In today’s marketplace, there are three main competitors for mobile phone communications in the corporate world: iPhone, Android and BlackBerry. As of late, iPhone sales have moved
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.
Brazilian Foxconn plant employees in the city of JundiaÃ, Brazil, gave up going on a strike that was proposed last week due to bad working conditions. In a meeting held yesterday, employees voted for no downtime. The strike was contemplated as a way...
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 Street Journal.
Brodman was named to his current position in 2010, having previously served as T-Mobile USA’s CTO. That position was...
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 after authorities reportedly uncovered tax evasion and transactions with overseas subsidiaries at non-market prices.. Samsung has been under investigation by...
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 on revenues of $3.1 billion. Losses would have been even steeper without the positive contribution of the company's cable box...
Shares of Barnes and Noble (BKS) skyrocketed today on news that Microsoft (MSFT) will invest $300 million in a new subsidiary Barnes and Noble is forming to market and distribute its Nook tablet. Microsoft will also develop software for the Nook, even though it...
Add one more bullet to the list of reasons wireless companies will pay billions for patent portfolios. Clever accounting can protect these profits from federal taxes, as pointed out this weekend by a New York Times article that has already elicited responses from network...
A California judge has ordered Samsung and Apple to send their CEOs and top lawyers to settlement talks next month. Tim Cook and Choi Gee-sung will meet May 21 and 22 in the San Francisco court of Judge Joseph Spero, a judge who is...
This past week and a half were marked by quarterly results from some of the nation’s largest wireless operators, each showing an interesting challenge that remain in the mobile space.
Brazilian workers in the city of Jundiaà have threatened to go on strike against Taiwanese manufacturer Foxconn beginning May 3 if the company does not fix problems related to water, food, and transportation. Local newspaper Jornal de Jundiaà first reported the situation on April 25.
Evandro Santos, director at...
Apple (AAPL) put a shine on the US stock market Wednesday, rising 9% and regaining most of the ground lost earlier this month. Fears that the engine of the mobile revolution might be slowing down were quickly put to rest yesterday when Apple once...
AT&T Mobility (T) looks to have hit an iPhone wall, with the iconic device still remaining a big seller for the carrier, but a greater share of new customers looking elsewhere when selecting the device.
AT&T Mobility said it sold 5.5 million smartphones during the...
Intel CEO Paul Otellini says the world's largest semiconductor company could one day count Apple and even Qualcomm among its customers. Unlike most chip designers, Intel (INTC) owns its own manufacturing facilities, so it has the ability to make chips for its competitors as...
Following a rough fourth quarter in which strong iPhone sales hit its bottom line, Verizon Wireless’ first quarter results showed the fruit of that labor by posting robust growth in average revenue per user and increased wireless margins.
The nation’s largest operator posted a 3.4%...
The world's largest mobile phone maker confirmed today that sluggish smartphone sales have depressed sales and earnings. Today Finland's Nokia (NOK) attached some numbers to last week's announcement that its devices and services unit would lose money during the first half of 2012. Nokia...
Like its archrival Apple, Google is giving shareholders a carrot. While Apple (AAPL) chose to share some of its cash hoard through a dividend, Google (GOOG) is doubling the number of shares each investor will own. But the founders of the company will maintain...
Next time your mobile device asks you to update firmware, think twice before procrastinating that update. A new study on mobile device security found that roughly three quarters of the devices tested in small-to-medium sized businesses could eliminate "severe vulnerablities" by upgrading to the...
About 5 million DirecTV subscribers in New York, Philadelphia, Chicago and 16 other U.S. cities are able to again watch local TV stations that went dark early Sunday. Bankrupt Tribune Broadcasting pulled the programming after failing to reach an agreement with DirecTV, but late...
Rural carriers are increasingly lining up to offer Apple’s iPhone device as this morning Ntelos Wireless Cellcom Alaska-based General Communication said they would begin offering versions of the iconic smartphone on April 20. All three operators are also undercutting price points of larger rivals.
Ntelos,...
Google is gobbling up a growing share of the smartphone operating system market, according to the latest report from ComScore. The market research firm says that for the three months ending in February, Google's Android operating system had just over half the U.S. smartphone...
To the potential delight of wireless operators, a new report from ComScore shows that a significantly higher percentage of iPhone users in the United States and United Kingdom rely on their device’s Wi-Fi capabilities than customers with Android-powered smartphones. This would be positive news...
The government is making it easier for members of the U.S. military to use smartphones to do their jobs. While members of the armed forces must curb their use of many smartphone apps due to security concerns, the new U.S. Army Software Marketplace gives...
Enterprises from Fortune 500 companies to hospitals to schools are adopting iPads and other tablets to replace much of the work that personal computers used to do, and the people who use these devices want to use them for a lot more than work....
