Austin, Texas-based chipmaker Freescale Semiconductor (NYSE: FSL) reported a deep drop in profits in the second quarter of 2012.
The company reported net sales of $1.03 billion and recorded a $34 million net loss or 14 cents per share for the period that ended June 29.
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A new free app allows users to receive and answer texts from the comfort of their own computer keyboard — no matter what type of computer, operating system or mobile phone they have. Using a cloud-based account, the app dubbed Mysms can synchronize texts...
At the Connect Americas Summit held by The International Telecomunication Union this week in Panama, leaders from Latin America and the Carribean called for a $53 billion commitment to increase inter-American connectivity and digital inclusion. This large investment would be used to fund information...
Back in 2009, Sunbelt Rentals, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ashtead Group and one of the largest equipment rental companies in the United States, decided to introduce iPhones to its sales force. “We had zero technology in our sales force,” Sunbelt Rentals' director of enterprise...
Fallout has begun following the decision by Brazilian telecom regulator Anatel to suspend mobile line sales by a handful of carriers in some states due to poor service quality and customer complaints.
Credit Suisse cut its recommendation on TIM Brasil's shares to underperform from neutral and...
There is no doubt that the wireless space is in the midst of one of the greatest technological transformations since its inception. This is being led by carriers moving away from legacy 2G and 3G networks, that were loosely based on 1G services, and...
Oracle announced plans to acquire substantially all of the assets of Skire, a provider of capital program management and facilities management applications available both in the cloud and on-premise. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
The announcement follows recent comments from Oracle CEO Larry...
The machine-to-machine market is poised for the biggest transformation in its 10-year history due to the adoption of cloud-based solutions for M2M applications, according to the latest research report from Maravedis-Rethink. The consultant firm's report predicts that over the next three years, the M2M...
Changes in the leadership at big tech companies were announced this week. Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO) appointed former Google executive Marissa Mayer as president, CEO and member of the board of directors. Yahoo noted that the company’s decision to hire a “leading consumer internet executive” signals...
Brazil's telecommunication regulator Anatel, announced yesterday that it has suspended sales in some states by three mobile phone companies —TIM, the Brazilian unit of Telecom Italia; América Móvil’s Claro; and the national carrier Oi — due to the volume of customer complaints. Anatel said the...
One of the direct consequences of number portability are the benefits it provides users. Since the adoption of number portability in Chile last January, the country’s Department of Telecommunications (Subtel) said prices decreased by 20% to 25%. According to Subtel, at the end of the first...
Thirteen Latin American mobile operators have pledged to work together across the region to block the use of stolen devices, GSMA Latin America announced. The wireless operators agreed to collaborate with governments in the region on initiatives designed to reduce mobile phone theft and...
Analysts are predicting that Samsung again dominated the smartphone market in the second quarter. During the first quarter, the company surged ahead of Apple in the smartphone race and overtook Nokia to become the world's largest seller of all types of mobile phones. Now,...
The German software giant SAP has said more than once that Latin America is one of the key regions for the company’s growth. Yesterday, SAP went a step further when it broke ground on the SAP Labs Latin America expansion. The company said it will...
Millicom International Cellular, which operates in the Paraguay market under the Tigo brand name, signed a binding agreement to acquire Paraguay's cable pay-TV services provider Cablevisión for $150 million.
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Completion of the acquisition is subject to...
A recent survey from Pyramid Research found that fiber optic access in Latin America is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 44% in the 2012-2017 period as the deployment of fiber optic networks reduces the digital gap in the...
The next generation of telecommunications was launched by the Dominican Republic’s unit of Orange after a U.S.$150 million investment in 2012 to improve and double its network. The company launched its LTE services by providing data access through USB modems. It is now available...
Guatemala’s Continental Towers will receive an investment that will help it build and maintain mobile-phone towers across Central America, increasing mobile-phone coverage and reducing communication costs. IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, has announced it is providing the company with a $120...
Editor’s Note: The RCR Wireless News Time Machine is a way to take advantage of our extensive history in covering the wireless space to fire up the DeLorean and take a trip back in time to re-visit some of the more interesting headlines from...
Following its partnership with Chile’s Empresa Nacional de Telecomunicaciones (Entel) to offer mobile services, the German software company SAP announced it has teamed up with the Colombian UNE EPM. The carrier will offer its corporate customers a cloud-based mobility platform to access enterprise applications and systems....
While the domestic economy continues to struggle, a new report shows that the telecommunications space remains one of the biggest investors in attempting to boost the nation’s fortunes.
The Progressive Policy Institute report, “Investment Heros: Who’s Betting on America’s Future?,” found that among non-financial institutions,...
China-based telecom equipment provdier Huawei signed a statement of commitment with Brazil's Ministry of Communications (Minicom) focused on the development of new technologies to support broadband services using the 450 MHz spectrum band. The agreement was signed between Brazil's Communications Minister Paulo Bernardo and...
