The Apple (AAPL) Apps store has downloaded more than three billion software applications to iPhone and iPod touch devices. Programmers have created more than 150,000 products for the e-commerce operation. The App store is…
Verizon Wireless may soon offer its subscribers a new and inexpensive way to make calls. The carrier is likely to begin to offer VoIP services Skype on its handsets. According to BusinessWeek, “The service will…
In the land of telecom and communications equipment and services, perhaps Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE: ALU) is only the second worst company of the last decade of the old one-stop leaders. At least it has Nortel…
It has probably occurred to Google (GOOG) management that customer service for its Nexus One handset has been poor and that has hurt the handset’s reputation. Google also has to compete with other phones…
Motorola’s (NYSE:MOT) handset business came close to collapse after its failure to replace its successful RAZR cost it the No.2 global market share position in its industry. The firm’s shares crashed from over $26…
Leap Wireless International Inc. (NASDAQ: LEAP) was up huge late in the trading on Monday. In fact, it posted double-digit percentage gains on late-day that it had hired Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley to…
The price war for market share in the cellular business have moved from carriers to handset manufacturers. AT&T (NYSE:T) and Verizon Wireless have dropped subscriber fees in a battle for US customers. Now Nokia (NYSE:NOK)…
It might appear that the only two companies in the race for first place in the global smart phone industry are Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) and RIM (NASDAQ:RIMM). That is not even close to being the…
Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) used to serve on the Apple board of directors. He left, presumably, because of a growth in competition between the two companies. That competition has gotten more intense…
Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon (AMZN), does not want to see Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple (AAPL), take away the e-reader market with the new Apple iPad. The iPad does almost all the things that…
Google (GOOG) has not been able to make much money from any business other than its huge search advertising operations. The company hopes that sales of its handset called the Nexus One will produce…
AT&T (NYSE:T) may have the Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPhone, but Verizon Wireless (VOD)(VZ) has the customer service reputation, and service seems to trump product. ChangeWave polled about 4,000 people as part of its wireless Customer…
By Douglas A. McIntyre AT&T (T) will lose its U.S. exclusive distribution rights for the Apple (AAPL) iPhone on Wednesday, according to a report published at tech blog Hot Hardware, which claims to have…
There was one issue which concerned us the most after Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) entered the smartphone market, and that was that this might create a race to zero via an old-fashioned price war. …
Vonage Holdings Corporation (NYSE: VG) just disclosed in an SEC filing something that many investors do not like to see, even if it is in small stocks. The company noted, “John Rego, Executive Vice…