Yearly Archives: 2008

Financial ratings wrap-up: Sprint Nextel, Aruba, American Tower and more

The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.Carrier--Credit Suisse First Boston lowered...

Cell phone users may get break on fees

The government is quietly negotiating to help cell phone customers avoid expensive fees when they cancel contracts with wireless companies, The Associated Press has...

Wireless industry going through its AOL phase

The mobile Internet industry very much resembles the fixed Internet industry of the mid-1990s: lots of promise, but the business models have yet to...

Adderton, post-Amp’d, launches latest project: building digital media businesses : ‘I’m about game changing’

Peter Adderton, the man behind Boost Mobile and Amp'd Mobile Inc., has unveiled his next business venture. And like those before it, the plan...

Click-through rates of 43% and other morsels

The simple banner ad: Those tiny little slivers of real estate on tiny little cellphone screens produce the same level of brand recall as...

RCA claims exclusive contracts are a bad deal for rural customers

Rural mobile-phone operators have asked the Federal Communications Commission to investigate exclusivity deals between the industry's major carriers and handset vendors, taking aim at...

What affect will an economic slowdown have on mobile data revenues?

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile content industry to give...

AT&T Mobility includes free Wi-Fi with data plans

AT&T Mobility is providing Web-hungry users with free Internet. The catch? They must already be an AT&T customer.Qualifying AT&T Mobility LaptopConnect customers who subscribe...

REVIEW: Slim pickings for Zumobi spell disaster in crowded mobile Web space

Application: ZumobiRunning on: Samsung ACE running Windows Mobile 6 on Sprint Nextel's EV-DO network.Yay: Zumobi usually runs in the background and updates...

India says RIM to resolve BlackBerry issue in 2 mths

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Research in Motion (RIM.TO: Quote , Profile , Research ) (RIMM.

Sprint customer satisfaction keeps dropping

Sprint 's customer satisfaction rating plummeted by more than 8% in the first quarter of 2008, according to the latest American Customer Satisfaction Index...

A U.S. Toehold for SK Telecom?

Korean telecommunications provider SK Telecom has long wanted a bigger beachhead in the U.S. Last year the company went so far as to make...

AOL Completes Acquisition Of Social Network Bebo

AOL on Monday said it has completed the acquisition of Bebo, an online social network focused on the youth market and particularly strong in...

Nokia Sees Returns From Services In 2010

NEW YORK - Nokia, the world's leading mobile phone maker, does not expect to start to see returns from its investment in Internet services...

Palm opens up a Virtual Developer Lab

Company has a new plan for engaging application developers and getting their programs to market.

Apple owns 66% of $1,000-plus retail market, NPD Group says

Its gains fly in the face of current economic downturn, says analyst. Apple Inc. 's Macs accounted for 66% of all personal computers priced...

Implications of Best Buy’s Carphone Warehouse Investment

Much has been made of Best Buy's ( BBY ) $2+ billion investment in Carphone Warehouse (CRWHF.PK) , announced Thursday, May 8 th ....

Going Mobile: The End of the Newsroom As We Know It?

NEW YORK When word came down on March 12 that New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer was going to resign after revelations that he'd paid...

Managed services market to crack $66 billion by 2012

Ovum, a consulting firm that specializes in telecom and software consulting, released a study this week projecting that the global market for managed services...

Report: The Mobile Web is the New Hangout

According to Opera's survey of the more 11.9 million Opera Mini users in March, almost 41% of mobile traffic now goes to social networking...

How mobile is mobile?

Travelling in this electronic age is all very nice - it's now easy to communicate with the folks back home, send them photos, catch...

Sierra shows off new in-vehicle modem

Sierra Wireless introduced its PinPoint XT intelligent device targeted at vehicle tracking, fleet management and telematics applications.The product is part of the company's AirLink...

Infrastructure awards wrap-up: Alcatel-Lucent, Intracom and Tranzeo

The following list details this week's infrastructure awards for the cellular, Wi-Fi, and WiMAX industries. The contracts are broken down by transmission technology, country...

AT&T may bid for Huawei handset unit, says report

AT&T and Vodafone have been named as possible buyers for a 50% stake in Huawei Technologies' handset division.

New technology guides first responders

Navigating backcountry roads in places like Hawkins County, Tenn., can be a challenge for ambulance drivers, even if they know the territory.
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