News Clips
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| The Bakersfield Californian Robert Price column: Ode to a dying friend: the telephone land-line Pretty soon, if telecommunications companies' quarterly reports keep trending the way they've been trending, land-line phones will be relics. The number of wireless-only homes keeps going up and the number of wired residential customers keep falling. Read the Story |
08/19/08 |
| Wall Street Journal: New battleground: mobile devices During the "platform wars' of the 1980s, tech companies duked it out over which computer operating system would emerge from a crowded field. Now, there's a new platform war being waged, and this time the battleground is mobile devices. The bad news for businesses looking to standardize on a winner: The most likely outcome is multiple survivors. Read the Story |
08/19/08 |
| Investor's Business Daily: Machines yearn for wireless services too Nonhumans are the new face in wireless marketing. With slowing subscribber growth among human users, wireless phone companies are targeting machine-to-machine, or M2M, connections. AT&T on Monday plans to announce a pact with Itron to team up to sell automatic electric meter reading systems to utilities. Phone companies see a big opportunity in the M2M market, largely made up of commercial and industrial services that use wireless data links. Read the Story |
08/18/08 |
| ZDNet.co.uk: Mobile operators could make “significant savings” on network infrastructure costs Analyst Informa Telecoms & Media has calculated that savings of up to $5.3bn or more could be made on network infrastructure costs if femtocells "are properly deployed using meticulous geographic network planning". Informa said it expects more than 40 million of the broadband-piggybacking indoor base-station devices will be deployed by the end of 2013. The analyst firm believes this installed base could help operators offload up to eight percent of total mobile traffic to fixed broadband networks. Read the Story |
08/15/08 |
| Investor's Business Daily: Cell tower owners mulling fuel cells for backup power Power to the cell tower. Wireless service providers are starting to explore whether fuel cells could be the answer to a tough question. How can providers get good backup power to the rising number of cellular towers perched on hilltops, high-rises, church steeples and elsewhere? Read the Story |
08/15/08 |
| Los Angeles Times: Consumer Electronics: Apple looks to Best Buy to boost iPhone’s reach The pending arrival of the iPhone 3G in Best Buy stores across the country signals that shortages of the Apple Inc. devices are easing, analysts said Wednesday. Apple and Best Buy Co., the top U.S. electronics retail chain, announced late Tuesday a deal to sell the popular gadget in Best Buy's 970 stores nationwide starting Sept. 7. Read the Story |
08/14/08 |
| Wall Street Journal: Best Buy to sell iPhone - retailer will join Apple and AT&T in offering device Best Buy Co. said it will begin selling Apple Inc.'s iPhone next month, making it the first U.S. retailer besides Apple and its U.S. carrier, AT&T Inc., to offer the popular device. Starting Sept. 7, both the eight- and 16-gigabyte models of the 3G phone will be available at all Best Buy stores, except for a handful located in areas where AT&T's wireless service isn't available, Best Buy said. Read the Story |
08/13/08 |
| Houston Chronicle: Moving 911 into the age of texting A crashing sound in the middle of the night awakens you. Seconds later, you hear heavy footsteps moving toward your bedroom. You quickly grab your cell phone and dast to the closet. While crouched under suits and shirts, you realize the intruder might hear you calling 911. What should you do? Send a text message. Read the Story |
08/12/08 |
| Wall Street Journal: iPhone software sales take off: Apple’s Jobs Apple Inc.'s bet on cellphone software appears to be paying off. In the month since Apple opened an online software clearinghouse call the App Store, users have downloaded more than 60 million programs for the iPhone, Chief Executive Steve Jobs said in an interview at Apple's headquarters. While most of the applications were free, Apple sold an average of $1 million a day in applications for a total of about $30 million in sales ofver the month, Mr. Jobs said. Read the Story |
08/11/08 |
| Dow Jones: US mobile phone shipments rise 5.3% in 2Q - consulting firm Mobile phone shipments in the U.S. managed a 5.3% increase in the second quarter, as cellphone companies beat the weak economy and posted strong results. Strategy Analytics, an independent consulting firm, said 41.9 million cellphones were shipped in the quarter, up from 39.8 million a year earlier. Analyst Bonny Jo noted the prominence of all-inclusive plans, as well as new handset launches that kept consumer replacements at "a healthy level." Read the Story |
08/11/08 |