Shares of networking equipment bellwether Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) are higher today after the company surpassed Wall Street’s forecasts for its fiscal first quarter. The better-than-expected report was a welcome bright …
GENBAND is offering its customers a lot more than switches these days. The private Dallas-based company says it’s the nation’s leading maker of fixed switching solutions, but CEO Charlie Vogt …
Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD) is laying off 10% of its workforce in an effort to cut costs. The world’s second largest chipmaker will also terminate some contractual employees, resulting …
Wall Street’s wait is over: Groupon (NASDAQ: GRPN) is finally public, pricing Thursday night at $20 a share in one of the most widely anticipated initial public offerings in years. …
With LTE North America just a few days away, many carriers are focused on the standard’s next generation: LTE-Advanced. LTE-Advanced may finally offer “true 4G” data rates, with stationary peaks …
What does your smartphone have in common with Henry Ford’s Model T? Quite a bit, according to LightSquared CEO Sanjiv Ahuja. Both the smartphone and the Model T may be …
Matthew Myers faces winds of up to 110 MPH atop a 12,000 foot mountain peak as he deploys, installs and maintains cell phone towers for Union Wireless in Colorado. When …
Switzerland’s ST-Ericsson has inked a deal to supply chipsets for future Nokia phones that use the Microsoft Windows operating system. Shares of ST-Ericsson’s two parent companies, Ericsson and STMicroelectronics, traded …
American Tower (NYSE: AMT) bucked the downward trend on Wall Street today, rising on a strong earnings report and an improved financial outlook for the year. The Boston-based wireless infrastructure …
Aiming for the enterprise market — and specifically for business, healthcare and education — Dell Inc. today unveiled the Latitude ST, its Windows 7 tablet. Weighing in at 1.8 pounds …
While Apple loyalists waited for the newest iPhone to arrive, Samsung Electronics nabbed the top spot in smartphone sales for the third quarter. According to the latest research from the …
MyTown2 may be blurring the lines between the real and virtual worlds, but there is nothing virtual about the success of Booyah, the company that created MyTown. The location-based mobile …
Terry McCabe, CTO of Mavenir Systems, says there are many bumps on the road to actually offering valuable services to subscribers over LTE. He also cautions that LTE networks can …
Qualcomm (QCOM) garnered a pair of significant wins this month as the chipmaker not only scored the main CPU for Nokia’s new Windows Phone 7 devices, but also supplies the …
Crown Castle, the largest U.S. tower owner, said network upgrades by Verizon Wireless, AT&T Mobility and Sprint Nextel boosted earnings in the third quarter of 2011. For the quarter, recurring …
Nokia unveiled the company’s first Windows Phone offerings in London this morning at the company’s Nokia World event. The two Nokia Windows phones are the higher-end Lumia 800 and the …
LightSquared reported a deal with Brightstar to be its preferred supply chain services provider. Brightstar provides value-added distribution services, logistics, supply chain services and retail outsourcing. “Many of LightSquared’s partners …
Appcelerator wants to get into the game – its Titanium platform is already used by 1.5 million developers, and now Appcelerator is buying Particle Code in an attempt to make …
Oracle wants to increase its offerings in the cloud RightNow. The software giant has agreed to pay $1.5 billion for RightNow Technologies (NASDAQ RNOW). That’s $43 a share, almost 20% …
The three most populous states in America each saw significant job growth during the last 12 months, according to data released today by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. California, …
Daily deal site BuyWithMe needs to sell more than coupons to stay afloat — the company is reportedly on a desperate search for a buyer, and has just laid off …
Qwilt has raised $24 million in two rounds from some of the same investors who funded Netflix — investors who understand the demands that video delivery puts on carriers, and …
Search engine giant Google has been looking for deals in more ways than one this year. The company has made 21 acquisitions, and several of its targets have been companies …
Alcatel-Lucent has a binding offer to sell it Genesys business for $1.5 billion in cash to a company owned by Permira, a European private equity firm. Genesys provides customer service …
Investments in software startups dominated the venture capital landscape in the third quarter of 2011, according to data from Thomson Reuters compiled in the quarterly MoneyTree Report. Venture capitalists invested …
