Telecommunications

February 25, 2011

Four Signs of Honeycomb's Rush to Compete With Apple's iPad

Now that the Motorola (MMI) Xoom is available, the first of many Google (GOOG) Honeycomb tablets is poised to battle Apple's (AAPL) iPad for consumer dollars and ...

January 26, 2011

Samsung, LG Take Aim at Whirlpool with Smart Appliances

Samsung Electronics (005930:KS) wants to become the biggest U.S. large-household-appliance brand by making refrigerators smarter. Fridges, washers, dryers, ...

January 25, 2011

IPhones, iPads to Gain NFC Payment Features

(Bloomberg) Apple Inc. plans to introduce services that would let customers use its iPhone and iPad computer to make purchases, said Richard Doherty, director ...

January 14, 2011

Sundance Tries to Feed Bandwidth-Hungry Mob

The Sundance Film Festival is a showcase that draws about 50,000 people to Park City, Utah—all toting cell phones, tablets, and computers, and all expecting to ...

January 4, 2011

In the Works: A Google Mobile Payment Service?

Google (GOOG) is considering building a payment and advertising service that would let users buy milk and bread by tapping or waving their mobile phones against a ...

January 4, 2011

Wells Fargo to Employees: Leave Wallets Home, Pay by Phone

Wells Fargo (WFC) is again trying to make mobile payments at restaurants and retailers mainstream, three years after an earlier attempt lost steam. Peter Ho, product ...

December 31, 2010

Clearwire Chair Craig McCaw to Quit Today

(Bloomberg) Clearwire Corp., a company creating a nationwide high-speed wireless network using WiMax technology, said Chairman Craig McCaw will step down ...

December 30, 2010

Skype Video on Apple Devices

(Bloomberg) Skype Technology SA, the biggest provider of international calls, introduced video calling for Apple Inc.'s wireless devices, a move that may ...

December 21, 2010

Google's Big Problem: It Ain't What You Think

When I first met Larry Page and Sergey Brin back in the 20th century, my first impressions about them included phrases like super-smart, engineer's engineers, and ...

December 20, 2010

What the Level 3/Comcast Spat Says About the FCC

The "commercial disagreement" between Comcast (CMCSK) and Level 3 (LVLT) is still ongoing, and while many (including the cable company) portray it as a simple peering ...

December 19, 2010

RIM Looks to Distant Shores, Tablets for Growth

Research In Motion (RIMM) on Dec. 16 reported strong smartphone sales, shipping 14.2 million BlackBerry devices in the quarter, which helped boost revenues to $5.5 ...

December 7, 2010

Tech Sector Adds 47,000 Jobs So Far in 2010

Tech jobs are coming back after hitting bottom early this year, according to economy tracker Moody's Analytics (MCO). The U.S. economy has added 47,000 technology jobs...

December 7, 2010

At Last: Data Plans for Multiple Devices

Rogers Communications, a Canadian cable TV and wireless communications provider, said on Friday that it will allow customers to share existing mobile broadband plans ...

December 3, 2010

Google Gains Market Share in U.S. Mobile Ads

Google, owner of the world's most popular search engine, will widen its lead in the $877 million U.S. market for mobile advertising, ending the year with a 59 percent ...

November 22, 2010

In Aisles, Consumers Turn to Mobiles for Holiday Shopping

Of the $447 billion in predicted U.S. holiday spending this season, $127 billion of it, or 28 percent, will be touched by some form of mobile commerce or social ...

November 18, 2010

GM, Ford, Nissan Bring Smartphone Apps to Cars

Last December, engineers at General Motors' (GM) OnStar unit hunkered down in a dingy basement conference room plastered with whiteboards. Their mission: to reimagine ...

November 16, 2010

Morgan Stanley's Meeker Sees Online Ad Boom

(Bloomberg) Mary Meeker will predict a $50 billion online advertising boom in an address at the annual Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco today. The Morgan ...

November 7, 2010

Flat-Rate Data Plans Are Dead. Is That a Good Thing?

Demand for wireless data around the globe will double each year through 2014 as the population turns to smartphones and data devices for instant information ...

November 4, 2010

Will Location-Based Services Ever Go Mainstream?

Do you use a location-based app or service such as Foursquare or Gowalla? Then you are a member of a tiny minority of Internet users, according to a new report by the ...

November 1, 2010

Mobile Business Apps Flourish at IBM, Google

IBM engineer William Bodin needed a way to communicate easily with a team of developers halfway around the world. So he turned to an application, created by ...

October 31, 2010

Sprint's CEO: The iPad Has Been Good to Us

It might not be selling iPads in its stores like rivals AT&T and Verizon, but Sprint is benefiting from brisk demand for Apple's hot new device regardless.Dan Hesse, ...

October 28, 2010

AT&T Will Let Customers Buy Digital Music, Movies with Phones

(This story was updated to include other companies working with AT&T)AT&T (T) is in the early stages of a plan to turn mobile phones into credit cards. The carrier ...

October 25, 2010

Android Payments Snarl Spurs Upstarts

(Clarifies relationship of companies in fourth paragraph.) Lauren Azulay wants to help her customers flirt faster. Azulay is head of billing and payments for ...

October 21, 2010

Tech Companies See Dearth of Mobile-Software Developers

Technology companies are running up against a dearth of qualified developers to create applications for mobile devices, according to a survey by online job board Dice ...

September 23, 2010

Is the MiFi Model the Future of Mobile Broadband?

In January 2009, I got my first glimpse of a new device from Novatel Wireless (NVTL) called a MiFi. The MiFi, with its credit-card-sized footprint, uses a wireless 3G ...

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