Nokia (NOK) has started its own music store to compete with Apple (AAPL) iTunes, so why not have its own online advertising operation? Early today NOK bought U.S.cellphone screen advertising firm Enpocket. Nokia has…
Deutsche Telekom (DT) is buying SunCom Wireless (TPC) for $1.6 billion. The German phone giant will pay $27 a share. TPC stock closed at $22 on Friday. SunCom has one million customers "in the…
The FCC decides that in the next auction of wireless spectrum, it would set aside part of the airwaves for open use. Consumers would be able to use whatever devices could connect on those…
24/7 Wall St. mentioned a few days ago that Level 3 (LVLT) has traded off sharply this year, probably due to its huge level of junk debt. The company has been able to push…
Shares in telecom equipment supplier Nortel (NT) hit a 52-week low at $16.39 down from their one year high of $31.79. Nortel is one of the largest competitors to Alcatel-Lucent (ALU), which warned on…
Sprint (S) has come up with an unusually clever new business. It has set up deals with 30 retailers to allow customers to compare and buy nearly seven million products over phones that work…
NTP, the same company that filed patent suits against RIMM, has filed claims against Verizon Wireless, AT&T (T) and Sprint (S). NTP won a $612.5 million judgment against the Blackberry maker. NTP claims, according…
In corporate America there are many developments and deployments that never make it public because they are minor events to the company that day. But sometimes even a slight change in technology use or…
From Silicon Alley Insider …Jobs has announced plans to sell 10 million iPhones by the end of 2008 — a year and a half after launch. But a million iPhones in 74 days works…
Shares in Level 3 (LVLT) won’t stop falling. The stock is down almost 25% in the last six moths with most of that slide coming since early July. LVLT seems to be in a…
The Inquirer calls Apple’s (AAPL) iPhone the "Jesus" phone. According to the website, AAPL has signed a deal with 3G hardware provider Interdigital to provide the big consumer electronics company the pieces necessary for…
Wall St. would think that providing enterprise solutions and infrastructure to the world’s largest telecom suppliers would be a good business. Nortel (NT) and Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) appear to have proved that wrong. ALU shares…
NTT Docomo (DCM), which has over half of Japan’s $78 billion wireless market, is cutting its basic fees in half Why? Smaller rivals KDDI and Softbank have brought down their charges. In a saturated…
AT&T (T) was supposed to get a big benefit from selling the Apple (AAPL) iPhone. But, AAPL may have turned that on its head. With iPhones and iPods that have WiFi access, customers are…
An interesting thing is going on in PDA-land and Phoneland this week. Palm Inc. (NASDAQ:PALM) already disclosed that it is canning its Foleo offering. But another key development that has received little to no…