The battle over who controls the customer, whether it's a battle for the smart pipe or the smart device, is quickly moving into a battle over who controls the customer's content. Today the field is wide open, leaving plenty of room for new winners...
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.Those of us that spend hours a day, minutes a day, or even seconds a...
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’s article will be unusually short. Two reasons: One, I’m writing it on my netbook...
T-Mobile USA Inc. reported late last night that it had restored voice and messaging services to customers hit by a network disruption. The carrier posted on its Web site's message board that on Tuesday evening about 5% of its customers were impacted by the...
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,...
Across corporations large and small, directly competing or related industries across the telecosm, CEOs are being asked one question by their primary investors and their boards: How will Google affect our business model? Are they a friend today, and a foe tomorrow...
SAN FRANCISCO – The spark that led Motorola Inc. Co-CEO Sanjay Jha to reinvigorate his company's relationship with Google Inc. was similar to two drunks finding each other in a bar, or at least that is what Jha half-jokingly explained at the recent Mobilize...
Cellular phones are, as you well know, ubiquitous these days. And for the past decade, the dominant players in the industry have been well distributed around the globe. There is strong representation from Korea, Japan, Scandinavia, Germany, the U.S., China, Taiwan, and lots of...
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...
Yes, it is good to be back. Thanks for asking.OK so maybe technically you didn’t ask, but I’ll tell you just the same; it is good to be back. We’ve missed you.Even though the wireless industry has been one of America’s great success stories...
By the time final numbers are crunched, President Barack Obama's inauguration likely will have been watched by more people and on more platforms than virtually any other televised event in U.S. history - including the Super Bowl. This year's biggest winner: the web, with...
Consumer-advocacy groups last week took on a host of players in the mobile marketing space, demanding the Federal Trade Commission look into the still-nascent space. Then, as if on cue, AT&T Mobility threw gasoline on the fire.In case you missed it, the nation's No....
Industry insiders say Barack Obama's inauguration today is likely to spark record-high SMS usage among U.S. mobile consumers. But the event may also serve as a kind of coming-out party for SMS as an interactive communications channel in the United States.VeriSign Inc. saw a...
