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Holiday Smartphone Surprise: Samsung Sales Running Next To Apple (AAPL, SSNLF, GOOG, NOK, RIMM, MSFT)

Posted: December 16, 2011 at 9:55 am

Smartphone makers are expected to sell some 142 million units in the current calendar quarter. The bulk of those sales are pumping up the revenues at two vendors -- Apple ...
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Bracing For R-I-M Earnings (RIMM)

Posted: December 15, 2011 at 2:16 pm

Research in Motion Limited (NASDAQ: RIMM) is on deck with earnings today.  It goes without saying, but even after an earnings warning very few are excited about the prospects of ...
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NTSB Recommends Ban On Driver Phone & Device Use (VZ, T, S, LOGI, AMT, CCI)

Posted: December 13, 2011 at 1:58 pm

Have you been hit or almost been hit by a car driver talking on their cellphone?  Thousands of Americans have died as a result of phone-use related accidents.  Thousands more ...
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More Pain For Research in Motion: Lower Guidance On Playbook Inventory Charge (RIMM, AAPL, AMZN, GOOG, SSNLF, BBY, WMT)

Posted: December 2, 2011 at 8:48 am

Smartphone pioneer Research in Motion Ltd. (NASDAQ: RIMM) has lowered its third-quarter guidance and said that it will take a “predominantly” non-cash charge of $485 million on its existing inventory ...
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Sprint Locks in Clearwire, Avoids Restructuring For Now (S, CLWR)

Posted: December 1, 2011 at 9:40 am

Sprint Nextel Corporation (NYSE: S) has decided not to leave Clearwire Corporation (NASDAQ: CLWR) in the dust.  The two companies have had a history of tie-ups and the risk that ...
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iPhone 4S Satisfaction Rating at 96% (AAPL, SSNLF, MMI, GOOG)

Posted: December 1, 2011 at 9:29 am

The iPhone 4S from Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) gets top marks for customer satisfaction according to a new survey from Changewave Research. Some 77% of customers are “very satisfied” with ...
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Will Deutsche Telekom Buy Sprint-Nextel (S)?

Posted: November 28, 2011 at 6:05 am

Deutsche Telekom will receive a $4 billion break-up fee if AT&T (NYSE: T) cannot engineer a buyout of the Germany company’s T-Mobile unit. That would create a large war chest. ...
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Beyond the T-Mobile Charge… AT&T’s Big Dividend Conundrum (T, VZ, S)

Posted: November 25, 2011 at 12:23 pm

AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) has been in the news because of what is turning into a more and more likely failed acquisition of T-Mobile from Deutsche Telekom.  While a $4 ...
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Sprint, Clearwire Boast Long-Term Upside (S, CLWR, AAPL, VZ, VOD, T)

Posted: November 23, 2011 at 12:10 pm

To say that Sprint Nextel Corp. (NYSE: S) has had a tough go lately is an understatement. To even whisper the same thing about Clearwire Corp. (NASDAQ: CLWR) is a ...
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Nokia-Siemens Success Story… 17,000 Layoffs Heading To Europe & Beyond (SI, NOK)

Posted: November 23, 2011 at 8:19 am

The Europeans do not celebrate Thanksgiving.  That is a good thing today, because some 17,000 workers in Europe and elsewhere under the Nokia-Siemens Networks venture are going to be fired ...
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China Passes U.S. as Largest Smartphone Market

Posted: November 23, 2011 at 6:02 am

Last quarter, China passed the U.S. as the world’s largest smartphone market. That means the fortunes of companies like Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) will be decided as much in China as in the ...
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Amazon Unloads Smartphones For $0.01… Literally (AMZN, VZ, T, S, AAPL, GOOG)

Posted: November 22, 2011 at 4:20 pm

Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) is back with some dirt cheap offers in smartphones, and some of these may seem to be good to be true.  While this may include Verizon ...
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Microsoft Deepens Facebook Ties

Posted: November 18, 2011 at 6:08 am

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) should have bought Facebook four years ago, when it might have had to pay only a few billion dollars. Since then, the social network has cruised past ...
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Expected Upside in the Telecom Sector in 2011 and Beyond (T, VZ, S, FTR, CTL, LEAP, PCS)

Posted: November 15, 2011 at 1:45 pm

The earnings reports from telecom players are now mostly out and 24/7 Wall St. is looking up and down through the high-dividend sector to see which telecom players offer the ...
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Android Success Surges, Smartphone Sales Rise

Posted: November 15, 2011 at 6:43 am

No one knows quite how Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) will make money on its Android mobile OS. Some of the software in the OS may violate Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Apple (NASDAQ: ...
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