GLAAD President Resigns After Endorsing AT&T/T-Mobile Acquisition
The aggressive sales pitch that AT&T (NYSE: T) has attached to its landmark acquisition of T-Mobile claimed its first victim over the weeken… Read more »
Apple Now Selling Unlocked iPhone In The U.S.; Retail Strategy Head Leaves
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) still hasn’t released an iPhone 5 — or whatever the next iteration of the iPhone will be called — but it has, once agai… Read more »
Unlocked iPhone 4: Par For Europe, Is Apple Now Bringing It To The U.S.?
These days in mobile, it feels like the U.S. has been setting the pace for how other markets adopt trends — whether it’s buying smartphones… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 6-13-11: AT&T/T-Mo; VZW iPad, Payments; ZTE/Huawei; Lodsys
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today: AT&T (NYSE: T) has its right of reply to the critics of its proposed T-Mobile USA acquisi… Read more »
Who Says No To AT&T/T-Mo? Facebook, Microsoft, Six Others Say Yes
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As AT&T (NYSE: T) and T-Mobile USA continue to work their way through regulatory approval of their proposed $39 billion merger, it looks lik… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 6-7-11: HTC; Skype Lawsuit; GSMA; AT&T Windows Phone; Vita
An Apple-free look at some of the big stories in mobile today: HTC delivers bumper results; Skype faces a patent suit; the longstanding CEO… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 6-3-11: RIM v. Apple; Android Delay; Vodafone Egypt; iCloud
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A look at some of the big stories in mobile today: more details reported the iCloud service from Apple; (NSDQ: AAPL) Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) ge… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 5-31-11: Apple Suits; Appsfire; Google iOS Search; AT&T/T-Mo
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today: Nokia (NYSE: NOK) moves to have its Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) case reopened while Samsung pushes… Read more »
TiVo Earnings Soar After Patent Settlement
photo: Corbis / Kim Kulish
TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO) had a great quarter-no surprise, since the numbers include a big chunk of the $500 million patent settlement it won from D… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 5-24-11: iPhone 5; Square; T-Mobile; Apple; Sony Ericsson
photo: Photo Giddy/Europe 1
Our look at some of the big stories in mobile today: More confirmation of the iPhone 5 being smaller and thinner; some doubt cast on Square’… Read more »
U.S. Phone Users High On Verizon, Sprint; Down On T-Mobile, AT&T
Maybe AT&T (NYSE: T) CEO Randall Stephenson is right about the competitiveness of smaller wireless carriers: their customers seem to like th… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 5-17-11: Sprint; HP; Vodafone Android; Apple Launches
photo: Tricia Duryee
Our look at some of the big stories in mobile today: Who would buy Sprint?; HP (NYSE: HPQ) reports early; Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) pushes a chea… Read more »
The Next iPhone Will Have Only Small Bangs And Whistles, Says Analyst
There have been a lot of reports speculating on what might be in store in the next iPhone, and when it might hit the market. Will it have LT… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 5-16-11: iPhone 5; Nokia Ovi; Clearwire; Kodak; Android
photo: Nokia
Our look at some of the big stories in mobile today: More reports on the so-called iPhone 5; Nokia (NYSE: NOK) ditches its Ovi brand; Sony (… Read more »
Why The AT&T/T-Mobile Merger Should Not Come To Pass
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Even though the growth of the modern mobile computing market is moving at whirlwind speed, one of the main reasons why it didn’t happen earl… Read more »
The Mobile Lowdown 05-13-11: Twitter Docomo; Cisco; Samsung iPad; Huawei
photo: Flickr / Matt Hamm
Our look at some of the big stories in mobile today: Twitter partners up with Docomo on innovative location services; Cisco (NSDQ: CSCO) gea… Read more »
Google I/O: New Android Supergroup Hopes To Streamline Update Process
Amid flashy demos of futuristic Android features and current-day music and movie services was perhaps the most important thing Google (NSDQ:… Read more »
Apple Tops Brand Rankings: What’s The Takeaway For Mobile?
