Domestic wireless carriers are living through a strange time when slower sales of high-revenue generating devices is a good thing, at least to the investor community. Those are the folks …
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Apple missed analysts’ forecasts in every area except iPad sales, which came in above expectations.
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AT&T Mobility Q2: Slowdown in upgrades bolsters margins; 3.7M iPhones sold
by Dan Meyerby Dan MeyerAT&T Mobility customers seems to be holding their breathes for a possible new device launch later this year, as the carrier reported a slowdown in device upgrades during the recent …
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The latest “State of Mobile Advertising” report from Opera Software found that business and finance generate more revenue per impression than any other publishing category. The report also shows that …
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Verizon Wireless released strong second quarter financial results last week setting expectations for what its rivals will need to shoot for. Obviously, those competing results are already fixed and just …
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When Apple reports earnings on Tuesday investors will be hoping for another blockbuster quarter from the Cupertino cash machine. Stakeholders throughout the mobile economy will be reading Tuesday’s report closely whether or not they own a slice of Apple. Here are some of the questions they’ll hope to answer:
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This week, AT&T Mobility joined fellow wireless behemoth Verizon Wireless in announcing plans to offer customers the “choice” to pool data resources into one plan that is shared across multiple devices.
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Samsung is buying CSR’s mobile connectivity chipset business, and some investors think that could be bad news for Broadcom.
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Leap Wireless is set to lose its COO at the end of the month, with the no-contract wireless operator stating it has no plans at the moment to replace the …
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It looks like the iconic device will debut in white this fall, with a camera in the center of frame, facing front and back.
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I will admit that I get little charge from mobile devices. At this point in the evolutionary timeline of devices targeting the wireless communication space, it seems that I am stuck in the time of Cro-Magnon Phone.
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Ex-Nokia executives promise to maintain the Meego operating system.
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Hello! And welcome to our Friday column, Worst of the Week. There’s a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so this column is a chance for …
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Taiwan’s HTC Corp., arguably Samsung’s top competitor in the Android device market, says its second quarter earnings plunged 58% from the year-ago quarter. HTC earned $247 million on revenue of …
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After launching its mobile device management (MDM) platform, called BlackBerry Mobile Fusion in the U.S., the Canadian Research in Motion (RIM) gathered journalists and clients in São Paulo to unveil the solution in …
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Apple is reportedly preparing to launch a tablet with a smaller screen size than the iPad to compete with Google’s Nexus 7. But Apple may need to shrink the price as well as the screen size in order to compete with the $199 Nexus 7.
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Google has made its popular Chrome web browser available for the iOS devices, and today Chrome is the most popular download in Apple’s app store.
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If you’ve been thinking about a Galaxy Tab 10.1, now would be a good time to buy one. Once U.S. retailers sell their current supplies they will probably not be able to get any more, at least for a while.
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Google TV is coming; Miami Heat parade to be livestreamed
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The tablet world was rocked this week when Microsoft announced its latest foray into the space with its highly anticipated Surface device sporting the latest Windows operating system.
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América Móvil closes Simple Mobile acquisition, consolidates U.S. prepaid presence
by Dan Meyerby Dan MeyerAmérica Móvil consolidated its dominate position in the U.S.-based prepaid space, announcing the closing on the acquisition of Simple Mobile. The deal, which was announced earlier this year, adds approximately …
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To some serious head scratching, Microsoft unveiled its Surface tablet device at a refreshingly non-star-studded event in Hollywood, Calif. (Sorry Steve Ballmer.) The device looks to somehow more thinly slice …
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The increasingly competitive nature of the domestic space is expected to continue squeezing regional operators, according to a new report from Canaccord Genuity, with potential causilities to include MetroPCS and …
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It is very difficult for companies to protect mobile devices for reasons such as technical issues (some devices will not install all the desired software); low battery capacity (when performing …
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The last-minute invitation from Microsoft ended with this tantalizing line: “This will be a major Microsoft announcement — you will not want to miss it.”