Telecommunications

July 7, 2009

Justice: Tough Case Against Telecom

Building an antitrust case against Big Telco may not be easy. The Justice Dept. is in the early stages of a review aimed at determining whether the largest U.S. ...

June 30, 2009

Apple's HTTP Adaptive Video Streaming in Action

When Apple (AAPL) upgraded its iPhone operating system in June, it included some highly prominent and loudly demanded features, like search and copy & paste. But the ...

June 29, 2009

Motorola's New Smartphones: Sales, Not 'Dazzle'

Motorola (MOT) has yet to unveil its new lineup of phones based on the Android operating system, but already analysts are placing bets on its likely success. While the...

June 25, 2009

Are Smarter Gadgets Good for the Planet?

With the explosion of low-cost chips, from Intel's Atom processor to low-power Wi-Fi sensors, just about everything is "getting smart" these days. There are known ...

June 23, 2009

Apple's iPhone 3GS: What It Costs to Make

From the outside, nearly everything about Apple's iPhone 3GS seems nearly identical to the iPhone 3G released last year. Even Apple's TV ads make light of this fact: ...

June 18, 2009

RIM: Big Plans for the Second Half

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIMM) is benefiting from buoyant demand for smartphones, but not as much as some investors had hoped. The Canadian company said on...

June 17, 2009

Washington Weighs Wireless Regulation

The will to regulate the wireless industry may be growing in Washington. On June 17 the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science & Transportation met to consider whether ...

June 16, 2009

Opera Unite: A New Way to Share

Opera is stepping up efforts to grab share of the Web browser market. To do that, the tiny Norwegian company released a version of its software that's designed to give...

June 14, 2009

The iPhone's Wary New Rivals

New iPhone products and price changes are never cause for celebration among Apple's rivals in the wireless industry. The latest additions to the iPhone family are no ...

June 12, 2009

Millions Left Behind as TV Goes Digital

As Pedro Ortez and his wife, Wanda, watched Law and Order on Thursday night, they knew that soon after the program finished their screen would fade to static. The TV, ...

June 12, 2009

Apple-AT&T: Hints of Strain

I would not want to have been an AT&T employee at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference. There were at least three moments when comments by Apple (AAPL) executives ...

June 10, 2009

A Bull Market in Social Entrepreneurs

For graduating students at Stanford University, it's all too clear that the economy's in the tank. The venture capital industry, with its epicenter just down the road,...

June 10, 2009

Qualcomm, Freescale Bet on 'Smartbooks'

Qualcomm and Freescale Semiconductor are hoping that a netbook by another name smells as sweet. In hopes of eroding Intel's lead in the burgeoning market for small, ...

June 10, 2009

What the Palm Pre Cost to Build

When the Palm Pre first hit store shelves on June 6, it took no time for analysts to take the device apart. Among them was Andrew Rassweiler, director and principal ...

June 4, 2009

Mobile Apps' Brush with Greatness

To the iPhone's extensive résumé, add magazine cover illustration. Artist Jorge Colombo recently drew widespread attention for creating the image for The New Yorker's ...

June 3, 2009

Apple, Google Consider App-Sharing Tools

These days, downloading software applications for a smartphone is a breeze. But good luck trying to share that fun game or handy work-productivity tool with someone ...

June 2, 2009

Palm: Likely to Stumble with Pre

On June 6, Palm (PALM) will release the Pre, a smartphone many hope will fuel a resurgence of a company long since fallen from grace. But numerous miscalculations and ...

May 19, 2009

Hello, an Avatar Is Calling You

Internet phone calls aren't just for telecommuters and grandparents anymore. In the coming months online games and virtual worlds, including Linden Lab's Second Life ...

May 13, 2009

Clearwire to Buy WiMAX Gear from Cisco

Clearwire (CLWR) has a knack for lining up powerful partners and patrons. The communications service provider has the backing of such tech titans as Comcast (CMCSA), ...

May 5, 2009

HP's CloudPrint Heads into BlackBerrys

HP (HPQ), like many other big-name tech companies, is bent on wringing more revenue out of its state-of-the-art research-and-development labs—a collection of 500...

May 4, 2009

Smartphone Apps: Businesses Should Pass

A few things I'm not going to do in 2009: I'm not refitting my house for solar. I'm not going to buy an electric car. And no matter how much my daughter pleads with ...

May 4, 2009

Companies Shed Initial Resistance to iPhone

Michael Loo didn't want to become an iPhone user at first. "I really fought it quite hard," he says. As vice-president for global IT at telecom equipment vendor Avaya,...

April 30, 2009

AT&T's iPhone Dilemma

To some, AT&T's agreement to sell iPhones seemed ill-advised at first. Apple (AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs set some exacting demands in exchange for granting AT&T the sole ...

April 30, 2009

Motorola: Android Help on the Way

Motorola's first-quarter results gave investors scant cause for glee. In the period that ended in March, Motorola smarted from a lack of customer-pleasing handsets and...

April 29, 2009

An Early Peek Under The Palm Pre's Hood

To say Palm has a lot riding on the Pre smartphone is an understatement. Amid stiff competition from Apple (AAPL) and Research In Motion (RIMM), Palm's very survival ...