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is still a ways behind companies like Samsung and Nokia (NYSE: NOK) when it comes to overall mobile market share, but it’… Read more »
The Mobile Lowdown 05-06-11: Sony Ericsson/Facebook; T-Mobile; Visa; JiWire
Our look at some of the big stories in mobile today: Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) updates its Xperia mini devices, and adds a “Fac… Read more »
Report: Mobile Payments Group Isis Scaling Back Plans For Payment Network
Mobile payments are a hot topic among phone makers, wireless carriers, and payment processing companies this year, and those groups looking… Read more »
AT&T Finally Ready For Motorola Atrix To Hit 4G Speeds
It’s been a long, slow wait for owners of the Motorola (NYSE: MMI) Atrix hoping to use the fast 4G connections promised to them by AT&T’s ma… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 04-28-11: AT&T/T-Mobile; Apple iCloud; Buongiorno
Our look at some of the big stories in mobile today: Small mobile operators band together against the AT&T (NYSE: T) proposed purchase of T-… Read more »
The Mobile Lowdown 04-25-11: Amazon; T-Mobile; iPhone @ Work; Android Fund
Our look at some of the stories in mobile today: Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) looks at service and device bundles; T-Mobile reportedly testing iPhone… Read more »
AT&T Tells FCC It’s Ready To Take Over T-Mobile’s Wireless Licenses
It’s official: AT&T (NYSE: T) petitioned the government Thursday to take control of T-Mobile’s wireless licenses, an important step in the p… Read more »
Verizon Pulls In Strong Results On iPhone, HTC 4G Sales
When it comes to the iPhone, it looks like for now rising tides are lifting all boats: on the back of strong results from AT&T (NYSE: T) and… Read more »
AT&T’s Lindner: iPhone Customers Will Remain With Us
AT&T (NYSE: T) executives surely breathed a sigh of relief that its iPhone customer turnover numbers remained the same as Q110, as endured i… Read more »
AT&T: Verizon Hasn’t Dented Our iPhone Business
photo: AT&T
Verizon may be picking up a good number of iPhone users since launching the product earlier this year (we’ll have a better idea of how many… Read more »
T-Mobile Parent Deutsche Telekom, France Telecom Announce New JV In Europe
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It’s not a full-out merger, but another example of how operators trying to cope with the huge rise in data usage and the pressure of price c… Read more »
The Mobile Lowdown 04-15-11: Google’s Mobile Number; Nokia India; AT&T/T-Mo
Our look at some of the big stories today in mobile: some of the bigger mobile takeaways from yesterday’s Google (NSDQ: GOOG) earnings; afte… Read more »
What To Make Of The Wisdom Of Crowds: Motorola Tops Brand Survey, Apple 5th
photo: Special K Files
Who are the top mobile brands in the U.S.? Asking the media versus asking 25,099 U.S. consumers might produce different results. Read more »
Updated: Nokia Presses On: Updates Symbian, Launches E6 And X7
Last week, Nokia (NYSE: NOK) promised some Symbian news, and today we have it: the company is today is launching its E6 and X7 devices, runn… Read more »
FCC Requires Big Wireless To Cut Mobile Data Roaming Deals
photo: AP / Harry Hamburg
The Federal Communications Commission voted Thursday to require big wireless carriers to share their data networks with smaller competitors,… Read more »
Survey: More Than Twice As Many Dropped Calls On AT&T iPhone 4 Than Verizon
photo: ChangeWave
A recent survey of U.S. iPhone owners found similar levels of high satisfaction across AT&T (NYSE: T) and Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ) custom… Read more »
Sprint Also Working On Mobile Payments, Hopes To Launch This Year
Momentum around mobile payments continues to build as Sprint (NYSE: S) signaled its intention to jump into the race to build systems around… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 04-04-11
photo: Corbis / Patricia Curi
» When SB Nation head Jim Bankoff was at AOL (NYSE: AOL) in 2005, he helped manage the acquisition of Endgaget — now he’s brough… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 03-29-11
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» New York Times (NYSE: NYT) Digital Subscriptions: The Unofficial FAQ Updated (paidContent … Also, see our Staci D. Kramer on… Read more »
The Mobile Lowdown 03-24-11: Sprint; Bing; Best Buy; Smartphone Stats
Our look at some of the big stories today in mobile: Sprint (NYSE: S) wants to take its AT&T/T-Mobile complaints to Washington; Bing updates… Read more »
What The Road To 4G Will Look Like
photo: Tricia Duryee
You couldn’t go more than four minutes this week at CTIA without hearing somebody talk about 4G, the next-generation wireless data technolog… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 03-23-11
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» AOL (NYSE: AOL) Folds 30 Brands, Including Politics Daily (Mixed Media)
» The proposed AT&T/T-Mobile merger could h… Read more »
Are Mobile Device Makers Finally Ready To Swear Off Carrier Subsidies?
photo: Samsung
We’re beginning to see hints that mobile-device makers may be prepared to start weaning themselves off carriers handouts and pricing their p… Read more »
