Ericsson’s purchase of Microsoft’s Mediaroom underlines the growing importance of the video-on-demand market market for mobile operators. Demand for set-top boxes is set to skyrocket during the next five years, …
Facebook says its new mobile interface is all about shifting devices away from apps and tasks, and towards friends and people. Today the company shared the specifics about its new …
Samsung says it will launch branded stores at 1,400 Best Buy locations by this summer. Best Buy employees will help customers purchase and activate Samsung devices, but will not service …
Big data is wasted wealth if you can’t see what it means, so visualization software is increasingly important to companies that find themselves drowning in data. Tableau offers a lifeline …
BlackBerry is getting a boost from its longtime partner Telefonica. The global carrier has made a commitment to buy roughly $200 million worth of smartphones, services and solutions from the …
40 years after Motorola’s Marty Cooper made the world’s first cell phone call, the race to bring new mobile phones to market has never been more intense. Chipsets that integrate …
Cisco continued its move into mobility this week with the purchase of Ubiquisys for $310 million. Ubiquisys is a British developer of small cell technologies with several major carrier and …
Amazon joins Facebook this week on the list of companies hinting that they may be planning a smartphone launch. The company has hired Charlie Kindel, who formerly headed up Microsoft’s …
Aereo’s victory in the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit could be good news for AT&T. The startup has reportedly talked to AT&T, Dish Networks and others …
The HTC One was one of the hottest new smartphones to come out of Mobile World Congress, and now it looks like AT&T will be the exclusive U.S. carrier of …
Facebook will unveil what it calls its “new home on Android” at a Thursday press event. Today 9TO5 Google is reporting that Facebook is planning a new HTC device that …
House Intelligence Committee Chair Mike Rogers (R-Michigan) says Softbank and Sprint Nextel are telling his committee they will try to phase out Chinese network equipment used by Clearwire. Sprint owns …
Clearwire appears to want the best of both worlds. The company says it’s still talking to Dish Networks about a possible buyout, but it can’t resist Sprint Nextel’s cold hard …
BlackBerry (BBRY) surprised Wall Street with a small profit during the fourth quarter, and said that it has already shipped a million Z10 smartphones. The Z10 is BlackBerry’s new touchscreen …
The world’s largest maker of wireless networking equipment has been increasingly focused on software as a service and now Ericsson is reportedly trying to buy Microsoft’s IPTV unit. The unit …
With half of all IP traffic expected to be delivered over Wi-Fi within 3 years, Wi-Fi access points and network management software are increasingly important to carriers. RCR Wireless lists …
Over the last weeks, we saw multiple announcements around mobile wallets: o Partnerships between Visa and Samsung announced at the 3GSM in Barcelona o Introduction of MasterPass by MasterCard o …
(This is part one of a two-part article series on the technical, operational and revenue impacts of deploying Wi-Fi offload to meet mobile data demand.) Data hungry consumers, powerful mobile …
T-Mobile USA is shaking up wireless pricing, offering the iPhone 5 off-contract starting April 12. The nation’s fourth largest carrier is the last of the big four to get the …
Range Networks has developed an open source software defined radio implementation of the GSM Radio Network. The company has been funded by investors who want to help extend telecommunications to …
T-Mobile USA is rolling out its new no-contract pricing just as the latest tests of its LTE network are showing speeds that could be the fastest in the country. Tests …
Oracle continues to make its way aggessively into telecom software, this time with the purchase of Tekelec, a provider of diameter signaling and policy control solutions. Tekelec has been privately …
The mobile semiconductor industry appears poised for consolidation. Japan’s troubled Renesas is considering a sale of the chip making business it bought from Nokia three years ago. Reuters reports that …
BlackBerry is finally getting its touchscreen Z10 smartphone into stores this weekend, more than six weeks after the product launch. The delayed launch is probably due to carriers prioritizing testing …
Intel is looking to take its Atom processors beyond smartphones and tablets. This week the world’s largest chipmaker unveiled a hardward/software toolkit for set top boxes at the TV Connect …
