2012

Shares of Freescale Semiconductor (FSL) are sharply higher for the second straight day on news that the company has hired a top Texas Instruments (TXN) executive as its new CEO. Gregg Lowe, who has been running TI’s analog chip business, …

Brazilian telecom agency Anatel said that six telecom groups have submitted bids for Brazil’s upcoming frequency tenders in the 2.5 GHz and 450 MHz bands. The bidding events are intended to help roll out LTE technology throughout the country. The …

LAS VEGAS—After HP’s turbulent year in 2011, with Léo Apotheker stepping down as CEO just 11 months after being named and the indecision over the future of its PC business, HP (NYSE: HPQ) used this week’s HP Discover 2012 event to make …

Less than a month after Oracle’s purchase of the cloud-based social marketing and engagement platform Vitrue, the company announced on June 5 that it has entered into an agreement to acquire the cloud-based social intelligence firm, Collective Intellect. It is …

Published reports indicate that Verizon Communications is looking to cut up to 1,700 jobs across its wireline operations as business for traditional telecom services continues to slow. The telecom giant, which employs more than 190,000 people across its operations, is …

GridSense’s launch of its Grid InSite software tool highlights the increasing intersection between the network analytics and optimization capabilities required by smart grid energy operators and telecommunications network operators. At the heart of the solution, Grid InSite applies link sensors …

AUSTIN, Texas – Amidst reports of layoffs and lawsuits, BlackBerry-maker Research-In-Motion is reaching out the people who could represent its best hope for survival: software developers. Today the company kicked off the U.S. leg of its BlackBerry 10 Jam tour …

Alaska’s wireless landscape is in for a shake up as former rivals General Communications and Alaska Communications Systems Group said they will combine their operations under a new entity dubbed Alaska Wireless Network. The deal calls for GCI to control …

Google Maps is one of the most popular smartphone apps and one of the most lucrative, as advertisers are quick to see the value in location-based mobile ads. Now Apple is reportedly working to move into Google’s territory with its …

Clearwire nabbed another wholesale partner announcing a deal to host Jolt Mobile’s prepaid wireless service. The current agreement calls for Jolt to add Clearwire’s WiMAX mobile broadband offering to its service structure. Financial terms of the deal were not released. …

Holiday weekends are usually quiet ones overall for business, and especially in the telecom world. Not this year. Between Leap’s iPhone announcement, Randall Stephenson’s wide-ranging discussion at the Sanford C. Bernstein conference,

LAS VEGAS – “It is too early to evaluate HP’s new product. And it has still to be proven by clients. What I can say at this moment is that EMC leads this market with a huge share of our …

Brazil’s No. 2 carrier, TIM Brasil, announced it has chosen Cisco and its partner PromonLogicalis to manage the implementation of 10,000 Wi-Fi hotspots throughout the country. The project is expected to be completed by the end of the year. The …

LAS VEGAS – How to manage big data has been a challenge for companies of all sizes and sectors. Companies need to develop strategies to deal with the volume, variety, velocity and value of a huge amount of structured and …

Two big IT events happened in Las Vegas last month: Interop and Symantec Vision. Both events made a very good impression on me when I downloaded the apps and found out I could do my check-in,

Editor’s Note: This analysis was taken from an article that Ovum will be publishing in its subscriber newsletter in June, 2012. Summary Ovum recently attended a Nokia-hosted analyst event in Dubai, where the vendor explained its current business and future …

AT&T came to the rescue of the proposed Band Class 17 proposal that would see a 3GPP standard for LTE interoperability across the lower 700 MHz band exclude the A-Band that is mired in potential interference issues. In a report …

Summer is here and with it a hot new smartphone – but this June it’s not an iPhone that will have consumers lining up outside retail stores. While Apple is widely expected to delay its new iPhone launch until fall …

The Rural Cellular Association continued to bolster its lineup by adding wireless broadband provider Clearwire to its list of member carriers. Clearwire’s management has participated in numerous RCA events in the past. Sprint Nextel, which has a significant stake in …

Telecom service provider Windstream announced a corporate restructuring last week that will result in the elimination of up to 400 management positions, or about 3% of its workforce. The company, which was formed in 2005 from the merger of Alltel …

Securing LTE Backhaul with IPsec: Are you doing all you can to keep your LTE backhaul network secure? Tellabs’ white paper explains how IPsec addresses the security issues inherent in LTE networks. It also reviews the end-to-end protection solutions available …

One of the first mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) in Latin America, Colombian Uff Móvil launched its services back in November 2010 and ended December 2011 with 249,000 users or 0.7% share of the wireless market. This is expansive growth …