AT&T (NYSE:T) is running out of potential customers to sell wireless handset subscriptions. The US market is nearly saturated and the battle is mostly for market share with Verizon Wireless (NYSE:VZ)(NYSE:VOD), Sprint (NYSE:S), and…
RIM’s (NASDAQ:RIMM) stock has recovered some after several weeks of selling off due to the strength of the sales of the rival Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPhone. In the meantime, RIM has put together a contract…
Patent lawsuits are nothing new in the world of technology. And the patent suit from Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK) against Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) may have just taken a turn. Apple announced this morning…
Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) cellular carrier for the iPhone in China, China Unicom (NYSE:CHU), said that it sold only 100,000 of the handsets in the 40 days after they went on sales. iPhoneAsia first reported the numbers.…
If you have followed Sprint Nextel Corporation (NYSE:S) since way back when Sprint was Sprint and Nextel was Nextel, you know how the Sprint story is riddled with lawsuits from affiliates and full of…
CIENA Corp. (NASDAQ: CIEN) has been under pressure for increasing its bid for the Nortel optical networking unit in the Nortel Networks Corp. (NRTLQ) bankruptcy. But now there is a stalking horse potentially via…
Imagine an Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPhone with a very powerful processor that will work on both the AT&T (NYSE:T) and Verizon Wireless networks. Such a device would almost certainly broaden the iPhone’s appeal instantly. Verizon…
Ciena Corp. (NASDAQ: CIEN) is trading higher today, a day after it’s weakness on the announced buyout of the Nortel assets. Continuing to pick on it about the risks, the leverage, and the potential…
24/7 Wall St. sat down with Dan Hesse, CEO of Sprint Nextel (NYSE:S) to talk about the company’s current subscriber growth issues, the firm’s WiMax roll-out, and the future of broadband telecommunications. The interview:…
Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) is counting on its relationship with China Unicom (NASDAQ:CHU) to drive iPhone sales in a nation which already has over 500 million mobile subscribers. The head of Unicom said he expects the iPhone to take…
RIM (NASDAQ:RIMM) has been under seige these last few weeks. Investors are concerned that the Blackberry maker is losing market share to the Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPhone and a new group of handsets using the…
Investors are getting a look at why Clearwire Corporation (NASDAQ: CLWR) announced that it was getting new partner financing ahead of its quarterly earnings report. The wireless broadband services provider did show a gain…
JDS Uniphase Corp. (NASDAQ: JDSU) is seeing a run in the stock and in the options trading today. The company announced this morning that had “licensed patent rights for fundamental picosecond laser technology to…
By Douglas A. McIntyre Some pieces of news are worth mentioning only in passing because they are interesting, but may not mean a thing. CNET says that over 100 people lined up at midnight…
T-Mobile, the Deutsche Telekom-owned cellular carrier in America, is a failure and an abject one at that. The firm lost 77,000 subscribers in the third quarter. Most analysts blame the attrition on a poor…