AT&T has recently slashed the price of the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play 4G phone to $49.99 (with contract) on its website. As RCR’s Parker Severns shows us here the phone is clearly aimed at gamers, but it’s also fast and reliable for voice and data. Sony Ericsson Xperia Play 4G Specs Phone Name Xperia PLAY [...]

Shares of Spreadtrum Communications Inc. jumped more than 8% today after the Chinese chip designer announced it has more than 50% of the TD-SCDMA market, and that it has met the last major milestone of a TD-SCDMA research and development grant awarded by China Mobile Ltd. TD-SCDMA is an air interface used in mobile telecomm [...]

Apple appears set to unleash the mobile device markets latest moving target with a planned iPhone event next week. While exact details of the event are of course top secret (unless you hang out in local bars), it matters little to most consumers as the words “new” and “iPhone” automatically results in people digging out their camping equipment and setting up shop in front of their local Apple retailer.

Technological innovation is advancing at a breakneck pace – providing a wealth of challenges for companies looking to excel both at innovation and customer service. Today’s successful brands, whether they are cellular retailers, carriers, electronics manufacturers, even automobile manufacturers, must continually innovate in order to keep the customer as the focus of their go-to- market [...]

Bain Capital, the investment group started by U.S. presidential candidate Mitt Romney, has chosen a buyer for the Microconnections division of FCI, a French company in which Bain is a shareholder. Astorg Partners has agreed to buy Microconnections in a $436 million deal set to close next month. FCI is one of the world’s largest [...]

PARIS – Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. won three out of the ten awards up for grabs at the Broadband Infovision Awards held in Paris. All ten categories were strongly contested with the world’s top suppliers and service providers entering products and services. Huawei won the broadband networks and services, management and operations award; the content, [...]

PARIS – The Ng Connect Program describes itself as consortium of global leaders and innovators in infrastructure, devices, applications and content, dedicated to the idea that collaboration will speed up the successful deployment of the next generation of high-bandwidth services.

PARIS – At the Broadband World Forum in Paris, service providers have been stating repeatedly that over-the-top players (content providers) need to invest in the network infrastructure that delivers their content. According to Thierry Bonhomme, SVP for Networks and Carriers at France Telecom “all parties should invest in the industry and not just the operator.” [...]

Amazon unveiled its long-awaited Kindle Fire today, a $199 Android tablet with a 7-inch screen. The Kindle Fire uses Amazon’s new web browser, Amazon Silk, to access the vast content in Amazon’s cloud network. By leveraging this enormous library, Amazon is cutting costs on device memory. The Kindle Fire has just 8 gigabytes of internal [...]

Google founder Larry Page calls White Space as ‘WiFi on steroids’ and Microsoft calls it ‘White fi’. Policy makers are excited because White Space remains the best option for providing broadband connectivity to rural areas including services like remote healthcare. In a nutshell, White Space networks take advantage of the empty fragments of spectrum interspaced [...]