Monthly Archives: April, 2012

More than half of US smartphone subscribers now have Android phones

Google is gobbling up a growing share of the smartphone operating system market, according to the latest report from ComScore. The market research firm...

Viettel to launch mobile operations in Peru next year

Vietnamese mobile network operator Viettel Group announced plans to launch operations in Peru in 2013. Viettel plans to invest about $400 million in the...

Brazil announces tax breaks to boost economy; positive impacts for ICT sector

The Brazilian government does not want the economic crisis expand in the country. On April 3, President Dilma Rousseff announced new tax cuts and...

Mobile health: US doctors skeptical, at high risk of disruption

International management consulting firm Accenture released findings about different attitudes around the world regarding mobile and connected health. Doctors in the United States were...

Analyst Angle: Who am I? Privacy and Personal identity on the smartphone

Personal identity is an intriguing issue philosophy – I spent countless hours in university debating whether or not you are still yourself if you forget everything about your past, or your brain is moved to another body, or somebody else’s brain is transplanted to your body.

Connected classrooms: Qualcomm, T-Mobile USA and FCC focus on mobile education

American teachers are spending more and more time telling students to put away their smartphones, but that didn't stop Qualcomm from funding a program...

Sprint Nextel to offer LG LTE device by month’s end

Sprint Nextel (S) said it will begin offering its first LTE-enabled device later this month, with pre-orders scheduled to begin April 12. The LG...

Report: iPhone users easier on cellular networks than Android counterparts

To the potential delight of wireless operators, a new report from ComScore shows that a significantly higher percentage of iPhone users in the United...

Dell gets Wyse, then adds Clerity

April has already been a busy month for Dell (DELL) - the company has announced two acquisitions in two days. Wyse Technology is the...

MetroPCS tweaks LTE rate plans; potential for higher ARPU

MetroPCS (PCS) joined a handful of its competitors by instituting throttled data plans for its LTE-based cellular network. The offering includes four rate plans...

East Asian chip venture dissolves

The smartphone processor market is looking a little less competitive than it did at the beginning of the year. A team of heavy-hitters in...

TIM partners with Amdocs for residential broadband service

TIM Brasil, the second largest mobile service provider in Brazil, has partnered with Amdocs (DOX) to help with consulting, integration and implementation services for its new...

Cisco to invest $546.6M in Brazil, generate 800 jobs

Brazil represents a key global priority and growth opportunity for Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO). In recent years, the country’s Cisco subsidiary has been growing consistently,...

Paraguay’s Conatel calls for second consultation for 1700-2100 MHz auction

The Paraguayan National Telecommunications Commission (Conatel) has called for a second public consultation for the tendering of 1700-2100 MHz spectrum bands. The government has not...

Verizon greases spectrum deals

Verizon Communications (VZ) looks to be goosing its bid to acquire spectrum assets from a handful of cable companies by hinting the deal could...

Reader Forum: Intelligent packet acquisition at the edge — The key to gaining network visibility

Businesses, governments and consumers won’t tolerate even the slightest break in service in this age of cloud computing and mobile access to the Internet.

Army tests mobile apps for soldiers

The government is making it easier for members of the U.S. military to use smartphones to do their jobs. While members of the armed...

New Android security threat surfaces

Security experts are warning Android users about a potential new malware strain that they say has already infected more than 1,600 smartphones. DKFBootKit piggybacks...

Telefonica to merge Movistar, Colombia Telecomunicaciones

Spain's Telefónica(NYSE: TEF) said Monday it has reached an agreement with Colombia's government to merge fixed-line operator Colombia Telecomunicaciones (Coltel) with mobile operator Telefonica...

White Paper: Discover Best Practices for a Successful Cloud Service

Cloud services have rapidly moved from buzzword status to mainstream offering, but implementing a successful cloud service involves more than just buying some storage/computing...

Digicel Group buys Haitian mobile operator Voilà

Digicel Group announced it has acquired Haitian mobile operator Voilà from U.S.-based Trilogy International Partners for an undisclosed sum. The transaction closed last Friday. At...

Brazil’s Oi’s profit fell 80% in Q4 as restructuring expenses increased

Brazilian carrier Oi has reported a drop of 80% in its 2011 fourth-quarter profit. According to its financial report, the telecom operator’s net income was...

Oracle buys ClearTrial to bolster Health Sciences suite

Oracle has entered into an agreement to acquire ClearTrial, which develops cloud-based clinical trial operations applications. The deal is expected to close in the...

Reader Forum: What women want

At this year’s Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona, Spain, one wondered sometimes if large sections of our industry have equally lost touch with what consumers want.
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