Yearly Archives: 2007

Flextronics bulks up with $3.6 billion Solectron acquisition

Singapore-based Flextronics International Ltd. said it would acquire Solectron Corp., of Milpitas, Calif., for $3.6 billion in cash and stock to create an even...

Best Buy expanding mobile plans

Best Buy Co. Inc. has expanded its mobile retail experiment, bringing on additional wireless-only retail locations beyond the initial test market in New York...

Analyst Angle: The True Cost of Family Rate Plans

Editor's Note: Welcome to our Monday feature, Analyst Angle. We've collected a group of the industry's leading analysts to give their outlook on the...

May infrastructure awards

The following infrastructure contracts were announced in May:

MVNO struggles continue: Amp’d files for bankruptcy protection: Company will continue operations

Mobile virtual network operator Amp'd Mobile Inc. filed for bankruptcy protection over the weekend, claiming its back-end systems have been unable to keep up...

LEMONADE: A cool, refreshing drink for push e-mail providers : Technology expected to speed delivery for low-cost providers

As the days get longer and the mercury rises, a handful of mobile e-mail developers are reaching for the LEMONADE. Shorthand for the License...

Monday, June 4, 2007

WiMAX market seen big enough for large and small players

New research shows that the early entrants into the WiMAX market-firms like Alavarion, Aperto, Redline and Airspan-will be able to profit from their jump...

LCC snares WFI’s engineering biz for $46M

Following a major financial reporting setback due to an internal review of stock-options granting practices in mid-March, Wireless Facilities Inc. announced it has agreed...

Avaya takeover rumors swirling : Analyst note market conditions right for deal

The enterprise telephony space is ripe for consolidation, a Prudential analyst said in a report last week, and there is plenty of appetite in...

Third Screen, iLoop join forces to automate mobile ad tracking

Third Screen Media Inc. and iLoop Mobile plan to work together to help companies looking to generate advertising revenue from their wireless Web sites....

Online gaming giants set sights on mobile space : Oberon, PopCap hope to capitalize on casual gaming success

A couple of online casual gaming heavyweights lumbered into the mobile sphere. Oberon Media bought a big chunk of the wireless gaming playground last...

Getting the ‘big picture’ : Content driving larger, better handset displays

Even a casual observer of the wireless industry can't fail to notice that newer handsets are sporting larger, clearer, more colorful screens. Simply...

Executive Interview: John Smelzer

Stalwarts in media are increasingly bullish on driving their audience's eyes and ears to just about every channel imaginable. But just as these powerhouses...

Federal health lawsuits remanded back to states

WASHINGTON-A federal judicial panel conditionally remanded a brain-cancer lawsuit and class-action headset lawsuit against mobile-phone companies to courts in Florida and Pennsylvania respectively. U.S....

Panel outlines technologies for spectrum-sharing test bed

The Bush administration, seeking to make more efficient use of the nation's dwindling supply of airwaves, took another step toward creating a test bed...

Nightmare on Madison Avenue : As wireless Web use surges, advertising fears mount

The Internet is rapidly evolving from a desktop experience into a multi-platform phenomenon available on the go and around the world. Carriers, publishers and...

Edwards backs Frontline, tech’s 700 MHz plans

Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards urged the Federal Communications Commission to fashion 700 MHz rules to further the reach of the Internet using an...

Alltel, MetroPCS hint at 700 MHz plans

Alltel Corp. made clear its interest in the upcoming 700 MHz spectrum auction in government filings, and requested that the Federal Communications Commission avoid...

Wireless banking

Remember James D. Dondero, the Highland Capital Management L.P. honcho who made Motient Corp. want to forget 2006 and all the fun that comes...

Under pressure

As the 700 MHz auction nears, the intensity over auction rules is heating up. And indeed, the legacy of this Federal Communications Commission could...

Airadigm launches cell broadcast service : Service is first of its kind in the country

Airadigm Communications' Einstein Wireless, a GSM cellphone carrier in Wisconsin, said it fired up the nation's first cellular broadcast emergency alert system covering the...

Sprint Nextel snares piece of government contract

Sprint Nextel Corp last week snagged one of the prized contracts in a multibillion-dollar program to modernize the federal government's telecommunications system. In late...

Regs from Katrina aftermath fall short, Dems at FCC charge

The Federal Communications Commission ordered wireless and wireline operators to have backup power sources for telecom facilities and to submit reports on the reliability...

Consumers hanging onto handsets longer

Longer contracts are pushing American consumers to keep their handsets longer, according to a new study by J.D. Power and AssociatesThe average length of...
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