently held...

Nokia Siemens Networks starts cutting 1,500 jobs

Reuters | August 4, 2011 | Georgina Prodhan Nokia Siemens Networks has begun cutting 1,500 jobs from the 6,900 staff it acquired with its $1.2...

Telecom Italia Reports First-Half Loss on $4.5 Billion Goodwill Writedown

Bloomberg | August 5, 2011 | Chiara Remondini Telecom Italia SpA (TIT), Italy’s biggest phone company, climbed in Milan trading after reporting that second-quarter earnings...

Alcatel-Lucent’s Patents May Be Worth $9 Billion

Bloomberg | August 5, 2011 | Joseph Ciolli, Matthew Campbell Alcatel-Lucent SA is giving potential buyers a chance to acquire its earnings for free with...

Telstra online portal for smartphone fleet management

Telstra | August 2, 2011 | Press Release Organisations will be able to manage their smartphone fleet more easily, track multiple devices and update mobile...

Taiwan market: Chunghwa Telecom relies on iPad 2 to hit 2011 tablet sales target

DigiTimes | August 5, 2011 | Chloe Yu, Adam Hwang Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) has set a contract-bundled sales goal of 100,000 tablet PCs, including iPad...

HTC July sales up 83% on year, announcing acquisition of Dashwire

DigiTimes | August 5, 2011 | Steve Shen HTC has announces consolidated revenues of NT$45.11 billion (US$1.56 billion) for July, up 83.29% on year, while...

Taiwan market: LGE and HTC to release 3D handsets in August

DigiTimes | August 4, 2011 | Daniel Shen, Steve Shen Both LG Electronics (LGE) and HTC plan to launch 3D handsets in the Taiwan market...

Bharti Airtel Net Profit Falls for Sixth Straight Quarter on Higher Costs

Bloomberg | August 3, 2011 | Ketaki Gokhale Bharti Airtel Ltd. (BHARTI), India’s largest wireless operator, reported profit fell for the sixth straight quarter on...
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