Yearly Archives: 2012

Intel: Chips will connect to human brains

When Intel (INTC) commissioned management consulting firm Booz Allen to write a whitepaper on the future of mobile technology, the world's largest chip maker...

Worst of the Week: Yacht of fools

Every few months, or whenever the rumor mill is running a bit thin (never!), a new report seems to surface claiming that Apple is looking to become a wireless carrier of some sort.

Feature Report: Connections that count: The evolution of chips, devices and M2M

The convergence of mobile communications and broadband Internet connections has created countless new opportunities and challenges for wireless telephony. This marriage of technologies has...

Venezuela’s Conatel to auction 1.7/2.1 GHz band

Venezuela’s National Telecommunications Commission (Conatel) has announced an upcoming auction for three blocks of mobile spectrum within the International Mobile Telecommunications band 1710 MHz-2170...

Brazilian Foxconn employees decide not to strike

Brazilian Foxconn plant employees in the city of Jundiaí, Brazil, gave up going on a strike that was proposed last week due to...

Siemens Enterprise Communications accelerates collaboration as a service

Cloud-based solutions have become essential tools in vendors’ portfolios and a key pillar of new product offerings. Now, telecommunications are staking out a place...

Novatel sinks despite MiFi success

Novatel Wireless (NVTL), maker of the MiFi hotspot, has failed to connect with investors this quarter. Two analysts cut their price targets on the...

Atlantic Tele-Network (Alltel) surges 17% on positive Q1 results

Atlantic Tele-Network (ATNI), which operates Alltel Wireless, saw its stock price surge early Thursday as analysts upgraded the company’s stock following positive trends in...

Samsung launches Galaxy S III

Describing its new flagship smartphone as "a human product that understands you," Samsung today launched the Galaxy S III. The new phone will be...

FCC releases $300M Mobility Fund auction requirements

The Federal Communications Commission moved forward with its controversial Mobility Fund, announcing the release of a public notice with the procedures for “phase one”...

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...
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