Dell (NASDAQ:DELL has decided to replace the 10,000 or so Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) BlackBerries that its employees use with its own Venue Pro smartphone. The Dell product is largely untested. It will…
Last April Qwest Communications International Inc. (NYSE: Q) agreed to a merger with CenturyLink, Inc. (NYSE: CTL), then known as CenturyTel, for $10.6 billion in CenturyLink stock and assumption of $11.8 billion in Qwest’s…
T-Mobile says there is no need to switch to Sprint-Nextel (NYSE: S) to get the 4G speeds that Sprint WiMax offers. There is also no need to wait for the LTE 4G technology that…
The Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone line of smartphones has been an unqualified success, but the magnitude of that success has only just become clear. Research firm Strategic Analytics reports that cellphone sales rose…
The third largest wireless phone company in the US, Sprint Nextel Corp. (NYSE:S) continues to add customers, but they must not be paying their bills. The company reported a third-quarter EPS loss of -$0.30…
Like the Ford Model-T, the Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone is available in any color as long as it is black. That will be true until spring of next year, so people who want a…
Want proof the world is getting smaller? A United Nations agency estimates that 2 billion people will be online at the end of this year, up from 1.4 billion in 2009 and almost 1.6…
Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) acquired Palm Inc. earlier in the year and there has been no new release, no new phones, and no new direction announced. Until now. H-P is showing off the Palm…
If one assumes, as does Cisco Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO), that the availability and quality of country’s broadband penetration reflects that country’s preparedness for the future, then the US lags behind 14 countries in…
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has earnings due on Monday, October 18, 2010, after the closing bell. While we wanted to look at the consensus data, we also wanted to see what were some of…
Most US consumers can buy an Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone 4 for $200 or $300, depending on the amount of memory storage. The device can cost closer to $600 when it is not tethered…
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has many winners and losers through time in its partnership suppliers. The announcement that Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) is going to begin selling the iPad along along with the…
Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) has a new problem with its iPhone 4. The screen on the smartphone is prone to shattering. Warranty firm SqaureTrade claims that the iPhone 4 screen is 82% more likely…
There doesn’t seem to be too much excitement among the technorati for the new Windows Phone 7 operating system from Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT). The comments generally replay the “too little, too late” theme, while…
Today’s best unfounded rumor comes from Bloomberg. China Telecom, the third largest wireless company in the People’s Republic, is in talks with Apple Inc., (NASDAQ: AAPL) to sell the iPhone in the world’s most…