The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.Carrier--R.W. Baird raised its 2009 EPS estimate on Verizon to $2.97 from $2.89 on news of the company's pending acquisition of Alltel. Standard & Poor's...
Two big mobile players made headlines in the past few days, but they seem to be headed in very different directions.Apple once again displayed its marketing chops, grabbing headlines in both the mainstream media and the trade press as it showcased the latest version...
While the 3G iPhone includes a number of new technologies to excite tech-savvy phone users, it's the device's price and enterprise focus that could stand as the greatest boon to AT&T Mobility, the exclusive U.S. carrier for the device.
Indeed, the carrier plans to sell...
SAN FRANCISCO - You could cut the anticipation with a knife leading up to Apple Inc.'s Worldwide Developer Conference this morning. The company delivered the iPhone 3G to thunderous applause more than 75 minutes into a nearly two-hour presentation.
The sold-out event brought 5,200 people...
Will the next iPhone be thinner, cheaper, perhaps cooler? Will it come with new features such as video chat and a global positioning system? For months, speculation has swirled.
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Korean technology group Samsung launched a new touchscreen smartphone on Monday, hours before Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs was expected to announce a new version of the iPhone.
Boston's business community is filled with bloggers who offer opinions, speculate and - sometimes - even make news. Globe columnist Scott Kirsner compiles excerpts from some recent life sciences and technology postings.
Chip provider, and thorn in Qualcomm's side, Broadcom saw its co-founder Henry Nicholas III indicted last week on fraud, conspiracy and . wait for it . drug charges. While the fraud and conspiracy charges are bad news for the company and investors, the drug...
Global sales of handsets in the first quarter jumped 13.6% from the year-ago quarter, reaching 294 million units, according to a recent report from Gartner. Nokia Corp., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and LG Electronics Co. accounted for most of that surge, with LG propelling...
Last year around this time Apple Inc.'s iPhone had yet to be unleashed on the public. AT&T Mobility, which was set to be the exclusive carrier for the device, was cautiously optimistic that the iPhone would be a home run for the carrier, while...
The buzz is inescapable. Next week, Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs is expected to announce the next iteration of the company's iPhone at Apple's annual developer conference.In the run-up to the purported announcement, several issues have been bandied about by the global media, which...
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. In the coming weeks look for columns from NPD Group's Ross Rubin, Enderle Group's...
Apple's splash into the cell phone market proved consumers will pay for hip devices. Now the race is on to one-up the iPhone.. What a difference a year makes. This month, the hip iPhone celebrates its first anniversary, following its riotous launch last June...
Is the wireless industry in a class-action lawsuit feeding frenzy right now or does it just feel like it? We want to sue too: first we're going to sue all the companies that use Starbuck's references in their examples. We're no longer interested. We'd...
MARINA DEL REY, Calif. - Dan Lyons, the man behind "The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs," began his online experiment as the sensational alter ego of Apple Inc.'s CEO mostly because he hated his job at Forbes and was "freaking out" about the future...
While the Iraq war, sky-rocketing gas prices, healthcare, homeland security, global warming and immigration are among the top issues likely to register with voters in November, major candidates have completely ignored another issue that'll undoubtedly be decisive in a presidential contest likely again to...
TeliaSonera, the Stockholm-based network operator, will offer Apple Inc.'s iPhone this year to some portion of the 115 million subscribers it covers in seven countries, the operator said yesterday in a one-sentence announcement.Those countries include Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.The announcement...
Femtocells - sounds like a science fiction term for robotic feminine cells - but it's just another buzzword for a new technology and product that promises so much in the future, yet has delivered mostly in practical terms thus far.For the moment, the technology...
The battery life of portable gadgets has always been a source of frustration. But Apple may have found an eco-friendly way around the problem - by integrating a solar panel behind, say, the iPhone's LCD display.
Welcome to the first edition of our weekly RCR Wireless Newscast. Each Monday, RCR Wireless News will provide a video roundup of the top stories in the wireless industry, with all of the clarity and analysis you've come...
It seems there's more than one way to spread the love. Earlier this year on American Idol, host Ryan Seacrest devoted way too much TV time promoting (what else?) Apple's iPhone. (Perhaps you've heard of it. It's all the rage with the cool kids...
