Monthly Archives: March, 2012

Qualcomm, Broadcom, TI coming on strong in semiconductor market

Intel (INTC) and Samsung (SSNLF) continue to dominate the global semiconductor market, but Qualcomm (QCOM), Texas Instruments (TXN), Broadcom (BCOM) and nVidia (NVDA) are...

White Paper: Deploy Fiber-Based Ethernet Backhaul Without Disrupting Your Business

Deploy Fiber-Based Ethernet Backhaul Without Disrupting Your Business. Have you considered migrating your backhaul network to Ethernet? Worried it will negatively impacting your business?...

Sonda IT ties mobility, cloud into “as a service” solutions

Following the mobile and cloud trends in corporate applications, the Brazilian Sonda IT, owned by the Chilean Sonda, set its portfolio to meet companies’...

Costa Rica’s Claro, Movistar request to postpone network deployment

América Móvil's Claro and Telefónica's Movistar, new entrants to Costa Rica’s wireless market, have appealed to the Ministry of Environment, Energy and Telecommunications (Minaet)...

IDC: emerging markets will drive worldwide smartphone growth

Emerging markets will drive growth in worldwide smartphone sales in the years ahead, International Data Corporation (IDC) said in a recent survey entitled the...

Reader Forum: Going mobile – Why mobile-optimized websites will make or break a company

If you look around as you shop in a store and find people using their phones, you may not guess what one-third of them are doing.

Reader Forum: The middle mile – Enabling the smart grid with 4G

A new era of energy services is on the horizon. Soon, utilities and municipalities will have the capability to support activity such as demand control, video monitoring of grid assets, real-time information access for customer service and mobile technician.

Nokia Siemens, German union agree on plan to keep 2,000 jobs in Munich

Nokia Siemens Networks and German trade union IG Metall said they have reached an agreement that would maintain 2,000 jobs in Munich if a...

67 million LTE phones projected to ship this year

Calling 2012 a "breakout year for 4G LTE technology," Strategy Analytics today released a report predicting tenfold growth this year in shipments of LTE...

Tax breaks help bring Apple jobs to Austin

As the company that revolutionized the mobile industry and continues to set the bar, Apple has no problem getting an audience with local and...

Worst of the Week: Sticks and stones … may sink my stock price

This week we were reminded again of the power of words. And in this case when I say we, I mean Sprint Nextel’s stock price. And when I say “words” I mean “underperform.”

Colombia starts 4G auction process; tender open to foreign carriers

Colombia’s Ministry of Information Technology and Communication published for industry comments the draft resolution for the auction of spectrum in the 1.7/2.1 GHz, 2.5...

Qualcomm, Telefónica partner to drive 3G, smartphone adoption in Latin America

Qualcomm and Telefónica announced an agreement focused on fostering the adoption of 3G and smartphones throughout Latin America. Under terms of the agreement, both...

Mobile phones, tablets boost Latin American digital traffic

A new report from ComScore states that Latin America’s online population grew faster than in any other global region in 2011, rising 16% to...

T-Mobile USA to shut 7 call centers, cut 1,900 jobs

T-Mobile USA, which has made a name for itself in garnering customer service accolades from the likes of J.D. Power and Associates, said it...

FCC tackles 2 GHz, 700 MHz band issues

Federal Communications Commission attempts to infuse spectrum assets into the wireless space while at the same time maintaining an open, competitive environment took center...

RCA continues fight against Verizon spectrum deals

The Rural Cellular Association continued its fight against Verizon Communications (VZ) attempt to acquire spectrum assets from a handful of cable companies. The association,...

Phone loss on the rise, police chiefs ask FCC to help

If you've made it through a year without losing your phone, you're beating the odds. That's according to statistics from the mobile security experts...

App battles: Google hires Javascript community leader to push for Web apps

Addy Osmani, an author who helped popularize Backbone.js, the javascript framework used for fast-growing mobile apps by Foursquare, Soundcloud, 37Signals and others, has been...

Hit game ‘Draw Something’ lands at Zynga in $200M deal

Six weeks, $200 million. That's the story for Draw Something, the run-away hit mobile game that has been dominating downloads on both Apple and...

Ericsson increases stake in LG-Ericsson JV

Ericsson (ERIC) pushed deeper into its joint venture with LG Electronics, announcing today that it has increased its stake in LG-Ericsson from 50% to...

NEC to pay $450M for Convergys’ BSS business

Japan's NEC agreed to acquire Convergys' information management business for $499 million. NEC said the purchase complements its NetCracker Technology acquisition and solidifies its...

Brazil’s Datora Telecom searches for more MVNO partners

Despite a lack of commercial launches, Brazil's mobile virtual network operator  space seems to be cooking. At this point security insurance company Porto Seguro and...

Brazil to reach 124M mobile broadband connections by 2014

While mobile broadband connections increased 26.2% worldwide in 2011 compared to the previous year, Brazil grew 99.3%. The country ended 2011 with 41.1 million...

GSMA moves to simplify Wi-Fi experience

The GSMA is making a commitment to Wi-Fi, partnering with the Wireless Broadband Alliance to make mobile roaming easier for consumers. Together the two...
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