SaskEnergy is a Crown-owned natural gas utility with a mandate to operate in the province of Saskatchewan, Canada. The corporation serves more than 90 per cent of Saskatchewan through its 343,000 residential, farm, commercial and industrial customers in more than 500 communities. SaskEnergy and...
ChallengesAs a new Internet Service Provider, Stelera was launching a new business model and targeting a new market for its services. The company needed a technology partner who could deploy quickly, was very cost-effective and reliable to support their business strategy and help them...
Verizon Communications Inc. still needs to lay off more employees from its wirelines business, despite the 8,000 layoffs the company is already planning this year.CFO John Killian said the company needs to continue to make job cuts in its business as it shifts ...
Transpera - Jeff Ballowe and Robert Perkins, former Presidents of Ziff-Davis Interactive Media Division and Chiat/Day New York, respectively, have joined Transpera's Board of Directors. Ballowe acted as President of Ziff-Davis; Interactive Media Division for 11 years, and Perkins currently serves as President of...
U.S. employers plan to keep their staffing levels relatively stable during Quarter 4 2009, according to the seasonally adjusted results of the latest Manpower Employment Outlook Survey, conducted quarterly by Manpower Inc. "The hiring intentions of U.S. companies continue to be sluggish," said Manpower...
“Marketing over the mobile channel has put some real swing in our outdoor dance program. Getting people to cha-cha-cha requires flexibility and fast action, all delivered through our text messaging program,” says Nan Keeton, Vice President of Marketing and Business Development for Lincoln Center...
Goals: With mobile social networking becoming the ‘next big thing', Trilibis was in the midst of developing two community-based applications. These applications needed to be compatible with multiple various mobile device platforms, a handful of carriers and hundreds of handsets.To test these applications, Trilibis...
KeyOn Communications Holdings, Inc. (OTCBB: KEYO), one of the largest providers of wireless broadband, satellite video and voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) services in the United States, announced that the holders of the Company's subordinated secured notes due August 31, 2009 have elected to...
Black Sand Technologies, Inc., a fabless semiconductor company specializing in advanced power amplifier technology for wireless applications, announced that it has produced the world's first 3G CMOS RF Power Amplifier (PA). Black Sand's proprietary CMOS PA architecture offers a breakthrough in combined performance, cost,...
Greystripe, the mobile brand advertising network responsible for over 250 million ad-supported mobile app and game downloads, today announced it has secured $2 million in funding from GE/NBCU's Peacock Equity Fund, capping a $7.5 million Series C funding round. The previously announced $5.5 million...
Calix, the largest communications equipment supplier focused solely on access solutions for broadband service delivery, has announced that it has raised $100 million in financing and added three new members to its board of directors. This financing consists of $50 million in equity raised...
American Tower Corporation (NYSE: AMT) announced on August 27, 2009 that it has completed its previously announced redemption of the remaining $162.2 million principal amount of its 3.00% convertible notes due August 15, 2012. In accordance with the conversion provisions of the notes and...
Innovation Works, a business creation platform focused on establishing the next wave of Chinese high-technology companies founded by Dr. Kai-Fu Lee, launches today. This announcement follows news of Dr. Lee’s resignation as Google Vice President and President of Google Greater China and introduces a...
Building a world-class Analyst Relations (AR) program is a worthy investment that delivers positive returns companywide. AR is a way for you to strategically influence the worldwide technologists who are recommending products and technologies, conducting research, and making industry projections that can directly impact...
Leap Wireless International Inc. lowered the number of new subscribers it expects to add this year as the carrier faces increased competition in the prepaid segment. Leap added 202,767 net subscribers in the second quarter, up 18% from the year-ago quarter, but also reported...
Six in ten people around the world now have cell phone subscriptions, signaling that mobile phones are the communications technology of choice, particularly in poor countries, according to a U.N. report published Monday.
Always-online Internet junkies might seem to be the most likely users to lead the charge in adopting the mobile Web, but a recent ComScore study has found that assumption is not necessarily the case.How often you are connected to the Web via a computer...
Despite the disastrous ramifications the global economic crisis has had on other business sectors, a new report from research firm IDC predicts the global mobile industry will remain relatively unscathed - and could even benefit.The wireless industry has become the dominant driver of the...
Mobile video is slowly gaining traction among U.S. consumers, according to new figures from The Nielsen Company. The market research firm found 11 million Americans consumed wireless video during the fourth quarter of 2008, up 9% from the previous quarter. And the average monthly...
Not only are American consumers not canceling TV (or broadband) because of the recession, people are watching more television than ever, according to new data released today by Nielsen.
The GSM Association said the worldwide wireless industry has reached the 4 billionth connection mark on its way to a predicted 6 billion connections by 2013. The association said growth is being driven by the integration of mobile into previously unconnected devices as well...
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has donated $12.5 million to back an effort to bring cheap mobile financial services to people in developing markets.The Mobile Money for the Unbanked (MMU) program seeks to work with carriers, banks, microfinance institutions, government and development organizations...
Shares of Research In Motion Ltd. plunged after the manufacturer said its quarterly earnings and gross margin would come in at the low end of expectations, despite better-than-expected subscriber growth.The Canadian-based BlackBerry maker said it will exceed its previous forecast of 2.9 million net...
Smartphone sales are expected to increase 95% to more than 300 million by 2013 and could help key brands like Nokia during the current economic downturn, according to a new report from Juniper Research.The firm noted there is a rising demand for complex Web...
