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Nokia posts Q3 loss of $834 million

Nokia reported a $834 million loss for the third quarter as the company wrote down $1.35 billion on its Nokia Siemens Networks business. The company's stock fell about 11% on the news to $13.70. The quarter marks the first time the handset giant has...

Interop adds employees, facilities in Texas: Introduces two new products at CTIA IT

At a time when many companies are feeling the pinch of the recession with fewer contracts and having to downsize their workforces, Fort Meyers, Fla.-based Interop Technologies is using the downturn to move its operations center to the Dallas area and grow its employee...

Verizon, Google team on ‘open Internet’ in ground-breaking partnership

Verizon Wireless and Google Inc. announced a strategic partnership this morning designed to pair the openness of the Internet and the innovation of Google with Verizon Wireless' broadband network, and plan to bring two devices to market in the next few weeks that will...

MindTree enters ODM business

Fresh off its $6 million acquisition of Kyocera Wireless Corp.'s Indian facility, MindTree Ltd. said it will enter the Original Design Manufacturing (ODM) business with Kyocera as its first customer, at a time when the market is stabilizing following a disastrous first quarter.Called N!Mo...

Cable company uses wireless app for more efficient sales force

Door-to-door sales have been a mainstay of the cable industry for years, but managing the team has been a hit-or-miss effort. However, wireless technology is changing that for one company. Suddenlink, a top 10 cable broadband provider in the United States, said it has...

Kyocera sheds Indian product testing facility

MindTree Ltd. said it will pay $6 million to buy Kyocera Wireless Corp.’s Indian facility, Kyocera Wireless (India) Pvt. Ltd., which develops wireless products, software engineering and product testing for Kyocera, as well as custom handsets for Indian service providers. In addition to the...

Report: RIM rules Indonesia’s mobile Internet market

Apple Inc.’s iPhone may be seen by most around the world as the uber-mobile device, but a report out of Indonesia suggests that the device has run into stiff competition from rival Research In Motion Ltd.The report, from mobile advertising solutions provider InMobi, found...

Analyst Angle: Verizon Wireless takes the lead, offering the best depth and variety of parental controls

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly 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.Today, while the U.S. mobile adult content market remains in a very early stage as...

T-Mo prices Cliq at $200, ready for pre-sales

T-Mobile USA Inc. said it would begin pre-sales of the Motorola Inc. Cliq smartphone Nov. 19, pricing the handset at $200 for qualified subscribers with a two-year contract. The handset is set to be sold in stores and online Nov. 2, T-Mobile said. However,...

Garmin’s nuvifone finally gets its bearings: GPS-centric device found at AT&T Mobility … for a price

More than a year and a half after announcing plans for a cellular technology equipped device, Garmin International Inc. is finally set to enter the U.S. market with its navigation-centric nuvifone G60 scheduled to launch at AT&T Mobility on Oct. 4 for $299 after...

Reality Check: All Roads Lead to LTE (Eventually)

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.As 2010 and the first launches of Long-Term Evolution (LTE) networks approach, the global mobile industry is...

Nero unveils mobile synch platform

Nero today released a mobile synching application that will be bundled initially on Motorola Inc.'s Cliq and MotoDext handsets. Called Nero MobileSync, the platform allows mobile users to manage, share and create content between the desktop, the handset and the Web, regardless of the...

AT&T Mobility adds details to HSPA 7.2 plans: Carrier also joins off-network bandwagon

AT&T Mobility has put numbers to its plans to increase the data throughput its customers should expect to see when using its network. The nation's No. 2 carrier said it plans to have six markets covered with its highly-anticipated HSPA 7.2 network upgrades by...

A new hero?: Palm Pre’s tenure as top dog at Sprint Nextel could be short lived

Palm Inc.'s Pre has been a qualified success for both Palm and its exclusive launch partner Sprint Nextel Corp. (I say “qualified” because as the phone has sold in the hundreds of thousands and been lauded with glowing reviews, it has been overshadowed by...

Analyst Angle: China Set To Boost Apple’s Global iPhone Sales, But Competition Likely To Be Strong

After months of speculations, Apple iPhone 3G S is about to make its “official” entry in the Chinese market, following China Unicom's announcement of a three-year deal with Apple to sell the watershed device in China in 4Q. Through this deal, and while Apple...

The RCR Ecosystem An Overview

The converging telecom and IT space is set to become a $5 trillion global business, fueled by relentless demand from individuals and businesses to be able to access information across any device at any time. The wireless/telecom/media/IT sector is growing two to five...

Addressing the Power Gap The Road to True Mobility

The role of mobile devices is rapidly evolving - converged products like the iPhone are shaping consumer behavior and creating unprecedented expectation for video, web browsing, gaming, and GPS. As our handsets transform from primarily voice-driven devices to highly visual platforms for multimedia, the...

LG recalls 30,000 ‘Spyder’ handsets for 911 issues: Mobile device maker urges software upgrade to correct bug

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said about 30,000 LG Electronics Co. Ltd. handsets are being recalled because of 911-calling-related problems."The recalled phones can have difficulty sustaining a connection or have poor voice quality on calls to emergency 911," the CPSC stated in a...

Slowdown may snag smartphone newbies: U.S. market now focus of global battle

Like cartoon coyotes that draw themselves to full height before an exaggerated pounce on prey, handset vendors have offered little this year - but portended much - before an expected lunge at the market.Major vendors, particularly smartphone purveyors, have largely passed up the first...

It’s all about the network

While the big news out of this year's Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona, Span, was Verizon Wireless' choice of LTE vendors - Alcatel Lucent and Ericsson, among others - its IMS news is just as interesting. It's not too much of a stretch...

The Pre season at Sprint: Analysts have high hopes for handset and what it can do for Palm, Sprint

Sprint Nextel Corp. is looking for a hero and it may well find one that fits in the palm of your hand - pun intended. In this case, Sprint Nextel is banking on the exclusive, hero handset from Palm Inc. dubbed the Pre. And...

Jaguar, Land Rover make $1.6M mobile advertising buy: Despite recession, past performance in medium leads to spending increases

Jaguar and Land Rover have committed to mobile buys worth a collective $1.6 million for 2009, according to AdMob, the ad network that has been tapped to run the automakers' mobile campaigns. The luxury auto brands will split the budget to run mobile campaigns...

AT&T, Verizon Wireless crux of FEMA’s telecom reform

It is a new era for the Federal Emergency Management Administration as it streamlines communications for emergencies and its day-to-day operations.The federal agency, which was widely criticized for its response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and Hurricane Ike in 2008, has new contracts with...

‘Light’ PC Web users are more likely to surf mobile: ComScore: Consumers are on the move so marketers should adjust buys

Always-online Internet junkies might seem to be the most likely users to lead the charge in adopting the mobile Web, but a recent ComScore study has found that assumption is not necessarily the case.How often you are connected to the Web via a computer...