Taiwan watchdog bites Huawei
It seems that everywhere the Chinese hardware maker Huawei shows its face, trouble is never far behind. Lately there have been spying accusations leading to the blocking of a deal by US authorities, an...
View ArticleNokia sells messaging business
Nokia has quietly sold off its operator-braded messaging business. The buyer is Synchronica, itself an established upstart in providing communications and messaging services. Financial terms of the...
View ArticleTerrified Apple tries to block imports of HTC tablets
It seems that Apple is so terrified that HTC tablets will give its keyboardless netbook a caning that it is trying to get an import restriction imposed against the company. Apple claims HTC is...
View ArticleNokia Siemens starts axing staff
Nokia Siemens Networks has begun culling 1,500 jobs from the 6,900 staff it acquired with its $1.2 billion acquisition of Motorola's wireless business in April. Staff working in the GSM and WiMAX...
View ArticleNext iPhone appears from Sprint this October
That rumoured next iPhone will appear in mid-Octber, according to the Wall Street Journal's sources, and it will be sold by Sprint Nextel. Sprint Nextel will get the iPhone 4 to flog, too. The WSJ...
View ArticleIT outfits run on dysfunctional boards
For some reason IT outfits are being run by clowns who are fiddling while their empire burns, according to the Wall Street Journal. WSJ analysts sat down and tried to work out which outfits had boards...
View ArticleHuawei buys rest of Huawei-Symantec
Huawei has announced that it is going to buy the remaining 49 percent stake in a joint venture with Symantec for $530 million. The imaginatively named joined venture, Huawei-Symantec, was responsible...
View ArticleSteve Jobs wanted his own telco network
Apple messiah Steve Jobs did not want to use the carriers and instead wanted his own network that would use unlicensed spectrum rather than rely on them Wi-fi doyen John Stanton said that Jobs wanted...
View ArticleGoogle's Schmidt denies working with snooping Carrier IQ
Google is distancing itself from Carrier IQ, the software outfit which has been accused of collecting data on users of Android phones. The Times of India quoted Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt as...
View ArticleT-Mobile forced into the arms of Sprint
T-Mobile might be forced to link up with Sprint Nextel after its owner's $39 billion deal with AT&T collapsed. Deutsche Telekom has been left in the lurch after AT&T gave in to the US...
View ArticleiPhone subsidies hurting wireless carriers
Subsidising the iPhone is proving to be the kiss of death for any carrier who touches it. While we have reported before how AT&T did not do as well from the iPhone as many had expected, it turns...
View ArticleApple iPhone deal could kill off Sprint
Fruity peddler of shiny toys, Apple might just be responsible for the No. 3 US mobile provider Sprint Nextel filing for bankruptcy. Sprint Nextel was so desperate to get on the iPhone bandwagon that it...
View ArticleSprint still betting the farm on the iPhone
Despite the fact that subsidising the iPhone appears to be killing its business, Sprint is continuing to bet the farm on Apple. According to the Wall Street Journal, while shareholders are starting to...
View ArticleFlash man, Hillman Curtis, dies
Hillman Curtis, one of the people who was responsible for moving the web from a text based medium to a multimedia format, has died. He was 51. Hillman Curtis, who started out as a musician for the...
View ArticleSprint CEO takes a paycut
Sprint's CEO Daniel Hesse has agreed to take a paycut this year as punishment for wasting company cash on a deal with Apple. According to Reuters, Hesse thought he was onto a winner by subsidising...
View ArticleEx-Intel man gets probation in Raj Rajaratnam case
An ex-Intel executive who was involved in a major securities fraud and conspiracy investigation has been sentenced in New York. Rajiv Goel was given probation, fined $10,000 and told to forfeit...
View ArticleUS paranoia shuts out Huawei and ZTE
The US House of Representatives' Intelligence Committee has said that Huawei should be shut out of the US market because potential Chinese state influence on them poses a security threat. The stance...
View ArticleSprint snaps up the rest of Clearwire for $2.2 billion
US telecoms provider Sprint has purchased the remainder of Clearwire in a deal worth $2.2 billion. Sprint announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the remaining 50 percent...
View ArticleGrim DNS bug still alive and well
A particularly nasty bug in the DNS system of the internet is still installed on many important computers. Dubbed the Kaminsky bug, after its discoverer, the flaw was revealed five years ago. A fix has...
View ArticleSprint catches "reds under the beds"
The new McCarthyism which is infecting Washington at the moment has caused Sprint to dump the Chinese phone making equipment maker Huawei. Despite the fact that US allies use Huawei and its security...
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