The Future of Wi-Fi Is Dim, at Best
The Wireless Broadband Alliance predicts that “global public Wi-Fi hotspot numbers are set to grow from 1.3 million in 2011, to 5.8 million by 2015, a 350% increase.” The organization has no way to know that,…
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Newest first · Page 84Analyst Sizes Up China iPhone Progress (AAPL, CHL, CHU)
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) remains a key focal stock for many investors as it continues to take market share and as it continues growing international. This morning came a research note with a maintained…
Vonage Fights Negative Subscriber Count With Earnings Growth (VG)
Vonage Holdings Corporation (NYSE: VG) is getting thrashed this morning on what appeared to be a decent to good earnings report on the surface. It is always in the details where the devil lurks. …
HTC Takes U.S. Smartphone Industry by Storm
HTC, the Taiwan-based smartphone company, was barely known in the U.S. three years ago. It is now the number one manufacturer of the devices sold in America because of its clever adoption of the…
Latest Wireless Earnings, Court Ruling Weigh on Telecom Merger (LEAP, PCS, T, DTEGY, S, VZ, VOD, HRB, INTU)
Wireless phone companies Leap Wireless International Inc. (NASDAQ: LEAP) and MetroPCS Communications, Inc. (NYSE: PCS) have now reported quarterly earnings, and their results cast more of a shadow over the proposed $39 billion merger…
Sprint, Nokia Shares Tumble Again (S, NOK, HTCKF, AAPL, MSFT)
Shares in Sprint Nextel Corp. (NYSE: S) and Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK) are both down more than -5% in mid-afternoon trading today. There’s not specific news to account for the drop, but we might…
Sony Continues to Lag (SNE, ERIC, NOK, GOOG, SSNLF, PC, TOSBF)
Last week Sony Corp. (NYSE: SNE) said it would buy out the 50% stake in Sony Ericsson owned by its partner L.M. Ericsson Telephone Co. (NASDAQ: ERIC) for about $1.46 billion. The joint venture…
Are Smartphone Sales Cooling Off? (AAPL, SSNLF, MMI, GOOG, HTCKF, NOK, MSFT, RIMM)
When Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) reported that it sold 17 million iPhones in the third quarter of this year, that meant that the company’s smartphone market share fell from about 17.4% to about 14.6%.…
Tellabs… Wall Street Sees More Pain Coming (TLAB, ALU, RVBD)
We have been reviewing technology and telecom equipment providers of late to see if the worst is truly behind or if more pain is yet to come. After seeing the action in Tellabs Inc.…
Sprint Loses Less… Back in the Barrel (S, AAPL, T, VZ, VOD, CLWR, PCS, LEAP)
When Sprint Nextel Corp. (NYSE: S) announced earlier this month that it would bet the company on its sales of the iPhone from Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), investors pounded the stock down to a…
Samsung Boasts of Higher Sales Than iPhone’s
Management at Samsung recently boasted that it sold 20 million handsets in the past quarter, compared with Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) 17 million iPhone sales, the Wall Street Journal reports. The boast does not mean…
Has Alcatel-Lucent Finally Bottomed Out? (ALU, CSCO, JNPR)
Alcatel-LucentIt was not that long ago that Alcatel-Lucent SA (NYSE: ALU) was being thrown around as the best networking stock of 2011. It had risen from under $3.00 per ADR at the start of…
The Smartphone Business Loses Its Luster
The smartphone business was among the most attractive in the tech world until recently. That was before Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) forced several makers of Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) Android-based phones to pay it royalties. It…
Can This Many Tech Buyouts Take Place? Rumor Mill Overdrive (AKAM, LVLT, LLNW, AOL, EK, IDCC, MOTR, NFLX, NUAN, PTGI, RIMM, SNE, ERIC, YHOO)
You know the Wall Street rumor mill goes into overdrive from time to time. This is not so much of a “today” issue but an “all of them, right now!” issue. There are too many…
RIM Service Outage, Down The Drain (RIMM)
If there is one company that just can’t catch a break it is Research-in-Motion Ltd. (NASDAQ: RIMM). News that the company is having a large service outage in North and South America is only…