24 May 2012 by Graeme Thickins
BROOMFIELD, Colo. – A crowd of more than 450 packed the ballroom at the Omni Resort in Broomfield, Colo., Wednesday morning for the third annual Glue Conference. Organizer Eric Norlin delivered the welcome and noted a surprising number in the room were first-time attendees. The program kicked off with a keynote by Chris Hoff of [...]
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24 May 2012 by Dan Meyer
Sprint Nextel snared a victory today as the Federal Communications Commission released an order reducing “barriers to the deployment of broadband, encourages investment in wireless technologies, and facilitates the efficient use of spectrum by revising a burdensome legacy regulation that unnecessarily constrained 800 MHz Specialized Mobile Radio licensees.” In a Report and Order, the FCC [...]
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24 May 2012 by Dan Meyer
T-Mobile USA’s interest in raising much needed funds through the sale of its tower assets is causing waves throughout the tower industry as analysts look to read the tea leaves on which company has the inside track. T-Mobile USA currently has about 7,000 towers, which would put it at about No. 5 in domestic tower [...]
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24 May 2012 by Martha DeGrasse
While Hewlett-Packard adapts to a changing PC market by reducing its workforce, Dell is reducing the size of its products. This week the company tried to temper a disappointing earnings report with promises of smaller, more mobile products later this year. Dell (DELL) saw its stock price skid 17% on Wednesday after the PC maker’s [...]
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24 May 2012 by Dan Meyer
With AT&T’s aborted attempt to acquire T-Mobile USA for $39 billion still fresh on everyone’s minds, Deutsche Telekom CEO Rene Obermann told investors in a prepared statement that the future of its U.S.-based operations will likely not include an outright sale. “Of course, we continue to look for a long-term solution to improve earnings in [...]
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24 May 2012 by Dan Meyer
Qualcomm said it has signed an agreement to sell a 49% stake in its Indian operation that holds spectrum licenses covering Delhi, Mumbai, Haryana and Kerala to Bharti Airtel for $165 million, and that the Indian company is on its way to controlling the entire entity by the end of 2014. The deal calls for [...]
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24 May 2012 by Roberta Prescott
Over the next five years, shipments of consumer machine-to-machine devices are forecast to grow at a 39.8% compound annual growth rate to reach 37.9 million devices in 2016, according to a new research report from Berg Insight. According to the firm, the number of consumer M2M devices shipped with cellular connectivity grew to 7.1 million [...]
24 May 2012 by Roberta Prescott
A new chapter in the Oracle versus Google lawsuit: A federal jury said Wednesday that Google (GOOG) did not infringe Oracle (ORCL) patents that protect Oracle’s Java technology. The decision came after the jury found earlier in May that Google had infringed Oracle’s copyrights of Java APIs when it created its Android operating system. Follow [...]
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23 May 2012 by Martha DeGrasse
Tablets and smartphones are replacing PCs for many consumers and businesses, and Hewlett-Packard is feeling the sting. The company says it will lay off 27,000 workers in a restructuring effort aimed at saving up to $3.5 billion a year. HP was the world’s largest personal computer maker until the fourth quarter of last year, when [...]
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23 May 2012 by Dan Meyer
Sticking to its point of being a good steward of spectrum and the need to meet increasing demand from consumers, Verizon Wireless responded to a request by the Federal Communications Commission for clarification on several points regarding the carrier’s attempt to acquire 1.7/2.1 GHz spectrum assets from a number of cable companies. The FCC last [...]
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