Women in Cable Telecommunications is a 30-year-old nonprofit group nearly 8,000 members strong that was borne out of a necessity to ensure that women in cable telecommunications were well educated and empowered to help transform the cable industry.In the traditional wireless space, two women's...
Last week Oracle, in partnership with United Kingdom-based trends consulting group The Future Laboratory, launched the results of the “Capitalizing on the Digital Age” study, which explores how the digital world will change consumer behavior in the future and the challenges that it will...
The Federal Communications Commission is starting to quantify gaps in U.S. broadband access as the agency moves forward in trying to develop a National Broadband Plan, which is due to Congress in 90 days.Gaps cross a diverse range of physical, spectrum and knowledge gaps....
Millennial Media Raises $16m In Growth Equity Financing To Extend Its Leadership Position In Mobile AdvertisingFrom: Millennial MediaMillennial Media announced the company has closed on a $16M Series C round of growth funding, led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA) with existing investors Bessemer...
LOS ANGELES – What a perfect setup for this week's Mobile Marketing Forum. Barely a week ago, AdMob gets acquired by Google Inc. for $750 million, making it the third-largest acquisition in Google's history."If that's not a validation ... then I don't know what...
LONDON - A employee of mobile phone operator T-Mobile is facing prosecution after selling personal details of thousands of British customers to rival companies in an alleged major breach of data protection laws.Reuters
The Mobile Marketing Association updated its definition of what constitutes mobile marketing to include more than just advertising or marketing to people over a mobile device. The new definition as much as anything points to the huge growth potential of communicating with customers and...
Ericsson - Cesare Avenia has been chosen to oversee the execution of Ericsson's new brand strategy as Chief Brand Officer. Avenia, who joined Ericsson in 1994, is currently Head of Market Unit South East Europe. YTL Communications Sdn Bhd - Ali Tabassi has...
SAN DIEGO – Highlighted by the event's name, this week's 3G CDMA Americas Regional Conference took a step back from the hype surrounding so-called “4G” technologies and instead focused on the benefits carriers can still attain from current 3G technologies. Not that the event's...
Qualcomm Inc. said LG Electronics Co. Ltd. is one of three major phone makers that agreed to license its 4G high-speed wireless technology, solidifying its position in the mobile market for years.Reuters
SAN DIEGO – The CDMA Development Group handed out their 2009 CDMA Industry Achievement Awards at this year's 3G CDMA Americas Regional Conference in San Diego, Calif., this week. Winners were selected by industry ballots and included companies and individuals leading the deployment of...
Pakistan: Nokia Siemens Networks has been selected by Telenor Pakistan to deploy energy-efficient off-grid sites to rural regions of the country. United States: Mediacom has chosen Huawei to provide NG-DWDM through Minnesota, Missouri and Iowa. Somalia: Tecore Networks, worldwide provider of 2G, 3G, and...
Clearwire gets more funding from Sprint, other investorsFrom: RCR Wireless NewsClearwire Corp. confirmed it would gain another $1.564 billion in funding from its existing partners to help it continue to build its nationwide WiMAX network. Sprint Nextel Corp., which owns 51% of Clearwire and...
The first predictions for 2010 are officially here with inCode Telecom's Top 10 list. This year's list involves a couple of blessing-curse combination predictions, as well as consolidation speculation and regulatory prognosticating, said inCode's Rob Chimsky, VP and CTO of the company. Chimsky said...
Google's back on the acquisition front, spending $750 million in stock Monday to acquire mobile display ad company AdMob.AdMob is perhaps best known for serving display ads on iPhones, but it also recently started a business unit focused on ads for Android phones. The...
WASHINGTON - U.S. lawmakers said on Friday they introduced a measure aimed at overhauling an annual fund intended to ensure nationwide telephone service in high-cost, rural areas by including money for high-speed Internet use.Reuters
Clearwire - Clearwire has made recent marketing and corporate strategy appointments in an effort to support market expansion. Thomas Enraght-Moony has been chosen to take on the role of Senior VP of Marketing and General Manager of CLEAR Online. David D. Maquera has been...
Big box retailers have made comparing cellphone plans and pricing much quicker by putting most of the options under one roof. So the real question is who has what?Best Buy Co. Inc. sells more than 90 different handsets across nine prepaid/postpaid carriers through its...
T-Mobile USA, a wireless carrier that is owned by Germany's Deutsche Telekom AG, said Thursday that it lost 77,000 subscribers in the third quarter due in part to competition and increasingly innovative cell phone offerings from rivals.BusinessWeek
