Telecommunications

September 21, 2009

FCC Stirs Old Debate on 'Net Neutrality'

To Julius Genachowski, the Internet is one of humanity's great inventions. "I can't imagine what life would be like without the Internet," the chairman of the Federal ...

September 14, 2009

The Case Against Buying Sprint Nextel

In the past couple of years it's gotten easy to take rampant rumors of a Sprint Nextel takeover with a grain of salt. That wasn't the case on Sept. 12, when the London...

September 13, 2009

Investors Warm to Web Calling

For many consumers, the appeal of low-cost Web-based calling has long been clear. But many investors have kept their distance from companies specializing in Internet ...

September 13, 2009

Global Positioning Without GPS

What if virtually every cellular handset on the planet enjoyed accurate location awareness? That's the question I pondered after meeting with GloPos, a startup that's ...

September 10, 2009

Why I Don't Get Netbooks

There are a lot of things in this world that I just don't get. In one year, a well-known company sells 40 million books and videos and publishes 94 magazines for 8 ...

September 10, 2009

Cool Video Apps Abound in the Android Market

I had high hopes when I started scouring the Android Market for cool mobile video apps. After all, Android is known for being one of the most (if not the most) ...

September 10, 2009

Texas Instruments Raises Estimates on Smartphone Demand

By Dan Nystedt Taipei - Chip giant Texas Instruments (TI) raised its revenue and profit estimates for the third-quarter on Wednesday on improved demand for a range of ...

September 9, 2009

Palm Cuts Pre Price, Unveils Pixi

Amid intensifying competition in the smartphone market, Palm is trying to prove it's fleet enough to keep pace with bigger competitors including Apple, Google, and ...

September 8, 2009

Carriers Head Back to School to Find New Customers

By Colin Gibbs The days are getting shorter, the mercury is falling, and the kids are headed back to school. And network operators are pouring boatloads of money into ...

September 7, 2009

How to Fix the App Store

Anyone who reads my blog, column, or Tweets—or who calls me for work or any other reason—likely knows by now that I have become an avid user of Google ...

September 7, 2009

Going to Extremes to Build App Store Buzz

Software developers are going to great lengths to get their wares noticed at the Apple (AAPL) App Store. Brian Greenstone, CEO of Pangea Software, wanted some ...

September 3, 2009

Next Up for Nokia: Netbooks, Banking

The conventional wisdom about Nokia is decidedly downbeat. Wall Street analysts say the Finnish handset maker is in for unimpressive profits as it loses share in the ...

September 2, 2009

Consumers to Spend Big on TVs, Smartphones

Even a global recession can't come between Americans and the high-tech gadgets they love. Consumers of all ages and family situations are purchasing high-definition ...

September 1, 2009

Apps Developers: Show Us the Money

In this new mobile platform world, app developers are the new kingmakers. Not a day goes by when someone doesn't introduce their own app store, but the question of ...

August 30, 2009

Vonage Shares Take a Wild Ride

In the midst of a summer rally for tech stocks, the runup experienced by Vonage Holdings stands out by any measure. Shares of the Internet-calling company gained ...

August 27, 2009

Telcos Need to Ramp Up R&D to Stay Competitive

With venture capitalists still leery about telecommunications investments after the fallout from the dot-com crash, telcos should beef up their R&D if they want to ...

August 27, 2009

FCC: The Mobile Crackdown Cometh

Internet companies that want a piece of the telecom market are getting a sympathetic ear from federal regulators. At an Aug. 27 hearing in Washington, the Federal ...

August 25, 2009

Femtocells Are on a Road to Nowhere

It doesn't matter how brilliant your mouse trap is if it doesn't catch any mice. Same goes for technologies. Witness femtocells, those small, home devices that help ...

August 25, 2009

Call-Center Jobs That Pay $100K a Year

In a column a few weeks ago, I wrote about "smallsourcing" and how U.S. workers are competing for jobs that small companies haven't chosen to outsource. Some of these ...

August 23, 2009

Can AT&T Meet iPhone Network Demands?

When AT&T (T) cut the deal that made it the exclusive U.S. distributor of Apple's iPhone, the carrier bet correctly it would attract millions of new subscribers. What ...

August 23, 2009

National Broadband Plan: Why Consumers May Be Let Down

The Federal Communication Commission last week released a notice of its open meeting to be held on Thurs., Aug. 27. The two most significant items planned for the ...

August 20, 2009

How a Tiny Startup Used Twitter to Find App Store Success

With some 58,000 iPhone applications in the iTunes Store, developers face an uphill battle when it comes to building a user base for their applications. But thanks to ...

August 20, 2009

MXit Mixes Mobile Networks with Social Conscience

Herman Heunis isn't your typical social-media startup founder. He's 50 years old, was raised on a sheep farm in Namibia, and is a veteran of the South African Navy. ...

August 17, 2009

Can the Apple Touch Sell the Tablet?

Apple may be at the forefront of a renewed effort to bring back the tablet. Electronics manufacturers across the tech landscape are hard at work on their own versions ...

August 16, 2009

Broadband Stimulus and the Underserved

Christopher Vein, chief information officer of the city of San Francisco, has some inventive ways to bring high-speed Internet access to areas of the city barely ...

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