Nokia Corp. (NOK) has announced plans to layoff about 800 workers in Finland.The job cuts, which begin next month, will carry severance packages worth 5-15 months salary, according to a company statement sent to Reuters. Nokia hopes some of the affected workers will be...
Walgreens has a new mobile app that lets users request medicine refills. The app, which was released for Android, BlackBerry and iOS, is an obvious step for a large pharmacy chain like Walgreen Co.The vertical of health care is wide open and one that...
Interesting conclusions are being drawn based on some daily point-of-sale data that ITG Investment Research analyst Matthew Goldman apparently leaked to AllThingsD.Depending on who you ask or what you read, Verizon Wireless (VZ) could be too dependent on Android devices, AT&T Mobility (T) is...
The number of machine-to-machine devices will grow 36% in 2011, and is expected to reach 2.1 billion M2M connected devices in 2020, driven by the utilities, healthcare and securities industries, according to new research from Analysis Mason.While nearly 30% of today's M2M connections are...
Netbooks running on Google Inc.'s (GOOG) Chrome OS won't be commercially available until the middle of next year, but they will include a wireless bonus in the form of 3G connectivity on Verizon Wireless' network.At a press event yesterday, Google announced that every Chrome...
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.Handset and mobile operating system manufacturers are scrambling to differentiate their offerings in an increasingly...
Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM) is now accepting early applications for its forthcoming tablet, BlackBerry PlayBook. Developers can submit apps to BlackBerry App World and become eligible to receive a free PlayBook if their app is submitted and approved before the device is released.Leading...
If credit cards are eventually going to be usurped by mobile devices, why not gift cards and membership cards? Qualcomm Inc. (QCOM) subsidiary Outlier Inc. agrees.The company launched a new mobile app called Swagg that manages gift, loyalty and membership cards. The free app...
Juniper Networks has acquired Altor Networks for $95 million in cash. The Sunnyvale, Calif-based company said it bought the virtualization security technology company to bolster its position in the mobile security market.The previous partners also plan to expand their security technology for both the...
Another day, another iPhone-coming-to-Verizon Wireless rumor. It turns out the nation's largest carrier might have already agreed to a deal similar to the one Apple Inc. first offered the carrier more than three years ago.Kaufman Bros. analyst Shaw Wu says Apple got the terms...
Don't throw in the towel on BlackBerry just yet. BlackBerry users ate up more mobile data than iPhone users last month, according to StatCounter.Research In Motion Ltd.'s (RIMM) BlackBerry OS grabbed 34.3% of all mobile data traffic in the United States last month. Apple...
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.The pace at which the mobile industry is changing right now has made crystal-ball gazing more difficult...
If there was much doubt about Apple Inc.'s (AAPL) plans for a greater share of the mobile enterprise space, it's reinforcing quite the opposite with a spate of hires on the sales side. After doing some digging, Dow Jones found that at least five...
Apple Inc. (AAPL) has rolled out an iOS 4.2 update that finally brings the latest features in iOS to iPad users. For starters, iPad users can finally enjoy background processing, multitasking and folders.But there are two key new features — AirPrint and AirPlay —...
Despite a run of recent setbacks in the United States, Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. is making strategic moves, including hires, to keep its big plans for this market alive.John Roese, former CTO at Nortel Networks, is now joining the company as SVP and GM...
MetroPCS Communications Inc. (PCS) said it will begin offering LG Electronics Co. Ltd.’s Optimus M device, the carrier’s first smart phone powered by Google Inc.’s Android operating system, beginning Nov. 24.MetroPCS said the device will sell for $229 and require a monthly service plan...
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Jeffrey Hayzlett had a commanding presence here on stage at the Mobile Marketing Forum, living up to his so-called “CMO celebrity” status with a mix of humor and forcefulness.Looking back on his time as the chief marketing officer at Eastman...
The national mobile commerce network being developed by AT&T Mobility, T-Mobile USA and Verizon Wireless is still in its early stage, but it finally has a name and a leader. Isis will be led by CEO Michael Abbott, formerly with GE Capital, the companies...
Apple Inc. has already grabbed at least 20% of the mobile ad market in the United States with its iAd platform and now it appears ready to launch the service in Europe.Apple has been met with less enthusiasm for the service in Europe and...
Following a phenomenal start, Kik Messenger has been at least temporarily blocked from serving new downloads on BlackBerry devices.The new chat application logged an impressive start with 1 million new users signed up in its first 10 days. But the BlackBerry Messenger-like service is...
SAN FRANCISCO — “Everything’s going mobile,” Bob Bowman, CEO of MLB.com, said during a keynote panel here at the Open Mobile Summit.Bowman was direct and rather forthcoming on a panel sitting between Nokia Siemens Networks CTO Hossein Moiin and Verizon Wireless CTO Anthony Melone.In...
SAN FRANCISCO — Ideaworks Labs President Alex Caccia talks about simplifying the development process for applications across multiple operating systems and storefronts.
SAN FRANCISCO — Sprint Nextel Corp.'s CEO Dan Hesse declined to comment on the the carrier's reported exclusion of Chinese vendors from its upcoming network project in a morning keynote here."First of all, we haven't commented on media speculation on this topic,” he said...
It would be one thing if Research In Motion Ltd. (RIMM) was losing spark on the consumer side, which it is, but alarms must be going off at RIM's headquarters now that news is trickling in about losses on the enterprise side.Business, and particularly...
