Alternative location technologies such as Wi-Fi and Cell-ID will increasingly join GPS in new location-based service (LBS) applications in cellphones and other handheld devices, ABI Research concluded in a new report.
Just one week after reassuring investors, customers and fans that he is fundamentally healthy but undergoing treatment for a hormone imbalance, Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs announced this afternoon that he would take a medical leave of absence until June. Jobs cited the "distraction"...
Motorola Inc. today said it shipped only 19 million handsets in the fourth quarter of 2008, down from 25.4 million in the third quarter and less than half the 40 million handsets shipped during the fourth quarter of 2007.The company also said it would...
A top tech member of the Obama transition team today said the broadband component of the increasingly contentious economic stimulus package in Congress is not designed to completely meet the president-elect's overarching goal of increasing the availability of high-speed Internet connections - in part...
The Department of Justice said AT&T Inc. must pay more than $2 million to settle a government lawsuit alleging violations of two court orders in connection with the company's $2.8 billion purchase of Dobson Communications Corp. last year."It is imperative that companies fully abide...
The Department of Justice said AT&T Inc. must pay more than $2 million to settle a government lawsuit alleging violations of two court orders in connection with the company's $2.8 billion purchase of Dobson Communications Corp. last year."It is imperative that companies fully abide...
United Airlines has become the latest carrier to agree to offer Aircell L.L.C.'s Gogo in-flight Internet services to its passengers.The airline will offer the air-to-ground broadband service in the second half of this year on some transcontinental flights between New York and California, Aircell...
As the market digests news of Nortel's financial failings, a new report forecasts the rest of the global telecom equipment vendor market also will have to gird for a rough 2009 - with some players remaining relatively unscathed while others could be forced into...
With the machine-to-machine market projected to boom in the coming years, Numerex Corp. is finding a simple way to sell its services to potential customers: The "Numerex DNA" stands for device, network and applications. The company aims to deliver all three to customers, regardless...
Upon its filing for bankruptcy, the future for Nortel Networks Corp. looks cloudy, as analysts now speculate whether the company can stay in business, sell assets or even be bought out by a competitor.The Canadian telecommunications giant filed for bankruptcy today for protection from...
Attention mobile video entrepreneurs: One of the top executives at leading venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers is eager to find a mobile video company that offers "truly mobile video," and he hasn't seen it yet."We need to think what is mobile...
The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.Carriers--Morgan Stanley downgraded Qwest Communications to equal weight from overweight after recent outperformance on the stock market, limiting further outperformance potential.--RBC Capital Markets downgraded Embarq...
Electronic Arts, one of the largest game software and mobile gaming companies in the world, is said to be considering an acquisition of cross town rival Glu Mobile. While this is not the first time such talk has surfaced, the timing and concurrent market...
Regional department store chain Gottschalks Inc. said on Wednesday it filed to reorganize under bankruptcy protection, while apparel chain Goody's LLC plans to liquidate its remaining 282 stores in a return to Chapter 11.
Circuit City Stores concluded the first day of an auction and said it was still in talks with bidders regarding a potential sale of the company or certain assets.
This week AT&T Wireless sent a text message to a "significant number" of its 75 million customers, promoting the Tuesday premier of American Idol , a popular show where Americans compete for pop stardom.
Airport newsstands sell porn. That's what I think of whenever I hear skeptics talk about an over-hyped market for adult mobile content. It's tough to imagine more difficult or awkward place to, um, consume the salacious stuff than an airport - or, worse, an...
Privacy groups have stepped up their efforts in calling for federal regulation to rein in mobile marketing practices the organizations deem "unfair" and "deceptive" to handset users.The Center for Digital Democracy and the U.S. Public Interest Research Group filed a complaint today calling...
In about two weeks, when the world's leading handset vendors deliver their earnings statements for fourth-quarter 2008, analysts will be expecting not just numbers but some critical commentary to understand how the world may have changed. With mobile phones and service increasingly becoming a...
President-elect Barack Obama plans this week to nominate former telecom policymaker and tech entrepreneur Julius Genachowski as the next chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, according to knowledgeable sources.Genachowski, a Harvard Law School classmate of Obama's who is a tech adviser on the presidential...
While there's much talk in official Washington about including stimulus funding and incentives for broadband deployment (and more recently about setting aside a portion of the package's $775 billion total for a national dual-use 700 MHz network and the troubled DTV transition), it appears...
T-Mobile USA Inc. has pulled its TV spots starring Charles Barkley following the basketball great's drunken-driving arrest on New Year's Eve.In a statement, a T-Mobile spokesman noted that the campaign featuring Barkley has been successful, but "given the recent developments, for the time being,...
