Vonage (VG) Is Toast
When word came though that Vonage (VG) had settled its patent suit with Verizon (VZ), the VoIP company’s shares moved up 70% to over $2. The small company has settled another action with Sprint…
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Newest first · Page 132Qualcomm (QCOM) Works To Kill Off WiMax
Qualcomm (QCOM) is introducing new chips that will allow PCs to work across multiple broadband cellular networks. The target of the new technology is WiMax, which would allow computers and handsets to connect to…
Cisco (CSCO) Goes WiMax
Any business where Cisco (CSCO) and Intel (INTC) are on the same side of the ball is going to get a lot of momentum. And, yesterday Cisco bought WiMax equipment company Navini Networks for…
Microsoft (MSFT) Does Not Want To Make Telecom Industry Mad
Microsoft (MSFT) will not be a bidder for the 700-megahertz spectrum band which the FCC will auction early next year. The minimum bid will be $4.6 billion In comments covered by Reuters, Steve Ballmer…
Wimax’s Nine Lives
With the CEO out at Sprint (S), it looked like his dream for a nationwide WiMax network to blanket much of the US with high-speed wireless was dead. That might have killed WiMax as…
Qualcomm (QCOM) Beats Back Nokia (NOK)
Qualcomm (QCOM) announced that the Administrative Law Judge issued an initial determination terminating an investigation based on a complaint filed by Nokia (NOK) against Qualcomm. Douglas A. McIntyre
An AT&T (T) Suit, The Death Of Vonage (VG)
AT&T (T) became the third big telecom company to file a patent suit against Vonage (VG). It follows actions by Sprint (S) and Verizon (VG). Those suits have been settled at a price of…
Virgin Mobile’s First Analyst Call…A Sell (VM, S)
Virgin Mobile USA (NYSE:), Richard Branson’s recent pay as you go cellular carrier IPO, managed to pick up its first analyst coverage today. Stanford Group Company was not in the underwriting syndicate, but the…
Sprint (S) To Sell iPhone Knock-Off
If you can’t beat them, copy them. Sprint (S) will begin to offer a touch-screen phone that looks great deal like the Apple (AAPL) iPhone. It should be available for the holiday sales season.…
Is Google (GOOG) About To Ship G-Phone?
A UBS analyst has confirmed that Taiwanese handset manufacturer HTC will ship about 50,000 cell phones running on a mobile operating system made by the Mountain View, Calif.-based search giant by the end of…
Ericsson, A True Shocker For The Wireless Group (ERIC, NOK, MOT)
Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC) shares are being crushed pre-market after it issued an earnings warning. It’s been a long time since we saw a reaction in Ericsson shares like this, but shares are trading down almost…
Broadcom’s (BRCM) Plan To Bring Down CellPhone Prices
Perhaps the largest single problem in the handset market is that unit prices are falling sharply. Recent earnings releases from Sony Ericsson and Samsung show good growth in the number of handsets that they…
Samsung Cell Sales, Good Or Bad For Motorola (MOT)?
Samsung sold almost 43 million handsets in the last quarter. During the first three quarters of the year, that number was 115 million, more than the company sold for the entire 2006 calendar year.…
Qualcomm’s (QCOM) Future Starts To Dim
“Qualcomm will not be able to take its royalty model further, that’s absolutely clear,” said Dresdner Bank AG analyst Per Lindberg in London, who rates the shares “sell” and expects them to fall as…
Inphonic (INPC) Gets Destroyed
Shares of Inphonic (INPC) are off 75% and trading as low as $.44 against a 52-week high of $14.49. The wireless products company announced its board has selected Lazard Middle Market to conduct, in…