Google Introduces Nexus One, Its Rival to the iPhone
Thursday, January 7th, 2010Google stepped up its attack on the wireless industry, unveiling a touchscreen phone that does not lock a consumer into one carrier.
author By MIGUEL HELFT, source www.nytimes.com
State of the Art: An Imitator That Rivals the iPhone
Thursday, June 12th, 2008Sprint’s new Samsung Instinct is an iPhone wannabe, but it has its own personality.
author By DAVID POGUE, source www.nytimes.com
Smartphones Now Ringing for Women
Tuesday, June 10th, 2008In a shift for the phone industry, women have emerged as eager buyers of so-called smartphones.
author By LAURA M. HOLSON, source www.nytimes.com
Mergers Accelerate as Telecoms Seek Growth
Saturday, June 7th, 2008Verizon Wireless announced it would buy Alltell to create the largest cellphone operator in the United States, while in Europe, a bid was made to create the world’s fourth-largest mobile operator.
author By KEVIN J. O’BRIEN, source www.nytimes.com
Mobile and Landline Deals to Update Service in China
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008China Unicom, a cellphone service provider, agreed to sell a wireless network to the country’s largest fixed-line operator and buy a fixed-line company of its own.
author By REUTERS, source www.nytimes.com
Third World Telecom Moves to the Front
Tuesday, May 27th, 2008Companies in emerging markets are on the prowl for investment opportunities in third world telecom companies, a reflection of a new world order in that industry.
author By HEATHER TIMMONS and KEVIN J. O’BRIEN, source www.nytimes.com
Slipstream: Do You Have That Portable in a Midsize?
Sunday, May 11th, 2008Between laptop-sized computers and hand-held devices, is there room for a third category whose size would fall between the two?
author By JOHN MARKOFF, source www.nytimes.com
Qwest Profit Drops 35% as Phone Market Tightens
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008The telecommunications company said it earned $157 million in the first quarter, down from $240 million a year ago, on sharply higher tax expenses.
author By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, source www.nytimes.com
Phone Lines Decline, but Embarq’s Profit Is Up
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008The phone service provider said its quarterly operating revenue fell to $1.57 billion, from $1.59 billion a year ago, while access lines decreased 7.3 percent.
author By REUTERS, source www.nytimes.com
Lights. Camera. Cellphone Action.
Friday, April 25th, 2008Who says cellphones are good only for talking? Today they are bringing together two unlikely brand names: Nokia and Spike Lee.
author By LAURA M. HOLSON, source www.nytimes.com
Can the Cellphone Help End Global Poverty?
Sunday, April 13th, 2008Why a corporate “user anthropologist” is spending so much of his time in the shantytowns of the world.
author By SARA CORBETT, source www.nytimes.com
Advertising: Bar Code Sales Tool Is Failing Campus Test
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008In parts of Asia and Europe, marketers have been using bar code technology to help sell things to people on their cellphones. In the United States the technique doesn’t appear ready for widespread use.
author By ELIZABETH OLSON, source www.nytimes.com
Motorola and Icahn Reach Compromise on Directors
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008The move gives the company, which failed to follow up on the initial success of the Razr, a chance to focus on turning around its declining cellphone business.
author By LAURA M. HOLSON, source www.nytimes.com
Motorola Will Take a $104 Million Charge
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008The cellphone maker Motorola said that it was cutting jobs and paying severance payments to around 2,600 workers, resulting in a net pre-tax charge of around $104 million.
author By REUTERS, source www.nytimes.com
Consumed: Style Decoder
Sunday, March 30th, 2008How bar-code technology became a medium for creativity.
author By ROB WALKER, source www.nytimes.com
Novelties: Coming Soon, to Any Flat Surface Near You
Saturday, March 29th, 2008Tired of hearing other people’s cellphone conversations? Soon you may have to watch their favorite television shows and YouTube videos, too.
author By ANNE EISENBERG, source www.nytimes.com
Pressured, Motorola Splits in Two
Thursday, March 27th, 2008Motorola spun off its unprofitable mobile phone unit, as it struggled to come up with new products to replace the highly successful Razr, once a must-have phone.
author By LAURA M. HOLSON, source www.nytimes.com
Motorola Moves to Split Itself Into Two
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008Under pressure to raise its stock price, the company plans to split itself in two, spinning off its unprofitable mobile phone unit.
author By LAURA M. HOLSON, source www.nytimes.com
Itineraries: Paper Is Out, Cellphones Are In
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008The mobile check-in may well be the first step in direct communications between airlines and passengers as they travel.
author By SUSAN STELLIN, source www.nytimes.com
Paper Is Out, Cellphones Are In
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008The mobile check-in may well be the first step in direct communications between airlines and passengers as they travel.
author By SUSAN STELLIN, source www.nytimes.com