Monthly Archives: May, 2012

In-app advertising companies score big: LifeStreet and Vungle both close VC rounds

For most folks, news of heightened venture capital activity, especially when centered on a particular hot industry trend, should conjure a very appealing mental...

Nokia files patent lawsuits against HTC, RIM, Viewsonic

Mobile phone giant Nokia said it has filed claims involving 45 of its patents in the United States and Germany. The patent lawsuits take...

Mexican government revokes América Móvil’s $925 M fine

The Mexican Federal Antitrust Commission (Comisión Federal de Competencia or CFC –Cofeco) has revoked a $925 million (11,989 million Mexican Pesos) April 2011 fine...

Teradata acquisition of eCircle extends big data opportunities

Analytic data solutions provider Teradata (NYSE: TDC) announced an agreement to acquire Munich, Germany-based eCircle, a cloud-based digital marketing firm. The addition of eCircle...

Towers: FIFA World Cup committee asks Brazilian government, telcos to settle

The Cup Executive Group has asked Brazil's state and city governments to negotiate agreements by December with telecom companies to manage the proliferation of...

Verizon to expand LTE-based broadband service nationwide

Verizon Wireless is set to expand its recently unveiled HomeFusion Broadband offering nationwide beginning tomorrow. The service relies on the carrier’s LTE network and...

Prepayd enters white-hot prepaid space with WiMAX data

The domestic prepaid space gained a new entrant today as Prepayd Wireless threw its hat into the ultra-competitive market touting no-contract services running across...

T-Mobile USA set to lose CMO Brodman

T-Mobile USA is reportedly losing its chief marketing officer as Cole Brodman is set to leave the carrier May 25, according to The Wall...

Samsung investigated by Korean tax authorities

Seoul Broadcasting System is reporting that Korea's National Tax Service is asking Samsung to pay about $350 million (400 billion KRW) in additional taxes...

Motorola Mobility loses $86M in first quarter

Motorola Mobility (MMI) appears to be another victim of Samsung's dominance in the smartphone market. The company lost $86 million in the first quarter...

Amdocs primes the pump for CTIA, announces BSS transformation with Globe

Amdocs announced that it has won a 7-year BSS transformation and data warehouse modernization contract with Globe in the Philippines. The contract builds upon...

Hitachi’s ‘Unified Storage’ to focus on mid-sized companies

IT departments have to deal with two different categories of data - structured and unstructured (such as video, photo, social media, etc.) - so...

Huawei Global Analyst Summit: Enterprise worth $20 billion a year by 2016

After growing 11.3% in 2011, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., is projecting top line growth of 15-20% in 2012. This is an aggressive estimate in...

Analyst Angle: HSPA+ and LTE offer a unique opportunity in Latin America, Caribbean

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...

RIM woos developers with free phones

Beleaguered BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion (RIMM) gave away thousands of free phones to software developers today as it kicked off its annual BlackBerry World...

Will Allot’s acquisition of Ortiva Wireless kick off consolidation in mobile video optimization?

Allot Communications (ALLT) announced that it has reached an agreement to purchase La Jolla, Calif.-based Ortiva Wireless for an undisclosed amount. With mobile video...

C Spire partners with Dish on mobile capabilities

Regional wireless operator C Spire continues to make waves, today announcing a partnership with Dish Networks to promote Dish’s TV Everywhere products and DVR...

Windows 8 Nook seen as possible next step for Microsoft

Microsoft's decision to invest in Barnes & Noble's Nook has some of its loyal corporate customers wondering if the Nook might become a Windows...

Report: Domestic wireless market feeds jobs, investment; more spectrum needed

The impact mobile communications has on a country’s economy has been a hot topic of late as carriers around the globe scramble to free...

OCDA creates workgroup focused on big data, content management solutions

The Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA) announced the formation of a new data services workgroup that will focus on accelerating solutions for enterprise big data and content...

IBM unveils Mobile Foundation targeting $36 billion market by 2015

IBM (NYSE:IBM) unveiled Mobile Foundation, a portfolio of products and services designed to help organizations capitalize on the proliferation of mobile environments, at its ongoing Impact 2012...

Reality Check: The monetization of LTE

In today’s world of instant Internet gratification, speed is undeniably a critical component of the customer experience with a mobile operator’s service. How quickly one can upload or download things,

Reality Check: Four trends that will drive the always on, always connected world

For the past few years, at my direction, Accenture has studied usage of technology by consumers to identify major trends that might assist our corporate clients. Our most recent survey
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