Yearly Archives: 2011

Amazon drops prices to draw in Cloud Drive users

A few months ago Amazon surprised the world by launching its Cloud Drive and Cloud Player, a music locker service that allowed users to upload and store their entire music collection (well, up to 5GB of it) to stream and download as they wished.

UK Tabloid facing social media firestorm over phone hacking

Over here in the UK a long-running investigation has been taking place into the actions of the Rupert Murdoch-owned tabloid the News of the World. Around two years ago it was discovered that the paper had hired private investigators to hack the phones of celebrities in order to extract salacious gossip - however in the past 72 hours the spat has exploded into a full-blown national emergency.

Happy culture leads to happy customers

Editor's Note: John Williams is a human resource consultant to RCR Wireless News and TelecomCareers who is blogging on HR matters that impact the...

Indian operator SSTL focuses on data innovation

GUANGZHOU, China – While India has seen a rapid increase in the number of subscribers on its networks, the operators delivering service have not...

Mexico represents 21% of VAS sales in Latin America

Mobile value-added sales (VAS) in Mexico generated revenues of US$1 billion for mobile operators during the first quarter of 2011, said the second edition...

RCR Wireless News names Latin American editor in chief

RCR Wireless News has named Roberta Prescott editor in chief of RCR Wireless News Latin America, as the news group expands its global coverage...

American Tower receives subpoena from SEC

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued American Tower Corp. (AMT) a subpoena seeking tax-related documents dating from 2007 to current financials. This is...

Cisco launches new connected stadium Wi-Fi offering

Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO) wants to dominate the sports stadium and entertainment industry by catering to the end user and wants to...

Texas Instruments gets first Netflix HD certification on Android

Texas Instruments (TXN) released a new technology that allows users to stream content from their devices to larger screens via the Netflix...

HTC acquires S3 Graphics for $300M

HTC Corp. is adding 235 patents to its war chest in a $300 million deal to acquire S3 Graphics Co. Ltd. from VIA Technologies...

American Tower receives subpoena from SEC

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued American Tower Corp. (AMT) a subpoena seeking tax-related documents dating from 2007 to current financials. This is...

Capital Markets: i-Free Ventures Capital Fund; Brightstart acquires Flipswap; and more

Logicalis Group, the international IT and Communications solutions integrator, has acquired Netarx, Michigan-based solution provider. Netarx provides IT professional services including managed services,...

Every top five OEM's loss is Apple and Google's gain

As the mobile platform war turns, Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM), Motorola Inc. (MOT) and Palm (HPQ) all lost smartphone market share in the...

Pearce to replace Sukawaty as Inmarsat CEO

Satellite communications provider Inmarsat plc reported that current CEO and wireless industry veteran Andrew Sukawaty will relinquish his position to Rupert Pearce effective Jan....

Analyst Angle: 2012 mobile trends – mobile commerce, product ecosystems, location integration

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We've collected a group of the industry's leading analysts to give their outlook on the...

RCR Wireless News names Prescott Latin America editor in chief

RCR Wireless News has named Roberta Prescott editor in chief of RCR Wireless News Latin America, as the news group expands its global coverage...

iPass introduces Wi-Fi offload, roaming platform for operators

iPass Inc. (IPAS) introduced its Open Mobile Exchange (iPass OMX) platform, designed to offer operators the ability to integrate Wi-Fi with 3G and...

Microsoft looking to extract license fees from Chrome OS manufacturers

For a little over a year Microsoft has been extracting license fees from HTC for their use of Google's Android operating system, on the basis that Android infringes several of Microsoft's patents. While their claims have yet to be tested in court, Microsoft has been dangling the threat of lawsuits in front of other Android manufacturers, including Motorola and Barnes & Noble.

Analyst Angle: Google Wallet

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We've collected a group of the industry's leading analysts to give their outlook on the...

More than 1M Brazilians switch operators

More than 1.36 million Brazilians switched telephone operators but kept their original phone numbersin the second quarter. According to ABR Telecom, the association that...

Chile: 4 companies applied to manage number portability database

Chile’s Secretary of Telecommunications (Subtel) said that four companies – Telcordia, Indra,Informática El Corte Inglés and Neustar – presented technical and economic offers to...

Mexico’s telecommunications sector grew 12.7% in the first quarter

Mexico’s telecommunications sector grew 12.7% in the first quarter of the year, compared with the same period in 2010. During the first three months...

Rumours of Facebook’s death have been greatly exaggerated

Since Google launched it's new project, Google+, there have been many claims that it is a Facebook killer. The idea seems to be that...

Contracts: Tellabs & Celeste; Nokia Siemens wins 2 contracts; and more

TellabsFrance: With French broadband Internet service provider CELESTE to exclusively provide the nationwide optical transport network in order to expand its high performance and...

HTC posts record $1.56B in sales for June

Following rumors that implied HTC Corp.'s June sales would be down or flat, the Taiwanese smartphone maker has released record monthly sales a few...
- Advertisment -

Most Read