Yearly Archives: 2011

Samsung escalates fight with Apple

Wall Street Journal | April 29, 2011 | Evan Ramstad, Jung-Ah Lee SEOUL—Samsung Electronics Co. escalated its fight with Apple Inc. over the appearance of...

TRAI’s latest proposals to cut interconnect charges may lower call rates

Economic Times | April 29, 2011 | Joji Thomas Philip NEW DELHI: Telecom regulator TRAI has fired the starting gun on radical changes in the mobile...

TRAI's latest proposals to cut interconnect charges may lower call rates

Economic Times | April 29, 2011 | Joji Thomas Philip NEW DELHI: Telecom regulator TRAI has fired the starting gun on radical changes in the mobile...

Panasonic plans to eliminate 17,000 jobs over two years in reorganization

Bloomberg | April 28, 2011 | Mariko Yasu Panasonic Corp. (6752), the world’s largest maker of plasma televisions, plans to eliminate almost 17,000 jobs over two...

Formal investigation of trans-Tasman roaming to begin

National | April 28, 2011 | Hon Steven Joyce New Zealand and Australia have launched a formal investigation into the trans-Tasman roaming services provided by the...

Ericsson chosen to develop first MVNO platform in Latin America

Ericsson | April 28, 2011 | Press Release Porto Seguro and Datora choose Ericsson as their partner for its quality, flexibility and innovation track record Ericsson...

SILICON VALLEY: Cavium's processors to power Palo Alto Networks

Cavium Networks (NASDAQ: CAVM), has teamed up with local network security company, Palo Alto Networks, to give a bit of a boost to its firewall...

SILICON VALLEY: Cavium’s processors to power Palo Alto Networks

Cavium Networks (NASDAQ: CAVM), has teamed up with local network security company, Palo Alto Networks, to give a bit of a boost to its firewall...

Verizon launches exclusive Android app for 'Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides'

Verizon Wireless has a new exclusive for its Android-device toting customers. Coinciding with the upcoming theatrical debut of "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger...

Microsoft attempts to lure iOS developers with new API mapping tool

Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) has somewhat of an app problem. Windows Phone 7 development is not as prolific as that of the major competing operating...

Verizon Wireless targets prepaid rivals in select markets

While the mobile market is indeed international in scale, don’t think carriers ignore local issues. A perfect example is a prepaid offering Verizon Wireless...

French firm invents RFID technology for underground water pipes

A French company is using RFID technology to avoid accidentally cutting water mains and doing routine maintenance on water pipes. RYB said it worked...

Carriers need to leverage network data to keep customers

Wireless operators need to start leveraging the data they have on customers to give end users a meaningful experience, and thus drive the lifetime...

Movers & Shakers: Oracle's president Catz will act as CFO; Meru Network announces new Senior VP; and more

Oracle Corporation announced that Oracle President Safra Catz will assume the additional responsibility of Chief Financial Officer. Ms. Catz's appointment follows the resignation...

1.2 GHz BlackBerry Bold unveiled

Research in Motion Ltd. (RIM) used BlackBerry World 2011 to unveil two powerful new BlackBerry Bold smartphones on Monday, sporting a touchscreen and...

BLOG: Israel is a wireless hotspot paradise

A lot of things don’t come easy in Israel, but Wi-Fi, thankfully is not one of them.

Clearwire nixes majority of backhaul agreements with FiberTower

Wireless backhaul provider FiberTower Corp. (FTWR) said it received its second early termination notice from Clearwire Corp. (CLWR) to discontinue service effective April 30,...

500 million people worldwide to use their mobiles as metro and bus tickets by 2015

Mobile communication is really going mobile according to Juniper Research which says half a billion people worldwide will use their mobile devices as travel...

Reader Forum: Nine tips for better wireless site development sourcing

With more than 250,000 cell sites operating in the U.S. and over 10,000 new sites being added each year, one might assume that selecting...

Apple’s Phil Schiller looks to emulate Jobs’ famous people skills

Apple's reclusive CEO Steve Jobs, while usually just as mysterious as the company he runs, occasionally grants the general populous an insight into his thoughts and feelings via personal replies to emails sent to his publicly-available email address (sjobs@apple.com, if you want to try your luck).

Reader Forum: The revenue conundrum with 3G/4G mobile services

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...

PSN hackers allegedly have details of 2.2m credit cards

As we mentioned last week, things just keep getting worse for Sony. Hackers gained access to their Playstation Network's backend on April 19th, and the service (along with on-demand service Qriocity) has been offline since a few days after the attack.

LTE LA: Telefonica and LTE

RCR Wireless interviews Telefonica's Renan Oliveira de Barros Leal (Executive Director for Strategy, Quality and Wholesale) at LTE Latin America 2011.

RIM sees sluggish sales of BlackBerry, cuts profit forecast

Hindustan Times | April 29, 2011 Research In Motion has sharply cut its quarterly profit forecast, citing sluggish sales of BlackBerry smartphones, which are facing...

WSJ: Hong Kong Exchange Rejects Carving Up of PCCW

Wall Street Journal | April 27, 2011 | Polly Hui, Kate O'Keefe, Fiona Law HONG KONG—Hong Kong's dominant fixed-line operator, PCCW Ltd., said Wednesday the...
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