Telecommunications

January 26, 2010

Mobile-Ad M&A Frenzy May Continue

Michael Bayle has been fielding a lot of phone calls in the two months since Google bought mobile-ad company AdMob for $750 million. Bayle is a vice-president at ...

January 21, 2010

With the iPhone, Geodelic Finds Dollars and Seoul

Ever since we first tried out Sherpa, a location-based services application, we became fans of Geodelic, the Santa Monica (Calif.)-based company behind it. The app, ...

January 20, 2010

Apple, Microsoft Discuss Giving Bing Top iPhone Billing

In 2003, when Apple said its iTunes music software would work on PCs using the Windows software of its age-old rival, Microsoft, Apple made up posters that read "Hell ...

January 20, 2010

Verizon Wireless-AT&T 'Price War' May Boost Revenues

Don't be fooled by the latest round of price cuts by Verizon Wireless and AT&T. The two biggest U.S. mobile-phone companies said on Jan. 15 they'll cut monthly prices ...

January 18, 2010

Will Android Pay for Google's Moves in China?

British scribe Paul Carr is not one to mince words. For him, Google's (GOOG) newfound morality around censorship and China is too little, too late. Four years too ...

January 15, 2010

Broadband Helps Create Jobs, Not Higher Wages

Increased access to high-speed Internet connections helps create jobs, though it doesn't always result in higher wages, according to a new research report from the ...

January 12, 2010

Nexus One Makers Soothe 'Growing Pains'

Like many technophiles who were among the first to snap up the new Nexus One smartphone, Rob O'Connor has had to put up with an inconvenience or two. The Aspen (Colo.)...

January 10, 2010

Nexus One Aftermath: What Should Motorola Do Now?

When Google announced its Nexus One phone, it appeared that the new Android-driven connected device ecosystem would be a three-headed monster: Qualcomm (QCOM) as ...

January 8, 2010

Components for Google's Nexus One May Cost $174

From the outside, the Nexus One and Droid smartphones have a lot in common. Both run Google's (GOOG) Android operating system software and have touch-sensitive ...

January 7, 2010

Wi-Fi Direct Seen as Way to Alleviate Network Congestion

For consumers concerned about wireless network congestion, hope may be at hand. That's the message from a group of tech companies backing wireless fidelity, or Wi-Fi, ...

January 6, 2010

Google Shifts into Online Retailing

By Olga Kharif and Brian Womack (Bloomberg) Google Inc.'s (GOOG) Nexus One marks more than the company's entrance into mobile phones: It propels the Internet ...

January 5, 2010

Google May Show Its Phone Today

By Brian Womack (Bloomberg) Google Inc. (GOOG), seeking to wrest consumers from Apple Inc. (AAPL), and Research In Motion Inc., is poised to unveil a mobile ...

January 5, 2010

Google Unveils Its New Phone

By Brian Womack (Bloomberg) Google Inc. (GOOG), aiming to take on Apple Inc.'s (AAPL) iPhone and defend its dominance in Internet search, introduced a ...

January 4, 2010

Justice Dept. Asks FCC to Free Airwaves

By Todd Shields (Bloomberg) The U.S. should free "underutilized" airwaves for use by wireless companies such as Clearwire Corp. (CLWR) and Sprint Nextel Corp. ...

December 31, 2009

AT&T Parts with Woods amid Marital Infidelity

By Crayton Harrison and Michael Buteau (Bloomberg) AT&T Inc. (T) cut ties with Tiger Woods after his admissions of marital infidelity, following at least two ...

December 30, 2009

Five Ways Apple's Tablet May Change the World

Business writers love hyperbole. The ground will swell. The paradigm will shift. But what if occasionally a new tech gadget comes along that really does shake up ...

December 29, 2009

Apple Stock Expected to Rise in '10

By Kelly Riddell and Nick Turner (Bloomberg) Apple Inc. (AAPL) shares may advance next year after reaching a record yesterday as the maker of the iPhone and ...

December 28, 2009

An AT&T Mystery: Abrupt New York iPhone Shutdown

A brief halt in online sales of the Apple iPhone in the New York area kept alive concerns that AT&T's network isn't up to the task of handling smartphone traffic in ...

December 28, 2009

Google's AdMob Deal Criticized

By Ville Heiskanen (Bloomberg) The U.S. Federal Trade Commission should block Google Inc. (GOOG)'s planned acquisition of AdMob Inc. because the deal would ...

December 27, 2009

When Google Attacks

It's a nightmare that startups and big businesses alike fear—Google suddenly getting into their market and sucking users and profits. It's a legitimate concern, ...

December 24, 2009

Vonage Gains as Rival Jajah Is Bought by Telefonica

By Dina Bass (Bloomberg) Vonage Corp., the provider of Web- based phone service, advanced in New York trading after rival Jajah Inc. agreed to be bought by Telefonica ...

December 24, 2009

Google's AdMob Purchase Draws Regulatory Scrutiny

By Owen Fletcher Beijing - Google's (GOOG) purchase of mobile advertising provider AdMob for $750 million has drawn closer regulatory scrutiny as U.S. antitrust ...

December 23, 2009

Managing the Wireless Data Deluge

It wasn't so many years ago that U.S. wireless carriers wanted nothing more than to convince their customers to use their phones for more than talking. Having invested...

December 17, 2009

Verizon Wireless Prepares for the iPhone

There's no telling yet whether or when AT&T (T) might lose its position as the sole U.S. carrier of the Apple (AAPL) iPhone. But in the event Apple opts to partner ...

December 17, 2009

RIM Forecast Tops Analysts' Estimates; Shares Jump

By Hugo Miller (Bloomberg) Research In Motion Ltd. (RIMM) surged in late trading after the BlackBerry maker forecast sales and profit that beat analysts' ...

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