Sprint Boots Four Execs, Restructures Enterprise And Consumer Businesses
Sprint's CEO Dan Hesse said in a note to employees Friday that Sprint will merge the marketing and sales teams of its enterprise and consumer…
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Apple Will Continue To Earn Majority Of App Download Revenue In 2012
Apple will earn more than 53% of all mobile app download revenue this year, according to a new report from Strategy Analytics. The research firm…
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Best Buy Reports Lower Than Expected December Sales
Best Buy on Friday reported weaker than expected revenue for the five weeks ended December 31st, 2011. The company noted $8.4 billion in revenue, which…
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Nokia Acquires Smarterphone AS, Eyes Feature Phone Rebound
Nokia has acquired Oslo, Norway-based cell phone operating system developer Smarterphone AS as it prepares to launch a reinvigorated attack on emerging markets. The transaction…
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MetroPCS Adds 197,000 Subscribers In Q4 But Misses Expectations
MetroPCS on Thursday announced its fourth quarter 2011 subscriber results. The carrier added 197,000 net subscribers, which missed analyst expectations that the carrier would add…
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Apple Patents Suggest Thunderbolt Coming To iOS Devices
The United States Patent and Trademark Office recently published three Thunderbolt related patents that suggest Apple may have plans to build Intel's Thunderbolt connections into its…
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Microsoft Patent Suggests Xbox 720 With DVR Support In The Works
A patent that was granted to Microsoft in December suggests the company is working on an Xbox game console that will double as a digital…
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9% Of U.S. Consumers Have Canceled Cable TV, Study Says
9% of consumers in the United States have already cut cable TV service from their monthly utility bills, the latest State of the Media Democracy…
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Apple To Pay Taiwanese Firm $5 Million In Patent Settlement
Apple will pay $5 million to settle a patent lawsuit with the Taiwan-based firm Elan, a report said Thursday. According to its website, Elan focuses…
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Netflix Streaming Subscribers Watched More Than 2 Billion Hours Of Video During Q4
Netflix announced on Wednesday that its streaming subscribers around the world watched more than 2 billion hours of video during the fourth quarter of 2011.…
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Yahoo Names Former PayPal President Scott Thompson As New CEO
Yahoo on Wednesday announced that former PayPal president Scott Thompson will takeover as CEO of the company. Thompson will replace Tim Morse, who has served…
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AT&T To Pay TiVo $215 Million Through 2018 To Settle Patent Lawsuit
AT&T has settled a patent lawsuit with TiVo in which it will pay the DVR vendor $215 million through June 2018, including an initial payment…
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Global Telecommunications Industry Revenue To Reach $2.1 Trillion In 2012
Worldwide telecommunications industry revenue is set to reach $2.1 trillion this year according to market research firm Insight Research Corp. Despite the rocky global economy,…
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Microsoft Sues Firm For Selling 94,000 Counterfeit Copies Of Vista And XP
Microsoft has filed a lawsuit against Comet Group, LLC. for creating and selling more than 94,000 counterfeit recovery discs for Windows Vista and Windows XP.…
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Kindle Fire May Have Cost Apple $1 Billion Or More In Holiday iPad Sales
Amazon's new Kindle Fire was a hot item during the holiday shopping season, and one analyst believes the new Amazon tablet may have cost Apple…
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LightSquared Names Marc Montagner Chief Financial Officer
LightSquared announced on Tuesday that it has named Marc Montagner as Chief Financial Officer. Montagner replaces Michael Montemarano, who left the firm in November. Montagner…
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Samsung Head Tells Employees To Brace For Stiff Competition, Weak Economy This Year
Samsung recently warned employees at its South Korea headquarters that the company will face stiff competition amid a weak economy this year. "The global economy's…
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Nintendo 3DS Sales Surpass 4 Million Units, U.S. Wii Sales Top 4.5 Million Consoles In 2011
Nintendo announced on Tuesday that it has shipped more than 4 million 3DS units worldwide in nine months. That's more than the number of Wii…
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Ticonderoga: iTV, 'iPad Mini' And iPhone 5 With NFC And 4G Extend Apple's Lead In 2012
Apple will further extend its lead in the technology sector this year as it launches a number of new products that will leave its competition…
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Text Message Decline Could Affect AT&T And Verizon Soon, Analyst Says
Tero Kuittinen, a senior analyst for MGI Research recently wrote a column for Forbes in which he noted that text messaging rates are declining in several…
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Sprint Gives LightSquared 30 Extra Days To Gain FCC Clearance
Sprint recently told LightSquared that it has an additional 30 days to gain approval from the Federal Communications Commission to launch its 4G LTE network.…
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On Top Of The World: A Visit To The Times Square New Year's Eve Ball
Each year on the evening of December 31st an estimated one million people from around the world flock to New York City's Times Square to…
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Chinese Vendors Form Alliance To Battle Apple And Other Patent Predators
Handset makers in China have formed an alliance to prepare for possible patent battles with Apple, Microsoft and Nokia. Coolpad, Konka, TCL, ZTE and Lenovo…
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Nokia Lumia 710 Review
Nokia proved it was back in the smartphone game when it launched the Lumia 800 last year. But can its Lumia 710 gain the attention of…
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Amazon: More Than 4 Million Kindles Sold This Holiday Season
Amazon announced on Thursday that the 2011 holiday season was the best ever for sales of its Kindle devices. While the online retailer didn't specifically…
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Looking Back At 2011: HP Kills, Revives And Then Open Sources webOS
There's no question about it: HP made one of the biggest blunders of the year when it comes to how the company handled Palm and…
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Looking Back At 2011: Google Eyes Motorola Buy In Bid For Android Control, Patent Ammo
2011 was a wild, wild year to follow the technology industry. AT&T failed to buy T-Mobile USA, things got rough for RIM and Apple and Samsung…
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