CORPORATIONS' IT "SPEND" THIS YEAR is markedly less than last year, yet mid-year changes have yet to surface, according to several sources. An annual survey of CIOs conducted by Gartner each fall projected flat to less than 3% growth in corporate IT spending for...
Verizon Wireless continues to please its business customers, both big and small. According to the J. D Power and Associates 2008 Business Wireless Satisfaction Study, released today, the carrier ranked highest in overall customer satisfaction for wireless data service, effectively meeting customer expectations and...
Sixteen percent of workers across the world are "hyperconnected" - using a minimum of seven devices for work and personal access plus at least nine applications like IM, text messaging , Web conferencing and social networks, according to a recent study.
Verizon Business has captured one of the largest federal network deals of 2008: a 10-year contract to provide managed network and security services to the US Department of Homeland Security that is valued at $678.5 million.
Mobility continues to be a top investment priority for enterprises, according to a new survey by Aberdeen.The survey found that businesses increased their planned spending on wireless by 7.6% over last year.In addition, business professionals named mobility as one of the top three technologies...
Sierra Wireless Inc. said yesterday that its revenue and profits exceeded its guidance for the first quarter and forecast sequential growth, in the wake of a chastened outlook from competitor Novatel Wireless.Sierra Wireless' stock was down more than 4% this morning.The company, which makes...
AT&T Mobility continued its steady growth during the first quarter of the year, reporting customer additions on par with the previous year and gains in customer revenue that helped push the carrier's revenues up more than 17%.For the quarter, the industry's No. 1 carrier...
Increasing customer interest and availability of W-CDMA and GSM handsets are pushing mobile location-based services from the realm of hype into the world of reality.A new report from ABI Research predicts LBS revenues will grow from $515 million last year to $13.3 billion worldwide...
Competitive pressures are leading American companies to adopt mobility for the obvious reasons: increasing productivity, decreasing costs and distinguishing themselves among their competitors.The top three carriers in the United States - AT&T Mobility, Verizon Wireless and Sprint Nextel Corp. - are attempting to secure...
Cisco is opening up two pieces of its branch office gear to application developers in an effort to reduce the amount of equipment businesses have to place and manage in small business locations.
Alcatel-Lucent has tapped Sierra Wireless to supply embedded modules for the infrastructure vendor's wireless laptop security, management and tracking system called the OmniAccess 3500 Nonstop Laptop Guardian (NLG). Sierra Wireless components embedded in the NLG will provide high-speed access to mobile broadband networks, the...
Sun Microsystems Inc. raised eyebrows and garnered splashy headlines when it announced plans to acquire MySQL Inc. for $1 billion. But what the deal means in mobile - or just about anywhere else, for that matter - is far from clear.A Swedish outfit with...
When Microsoft Corp.'s CEO Steve Ballmer publicly mentions someone's name as a respected veteran who will run a new company in partnership with his juggernaut, people listen. At CTIA I.T. & Entertainment 2007 in late October, Ballmer told a standing-room-only crowd that Mort Rosenthal...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our Monday feature, Analyst Angle. We've collected a group of the industry's leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry. In the coming weeks look for columns from M:Metrics' Seamus McAteer, Ovum's Roger Entner...
A suite approach to offerings and the acquisition of a mobile unified communications solutions company will strengthen Avaya's presence in the UC marketplace.
LONDON-Wireless operators' revenue from enterprise mobile e-mail and personal information management is forecast to triple in the next four years, reaching $600 million by 2009, according to new figures from independent market analyst Datamonitor. The firm found that wireless e-mail has shown slow but...
The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.CarriersRobert W. Baird raised its 2006 estimates on BellSouth Corp. from EPS of $1.90 to $2.20 on a change in accounting related to acquisition-related amortization...
NATICK, Mass.-The global market for commercial mobile software, including operating systems, application frameworks, Java service and provisioning solutions, is expected to reach $1.6 billion by 2008 from $560 million last year, according to a new study released by Venture Development Corp. The report, "The...
SEATTLE-TeleSym, which provides mobile Voice over Internet Protocol solutions said it has entered a manufacturing agreement with Active Voice L.L.C. Active Voice will manufacture TeleSym's SymPhone enterprise mobile VoIP solution, including assembling and shipping SymPhone Call Registry and SymPhone Call Connector servers to TeleSym's...
DRAPER, Utah-Senforce Technologies Inc. said the U.S. Air Force Air Mobility Command has chosen its Enterprise Mobile Security Manager to provide secure wireless communications for air crews as they travel around. The product will work together with the Panasonic Toughbook rugged laptops with Intel...
