April 2012

Schoology, which develops cloud-based learning platforms for schools and colleges, has raised $6 million from New York’s FirstMark Capital, bringing its total funds raised to $9.3 million. The Manhattan startup …

Nokia Siemens Networks reported late last week that its plans to maintain about 2,000 employees in Munich is set to be approved following the acceptance of a plan for those …

Openwave (OPWV), the software company that describes itself as “the inventor of the mobile internet,” is selling its mediation and messaging businesses to private equity group Marlin Equity Partners for …

Nextel Communications, owned by U.S.-based holding company NII Holdings, could lose its competitive advantage across Latin America due to delays of its 3G network deployment. Financial analysts have noted that …

IT consumerization and the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) trend are changing companies and as consequence, their IT departments. If a couple of years ago, a company’s chief information officer (CIO) was “the …

Like its archrival Apple, Google is giving shareholders a carrot. While Apple (AAPL) chose to share some of its cash hoard through a dividend, Google (GOOG) is doubling the number …

Nokia may be trailing Samsung in smartphone sales, but it definitely has a publicity edge this month with its on-the-street smartphone speed tests. Nokia representatives offer cash rewards to any …

On April 12, the Brazilian National Telecom Agency Anatel approved bidding documents for the frequency bands 2.5 GHz (to be destined for fourth generation mobile telephony and LTE) and 450 …

After 18 months working on the Vivo integration, Telefonica announced that starting April 15 all Brazilian products, including mobile, fixed, pay-TV and broadband services for consumers and enterprise segments, will be re-branded …

This week saw me whisk away to lovely Atlanta for the DAS Forum’s DAS in Action event. Now, this is not one of the bigger events on the yearly wireless telecommunications calendar, though I do give it credit for having one of the better names.

Senators from both sides of the aisle have come together to ask the Federal Communications Commission to give LightSquared one more chance. Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Senator Lindsey Graham …

All four of the major US wireless carriers have agreed to work with the Federal Communications Commission to disable lost or stolen mobile phones. The so-called PROTECT initiative will create …

ATLANTA – Regulatory issues took center stage during day 2 of the DAS in Action event in Atlanta this week as a pair of sessions touched on challenges in dealing …

With high expectations, Level 3 plans to launch its content delivery network (CDN) solution in the Latin American market during second quarter this year. The global provider of IP-based communication …

Brazilian telecom services providers, including mobile, fixed, broadband and pay-TV, invested a total of U.S.$11.81 billion (R$21.7 billion) during 2011, according to the Brazilian Association of Telecommunications (Telebrasil). The amount includes …

The LTE implementation in Brazil has been at the heart of several telecom market discussions, since Brazilian telecom agency Anatel might put the 450 MHz and 2.5 GHz frequency spectrum …

The world’s largest seller of mobile phones says its devices and services unit will lose money during the first half of this year as it struggles to make the transition …

ATLANTA – The wireless industry’s move to small cells has been accelerated by consumer demand for service in increasingly difficult places to reach with traditional cellular infrastructure. These locations include …

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.  More than …

After securing a U.S. $26.5 million in new equity funding to develop its regional business, Virgin Mobile Latin America (VMLA) launched its operations as a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) in Chile yesterday …

HP (NYSE: HPQ) knew it had to move toward offering public cloud computing if the company wanted to compete with major public cloud players such as Amazon and Google. In addition, …

Mobile is a key pillar for the German enterprise software giant SAP’s future growth. SAP is relying on mobile platforms to reach its global strategy of 1 billion users for …

Colombia’s government has unveiled its telephone number portability results. During the first three months of this year, 167,914 mobile users  kept their original phone numbers when they switched to a new …

Next time your mobile device asks you to update firmware, think twice before procrastinating that update. A new study on mobile device security found that roughly three quarters of the …