Telecom giant AT&T Inc. was the nation's second-largest advertiser during the first quarter, according to TNS Media Intelligence, second only to multinational manufacturer Procter & Gamble Co., which makes a range of products including household cleaning items and laundry detergents.TNS found AT&T spent around...
AT&T Mobility has revamped its prepaid play with a new add-on package options for its GoPhone Pay As You Go customers.GoPhone users can now choose a calling package of 3,000 off-peak minutes for $20. Messaging packages (which include SMS, IM and MMS) range from...
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 and vendor. The value of the contract is included when available.Cellular--China: Heilongjiang MCC selected Nokia Siemens Networks to expand the...
Shares of Openwave Systems Inc. tumbled in after-hours trading after the company rejected a takeover bid by Harbinger Capital Partners.Harbinger, which is already Openwave's second-largest shareholder, two weeks ago offered to buy an additional 40 million shares in a move that would give it...
Long-running speculation that Palm Inc. has been a takeover target may abate now that the company has received a $325 million infusion of private capital from Elevation Partners-a 25% stake-in a recapitalization effort to move the company ahead in smartphone and mobile computing markets.The...
L.M. Ericsson's courtship of Turner Broadcasting System International continues to roll on; CNN International, of which Turner is the parent, plans to air six, 60-minute films exploring technology in the future that will be sponsored by the infrastructure powerhouse.The "Just Imagine" series is set...
Virgin Mobile in the United Kingdom said it as has tapped InfoSpace Inc. to provide a suite of mobile search and Internet services.InfoSpace said it will power a mobile search offering for the United Kingdom's largest mobile virtual network operator, allowing users to look...
Google Inc. is jumping onto the crowded m-commerce field with a wireless version of its Checkout service.Google Checkout, which launched a year ago, is a PayPal-type offering that allows users to make purchases online from partners including Toys "R" Us, RadioShack Corp., Dick's Sporting...
Singapore-based Flextronics International Ltd. said it would acquire Solectron Corp., of Milpitas, Calif., for $3.6 billion in cash and stock to create an even larger electronics manufacturing service that will generate more than $30 billion in annual revenue.Flextronics is well-known in the cellular industry...
Best Buy Co. Inc. has expanded its mobile retail experiment, bringing on additional wireless-only retail locations beyond the initial test market in New York City.Best Buy Mobile started out with 13 stand-alone and store-within-a-store locations in the New York metro area, and now plans...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our Monday 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. In the coming weeks look for columns from Current Analysis' Avi Greengart, Compete's Miro...
As the days get longer and the mercury rises, a handful of mobile e-mail developers are reaching for the LEMONADE. Shorthand for the License to Enhanced Mobile Oriented And Diverse Endpoints-thank goodness for shorthand-LEMONADE is a group of standards designed to optimize mobile e-mail...
Mobile virtual network operator Amp'd Mobile Inc. filed for bankruptcy protection over the weekend, claiming its back-end systems have been unable to keep up with the company's rapid growth. The MVNO said in a statement that it expects to continue normal operations during the...
Sprint Nextel Corp last week snagged one of the prized contracts in a multibillion-dollar program to modernize the federal government's telecommunications system. In late March, Sprint Nextel-a perennial government contractor-came up short in the awarding of Networx Universal contracts.But the outcome was different for...
Airadigm Communications' Einstein Wireless, a GSM cellphone carrier in Wisconsin, said it fired up the nation's first cellular broadcast emergency alert system covering the community of Appleton. "Together with CellCast Technologies and with support from , we've been testing cell broadcast capability in Wisconsin...
As the 700 MHz auction nears, the intensity over auction rules is heating up. And indeed, the legacy of this Federal Communications Commission could very well ride on the success-or problems-of this auction. Potential bidders are trying to persuade the commission to write...
Remember James D. Dondero, the Highland Capital Management L.P. honcho who made Motient Corp. want to forget 2006 and all the fun that comes with nasty proxy fights and lawsuits? Dondero has some folks scratching their heads about why he sold 93,000...
Alltel Corp. made clear its interest in the upcoming 700 MHz spectrum auction in government filings, and requested that the Federal Communications Commission avoid plans to set aside a chunk of the spectrum for a national private/public-safety network and make sure that smaller regional...
Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards urged the Federal Communications Commission to fashion 700 MHz rules to further the reach of the Internet using an open-access approach advocated by Frontline Wireless L.L.C., consumer groups and Internet giants. "By setting bid and service...
The Internet is rapidly evolving from a desktop experience into a multi-platform phenomenon available on the go and around the world. Carriers, publishers and marketing firms are just hoping advertising doesn't get lost in translation. The wireless Web remains a nightmarish territory, fraught with...
The Bush administration, seeking to make more efficient use of the nation's dwindling supply of airwaves, took another step toward creating a test bed for sharing spectrum among federal agencies, commercial users and state and local governments.
But even with an advisory committee's...
WASHINGTON-A federal judicial panel conditionally remanded a brain-cancer lawsuit and class-action headset lawsuit against mobile-phone companies to courts in Florida and Pennsylvania respectively. U.S. District Judge Catherine Blake of Baltimore last month recommended to the Judicial Panel on Mulitdistrict Litigation that the brain cancer...
Stalwarts in media are increasingly bullish on driving their audience's eyes and ears to just about every channel imaginable. But just as these powerhouses are finally finding their online groove, they're efforts are being re-doubled on the next frontier in media-mobile phones. Fox Interactive...
