It looks like a bad time to be a CFO for a telecoms kit vendor at the moment. Not only have we seen Ericsson CFO Karl-Henrik Sundstrom make a quick exit, after a 36 per cent drop in income for the third quarter, but now, Alcatel-Lucent number cruncher Jean-Pascal Beaufret is off too. Beaufret’s exit […]
$15 billion, that’s how much. 23 year old Mark Zuckerberg must be a very happy man today, after Microsoft shelled out $240m for a 1.6 per cent stake in Facebook. The social networking hype machine has obviously been chugging away since Murdoch paid out $580m for MySpace and I wonder how much longer before the wheels fall off the bandwagon? eBay’s already admitted it got a bit over eager when bidding for Skype and all this crazy spending is starting to look a bit ’90’s…
Nokia has been building momentum in the services space of late – an initiative which has been interesting to watch for two reasons. One, because all this talk of social networking and Moshing is suggestive of the world’s biggest handset vendor shaking off its typically dour, Finnish image. And two, because of the controversial statements coming from the typically dour, Finnish chief executives of the world’s biggest handset vendor.
Well, Steve Jobs probably wasn’t the only CEO rubbing his hands with glee at the success of the iPhone this week. The wonder device may have helped build Apple’s cash pile even higher but it looks like it’s also gone down a treat with exclusive carrier AT&T.
High fives all round at the WiMAX Forum today as the ITU approves WiMAX 802.16 as an IMT-2000 3G technology standard. The move has the potential to allow WiMAX deployments to occupy globally allocated frequency bands and complement or compete with other 3G technologies.
Ok, enough with the “I’m on the plane” gags already. It’s only a matter of time before mobile phone usage was allowed on planes. And you probably fall into one of two camps in this discussion
This might stir up a hornets’ nest, but this consultant chap, Carl Howe, has a point. It’s not all about bandwidth when it comes to mobile ‘broadband’, if the combination of device software and hardware is sluggish, then the web experience will also be.
We’ve known for a long time, just as we did with O2 and T-Mobile, but Orange has finally been officially confirmed as the iPhone carrier of choice in France. I use the phrase “of choice” deliberately, as you can see what might have been the sticking point over the past couple of weeks
Well I guess this one’s been a long time coming. Who’d have thought two companies that don’t make any money [yet still made their founders filthy rich] would get together, presumably to make twice as less money as they could have alone.
The announcement from the BBC this morning, that it will be making its content available for free over wifi, is an interesting turn around for the wifi provider business model. Whereas it used to be the end user paying for wifi access, it looks like it might increasingly be the content provider, or perhaps even the physical hotspot host itself.
Moto’s having a bit of trouble with its handset unit, that much goes without saying, but just what is the company thinking with its “autumn collection” that took to the catwalk last week? Not really new devices are they? Pretty much cosmetic lifts of earlier devices, although in the case of the U9 there’s a bit more under the hood. And why, oh why, does it look like the company is still hedging all its bets on the RAZR brand? Does it really not have anything new to show us?
If the rumours are true, it looks like ill-fated mobile OS SavaJe might be due for an outing. Then again, this is one company you can’t expect any guarantees on.
The mobile broadband market is gaining velocity, driven by the twin engines of HSDPA and EV-DO with more power yet to come from Mobile WiMAX. There are already more than 200 commercial mobile broadband networks worldwide with more than 50 million subscribers using hundreds of different devices. And rapid adoption of these technologies will lead […]
As if there isn’t enough rumour and speculation flying around about Google’s mobile activities already, the acquisition of Jaiku is more fuel on the fire.
The latest on Google to come out of the industry rumour mill is a tad confusing I have to say. It makes sense that the GPhone/Google Phone isn’t actually a device – it’s hardly Google’s space – but I’m struggling to believe that it’s a full fledged operating system, even if it is supposedly based on Linux.
Today’s news that Sprint CEO Gary Forsee is quitting got me thinking that it’s been a rough year for chief execs. And for some, it looks like it might get rougher…
Good news for the Spanish open wifi maverick Fon today. BT has not only confirmed itself as an investor in the company, but its also done an about face and is letting its own users sign up to the service.
Viviane Reding’s much-vaunted Eurotariff arrived this weekend. The European Commissioner for Information Society and Media has been aggressively pushing for a “fairer” deal on roaming for subscribers who travel across borders.
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