A company that manages wireless accounts for some of the largest corporations in the United States has teamed up with a firm that is well known for recycling handsets.Rivermine Inc. …
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The patent-licensing dispute between InterDigital Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. appears to be over as the two companies have hammered out an agreement regarding royalties for the sale of …
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The conventional wisdom on wireless retail sales appeared to be borne out by several surveys released in recent days. That wisdom is several-fold: — The handset market is contracting and …
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Revenue earned by the global semiconductor industry will contract by 2% this year compared to last year, according to iSuppli Corp., a sharp change from a similar forecast made just …
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The growing consumer embrace of smartphones – and the willingness to pay for heavily subsidized gadgets and data plans that promise fun and functionality – faces uncharted territory this holiday …
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China Mobile, the world’s largest network operator, will offer 3G handsets from Nokia Corp. on its homegrown, TD-SCDMA 3G network. It already offers such handsets from Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. …
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Spansion Inc., a pure-play Flash memory vendor, has filed two patent-infringement lawsuits against Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., one at the U.S. International Trade Commission, the other in a Delaware district …
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The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.Carrier–RBC Capital Markets downgraded Clearwire to sector perform from outperform and …
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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. …
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NOKIA CORP. DELIVERED A SOBER WARNING Friday that a “rapid change” in consumer spending over past weeks led the handset giant to cut its estimates for mobile device volumes in …
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NORTEL NETWORKS CORP. FACES AN UPHILL CLIMB following a third quarter where the company reported losses of $3.4 billion and said it would cut thousands of jobs and say goodbye …
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AT&T Mobility will begin selling Nokia Corp.’s 6650 smartphone on Friday for $70, with two-year contract and a $50 mail-in rebate, a Nokia Corp. executive said. The 3G flip-style phone …
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Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications announced its high-end, touchscreen smartphone, the Xperia X1, will be available to U.S. shoppers in time for the holiday season – but the device will carry …
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This year may well mark “a turning point in the mobile gaming industry,” as Gameloft insisted last week. But for most wireless-game makers, there will be plenty more storm before …
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There continues to be a fair amount of optimism among mobile game makers. Whether the rose-colored lenses are warranted, though, is more uncertain than ever.Gameloft last week offered a surprisingly …
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TO OBSERVERS, MOTOROLA INC.’S GLASS is either half-full or half-empty. “Ringing Start for Motorola Chief,” declared Barron’s last week after the ailing American vendor reported steep losses.Barron’s had chosen to …
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Apple Inc.’s 3G iPhone was the top-selling handset in the United States in the third quarter, according to new data from NPD Group. The long reign of Motorola Inc.’s Razr …
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The handset market has been unseasonably chilly this fall.Where the third quarter typically reflects a ramp-up for the holiday spending orgy, it appeared from the metrics that the togas may …
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You know that dusty smell you experience when you open a book that hasn’t been picked up in decades? That’s the feeling I get lately when I think of Microsoft’s …
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NEWS LAST WEEK THAT MOTOROLA INC. HAD SETTLED ON Windows Mobile and Android as handset platforms in an effort to simplify, focus on innovation and manage costs underscored the unknowns …
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Nokia Corp. said today that it would cut as many as 615 jobs in an ongoing corporate reorganization.The bulk, 450 jobs, will be eliminated in the global handset leader’s markets …
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The “OS wars,” as some would have it, are alive and well – at least in the data on the various contenders’ shifting market share.“Symbian is still by far the …
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Gameloft offered a surprisingly upbeat outlook for mobile gaming as it posted $34.1 million in third-quarter revenues.The Paris-based game maker reported an 8% increase from last year’s revenues during the …
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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. Having just …
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LG Electronics Co. said today it will work more closely with Microsoft Corp. on converged devices, likely smartphones the Korean vendor is pursuing. The two parties announced the signing of …
