Tandem, a Silicon Valley-based high-tech incubator focused on mobile start-ups announced a new $32 million fund to invest in early-stage ventures by providing $200,000 of working capital, access to office space for 6 months, and mentoring in exchange for a 10% equity stake in...
AMD announced an expansion to its collaboration with ARM whereby the Sunnyvale, CA-based chip maker will be integrating ARM's TrustZone technology into its future Accelerated Processing Units (APUs) in support of more robust security features on mobile devices, especially related to mobile payments.
While the...
The Caribbean poses an intriguing paradigm to telecom players in the Americas. Geographically it is part of the region, but unfortunately the development of its telecom sector is mostly ignored in the continental markets.
Relevvant, a mobile ads firm targeting the enterprise retail segment, today announced a software tool that uses social, location, and purchasing data to target ads on mobile devices that the firm believes achieves a greater level of granularity than existing mobile advertising platforms.
In its...
RACO Wireless made a pair of announcements on Tuesday at the Connected World conference that add breadth and maintain a level of depth in the Machine-to-Machine ecosystem.
The first announcement stated that RACO Wireless and T-Mobile USA will partner with Apriva to support the mobile...
Not since The Police has Synchronicity been this sexy. The coming together of two seemingly unrelated events such as Ethernet and timing, while not new, is profoundly necessary to make widespread Ethernet mobile backhaul a reality.
There are a number of possible solutions...
The VC business can be a strange game sometimes. That was typified for me this week courtesy of two lines in my WSJ reader (see below). While the "Larry the Bird" makeover took top billing on my screen, the two entries surrounded in...
Citrix Systems, Inc. announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire privately-held Bytemobile, Inc. for an undisclosed sum. While not the first deal of this nature in 2012, it does represent one of the more meaningful as cloud platform providers seek to...
Yesterday Ericsson released its annual Traffic and Market report, which is based on the company's internal mobile traffic growth modeling exercises as well as data collected from external sources. Not surprisingly, Ericsson's report finds that mobile subscriptions, and thus, mobile traffic – particularly mobile...
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 and monitors to provide...
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 prospects in the Middle...
Reporting remotely on the All Things D conference has its advantages and disadvantages, with the primary drawback being the inability to feel the energy of the event firsthand. I'd guess that a gathering of that much power and influence would have a decidedly more...
Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We’ve collected a group of the industry’s leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry.
After reaching the second position in the Brazilian mobile market last August, TIM Brasil reached another...
The benefit of a long plane ride home with no diversions other than sitting through a playlist of hot-poker-to-the-eye "rom-coms" that I already watched traveling to and from the other spring trade shows is that I had plenty of time to stare out the...
DUBLIN – In the morning keynote panel kicking off the TM Forum's Management World 2012 event, financial analysts joined the TM Forum's executive leadership to discuss what factors will determine the "winners and losers" in the digital world. Specifically, the questions to the panel...
DUBLIN – Alcatel-Lucent kicked off its TM Forum Management World 2012 presence by announcing a significant new addition to the CEM solution capabilities that it officially brought to market in February. The new offering, entitled Managed Service Quality and Assurance, essentially offers the capabilities...
As I get ready to make the journey from Austin to Dublin for the TM Forum's Management World 2012 event, I'm scrolling through a few key checklist items in my mind: remember my passport, rationalize the need to pack sweaters as I sit here...
Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We’ve collected a group of the industry’s leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry.
The 2012 edition of the International CTIA Wireless show held in New Orleans served as...
On the day that Sprint tooted its horn as being the leading U.S. carrier in terms of customer satisfaction, the wireless operator's service went down covering nearly the entire Austin, Texas metro area. Local station KEYE TV reported that "a marathon repair effort...
During the last decade, Latin America's telecom industry has seen the rise and fall of many challengers to the iDEN "push-to-talk" service. The would-be successors used different technologies
Beside hearing the obligatory merger rumors, and seeing an unbelievably massive amount of cell phone bling on display, last week's CTIA showcased plenty of equipment vendors showing off technologies that can help operators serve up blazing fast mobile broadband connections. Clearly small cells are...
Last week carriers, original equipment manufacturers and wireless ecosystem participants of all shapes and sizes descended on New Orleans for the annual CTIA show. And in a nice quirk of timing
NEW ORLEANS - In a study released by the WiFi Alliance, 90% of participants said that they would stick with their current mobile service provider, while 70% said that they would switch service providers, if necessary, to gain access to such a service. Sounds...
What do mobile operators think about VoLTE? Operators like MetroPCS and Verizon Wireless have announced aggressive VoLTE plans, with MetroPCS planning to launch two to three VoLTE handsets before
