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The Nexus 6: the best kept secret (not again!)
Given the collaboration that came through their acquisition, it’s no surprise that...
You may not have heard of Net-mobile yet, but my guess is, you will be hearing about them before long. And there is a high likelihood you are using a service they provide and aren’t aware of because it’s branded by your mobile operator.
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Qualcomm is buying England's CSR in an effort to expand its mobile chip business beyond smartphones and tablets. CSR makes Bluetooth and audio processing chips, and Qualcomm says it is making the purchase to add products, channels and customers in the "Internet of Everything"...
SAO PAULO – A consortium formed by Brazil's Algar Telecom, Uruguayan carrier Antel, African cable operator Angola Cables Google is leading the construction of a submarine cable connecting the Brazilian cities of Santos and Fortaleza to Boca Raton, Florida. In addition to the U.S./Brazil cable, Antel will build an undersea...
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Google has bought two more mobile startups for undisclosed amounts. Directr, which helps businesses create video ads, will become part of Google's YouTube operations. The company's software is designed to enable businesses to create videos using smartphones.
Google's other purchase is Palo Alto, Calif.-based...
Claudia Bacco, Managing Director – EMEA, has spent her entire career in telecom, IT and Security. Having experience at an operator, software and hardware vendors and as a well-known industry analyst, she has many opinions on the market. She’ll be sharing those opinions along...
You can forgive the enterprise space for getting a big head as it seems a day has not gone by in which some new mobile enterprise partnership or solution has not been announced.
The latest ego-boosting move was made by Sprint, which said beginning in...
Many times when partnerships are announced between two companies at the end of a quarter, I think it’s a diversion – a “mega-corporate” Jedi mind trick.
Well, it looks like Microsoft finally found out what has been ailing Nokia’s handset business over the past several years, and this week took some action.
Microsoft’s latest attempt to turn around its flailing mobile operations is set to cost 18,000 employees their jobs, with most of those cuts coming from its recently acquired Nokia handset division.
The computer software giant announced today that its “restructuring plan” was designed to “simplify...
Connected Car Trends
Google recently announced its entry into the connected car market with Android Auto, a new competitor to Apple's CarPlay solution. Many auto makers have already committed to one or both of the companies for head unit systems – but will auto makers have...
The class-action included more than 64,000 engineers, which, according to my excellent skills at long division, means that each engineer will be able to retire with a hefty $5,000 each.
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More than 64,000 engineers are suing some of the biggest employers in mobile for conspiring to keep them in their jobs, and now those companies have offered a settlement. The class action lawsuit was brought against...
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The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless.
It's been 15 years since Google launched the search algorithm that would turn its company name into a verb. Now, Google wants to permeate our mobile lives the same way it dominates the online environment. Yesterday...
Analysts from IHS Technologies, Argus Insights and IBB Consulting joined RCR to discuss the outlook for the Amazon Fire Phone.
Mobile operators have longed for a third device ecosystem that can challenge the Apple/Samsung smartphone duopoly, and some analysts suggest that Amazon may be poised...
Vendors focus on signaling
The explosion in mobile data traffic has led to an even bigger increase in signaling traffic within the networks, and infrastructure vendors are focused on helping operators recognize and address the issue. There are different types of "signaling storms," - those...
If you want to understand the future of wearable technology, and the implications for corporate IT, don’t hang around Google Glass developer conferences.
Speaking of handsets, we have updated our semi-annual look at smartphone models by carrier. There are many surprises and changes since we last analyzed the marketplace last October.
Motorola Mobility's effort to bring smartphone manufacturing to the United States has failed, and the company says it will close its Fort Worth factory by the end of the year. By that time Motorola Mobility expects to be owned by China's Lenovo, which is...
While Google and Samsung have been busy looking for breakthrough wearable technology, Apple has been listening for it. Yesterday the company confirmed that it will buy Beats Electronics and Beats Music for $3 billion. Beats Electronics is the maker of the iconic headphones, while...
Ruckus Wireless (RKUS) may be a beneficiary of Google's reported plan to subsidize Wi-Fi for small and medium businesses. Google is reportedly trialling the Ruckus Virtual SmallCell Gateway, a cloud-based Wi-Fi controller that works with Ruckus Wi-Fi hotspots. Ruckus would not confirm that report,...
AT&T says consumer demand for mobile video is the primary reason it wants to buy DirecTV, and all wireless operators are busy trying to keep up with the demand for video. Netflix says its subscribers have nearly doubled their consumption of video on smartphones...
