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Reality Check: Sprint Nextel’s path to success

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. It was a morbid week for Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) and Clearwire Corp. (CLWR), no doubt about...

Microsoft hits back at Google with Gmail man snoop video

There is nothing we like more here in the Valley than a cat fight, and with two tech tigers currently at each other's throats over who can best serve up your email, this is one bloodbath you don't want to miss.

Microsoft hits back at Google with Gmail man snoop video

There is nothing we like more here in the Valley than a cat fight, and with two tech tigers currently at each other's throats over who can best serve up your email, this is one bloodbath you don't want to miss. Earlier today we reported...

Android and iOS see smartphone gains, take 67% market share

Google’s Android operating system now makes up a whopping 39 percent of the U.S. smartphone market according to a new report from market research outfit Nielson. Google, claims the report, has seen its mobile operating system take an extra three percent market share since Nielson’s...

Google takes a mean swipe at Hotmail, recommends G-mail “intervention”

Google has long existed under the mantra "Don't be evil" but it's latest ad campaign targeting Microsoft's Hotmail is just that - evil. Well, perhaps not evil, but it's certainly a little mean, calling its rival an "embarrassingly out of date address" and comparing it...

Google takes a mean swipe at Hotmail, recommends G-mail "intervention"

Google has long existed under the mantra "Don't be evil" but it's latest ad campaign targeting Microsoft's Hotmail is just that - evil. Well, perhaps not evil, but it's certainly a little mean, calling its rival an "embarrassingly out of date address" and comparing it...

Microsoft hits back at Google with Gmail man snoop video

There is nothing we like more here in the Valley than a cat fight, and with two tech tigers currently at each other’s throats over who can best serve up your email, this is one bloodbath you don’t want to miss.

Google takes a mean swipe at Hotmail, recommends G-mail “intervention”

Google has long existed under the mantra “Don’t be evil” but it’s latest ad campaign targeting Microsoft’s Hotmail is just that – evil.Well, perhaps not evil, but it’s certainly a little mean, calling its rival an “embarrassingly out of date address” and comparing it...

Japan's KDDI first to get sexy new WP7 Mango devices: Juicy

Japanese carrier KDDI has teamed up with Microsoft and Toshiba-Fujitsu today to unveil the world's first Windows Phone 7.5 – Mango – device, the IS12T.The phone, which comes in shocking magenta, citrus or black, boasts an array of impressive specs and features, including a...

Japan’s KDDI first to get sexy new WP7 Mango devices

Japanese carrier KDDI has teamed up with Microsoft and Toshiba-Fujitsu today to unveil the world’s first Windows Phone 7.5 – Mango – device, the IS12T.

Movers & Shakers: Exec shake ups for AOL & Alcatel-Lucent; Verizon's new President; and more

Upstream, mobile marketing technology and solutions provider, has brought in former Microsoft Partner and General Manager, Simon Negus, as Chief Operating Officer. Negus joins Upstream from Microsoft UK where he served as a Microsoft Partner and UK Board member. Read more.Vibes, a mobile marketing...

Nokia bleeds red in disastrous quarter

The pain continues for Nokia Corp. (NOK). Device sales are down across the board and profits have fallen off a cliff, well into the red. Indeed, Nokia is bleeding red all over its balance sheet for the quarter.The Finnish company shipped 88.5 million devices...

Mobile Technology Inventions in Rural India: The Case for Building Business-Social Bridges

Hilmi Quraishi | Video via Vimeo Ashoka-Lemelson Fellow Hilmi Quraishi and Microsoft partner to exchange knowledge, scale Hilmi's mobile inventions, and demonstrate the power of collaboration between the private and citizen sectors

Apple and Android roundup: iPad 2 demand, software updates and ad markets

Cupertino, Calif.-based Apple Inc. (APPL) and its iPad 2 is still the most popular tablet around the globe, even after it’s been on the shelves for four months. In the last couple of weeks, Apple has finally chipped away at a vast backlog of...

National 2011 Microsoft Partner of the Year

Deutsche Telekom | July 11, 2011 | Press Release Microsoft has honored the 2011 Partner of the Year for Germany. T Systems edged ahead of the competition with its cloud solution that enables users to manage their household energy consumption over the Internet or via...

Happy culture leads to happy customers

Editor's Note: John Williams is a human resource consultant to RCR Wireless News and TelecomCareers who is blogging on HR matters that impact the wireless industry, including hiring and retaining employees as the economy improves.This week I have been struck by the dichotomy of...

Analyst Angle: 2012 mobile trends – mobile commerce, product ecosystems, location integration

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. This week marks the start of the second half of 2011 – a perfect time...

Microsoft looking to extract license fees from Chrome OS manufacturers

For a little over a year Microsoft has been extracting license fees from HTC for their use of Google's Android operating system, on the basis that Android infringes several of Microsoft's patents. While their claims have yet to be tested in court, Microsoft has been dangling the threat of lawsuits in front of other Android manufacturers, including Motorola and Barnes & Noble.

Analyst Angle: Google Wallet

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. Recently, Google Inc. announced Google Wallet, a virtual wallet and set of services to allow...

Reality Check: Google's social election

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.Hello from the nation's heartland and home of Google Broadband – Kansas City. The last week of...

Apple, Microsoft and RIM group buys Nortel patents for $4.5B

Nortel Networks Corp. (NRTLQ) announced that its subsidiaries including Nortel Networks Limited (NNL), Nortel Networks Inc. and Nortel Networks U.K. Limited have completed a successful and final auction of all of Nortel's remaining patents and patent applications. After an auction that spanned days, a...

Reader Forum: Mobile cloud computing – The value-added role for service providers

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this forum for those with something meaningful to say to the wireless industry. We want to keep this as open as possible,...

Nokia and Sony Ericsson written off within 18 months in new report

Two major handset makers have been given the proverbial kiss of death in an annual list of 10 companies not expected to last through the coming year.Sony Ericsson and Nokia Corp. (NOK) both drew the short stick in 24/7 Wall St.’s latest list of...