Alcatel-Lucent and Accenture have formed the Accenture Alcatel-Lucent Business Group to design and build customer care operations for IP networks. The group will focus on mobile customer care solutions based on Alcatel-Lucent's Motive Line of products. Motive was a Texas software startup acquired by...
A town in the heart of Silicon Valley looks like a pioneer in facilitating outdoor distributed antenna systems (oDAS). The city council of Mountain View has voted to allow AT&T and DAS provider ExteNet Systems to place antennas atop utility poles, even though it...
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AT&T and Amazon are teaming up to offer secure access to the cloud. Together the companies will extend AT&T NetBond to Amazon Web Services, the world's largest cloud provider by a wide margin. AT&T's NetBond offers companies secure virtual private networks, and already...
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Update: Verizon Wireless said today that it will not implement the LTE network optimization that was set to take effect October 1.
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October 1 — Starting today, Verizon Wireless customers who use more than 4.7 GB of monthly data on an unlimited plan...
Alcatel-Lucent, currently ranked as the leading vendor of small cell equipment, has a new partnership that will put more small cells on urban "street furniture," such as bus stops, benches and billboards. Alcatel-Lucent has partnered with its neighbor in Paris, JCDecaux, which calls itself...
RF engineers are learning that experience with DAS can open doors when it comes to finding a new position. Twenty-seven percent of the RF engineering jobs posted on telecomcareers.net include DAS (distributed antenna systems) in the job description. Employers like KMB Design Group and...
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Presidents and professionals were addicted to their BlackBerries for years, until most of them gave up BlackBerry for a different kind of fruit. Now BlackBerry is back with its new Passport — a smartphone with the same dimensions as a U.S. Passport.
The Passport's...
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AT&T is accelerating its march into video ahead of its planned purchase of DirecTV. The company's Otter Media venture will buy control of one of the largest YouTube content networks, Fullscreen.
Fullscreen claims 4 billion monthly views, and says it now wants to launch...
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The iPhone 6 and 6 Plus broke previous iPhone launch records this weekend, with 10 million models sold between Friday morning and Sunday night. The new phones are available now in the United States, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Puerto Rico,...
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The iPhone 6 and 6 Plus are in Apple stores today, although supplies are limited and lines stretch for blocks in some areas. Carriers also have the phones today, as do some big box retailers.
The new iPhones sport larger screens, as well as...
In today's Mobile Minute, Microsoft makes changes, CWA supports AT&T's DirecTV bid, and reviewers praise the new iPhone 6.
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Microsoft is making leadership changes, proceeding with its planned layoffs, and funneling cash back to shareholders. Today the software giant said that Visa CEO Charles...
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The exact dimensions of the new iPhone 6 were a closely guarded secret until Tuesday, but by Wednesday consumers could purchase any one of a number of colorful iPhone 6 cases from a variety of third-party vendors. The market for smartphone cases is...
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Dish Network's outspoken founder Charlie Ergen reportedly put in a call to Deutsche Telekom to discuss the purchase of T-Mobile US. Dish has been a rumored T-Mobile suitor for some time; the company is eager to acquire more spectrum in hopes of complementing...
Beating the iPhone to market seems to be the goal for device makers this week, with Samsung, Huawei and Motorola all launching new devices ahead of Tuesday's expected iPhone launch.
This week Motorola Mobility unveiled its newest Moto X smartphone. The 5.2-inch phone is just...
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Cisco launched a new line of servers today that it says will facilitate data analytics and will prepare customers to meet the ever-changing demands of cloud computing. It calls its new UCS servers the M-Series because the series includes modular servers for cloud...
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Huawei has hired George Reed to head up solutions and marketing for Huawei Technologies. Reed will lead product management, solutions development, integrated marketing communications and sales management across wireless and wireline for Huawei's carrier and enterprise business groups in the United States. Reed...
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Apple is reportedly teaming up with major credit card issuers for mobile payments. Visa, MasterCard and American Express have all been named as expected partners in an iOS mobile payments platform.
Apple already has roughly 800,000 credit cards on file through iTunes. But it...
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NXP Semiconductors made headlines this week on reports that Apple has partnered with the Dutch company for NFC (near field communication). An NFC chip inside the new iPhone would mean the smartphone could be used for contactless payments, replacing a credit card in...
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Fall brings cooler temperatures and even cooler new products to wireless each year, and this year's devices could also cool some of the recent hype surrounding the connected lifestyle. We've all heard about mobile payments, mobile health tracking, and smart "wrist wear," but...
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Apple is at work on a 12.9-inch iPad, according to Bloomberg. The current full-size iPad measures 9.7 inches diagonally. The report says production on the new slates won't start until next year.
The global tablet market is still smaller than the PC market, but...
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Mobile security experts say that one in 10 Americans is a victim of smartphone theft, and now the state of California is taking action. This week California became the first state to pass a "kill switch" law requiring all smartphones sold in the...
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Flush with cash after selling its stake in Verizon Wireless, Vodafone is investing in broadband in Southern Europe. The carrier will spend $96.5 million to boost its stake in Hellas Online to 91%, and plans to eventually buy the rest of the Greek...
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Samsung could be shopping for acquisitions soon — the South Korean government has told the company to put its cash to work or risk a fine. The government has its eye on Samsung's $60 billion cash pile and would like to see that...
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Microsoft is not the only company preparing to say goodbye to a key leader this week. Its longtime mobile partner Nokia is losing the head of its HERE maps unit. Michael Halbherr, CEO of HERE, says he is planning to return to "entrepreneurial...
