April 2012

Leap Wireless (LEAP) saw its stock price plunge more than 20% early Thursday following release of its first quarter financial results that showed an increase in expenses to support smartphone …

Crown Castle International (CCI) says network upgrades by carriers helped boost leasing activity by 25% in the first quarter. Net income also increased 25% to $50 million, on revenue of …

NII Holdings, Inc. [NASDAQ: NIHD], which operates in Latin America under the brand Nextel, unveiled its consolidated financial results for the first quarter of 2012, reporting revenue of $1.63 billion …

Boosted by the growth of smartphone use, mobile banking is on track to become as common as Internet banking in Brazil during the next five to seven years, industry analysts …

IBM (NYSE: IBM) yesterday announced it will acquire Vivisimo, a Pittsburgh-based firm that helps large organizations access and analyze enterprise data.  IBM also announced that its big data platform will now run on Cloudera’s distribution of Hadoop. The announcements …

With the nation’s three largest wireless operators now having posted first quarter results, No. 3 Sprint Nextel appears to have pulled off a bit of a coup by adding more …

SHENZHEN, China – Ericsson reported first quarter revenues of $7.6 billion, a 4% decline year-over-year from the same period last year. The company also recorded net income of $1.31 billion …

China’s Huawei Technologies is signaling its intention to compete throughout the wireless ecosystem. Already the number two global provider of wireless infrastructure (behind Ericsson) and an up-and-comer in the handset …

Sprint Nextel’s (S) ongoing operational evolution remains ongoing as the carrier posted yet another quarter of mixed financial results, but promises of better days ahead. During the first quarter, Sprint …

Apple (AAPL) put a shine on the US stock market Wednesday, rising 9% and regaining most of the ground lost earlier this month. Fears that the engine of the mobile …

Wireless trade association CTIA shook up the plans for its annual spring event for 2012, pushing the shows traditional late March, early April timing until early May. In announcing the …

Google yesterday unveiled Google Drive, a cloud-based file storage, management, and sharing service. Its use in the workplace is inevitable and could present advantages, but it could also present some headaches to chief information officers …

Adobe Systems, Inc., (Nasdaq:ADBE) is moving to change its lifetime license model to a monthly subscription-based offering. Adobe launched the effort this week around the globe with Creative Cloud, a …

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 hot topics in the wireless industry. In …

If up to this year companies only investigated enterprise mobile solutions, 2012 might prove to be a milestone year for companies to finally include them in their IT strategy, Paulo …

It is well established that mobile data traffic is growing much faster than mobile data service revenues. One thing that really has helped mobile operators handle this traffic is

If AT&T Mobility is interested in the 700 MHz spectrum assets Verizon Wireless is looking to offload, it’s keeping that interest close to the vest. Speaking during its quarterly conference …

When it comes to mobile processors, Intel has been the industry’s sleeping giant. But the giant is now on the move; the first smartphone powered by Intel’s chips went on …

AT&T Mobility (T) looks to have hit an iPhone wall, with the iconic device still remaining a big seller for the carrier, but a greater share of new customers looking …

RadioShack lost $8 million in the first quarter, and the stock was off more than 10% in Tuesday morning trading. RadioShack has contracts the three largest US carriers, and its …

Gemalto announced it has been selected as the technology provider for Transfer, the service resulting from a joint venture between América Móvil/Telcel, Citibank´s Mexican unit Banamex, and Banco Inbursa. Launched …

After offering mobile Internet access using a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) model, Colombian operator Empresa de Telecomunicaciones de Bogota (ETB) has added mobile voice to its offering. ETB will …

In late February, I participated in a panel session at the Mobile World Congress event titled “Mobile Enterprise: Maximizing Workforce Productivity in the Age of Consumerization.”